Recent content by akirk

Also for the Z50II but with very little extra functionality - mainly a bit of bug fixing

I suspect it is one of those things where it doesn't work particularly well now - but by adding it and then developing it over time it should improve until one day it might actually be useful!

I get it repeatedly - almost never when on the ipad (Safari) but almost every session I go on with firefox on my main computer - I usually get one or two clicks through to topics then get the error... Are you able to look through the error logs on the server - it should record the issue

10 minutes before a wedding was due to start, the end of my Sigma 70-200 lens fell off... I carry duct tape in the car, so wrapped that around the hastily reassembled lens and shot the whole wedding with it (and my second camera etc.) Sent it into Sigma for repair and they asked to buy it off me...

By not worrying too much about other people... and just taking my shot... Why are you taking photos - if for yourself, then it doesn't matter what anyone else has done... If commercially, then fulfil the commercial brief and don't worry about others... There is too easy an access to others'...

I am not getting into an argument about what it is called - quite frankly you can call it what you like! Nor do I judge the morality of others online ;) My point was that shooting from a distance with a long lens will give a different feel to the photo from shooting close in with a wide lens...

It does bring a different perspective, but I think that esp. with lenses which are easy to test - 2nd hand is the way forward for me, the quality : value ratio is superb...

The difference is simple though: - distant = observing the scene - close up = making you feel a part of the scene simple physics of lenses means that standing further away with a long lens is not the same as being closer with a wide angle lens. It includes other items that would be excluded...

I watched a youtube video recently looking at the 'progress' in camera tech and it made some good points that relate to this question... If a lens was considered to be very good / very sharp in f-mount format - bringing in a sharper / better lens in z-mount format doesn't make the original lens...

I have used photoshop since version 0.98 on a Mac Plus - and lightroom since it first began - it used to be that you needed both to fulfil workflow, but increasingly photoshop is needed less and less - there are still a few things where it is more powerful, but lightroom (classic) has become far...

Skylark at Slimbridge

clearer from nearby Brandon Hill - though still a bit into the sun etc...

they came - but went down behind the far buildings, so difficult to see - these are shot on a Sigma 50-500 on a D850

crowds down at the harbour side in Bristol waiting for the last flight from the Bristol Balloon Festival

I am with the others who choose against purpose... So, the z50 is taken out for street photography as it is the most subtle. Otherwise I will usually have D850 and D780 - one with telephoto and one with wide angle...