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May 17 |
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How do I 'break' a film camera in order to get double exposures? typically? Depends heavily on the make and model. Quite a few have options to either wind back a single frame or to reset the shutter without advancing a frame. |
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May 16 |
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Are there sites where I can compare pro versus amateur photographer work? yes and no. The sole difference between the pro and the amateur is that the pro gets paid for what he does, the amateur doesn't. The pro will create what sells, if that means specific criteria for quality and composition need to be met he'll meet those, whether those lead to an image that taken alone would look "good" or not. Say he needs to create an image that fits on the right side of a page, leaving 50% free on the left for text, of a female figure drawing attention to her clothes. He'll do that despite it not being "correct" according to the books. |
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May 2 |
answered | How did film photographers deal with issues around dynamic range? |
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May 2 |
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What is “correct” exposure? @mattdm possibly. But there are certain exposure ranges that are considered "correct" by the "schools" of photography, that's what I consider "technically correct" in this context. And those you could measure nowadays by automatic comparison of histograms. The things asked in the question you linked are indeed impossible to quantify (except for noise, but that's influenced so much by the storage media/format that it becomes meaningless in the context of that question, which tries to measure a camera's performance based on an image stored with lossy compression). |
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May 1 |
answered | What is “correct” exposure? |
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May 1 |
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Do lenses lose sharpness when they age? @akid that process takes centuries at least. I doubt he cares about such timelines :) A bigger problem is mechanical components wearing, causing trouble for the lens staying in focus. And properly maintained, that takes decades if not longer. |
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Apr 22 |
answered | Is there a quiet, affordable Nikon F mount camera (for timelapse)? |
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Apr 18 |
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Is “Ultrapixels” just marketing or is there a real benefit? your perception is correct independent of the sensor's pixel count as it is caused mostly if not completely by the size of the sensor, the instability of the platform as compared to real cameras, the horrible skill level of your average dumbphone "photographer", and the terrible optics employed in phones. |
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Mar 27 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Mar 25 |
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Are modern telephoto zooms so improved that they're not a big tradeoff vs primes? @MichaelClark maybe, but that doesn't mean they'll ever catch up and be as good or (as sometimes claimed) even better than primes. I've seen articles years ago proclaiming first generation Tamron hyperzooms as being "superior" to Nikkor primes, then going on to ignore any and all optical qualities and focusing solely on the fact that 1) hyperzooms are cheaper, 2) hyperzooms are smaller, and 3) hyperzooms don't require changing lenses (compared to a collection of professional grade primes). Turned out the magazine was heavily sponsored by Tamron :) |
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Mar 25 |
answered | Are modern telephoto zooms so improved that they're not a big tradeoff vs primes? |
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Mar 9 |
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What are the metal items on top of an older Nikon lens? true, always a tradeoff ;/ Don't have any old Nikkors to test on my D200, but that one has a lot of space and so do the newer (semi)pro bodies I believe |
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Mar 9 |
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What are the metal items on top of an older Nikon lens? or you could have taken a tiny screwdriver and removed the prong, then put the screws back in :) |
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Mar 9 |
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How do photographers manage multiple lenses? dust is easy to get rid of in the field using a blow brush, but you do want your camera professionally cleaned at least once a year (or more often if you use it heavily). It's cheap, think of it like getting your car services. 2 bodies is great to have, 3 is better if you can get away with the weight and bulk. If you have an assistant, 4 is even nicer :) |
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Mar 6 |
answered | Why is the main sensor not used instead of the separate AF sensor to focus a DSLR? |
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Feb 28 |
answered | Why does DSLR technology seem so primitive? |
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Feb 28 |
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Why does DSLR technology seem so primitive? obvious troll, vote to close |
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Feb 28 |
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Does street photography including children introduce any specific concern? @MikeW what's legal or not hardly matters. If the school doesn't allow it because they're afraid of pedophiles (which is the usual reason) it's effectively illegal. And as a single person, even looking at a child can get me accused of being a pedophile, an accusation that can destroy my life as I'm likely to end up on some "pedophile hunter" website and get targeted with smear campaigns, arrested and charged based on rumours, and eventually may have to change my name and appearance and flee to another city or even country (all happen here several times a year). |
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Feb 27 |
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Does street photography including children introduce any specific concern? and depending on where you are, it may well be illegal. In the UK for example it's illegal (or at least many schools and local councils consider it to be) even for parents to take pictures of school activities because that would count as "producing child pornography", in the US parents have been arrested for taking pictures of their own children at the beach for the same reason. Now consider what'd happen if a total stranger started snapping pictures, it'd be a lynch mob if the police weren't there in time to arrest the photographer for his own safety. |
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Feb 21 |
awarded | Yearling |
