StephaneB

Very nice. Has nothing to do with the camera, it's all you.

Weight absorbs vibrations energy, but does not improve rigidity.

So, having bought a Leica, you decided to cheap out on the tripod. Yeah, that makes so much sense!

For maximum 200mm focal length, a Gitzo systemic Series 2 is fine. Series 3 will afford you more resistance to wind and will still serve fine with longer focal lengths. Focal length is a more ...

Stiffness is adjustable with screws that hide behind the round paper with the degrees scale: If you push a Philips screwdriver where the blue arrow points, it will go through the paper to the ...

The thing is, glass stops UV rays. It follows that UV filters are useless by nature as .. UV filters. What they actually do is slightly change the tint to (try to) compensate for inherent higher ...

http://www.dslrbodies.com/accessories/camera-accessories/tripod-101.html Essential read before buying a tripod.

Photoshop has adjustments and it has filters. A curve is an adjustment and sharpening is a filter. Adjustment layers, like their name indicates, can only be based on adjustments, not on filters. ...

No, that won't work. Adjustment layers do not support filters nor plugins. Only smart filters allow that and that is only available in Photoshop.

The only way to achieve that is to use Photoshop. It has so-called smart filters. I've worked years with Photoshop and NIK with smart filters. Excellent combination. However, it generates huge ...

VueScan outperforming Epson scan is nothing new :) It is simply the best scanning software on the market today, to my knowledge.

Sorry to say this, but you are cumulating a lot of rookie-type errors here. 1. IBIS is not a replacement for a tripod. Nothing touches a *good* tripod for stabilization. 2. You shoot at ISO 1600 ...

Asking for help is fine. Being able to help yourself once a way has been pointed to you will keep you independent. If you actually *need* to be provided a link once you know the software is called ...

Well, Capture One springs to mind. It has a free version for Fuji. I use(d) Rawtherapee a lot. I love it, but it is not a full fledged solution. It misses asset management, local adjustments and ...