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Simply wonderful!!!

:)  Yes, that one amused me too. Here is what it looks like with its diffusers. There are multiple layers of diffusion inside the flash head diffusers. Thanks. I had a lot of trouble with the ...

Thanks. I think the processed version has greater clarity, edge sharpness and possibly microcontrast (not sure about that), and it reveals more in the dark areas, but does it show any finer detail ...

You can adjust white balance for JPEGs, but not in the same way as with raw files. With raw, the Temp slider in Lightroom runs from 2000 degrees to 50000 degrees, and the Tint slider runs from -150 ...

I wonder if a three way comparison might be instructive - out of the camera JPEG, post processed JPEG and post processed raw? I think these comparisons are fraught with complications that make it ...

Doh!  My bad. I got muddled about who was posting what. I think Stuart is going to enjoy the 150. :)

Nice! I think you are going to enjoy the 150. :)

Good to hear. Do I recall correctly that the minimum aperture of the FZ2000 is f/11? If so, as far as maximum DoF is concerned, the FZ2000 at f/11 will have around 40% (one stop's worth) less DoF ...

EDIT: I should have read the other responses first as they have already covered this. Here is page 123 from the pdf manual. Here is the first page of that document. And here is page 123 from an on ...

Yes. This was taken from page 123 of the user manual.

Depends on where you are coming from. :)  But from most people's perspective, yes, of course. Ah, I thought shots in front of foliage would be less problematic, with less higher contrast edges to ...

Trevor, you are an expert at this stuff so I hesitate to disagree in any way, but I think this might be an occasion when a non-expert's experience might be relevant. Possibly. :) I imagine the ...

That's more than enough I'm sure. Oh, not so good. :(

I expect I should have known that. But my memory is cr......  not very good, to say the least. Don't think we are seeing this the same way, I'm thinking of a much bigger difference than just ...

I'm not familiar with the app. Would I be right in thinking that it takes the sequence of photos and you then use something else to stack them? Presumably you get the full image size when using the ...

I would be curious to know how the 50-200 on the G9 performs against busy backgrounds. I know my 70D with 55-250 STM has a very high success rate even in my (non BIFer) hands for (common) birds ...

I don't know about the OP's FZ70, but for the FZ330 there are three Macro settings: AF Macro, Macro Zoom and Off. AF Macro only works with focal lengths of minimum (25mm equivalent) to 38mm ...

Excellent! (The process and the explanation.) Actually I'm puzzled too as to why the two frame stack worked the way it did. On my first scan through I assumed you had blended them in Photoshop, I ...

These were captured several days ago in our garden using a Raynox 150 and KX800 twin flash on my FZ330. The raw files were batch processed in DXO PhotoLab, Silkypix and Lightroom, with ...

That is clear and informative. Thanks. That is very interesting indeed. It certainly supports your "perhaps more to be gained than lost by staying wide open." below. Better (according to taste) ...