John Koch

Round trip fare between Ottawa and Iqaluit is in the US $2,800 range. A night at the Frobisher in costs $240 or so. Average February temperature: -28°C. Meanwhile, a two-way 5h40m flight from...

The NOAA Aurora Forecast maps suggest that the odds of sightings range around 25% in bands around the north or south pole, during any given hour, mainly during months when it is dark most of the...

The NOAA aurora forecast page gives us a 30-minute (or is it a 75-minute?) projection of Arctic or Antarctic places we can travel to have (what looks like) a sub-25% chance of seeing a spectral...

There are many commercial providers of time-lapse photography of construction sites.  Examples include TrueLook, Ibeam Systems, Sincera Systems, Earthcam, and others.  For a fee, any of them will ...

Wasn't the AR70mc a Canon model? Used versions sell on eBay for under $100. The low end are in "parts only" condition. However, the ones priced around $80 likely work. In any case, it should not ...

Of late, where I live, the sky has either been solid gray or blue. Any transitions occurr by stealth of night. The few exceptions are at an inconvenient time of day, or it is too windy for...

Yosuke Yamane did not say, and probably does not know, when Panasonic will offer a micro 4/3 camera with PDAF. Were it to appear first in the high-end GH series, whose 2022 v6 appeared five years...

The answer will hinge a lot on these factors: (1) Whether your hosts expect you to furnish an important component of the photography, and therefore expect you to capture the ceremony itself from ...

Best wishes.  But I'd never assume compatibility between a Sony camera and an Apple phone device.  The Sony source you cite did not promise that, specifically. Why not transfer your AX-700 files to ...

Yes, been there, done that, plus a lot of other poor guy's solutions. World class results? No. Sir Richard was not inspired to offer his narrative. What else is old? Anyway... A plastic (not ...

The available parabolic discs are too small or too expensive. The affordable ones help isolate sounds a bit, but not amplify sufficiently. Nothing works anywhere near as well as close proximity to ...

Neither the Oly 75-300 nor the Oly 100-400 offer you sufficent wide-angle options. You may find that your best photo-ops involve things that are very large or very near. Heck, what if the bird, ...

I use a (brand unmentioned) 32" 4k display whose default "recommended" settings are 3840x2160 resolution and 150% scale. Not sure if I witness actual 4k. If I set the scale to 100%, webpage text...

Given a 32" diagonal measure and 16:9 aspect ratio, doesn't Pythagoras' theorem entail dimensions approximate 28:16? Anyway, don't most people compare screen sizes by the diagonal measure? Bezel...

Every day, thousands of people in your shoes have the same impulse.  They spend money on cameras.  A year or two go by, and they decide haven't the time to pursue photography, except on a casual ...

At this point, perhaps best to refer the matter to law enforcement authorities. If neither Deputy Fife nor Dawg are responsive, or they say, "We'll get back to you," but never do ... There are ...

Will any of your heirs have Blu-ray players? Will you burn discs with "idiot proof" menus that guide posterity to lucidly indexed and labeled content? Better yet, might you create slide shows...

Why spend $10,000 if you can attain your objectives for under $1,000? Why complicate the learning curve or time invested in complex settings or edits, if the effort is unlikely to add much, or ...

The volume or gain settings need to be changed. Your initial narrative is barely audible. Give it some boost. Cut or diminish (aka "duck") the gain of the music / singing, except where your ...

Marco Cinnirella: "local and cultural historians sometimes are interested in what we think are very banal and ordinary photos." True. But they are curious mainly about photos of local landmarks...