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students using the wrong end of their pen never made the news back in the day.

@Myreality .. if it has a mechanical switch for the flash and exposure compensation plus a programmable fix-focus feature, yes. otherwise .. no. ;-)

also .. the lens extends from the body which...

sold my µ:2 in 2000 because i hated the totally unpredictable behaviour of the AF. Too much hit and miss.

Bought a Ricoh GR1s instead, imho the best compact ever built. Except for it's mechanical...

Reference point: the glasses in my spectacles are very high-grade, multicoated ones, going for around €200 per side. I clean them circa every other day with a recommended solution and fibre cloths...

Amazing, isn't it? You can fix most Apple-problems with UNIX and even Linux commandline knowledge easily.

The difference is simple: pretty much everyone in this thread has unterstood the concept of equivalence and can use it to make a - not the - decision when chosing equipment.

You on the other side...

congratulations, TerrryV81, you have understood one aspect of the technology involved in photography.

Now please stop acting like a troll, go and learn the other one million aspects, then come...

the thing with film is .. there is resolution and resolution.

The one kind is about actual informational detail - and while microfilms do have incredible resolution they are quite impractical for...

there is no harm with using UV-filters when shooting film.

The resolution is so low that you don't see the difference anyway.

Those of us who have done real-life tests threw away all our UV...

..which is a good thing, so less boring photos are made.

But will it run Linux?

Michiel953, agreed. That 60/40 metering is the next best thing after modern day (last 10 years) matrix metering if you want a fast and reliable result. I grew to love it on my FM2 and started to...

tsk1979 .. exactly.

What most seem to miss here is the whole eco-system. The problems that are not solved yet are getting fewer by the minute.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has sold more than 30...

Adobe had a 2019 net income of 3 billion $.

So from that they rounded up [sic.] 1 million.

This amounts to giving a single $10 bill to "charity" once you earned $30k after taxes.

How...

just for reference: industrial cameras ¹ of similar specs going for 10x the price are considered low-cost consumables. This camera is a breakthrough product.

¹ : an aluminium box with a plug for a...

This will finally show the classic camera companies what dedicated users can accomplish once you let them code their own firmware.

you have probably have never seen the inside of a professional stilllife studio.

General rule: available light is ANY light available. Same goes with light modifiers. If you want a warm...

Pro-tip: wrinkle the aluminium foil first, then straighten it out just enough that it is not straight.

Otherwise you get weird reflections .. which can be used to simulate reflections off the...

I find the weekend warriors less to be a problem for the business than the full timers that try to get any jobs by any means neccessary - and mostly by just being cheaper than everyone else.

The...

75% would be a dream come true .. weed out all those that did not work in a sustainable way. Then the rest of us can work with clients instead of against the idiots from our own ranks.