Recent content by ihasa

I totally agree. We want American levels of taxation but expect Scandinavian levels of public services - the math isn't math-ing. (Actually if you view health insurance as a tax I imagine Americans are possibly worse off - we pay considerably less per capita on healthcare than they do. We pay...

The UWA lenses on most smartphone cameras now are a gamechanger. Just grab the shot. The camera will automatically even out the exposure in tricky light, which is time saving. I have had trips where I was using a telephoto zoom on my camera to pick out interesting architectural details, and it...

After processing this batch of photos, I've realised that the 48MP setting might have been a mistake - I think I'll be sticking to 12MP in future as there doesn't seem to be anything to gain from the higher resolution.

Some images from Oldox Camp (Notts) a couple of nights ago. I have had the drone a few weeks and couldn't wait to take it up there! The small conical hill (possibly a barrow) which the iron age encampment faces is called 'Robin Hood's p*** Pot'. A medieval cross once stood there, when it...

Can't you just ask the guests? Either nominate someone who is a photo enthusiast to be chief snapper or just collate the phone pics. Just have your wits about you and check someone is taking pics at important moments!

It depends on your budget. Assuming you are wanting a cheap starter camera, I would be looking at the second hand market. I only really know about full frame cameras, so will stick to that. The Sony A7iii and Nikon Z5 would be very good FF starter bodies for relatively little money IMO. The...

I used to shoot with Pentax, and my partner, despite having zero real interest in photography, used to mock me and say "why don't you get a Ninkon"? (Sic)

When I'm using my phone I don't think of it as "proper photography". But my Pixel 5 does take a nice pic! A few times I've been taking pics of buildings in the city centre with a long lens, and used the Pixel 5 for UWA shots to avoid changing lenses amidst a busy stream of people.

You can go down a rabbit hole with this stuff.... If I was you I would just send them my full size image in jpeg format (no resizing) and be done with it. As long as your camera has a reasonable resolution (over 24mp) ... it should come out OK. But you can upscale the image if you want, and then...

Oh yes! Durrr!!! :ROFLMAO:

Long exposure can increase noise slightly (hence the "long enclosure noise reduction" setting on most cameras). Obviously using a longer exposure and a low ISO is always going to beat a short exposure with a high ISO though.

Bearing in mind the budget I would definitely go down the Sony route for sensor size and lens availability, and future upgrade paths. I love my micro four thirds camera but low light isn't a strong point for sure.

To be honest I don't use photoshop for photos much except for a little final tweak to levels (for some reason I never quite get it right straight out of LR), resizing and sharpening. And if I need layers or cloning etc, but that's rare. There's a legacy version of Photoshop CS2 floating around...

I only bought from them once, and returned the lens within the 14 day 'change your mind' period as I really wasn't happy with it. Whole process was easy. (I paid for the return postage but only to their UK depot). (Side note, does that '14 day change your mind' right to return items still...

Legally, yes. In terms of the guidelines, debatable. Be sensible. If the car park is busy turn back around.