Michael Fritzen

...in extreme situations even stacked NDs.

No expert here but I had no problem whatsoever to set up a virtual XP machine based on Oracle's VM VirtualBox - this is as long as you have the original XP installation (SP3) at hand. For setting ...

Hi, if you want just a "bit" wider on the Mk2 you could shoot RAW and disable then lens correction in the RAW converter. This would get you to more or less 26mm of eq. FL.  Not much of an ...

Hi, usually I'm doing this only for landscapes which I plan to print big. For architecture I wouldn't bother if there wasn't the possibility to shoot higher than from street level, i.e. at least ...

Hi, the question is more: useless / usefull for what purpose? Probably I wouldn't want to print such a shot "big" as the 20MP sensor resolution might allow. But for screen viewing and/or for ...

That XE5 was a brick. :-) One could drive nails with it. Fond memories. Well, possibly finding the full manual could answer the question how the Hi-Matic F switched to sync speed.

Hi, supposing this is caused by any in-camera lens correction, also read and used in RAW conversion SW, it might be able to analyse further when the RAW converter allows for switch from ...

You name painters and I agree in paintings it might look strange indeed. But taking a photograph with a fast lens, aperture full open, the DOF indeed IS that shallow. You may not like the look ...

On some rare occasions my RX10Mk3 has also shown this, that the AF (AF-S) gets lost and isn't able to lock focus. From what I have seen this has happened when the main subject was relatively close ...

Possible. But at least on my Minolta film XE-5 the flash mount didn't have any funcionality other than mechanically linking the flash to the cam and firing the flash. But no auto switch to sync ...

Well, the look of extreme shallow DOF in a photo might not please everyone. This is about preferences. But from a pure human perceptual POV it's not THAT unnatural. A simple experience would show ...

Hi, does this cam perhaps need a specific setting dialed in for flash sync? According to this site: http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Minolta_Hi-Matic_F the cam has a flash sync speed of slow ...

Facing the same with my Sigma lenses but worth to mention (nitpicking perhaps) it's not cam's SW the limiting factor but it's Sigma's lenses which report to the cam the same ID for different ...

Hi, spring time approaching and flowering orchids everywhere. The RX10Mk3 proved again to be an excellent tool for shooting this type of stuff. Edit: A fellow photographer on another forum told me ...

You're welcome. BTW it's not made that clear what the differences are. I've never run into this because I always used "Process" - which has been in previous versions a standard tool button in the ...

Hmm. Tricky one. My answer is: it depends on. The AF-S on the Mk3 is fast and precise. There are some losses in performance the lower the light levels get but that's more or less inherent to ...

Hi, sorry for possibly asking the obvious but did you "process" the image?  - Which is executing the receipt for conversion with the selected adjustments AND applying the watermark. Secondly, did ...

Hmm, by any chance were you doing a long time exposure? If so what you're possibily seeing is the long-time-NR working which means the creation of an virtual image with an exposure time as long as ...

Placed 14^th in the challenge. Surf session at the central beach of the Seaside Resort Balneário Camboriú, Santa Catarina, Brazil