J Peters

As a rule of thumb, is it general practice to use a diffuser on a flashgun when you are bouncing it off a ceiling or wall? Would the answer maybe depend on how shiny the ceiling or wall is, or how ...

Plus one for this! When you grip a filter between two points (eg thumb and forefinger) you are distorting the circular shape very slightly and making it bind harder into the thread. Introducing a ...

I love taking portraits, but I have no confidence when it comes to approaching strangers - this is a dilemma.  I have therefore pre-printed some cards which I carry. On the front it says my name ...

I mis-read the thread title as "How do you shoot underware?"   :-D

My camera (EOS M5) has two flash modes when you're in Programmed Auto or Aperture Priority mode: Fill Flash and another setting which I think is confusingly just called Flash On. Fill flash assumes ...

I think Greg means it's best to keep the opening *of the camera* pointing downwards, hence the sensor is also pointing downwards. This is what I do. Granted that the rear lens element is then ...

Nobody suggested a polarising filter?  I haven't tried one myself for gemstones but I would have thought it would let you see the inner structure of the stone better as it would cut out the ...

Yeah I use it (limiter on) to speed up aquisition of focus on non-closeup work. It stops the focus hunting quite so much. I never thought of the other advantage of shooting through grass or wire ...

That depends on whether you want to expend significant outlay on something you've been asked to do purely as a favour. Personally I would not. I'm guessing the person who asked you probably thinks ...

Yes but I don't think I was clear. I mean that a tiny fragment of hair *in the card slot* would fool the mechanism into misreading the position of the switch. It would read the card as being ...

I had this with my M5, but only once. If you look at the side of the SD card, there is a little flip switch. If flipped, it will 'lock' the card and make it read-only. You will get the 'Memory Card ...

No problem, please post back with yours when you get it, as it sounds good.

Svenek, Sorry my life is hectic at the moment. Just took these. 55-200mm lens, the neoprene slip case I use as an inner sleeve, and the ThinkTank case. The 55-200 directly inside the ThinkTank case ...

Svenek, Sorry I have been really busy. I will take some shots when I get home this evening.

Hi Svenek, I am in the UK and I bought a ThinkTank Lens Changer 15 V2.0 - but I notice they are now shipping v3.0 so not sure what the difference is. It is a loose fit for the 55-200, I actually ...

#2 takes my breath away. One of the loveliest photos I've ever seen. I am a sucker for winter scenes.

There are menu options which let you turn off certain portions of the LCD in terms of touch focus operation. You can restrict it down to half or a quarter of the full area. This will likely ...

Thank you everyone but I'll stick with the Phottix then. The only downside is the receiver not being integrated into the flash unit = more bulk and an additional set of AA cells to maintain. But it ...

I currently use a Phottix flash trigger set, but it's a slightly cumbersome solution as it's one more box in the chain that needs another set of AA cells. I saw Canon are now produsing the ...

Apparently my spell checker has run out of batteries.