Stephen McDonald

I stick things back on cameras with shoe goo. Use masking tape stretched around, to keep it tight until it hardens. Don't touch the stuff with your skin or breathe the fumes. I go outside when I ...

Peter, one of the main features of a camera like those of the RX10 Series, is in being an all-in-one solution, to the bother and expense of carrying a lot of extra gear. If you carry an external ...

People in all parts of the so-called British Empire, except for the United States and Canada, are charged much higher prices for electronics. They do this, because they can. Apparently the power ...

Here's another I didn't expect to see, when I looked at the frame later. I was shooting a flock of geese and this young black-tailed deer came sailing past. I saw the deer only after it was some ...

PETA has only further damaged their standing as an advocate for animal rights. By focusing on something so silly and pointless, they lose credibility on serious issues.

Makofoto, of course I'm talking of a lens adaptor that would attach into threads in the outer lens housing, which is very sturdy and would not be mounted onto the extending lens, itself. This is a...

No 4K video at 60p nor 5K or 6K capabilities. No increase in lens reach, although I didn't expect it. The least Sony could do is include mounting threads for a lens adapter tube, for telextenders....

I was taking photos and videos of a cave in a cliff face and got a surprise when I watched the video on a large screen. At the upper left corner of this frame, there was a turkey vulture, ...

Great presentation, Bill. I enjoyed seeing some I never had known before. I'm amazed at the high prices some of them had, when money was worth a dozen or more times what it is today. My first car ...

Thanks, Bill and Dave. Here's a link to the 9/3/17 sunspot photo from the ESA/NASA SOHO Observatory, probably taken a few hours earlier than mine, showing almost the same sunspots. https://sohowww. ...

We've had forest-fire smoke for several weeks in Oregon, but it was at its worst this evening. The only thing good about it, is that shots of the setting sun were possible without a filter. To my ...

If they'd just been more careful to go unnoticed, there would be no issue.

NHH, those shots aren't bad at all, considering  the circumstances. I hope your camera is OK.

Bill, the same thing happened to me. I tried using a pinhole-box image. I took a small piece of copper sheet and drilled a pinhole in it and taped it across a hole I cut in a box. No matter how ...

Very pleasant, Bill. A nice break to see all those unspoiled scenes, before going back to city traffic and shopping malls. Are you going to put yourself in the pathway of the eclipse?  Be careful ...

Probably just the tip of the iceberg, at that company and maybe most of the others in the same business. The end result may be that local photo shops will be the only ones you can trust and have a...

Perhaps someone can supplement the DPR article, by telling us what magnitude of filter would be suitable for a partial eclipse. Does the term "solar filter" simply mean an ND filter of high...

Bill, the optical illusion, is that two people walking towards the camera, appear to be behind the back of the sculpture, but in fact, are in front of it. By looking at it with the large group of ...

Sorry ladies, but's that the way men are. They've been that way as long as humans existed. Some of them pretend to be otherwise, but that's just to conceal what they're really thinking. If you want...

Some here are overlooking that the vast majority of those who take photographs do not receive any money for them and many may have no interest to do so. I shoot photos and videos so I can share...