Recent content by kt53

@droj Definitely no money to burn :-) Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look at Faststone Image Viewer and the others. Canon DPP is still available so RAW images aren't a problem.

I'm in the process of moving to a Windows 11 laptop. My current one is about 7 years old, and the cameras I use of even greater vintage. When I try to download from the Canon site I'm informed that the software isn't available for any of my cameras. They are a EOS5DII, 450D and a 77D(which...

That's what I've always felt was the great thing about using film. It's far too easy with digital to use the 'machine gun approach' of blasting off dozens of shots in the hope that one of them will be OK. Although I do only use digital cameras now, my approach to taking photographs has changed...

I can't imagine the success rate of getting strangers to part with money before they actually get the result is going to be very high. If some random stranger walked up to me and asked to take my photo and "By the way I'll charge you for the image", I know what my answer would be. I think the...

One of the members of a Camera Club I attended many years ago was not hugely popular with the other members for his "I'm better than you" attitude. When he attained his LRPS, he included that with his name on all club competition entries! That simply made him look a bigger ****** (enter your...

Thanks @Rincewind. I'll look at ways to move it on. Cost of posting would negate any value in selling on t'interweb. It might actually cost more than I could reasonably ask for it. If anybody is in the Gloucestershire area I'm happy to give it away if they can collect. Approx 150 7"x5" and...

Canon EOS 5D

Thanks for your thoughts on this. They are stored in the room where I use my computer so no extremes of temperature. I'll see if I can get any info from Epson.

I haven't done my own printing for some years, ever since the cost of a set of inks for my printer passed £100! Consequently I have quite a stock of unused paper, still boxed. The question is 'Does glossy paper have a use by date and/or deteriorate'? I would hate to try to sell it only for...

I couldn't believe what I was seeing first time I saw somebody do that with a dSLR camera. They had the camera held virtually at arm's length. I'd love/hate to see the results. Camera shake was probably quite spectacular.

I would be very surprised if 35mm referred to physical length. It's far more likely, I would think, that they are referring to focal length of lens.

My wife used to send dozens of cards. This year it will certainly be less than a dozen, and they will be paid for by replacement stamps we received from old ones we found in a drawer and sent for replacements.

Camera clubs can be great, if you can find a good one. I was a member of a club associated with a local company for a number of years, but that company closed their local office and the camera club sadly ceased to exist. I tried our local camera club and, apart from two people who spoke to me...

Wind isn't always the friend of renewables. From what I've been reading they can't cope with wind above about 50mph. The irony of wind turbines that can't cope with wind!

That actually is a very fair point. I've been watching a series with Tom Kerridge and he was with his head chef who runs the kitchen. Tom Kerridge, along with his head chef, create the dishes and define precisely what they contain and cooking times. The head chef doesn't do all the prep and...