Phil Shaw

If you shot a portrait that occupied the same proportion of the frame as the mockingbird (?), would you expect to see every eyelash and every strand of the subject's hair? I'm not trying to be a ...

The Format Hitech filter I bought came with a gasket that you can apply to the filter yourself so you can use it with Lee or other system filter holders.  I was a bit careless when I was applying ...

Assuming you were focusing on the bird's eye, it looks to me like the camera is front focusing - flank plumage looks sharper than the eye.

You don't say if this is a Mk I or Mk II lens or whether you are hand-holding it, or using it on a tripod.  You don't say which camera body you are using - some Canon camera bodies have had ...

Agree with the others, your selection of GODOX V860II-S and Godox XPro-S 2.4G TTL Wireless Flash Trigger should work well.  The only thing I have found with Godox speedlites is that they seem to ...

Haven't used the Surface Pro so can't comment on that.  One thing to be aware of with the XPS13 is that the UHD screen makes text very small in the Photoshop UI - Adobe and Microsoft still haven't ...

You should have a look at this thread. https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4240810

I think you should do some more research rather than allowing lens lust to get the better of you. The post above is extolling the virtues of an Olympus system and you should also consider the Sony ...

Glad to see you still came away with some great images.

Thanks guys - I gave up too easily.

I think I've had lock-ups at irregular intervals on probably every digital camera I've owned (at least 12 different models from Canon, Nikon, Sony and Fuji) including the A7r3, so I don't think of ...

If you are going to use a lens with a 10x zoom ratio, like the Nikkor 28-300, image quality becomes largely irrelevant, so it doesn't really matter which brand you choose to go with.

Except - when you go to the Canon url it says that the promotion has finished.  Something about Canon and organising an event in brewery comes to mind.

Yes, and its double cash-back if you buy at the Photography Show at Birmingham NEC.

Very sorry to hear about your loss - I would be devastated.  I hope you can salvage some photographic value from your trip.   I, along with others reading this, will be more vigilant in our next ...

The A9 + Sony 100-400 GM + Sony 1.4x is a fantastic set up for bif photography - long sequences of sharply focused images are the norm, even when the subject is small in the frame. For hummingbirds ...

Have you checked that you do not have a matte paper set in the driver?

The ColorNavigator software that comes with the monitor prompts you to re-calibrate after 200hrs - so monthly. The calibration process takes 3 or 4 minutes and then there is an option to validate ...

Sorry, in no way does this constitute a review.  This is just fan mail.

I have had the Eizo ColorEdge CG277 for a couple of years and have been very pleased with it.  The self calibration works great.  Make sure you have a decent gpu to run it - I'm now using a Nvidia ...