D Cox

Those are two very desirable cameras, way above my budget. I think the Leica SL lenses would work on the L mount ? Maybe I'll shoot some more B&W film one day in the distant future, when I've ...

That should give good results. Perhaps you used an unsuitable lens ? You want a macro lens that is good at half life size reproduction. Slides usually have very high contrast, and the HDR mode in a ...

A clever gadget. You can get very similar image quality by mounting a +10 from one of the cheap sets of closeup lenses on a bellows. If you get a 52mm size set, the Nikon K2 ring will adapt them to ...

Neewer sell some useful cheap flash guns -- look on Amazon. Set the camera to M mode. Look in the manual to see what range of shutter speeds work with flash -- it varies with the camera. Guess a ...

I suppose everyone knows that there are graphs as well as the transmission and density values in the Kodak Wratten Filters book ?

The Exakta Vielzweck kit. Last made in the 1960s, I think. Still very useful.

It's a while ago, but my recollection is that I put it together again and it worked. I sold all my Exakta cameras and lenses when I went over to Nikon. Kept the Vielzweck copy-and-macro stand. Wish ...

Make that "young, healthy and slim". There is plenty of evidence that overweight people get it worse.

I don't understand why anyone would shoot portraits and save only JPG files. You are relying on the opinions of some coder employed by the camera company as to what colours look best. But my ...

Sometimes it's good to have everything in sharp focus, and at other times it's good to use blur.

I would use f/2.8 (on a longer lens) or f/1.4 (on a "normal" lens) either for subject separation or when the bokeh of the particular lens was the main point of the picture. A 2-element lens, 100mm. ...

There already is a video forum.

Try the L mount forum.

Perhaps more to do with movies, where the work is produced by a team, and the director is usually a leader. Some high end fashion shoots are team operations, too. It would be interesting to try to ...

It may if they want to take photos that are technically difficult: for instance, birds in flight, or deep sky astrophotos. Not if they want to take photos that are artistically good, or that are ...

Once the software for video has been written, there's very little if any extra cost to manufacture the camera. Users who don't want video can just ignore the video options, as I do. If you have ...

Since the topic of Exakta cameras came up, I thought I might post some shots of the works. They don't make cameras like this any more.

Every feature added is something else to go wrong. The fp is about "Simplicate and add lightness" -- or at least smallness. The method used in the fp is the same as that in the Sony NEX-5N that I ...

Good photos, but where are they ?

The first shot is a nice punchy image. Rather like a Barnett Newman, but smaller. The paint chart is interesting. I have a Winsor and Newton watercolour chart, with real paint, but not I think a ...