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I spent quite a while looking at both, but eventually went for the LX5. The size doesn't make a difference to me really (the LX5 is still small enough to fit in any pocket that the S95 would), and thought it'd be nice to be able to use filters on the LX5 (not very often, but sometimes stick a...

Excellent, sounds good. What i thought, but worth asking I think before scratching an expensive filter. Only problem now is that i've realised that the lens cap would have been a good option too, but can't find anywhere that sells Lee stuff where the postage doesn't double the price. And I...

Possibly a silly question, but how scratchable are the Lee ND grad filters? Or, to put it another way, how gentle do I need to be with them to keep them in top condition? Particularly, i'm thinking about the pouch it came in, the padded one. The filter comes wrapped in tissue paper, and to me...

Its a good question, because many years ago photograph was a word and photo wasn't - so the abbreviation got an apostrophe. But the world moves on, photo is a word in its own right, and so to make it plural just add an s. I do agree with the question of "does it matter?". And I take the view...

There's no such thing as unprocessed, whether film or digital. You can spend a long time setting all of the camera's processing options beforre you press the shutter, or spend time afterwards choosing your processing options. One could argue that relying on the jpg that comes out of the camera...

You can connect various memory cards, memory sticks, cameras and USB drives with the Camera Connection Kit, without jailbreaking. From those you can import photos / videos onto the iPad. You also used to be able to connect USB keyboards, though not sure if that is still supported (I've never...

Ah, so I was right in the sense that it's optimised for flat areas of colour and inefficient for photos, but didn't realise it was lossless so will always give better image quality than a jpg, just a bigger filesize. I've been educated - excellent! Cheers, David

How do you find PNG's compare to jpg? I always understood PNG to be optimised for graphics, ie hard lines, solid areas of colour, while jpg was supposed to be better at textures, graduated colour, etc. I've never really tried photos in PNG format because of that - presumably you find it...

I wanted something similar, but decided that those cameras aren't that much smaller to justify having a whole other setup / system in addition to a DSLR - i'd either end up only using it with the pancake lens, and missing lots of opportunities, or having pockets full of extra lenses. I got a...

It is nothing more than a way to describe the aspect ratio. Aperture's standard list of aspect ratios includes: "2 x 3 (4 x 6)", "3 x 4", "16 x 9 (HD)", and "Square". Doesn't imply any particular size in pixels, is purely a way to describe the aspect ratio, in the same way they explicitly...

I'd go with Dan's option - take the photos and post-process them into a panorama, giving you complete control. As it happen I also use Hugin, which usually works fine on auto settings but gives you near enough complete control if you need it. The just make your photos slightly larger than the...

Ah that's a good point, I'll just copy the RAW files back onto a memory card so I can show them a range of the photos that have had the problem. Was bought new in April 2011, so still well within warranty etc. Cheers, David

Nope, the strange stripey vertical pink lines are definitely not supposed to be there. I bought it from a reasonably local shop so might try dropping it in next week to see what they can do - though, as i'm struggling to recreate it on demand, I always worry that it'll come back "not faulty"...

Yeah good suggestion, I do quick formats in-camera fairly regularly, but will try a full one to see if it picks anything bad up. That said, I think i'm moving away from thinking that the memory card is the cause, just becuase the corruption seems too "regular", ie the way it is a repeating...