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Nikon F2 meters were originally calibrated on Mercury Oxide batteries which are no longer available, the modern alternatives give a higher voltage and your F2 meter may need some adjustment to work accurately on the new batteries. I am guessing your hand held meter is probably more accurate...

The main thing I have found with cheaper filters is the colour cast, generally the greater the level of ND the greater the colour cast. So you can't apply a standard level of correction which I found a pain. I constantly change filters to provide shots with and without motion blur so it has...

I occasionally have to use Gopros at work and I find them to be very poor, the software is flaky, they turn on and off at random and they are painful to set up. I use DJI drones and gimbals and have always found them to be the exact opposite to Gopros. Based on my experiences I will be replacing...

The best way I have found to set my focus peaking is to film some footage, look at it on my editing monitor and see what is in acceptable focus. Then adjust the peaking threshold so that the area highlighted is the area that was acceptably focused. Then as you stop down you will see more a...

I have also found that Adobe AI Denoise has become my go to for tricky noise issues. I do a lot of drone photography at night and Adobe AI Denoise works particularly well on those images. Andrew HATFIELD | Architectural and Interior Photographer

I started working as a professional photographer in 2011 using a 12MP camera. I still see images taken with that camera on clients websites and printed in large format when I visit offices. I have upgraded a few times since then but clients haven't noticed. Andrew HATFIELD | Architectural and...

If you are happy to operate all the controls on the camera, eg. start record, exposure and focus settings and just want stabilisation something like this would probably do https://www.mpb.com/en-uk/product/zhiyun-tech-crane-v2-gimbal-stabiliser/sku-2653987 The only thing that has really changed...

If you want to lift mood a bit with your images you could go out a bit earlier when there is some colour in the sky. It would also make the handholding a lot easier. Another thing to consider is that dynamic range is dramatically reduced at higher ISO. Your camera will go from 12 stops at base...

Interesting project. Is it the challenge of taking the shots handheld that you are looking for or the fact that you don't want the inconvenience of using a tripod? If you a looking for any inspiration it's always worth looking through Gerory Crewdson's work. Andrew HATFIELD | Architectural...

When I am shooting interiors I normally use something between 18 and 24mm (full frame equivalent.) which would be about 9 - 12mm in MFT so you may find that either of those lenses are not wide enough. I use a Blackmagic video camera for interiors which is MFT and after a lot of trial and error...

Compared to the Mini 3/4 Pro I would have thought the image quality of the Air2s might be slightly better in daylight. I used to fly a Phantom 4 Pro it has the same size sensor and minimum aperture as the Air2s. The Mini is much better at night though due to the f/1.8 aperture. Here's a shot...

That's the problem then. You are going to get much smoother shots using it hand held, even if you had a very short pistol grip your arm is going to take out a lot of the bounce. Andrew HATFIELD | Architectural and Interior Photographer

You could use the new Blackmagic PYXIS 6K which is about £2700 for the body and a Blackmagic Web Presenter 4K for about £600. The camera natively shoots 6K in full frame but the Web Presenter will convert it to 4K. Andrew HATFIELD | Architectural and Interior Photographer

Have you got the camera fixed to your body or are you holding it in your hand. Hand held is much smoother than body mounted. Andrew HATFIELD | Architectural and Interior Photographer

When I am using studio lights indoor I normally just set them to slave and use either the pop up flash or a a camera mounted one turned down to it's lowest setting. I don't know about Canon but Nikons allow you to control the pop up flash manually and turn it down to it's minimum setting. You...