Recent content by DavePaliwoda

I've had to walk through some stingy nettles to get to some shots before. Wearing shorts. Separates the men from the boys.

RAW is a necessity to me; It's like the choice between shooting film and developing it yourself or sending it off to some automated machine that tries to do what it thinks works based on the film (and then summararily burns the negatives) in my mind.

(This is based on experience of Nikon's equivalent VR) Unless you're going tripod 100% of the time, very much worth it.

I've used one for video editing and motion graphics and they're the dogs reproductives.

Originally I had sided with the authorities on this, being that it is pretty blatant what's going on with piracy on the Pirate Bay Then I saw the weakness of the prosecution case versus the strength of the defence, and it seemed pretty obvious that the Pirate Bay guys are being show-trialed...

Nifty Fifty

I keep my camera in a messenger bag all the time, frees me up to keep it on me whenever I'm on campus. (and when going out and doing more specific shoots load up my 'shooting' messenger bag with my flash, tripod, etc.) As long as you aren't throwing it around and keep the lens cap on its fine.

According to Joe McNally's latest book (And I'm not sure whether this applies to Canons as well as just Nikons), the cameras exposure comp is the main over-ride; If your camera is two stops under and your flash is on normal exposure, the photo will be two stops under. However, if you set your...

Neato!

Generally those that do take pictures in such buildings will often do so under the guise of urban exploration and do their best to circumvent any security measures in place. Given how often this occurs and (must obviously) bother the security, asking them for permission to may seem like a bit...

First digital I got me hands on was me ma's Fuji MX-2700

Try going through the D40 (full) setup menu to USB and setting to PTP instead of Mass Storage