Questions about a specific problem or issue, often dealing with a lens, camera body, image sensor, lighting equipment, or software specific to photography.
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Solving shadow light of photo taken by a cellphone camera
I’ve a problem with my photos. I take my photo with handphone camera [Samsung galaxy-3MP]. There are some shadows of the light in the object. How to solve this [maybe some technique of digital imaging ...
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Photoshop only prints in B&W on Pixma Pro 9000, MK2
One week ago I purchased the Canon Pixma Pro 9000, mk2. Using photoshop, every print I printed, up to today, was breathtakingly beautiful in all sizes. 8x10,11x14,13x19's looked like you could ...
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Can I restore metadata wiped out by Topaz using Lightroom?
When using Lightroom, I edit a photo in Topaz Adjust. When the edited photo is imported back into Lightroom, some of the metadata is missing - namely the focal length, ISO, shutter speed, and ...
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How do I fix an unresponsive Canon A510 with an adapted Kingston microSD card?
I have a Canon PowerShot A510 using a Kingston 2GB microSD card with an SD adapter.
The SD card worked perfectly until I formatted the card in my Mac. I formatted it with MS-DOS Fat file system. Now, ...
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Canon G1 X Custom Color Resets
The Canon Powershot G1 X has a Custom Color mode which lets you tweek Contrast, Saturation, Sharpness, Red, Green, Blue and Skin Tone. With a few adjustments, it can make colors look quite natural.
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I cannot open the internal flash on my Canon 60D camera; how do I fix it?
I tried opening the internal flash on my Canon 60D camera the other day and it didn't open at all. I couldn't understand why. After messing around in the menus, I found out that the camera thinks that ...
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Why has my 550D camera buffer decreased?
Normally I can shoot 9 JPEG's into the buffer. This amount is indicated by the number in the lower right of the viewfinder, next to the focus confirmation light.
Now that number says 2. And indeed, if ...
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Nikon P510 Connect with computer problem
I have purchased Nikon Coolpix P510 camera and when i tried to connect to my windows 7 64 bit machine it says "MTP USB Device" failed to install message.
I have already installed "View NX2".
How can ...
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Why do I get two JPEG files instead of RAW+JPEG when transfering to my computer from my Nikon D5100?
I have a Nikon D5100 and I want to shoot RAW and JPG at the same time. I select RAW+N (RAW plus Normal Size JPG). Now when I export the shots to my computer I end up with two files called DSC_0123 ...
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Is it normal for the LCD screen of D3100 to sometimes show moving horizontal lines?
Yesterday I noticed horizontal upwards moving lines on the LCD screen on the D3100 when I was using live view.
It doesn't happen always, is this normal?
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How can I solve a problem with unintended bursts in single-shot mode on my Canon 7D?
Wondering if any of you have heard of this. I've started to experience an intermittent problem with my 7D where the shutter will occasionally fire between two and six times with a single button press. ...
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Pictures I took from my Nikon D5000 have low contrast. Whats wrong with my camera?
The pictures I have taken with my Nikon D5000 have low contrast, is there anything wrong with my camera? Every time I import pictures to Lightroom I have to adjust contrast to get a clear picture.
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Why would some of my Lightroom3 noise reduction sliders be disabled?
I use Lightroom 3.6 and I just imported some old RAW files into it.
I can use the basic noise reduction tools but the Details and Contrast tools are disabled.
How can I get them enabled? The same ...
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Why do I sometimes get a shaking viewfinder image in my Canon 550D?
Sometimes I put my viewfinder to my eye before I turn on my camera. When I turn it on, the viewfinder image slightly shakes and moves a bit vertically. This also happens when I look through my ...
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Are these images symptomatic of shutter failure?
This is a burst sequence taken with a Canon 1D Mark II N in high-speed mode (8fps). You can see the bright line down the center and the dark area in the upper-right. I have several other sequences ...
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Frames are jerking/dropping on Canon 550D during full HD recording, using a class 6 card. Are there better cards?
Why are the frames jerking? What SD cards can I use that won't have this problem?
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Nikon D7000 card problems
So here's my story with the Nikon D7000.....
I purchased this body last year as my second-shooter and had two 8GB Panasonic cards in it.
I had some corrupted files at the end of the card's memory ...
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What is the sound that I'm hearing from Canon EF 24-105mm F/4 L lens?
I've a Canon 600D with Canon EF 25-105mm F/4 USM L lens. When I half press the shutter I can hear the US motor sound trying to focus on my subject, however I hear another sound, it's lower than the ...
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Why can't I re-enable Image Review on my Canon G11?
I have a canon G11.
Everything was working fine until a couple of weeks ago, when it stopped displaying the image for review each time I take a picture.
I haven't consciously turned this off, but ...
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Why am I getting a “frame” in my picture when I made my own shaped bokeh?
I have tried to play with the shaped bokeh trick, by following the instruction at DIY - Create Your Own Bokeh.
I am using a M4/3 camera with its kit lens, which is 14-42mm f3.5-f5.6.
I shot at 14mm ...
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How can you tell if a lens is having problems with back focusing?
I recently bought a Canon EF 24-70/2.8L to use with my 450D and I suspect that it is constantly back focusing. Is there any way of determining if it is something wrong with the lens or if it is a ...
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Nikon D3100 transfer distorts photos [duplicate]
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Why do my images get distorted on my Nikon DSLR?
I've been using this camera (Nikon D3100) for over a year and have absolutely no problems with it, until yesterday. When ...
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Why do the focus points leds in my viewfinder appear shadowed?
The focus points leds (red colored ones), looks shadowed (smudged) in my Canon 550D. Not all points, but the bottom 3 points, when the light glows, looks kind of shadowed. I tried cleaning the both ...
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Why did my Canon EOS 450D fail to save the entire photo?
After not being used for three months I got this (bottom right corner cropped from processed raw image by Canon's DFP):
(original RAW is available for download here: ...
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How can I fix a blue colour cast from my Canon i9950 printer?
I have a Canon i9950 with an aftermarket CISS. It used to be fine, but having not used it for a while over Christmas, now all my prints are coming out with a horrible blue cast.
I have checked that ...
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Why does my photo look great in Lightroom but show sharpening halos on my web site?
I haven't over sharpened my photo — it looks great in Lightroom and Photoshop CS5, but when I upload it to my webpage, it has horrible ghosts/halos around much of the subjects. I have tried it with ...
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How can I turn off the loud sound my D3100 produces when I take a photograph?
Nikon D3100 produces sound when I take the photograph. The sound is loud and attention grabbing.
What is the term for this particular sound, and how can I turn it off?
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What should I do when my Nikon AF-S lens won't auto focus?
I have a Nikon 35mm f/1.8G AF-S DX I bought for my Nikon D5100, it's only a couple months old, never been dropped or anything, and it all of a sudden won't auto focus. Anyone know if this is a simple ...
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Why is Auto Exposure on my Nikon D300s Overexposing?
My 300s appears to be overexposing - especially in the image playback - is there a way to calibrate or check the exposure measurement? Have been compensating exposure with some success.
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Why does ETTL occasionally fail with my Canon Speedlite 580 EXII?
I have the Canon Speedlite 580EXII for 3-4 years now, and I have used it with a 450D and more recently with a 60D.
With both bodies, there was a very weird behavior where ETTL or even TTL will ...
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Why am I getting soft images with my Sigma 24-70 f2.8?
I recently purchased a Sigma 24-70mm f2.8 lens which I am using on a Canon 40D body. Around 8 of 10 shots were soft, regardless of subject matter. Exposure, white balance etc. all looks fine. I only ...
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Why does my Canon 550D make a small sound while focusing?
Ok the "noise" I am talking about here is not noise in photos, it's actual small noise/sound coming from camera.
I have been using my camera for around 6 months, but never noticed this before. May be ...
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What should I do about this strange CF behavior, where I lost tonight's pictures?
I have taken over 14,000 photos with my Canon 7D and loaded them into my Windows 7 desktop computer the same way, by inserting the CF card into my computer's reader. The point is that I know how it ...
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What is the reason for underexposure in my film photographs?
Thanks to all the quality answers I got here that helped me to buy a film camera. I got my first roll of film processed and printed.
The print results are not as pleasing as looking at the slides ...
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What is causing increased noise in my recent photos?
In the last two shoots I've taken I have noticed much more noise in the resulting photos. In the first instance, I put this down to my fault, as I was shooting at high ISO levels, but in the second ...
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Why is Lightroom 3 having trouble importing from my iPhone 3GS?
When I attach my phone to lightroom 3 it recognizes the device in the import screen but it does not show any thumbnails as available. When I try to import the images it will not do so and says they ...
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Why am I seeing two JPG files instead of RAW + JPG with a Canon 1100D?
I have a Canon 1100D and I started taking pictures in the RAW+JPG mode. For some reason when I open my files on my PC I see 2 files, but both of them are JPG (they even have the same size). What is ...
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Is camera damage causing these severe diagonal lines from concentrated light sources?
Since a week or so, I have severe diagonal stripes around light-sources in my night-time photographs on my Canon Powershot A650. In the past, I had some (I guess due to Fraunhofer diffraction, see ...
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What might cause stuck focus on a manual lens?
So, today I dropped my ME Super. When I picked it up I realized that the focus ring of the 50mm f2 lens attached didnt turn.
My question is, what could cause this? Could it be that the threads inside ...
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Where do these “redshifts” and “blueshifts” come from?
I make many product photos for the company I work for. For this I use Canon 400D with two external flash devices Walimex CY-600K.
I've noticed an interesting effect on many of the photos I take with ...
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Why is there a strange white spot on all of photos from my Zenit-B SLR?
I've taken some photos with my old Zenit-B camera. And I have some strange white spot on all of the photos in the upper right corner. Sometimes it is not too recognizable, but it is everywhere.
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Why is my camera showing a lot of stuck red and white pixels?
After shooting for one hour with my Rebelt2i + Tamron 17-55 f2.8, I went back home and checked pictures on my computer.
For every single picture, there are a lot of 'dead' pixels at the same ...
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What is causing this white spot in every photo with my D90?
Recently I noticed that the photographs from my D90 has an odd white dot in it. The dot is present in every image. The dot becomes clearly visible as I zoom into the image. I have attached a photo ...
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Why am I getting dark spots with my Singh-Ray 77mm vari-ND filter?
I've been using a Singh-Ray vari-ND with my Panasonic GH1, and I'm seeing obvious dark spots in the image. On a lower setting the left and right side of the image have dark lines and when I go to a ...
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Why does my Nikon D90 have a “Job nr” error?
I have a problem with my D90 I'm unable to figure out. Whenever I take a long exposure with my D90 (say, for 10 or 15 seconds), when the shutter closes again, the info display on the camera reads "Job ...
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Is it normal for the Canon kit lens to exhibit lens flare even without a UV filter?
I recently bought a Canon 550D and have been experimenting with this for a week. I have been pretty satisfied with the quality, until I faced this lens flare problem. Notice the unwanted blue light ...
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What's behind these memory card problems with my new Nikon D7000?
Recently I bought Nikon D-7000. It's fantastic camera, but I am facing few problems:
I am using 16GB San Disk memory card in slot 1. While taking photos, sometimes it shows a memory card error. If I ...
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Why do I have a red dot in every photo? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why is my camera showing a lot of stuck red and white pixels?
Every picture that I took today have a red dot on the same place in every photo. It looks like a monitor ...
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why close ups are too wide
I have been taking close up pictures for a while with no problem. I think I may have done something with the settings, because all of a sudden my closeups are distorted (wide). I have a sony cyber ...
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What should I do about Canon PowerShot “Lens error, restart camera”?
I've had a Canon PowerShot A1100 IS camera for almost a year now.
About a week ago, I went on a trip, took pictures the whole trip, everything was ok.
When I got home, and tried to turn the camera ...
