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Electronic designer. Professional Engineer. Oldish aka "reasonably experienced" :-). Contact - apptechnz gmail com <- you know the drill.
Special interest in technological solutions for developing country applications. Extensive in-China experience in product development & manufacturing in China. Jack of all trades, Master of Electrical engineering. (aka ME (elec)) Interested in all aspects of modern technology. Professional qualifications in electrical engineering but practically proficient or conversant in many peripheral areas. Recent extensive experience in solar powered LED lighting development and manufacturing in China for markets worldwide.
"Servant of the Most High God" / committed Christian. Happy to work enthusiastically and interact amicably with people of all nationalities and creeds.
Married with 2 adult children.
Obsessional photographer.
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Apr 14 |
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Low Cost Suggestions to blow out background when shooting down for clothing on the ground added 744 characters in body |
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Apr 14 |
answered | Low Cost Suggestions to blow out background when shooting down for clothing on the ground |
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Apr 13 |
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What is the minimum cost “automatic” flash that I can sensibly use with a Nikon D700 ... in their mouths. I imagine that others would be just a wee bit confounded by the options, would like to have a better sunmmary than Mr Gargoyle easily turns up, and from the mouths of experts and/or people he/she can trust. TTL cords or not. Fancy that. Who would have thought. No film era flashes do TTL on DSLRs. OK. Good to know. Sigma 530... OK hadn't seen that. Must look. etc. SO, Must be Monday somewhere on earth, then. |
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Apr 13 |
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What is the minimum cost “automatic” flash that I can sensibly use with a Nikon D700 Yes yes. I understand that downvotes are also intended for when people are having a bad day week month year life, the tea is cold, the dog bit you, the XRay blurred your film despite what Customs promised, your goldfish died, you didn't make tenure, and it's Monday. BUT I still can't believe that somebody would downvote this question. "This question does not show any research effort. It is unclear or not useful." OK. I'd imagine that every now and then new people drift into the Nikon DSLR sphere. They can't ALL be born with a silver Nikon ... |
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Apr 13 |
answered | Should I be worried that my Canon 1dx gave an Err01 on my Zeiss 21mm 2.8 lens for ONE exposure and after that it was fine? |
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Apr 13 |
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What is the minimum cost “automatic” flash that I can sensibly use with a Nikon D700 @KennethCarranza Thanks for the excellent answer. That covers a number of useful relevant points. If nobody tops that I'll accept it. With (great) luck others may have even better advice - but they'll be doing well to do so :-). TTL is not essential in this application. If I can get it at no great cost increase I'll do so. |
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Apr 12 |
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What is the minimum cost “automatic” flash that I can sensibly use with a Nikon D700 @AJHenderson BUT Go to WHOSE website? And that misses the 20 or 30 or 40 year old Nikon system flash that all the prose use for this sort of task and that sell on ebay for $5 if that. Do they exist? Probably not? But a died in the wool Nikon man does. Do the Fxxx flashes from the period 19xx to 19yy work OK or is xxx an issue etc. | AND I'd raher not buy a Yonguo at their advertising for the bottom end models is often misleading. The fact that they are manual is "inobvious" at best. |
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Apr 12 |
asked | What is the minimum cost “automatic” flash that I can sensibly use with a Nikon D700 |
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Apr 11 |
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How do I choose a title for a photograph? May we see a few examples? |
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Apr 10 |
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Using SLR Lenses on DSLR Cameras As noted, this is PROBABLY mostly about Minolta MF lenses not being directly compatible with the A Mount AF system. "One would hope" ALL A-mount compatible lenses would work with any film or digital A Mount camera. In a very few cases, the sweep of the camera mirror may interfere with the lens. This is exceedingly unusual. As I recall (perhaps incorrectly) some specialist teleconverters that will not work in some cases. Having written this it hardly sounds credible, but that's what the brain offers at present :-). || What's wrong with 'Tony' - head injury? email address on my profile |
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Apr 9 |
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Why did “pure” photography displace pictoralism so completely? @mattdm - answer added to. I doubt that anything you can find to smoke will help if you try to access it linearly. If at all, it can perhaps be understood in the same manner as you deal with a Shakespearean play (although absolutely no comparison to the excellence of The Bard [tm] is intended), viz let the words flow over you, follow the general gist, if any should exist, in this case, and take the current where it leads (JC. A3, S4) |
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Apr 9 |
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Why did “pure” photography displace pictoralism so completely? added 1606 characters in body |
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Apr 9 |
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Do all types of paper of the same weight have the same thickness? @damnedtruths The statement was entirely correct in context. I've changed it slightly to make it more pedantic so that it will (hopefully) be able to be understood by more people. |
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Apr 9 |
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Do all types of paper of the same weight have the same thickness? added 38 characters in body |
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Apr 8 |
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How do TTL flash metering systems calculate how much power is needed? ... .. they have not provided much different processing power than in the A77 and/or that they are leaving a performance step for the new Sony yet to be announced 36 MP FF to fill. It's hard to guess what the 36 MP will be named, as the A99 has already taken "top" 2 digit spot. Maybe an A99. Or A90. Or A9? Starting to sound familiar, somehow :-). |
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Apr 8 |
answered | Do all types of paper of the same weight have the same thickness? |
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Apr 8 |
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How do TTL flash metering systems calculate how much power is needed? Re " ... moving the mirror ... at 10+ frames per second." Or 12 fps in the case of my A77 thanks to the lack of need to move the mirror :-) - while allowing continual metering including during image capture. I know you know that, but the implications for better results are significant. The system does actually start to "run out of steam" in other areas in the highest speed mode, but that's a function of the implementation and not of the system per se. Disappointingly, the full frame A99 provides only 6 frames per second, which is slower than some mechanical mirror marvels, suggesting that ... |
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Apr 7 |
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How to photograph a room showing both room & view out a window? @mattdm - Thanks - failed to notice numbering change. Strange system./ Putting nos in brackets works. |
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Apr 7 |
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How to photograph a room showing both room & view out a window? added 82 characters in body |
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Apr 7 |
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How to photograph a room showing both room & view out a window? Fill flash pictures added. |
