Recent content by paulevans

Thanks Harriers, will try that!

I bought Affinity for £29 when it was on offer. I'm unusual in that I have never got on with Lightroom and I tend to use Faststone Image Viewer to look at my images then throw them out to Photoshop Elements with ACR to do the RAW conversion. Affinity is a good replacement for PSE as an editor...

Lumix G3s go for very cheap now, you can get a refurb with the perfectly satisfactory 14-42 lens for £199. The 16MP sensor is a big step up in IQ from the 12MP one in the earlier models, particularly above ISO800. I find the IQ excellent, even at 1600 and RAWs at 3200 look fine, but a bit of...

Hi Michael, I'm just up the way in Larne, and work in Belfast. Welcome, I just joined today and this looks like a friendly place - let's put NI on the map here! Paul.

Stacking loads of pictures. That shot will have been taken with a high speed webcam on the end of a telescope, quite possibly with an effective focal length of 4 or even 6 metres. The webcam shoots video and software picks out the best frames and stacks them up adding together the signal...

It's a common question and one which I've had to address myself as my Sony A700 and a bag of glass is just too much to haul around - I'm on holiday remember! But I like nice photos too! My solution is the Lumix FZ38. It's as manual or automatic as I want it to be, has an 18x stabilised zoom, is...

Hello all, I'm Paul, nudging the big five-oh and been into photography since the early '70s, and got more serious in the late '80s. Have been through Instamatic, Cosmic 35, Iloca rangefinder, Pentax AF compact then Minolta MF SLRs, AF SLRs, digital compact, KM DSLR and now have two Sony DSLRs...