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| location | Oslo, Norway | |
| age | 42 | |
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| seen | Jun 16 at 9:24 | |
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Software engineer, hobby photographer and model-builder.
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Mar 27 |
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How do I properly understand what f-stop is? Re your statement about flange distance versus focal length: It is true for SLR cameras, because you need to move the mirror out of the way before taking the photo and thus the mirror-box needs to be free of obstructions. For mirrorless systems it is not necessarily so; I have an old Russian, Zeiss-designed 35mm/2.8 for Leica that pokes so far into the camera body that it almost touches the film plane. (That said, on digital cameras retrofocal wide-angles generally seem to be the way to go, just as on SLR cameras, to avoid corner pixel shading and other problems.) |
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Mar 22 |
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Does the Fujifilm X-E1 work with Ubuntu? The camera as such could not care less about what operating system your computer happens to be using, any more than your car or washing machine does... Are you trying to ask whether there is a RAW converter that handles X-E1 files and runs on Ubuntu? Or are you concerned about connecting the camera to the computer via USB and downloading the photos that way? |
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Mar 11 |
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What are general rules for ISO settings when using a flash? Essentially there is no difference between direct flash and bounce flash in this respect, although the flash has to work much harder if you bounce it because the light is spread out more so less of it falls on the subject. My approach to indoors flash, for the record, is to set ISO/shutter/aperture to whatever combination gives me the desired exposure for the background, and then add flash to give proper illumination to the foreground. This means that I don't actually pump the flash all that hard, as the overall exposure is in the ballpark to begin with. This gives a shorter flash recharge. |
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Mar 10 |
answered | Can I expect good quality from a 2X TC on a Nikon 55-300mm lens? |
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Mar 9 |
awarded | Enlightened |
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Mar 9 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Mar 9 |
answered | Why are these lights all different colours and how can I correct them? |
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Mar 7 |
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Do point and shoots exist which can get close to what DSLRs can produce? (And where could I find one?) Aye, and look at all the image noise it shows at a mere ISO 200 :) My DSLR is way better in this respect and is almost ten years old now. |
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Mar 5 |
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Does the time required to stop down the aperture affect the shutter response time? Whoa - talk about mirror bounce on the D80! Consider me impressed that our cameras actually work at all, considering how much is going on in there every time we press the shutter button :) |
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Mar 4 |
answered | Are there downsides to using a high shutter speed when it's not required? |
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Mar 4 |
answered | Does the time required to stop down the aperture affect the shutter response time? |
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Mar 3 |
answered | Is it worth buying a 5D Mark I or an EOS 1Ds II today? |
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Feb 9 |
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Which mirrorless system should I pick for M-mount lenses (Leica / Zeiss ZM) EXIF is correct for adapted lenses, assuming that you go into the menu system and tell the camera which focal lens you are using whenevery you change lens! Which you may or may not do; I tend to forget to do it - 1. Wide-angles are usually the most problematic, and it is reported as an issue on all relevant digital cameras whether Fuji, Sony or Leica. My Voigtländer 15mm seems to behave reasonably well as far as I can tell. 2 - A Fuji FF would need a different bayonet I think. |
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Feb 4 |
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Which mirrorless system should I pick for M-mount lenses (Leica / Zeiss ZM) (continued from above...) I have the Nokton 35/1.2, a 50mm DR Summicron and a 35/2.8 Jupiter-12, among others; the Nokton won't fit because of the rear element diameter and the two others because they protrude too far into the camera body. I'm getting a third-party adapter now, to get at least the Nokton to fit. Don't know if it will help the other two. For now I am using a goggled 35/2.8 Summaron as my "50 mm" lens, which looks absolutely idiotic on the camera but which works quite well indeed :) |
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Feb 4 |
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Which mirrorless system should I pick for M-mount lenses (Leica / Zeiss ZM) I got an X-E1 with Fuji M adapter this weekend and feel that I should add a caveat to the advice above: Not all M mount lenses work with the Fuji adapter. It has electronic connections to the camera, which means that its smallest diameter is a bit smaller than the M mount, which means that you cannot use lenses with a very large rear element. (You can't use lenses that poke deeply into the camera house either, but that is more immediately apparent.) The rear element diameter restriction is more nasty because it means that good lenses like the VC Nokton 35/1.2 can't be mounted. |
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Feb 3 |
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Why isn't it safe to use EF-S lenses on fullframe? Actually, all third-party non-full-frame lenses I have seen are EF mount compatible, in that they do not have bits and bobs that poke into the mirror box. Only Canon seems to use that particular trick for some of their EF-S lenses. A such, the only gotcha with third-party lenses on full frame is that they do not actually draw a large enough picture to fill the full-frame sensor. |
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Jan 29 |
answered | What's the difference between a closed and open aperture diaphragm for night street photos? |
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Jan 25 |
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When experimenting just isn't enough? Well... my take on camera manuals is that they are rather like the user manual that comes with your car. It tells how how to use the airconditioning and radio and how you turn on the engine, but does not tell you much about how to actually drive a car! I'd suggest that you go and buy an introductory book about photograhy, instead. It is not much good knowing how to change the aperture on your camera if you do not know what it is or what it does. |
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Jan 25 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Jan 16 |
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What product image catalog system do companies with thousands of products like Target or Macys use? Oh, yes. Metadata is the life-blood of image retrieval, the actual software used is less important. It's the old story of garbage in, garbage out; if the metadata you enter is bad, the search results will be bad. |
