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Situation I have this Takumar 200mm lens mounted on a Canon 60D with an m42 adapter. I really like the lens because of the bokeh it creates but the photos are so soft. I tried all the f numbers from 3....

I've got limited experience developing color films -- I've done a few rolls of C-41 using a two-bath color developer from a formula I found online, and Kodak bleach-fix and stabilizer, several years ...

My camera is a Nikon D810. I have the Adobe Creative Cloud suite and haven't updated it for a while, but my Lightroom version is 5. My camera came with a cable, one side was a HDMI I think that I ...

I want to buy a new camera for my product photography campaign. I need to choose the best one. Can anyone help me by suggesting the best one?

Another oil painting question: At my job I am instructed to split up shots of a painting and then merge them together in Photoshop after to achieve the highest resolution possible. I'm doing it and ...

I run into a little issue today and can’t figure out the root cause. I have the a6400, when I get close to a subject, mostly black / dark fabric type of material, I will see a red dot (light / flare) ...

I shoot sports events. I am using Canon 1dxM3 - I am needing to transfer photos to the computer while I am shooting for clients to view. I am currently doing this with the EOS utility - however - ...

In the film Titanic [1997], the scientists (and mostly Bill Paxton's character) use a white camera as seen in these screenshots: It looks like one of the Canon camcorders but it's not obvious what ...

I am starting to shoot with a Nikon D5200. Today, the light is bright and diffuse because of clouds. In M mode with f at 5.6, I set the white balance preset as per the manual, and often get an error &...

TIFF allows for JPEG compression, among others. While it is not a well-explored option (most people just opt for lossless compression), I am looking to use it as a similar-size alternative to JPEG, ...

Camera: Canon EOS 750D (EOS REBEL T6i) Lens: Canon EF 50MM F1.8 STM Issue: Focus is unreliable Settings Used: Manual 200 shutter F1.8 100 ISO Correctly exposed every time This all just started ...

With the release of the Canon EOS R5/R6, there have been many saying that they prefer the 20MP R6 camera over the 45MP R5 camera, due to its lower price but also because of "better low-light ...

I don't understand the embolded phrase below. I'm unschooled at physics and photography. Starburst and Sunstar Effects Starbursts, also called sunstars, are beautiful elements that you’ll find in ...

I have a Yongnuo YN560IV with RF603CII trigger. I have the weirdest problem. Flash fires fine without anything attached to the head, or with my Gary Fong lightsphere or another cheapie mini softbox ...

I took many noisy shots in low lighting condition the pictures are identical except for noise pattern, what would be the best blending mode to reduce noise if I were to combine them?

I am experienced B/W chemist but now I am entering into color processing at home. I am wondering what is the disadvantage of developing C41 film in 2-bath chemicals like Cinesitil Cs41 Color ...

I have a Canon 77D, a Yongnuo 622-TX controller on top of the camera, and a YN622C transceiver with a YN-568EX II speedlight. This system works perfectly. Yesterday I bought a YN-685. The problem is ...

I don't understand the embolded phrase below from Camera Resolution Explained. Please explain like I'm 10. I'm unschooled at photography or physics. How's "the actual difference in horizontal ...

I have a problem with color profiles I guess... So my Lightroom and Photoshop are both set to ProPhoto RGB. I start with editing in LR first and then export to PS - so far so good - all colors look ...

Which of the two embolded phrases below is more correct? Serindu. 643 points 1 year ago* Taking a picture is like filling up a bucket of water. The shutter speed is how long you keep the hose on. ...

TL;DR: Can additive RGB color gamuts produce the perception of light that has a shorter wavelength than the Blue component? If not, does shortening the wavelength of the shortest component of a 3-...

I would like to see how the image will be displayed on the monitor with lower color gamut. Am I able to mimic this using Photoshop?

The Canon G7X Mark II manual and website mentions that one can charge the camera through USB by using a special interface cable, Canon IFC-600PCU. The cable is even listed under Supplies and ...

I have seen multiple photographer to claim they captured milky way photograph using phone but to me it looks like overlayed using Photoshop, is it really possible to capture using phones like poco f1? ...

I have a Nikon D5200 and want to use it to shoot video with white balance correction. I am able to shoot photos having saved the a test photo as a white balance preset (page 79 of the reference manual)...

I take photos of birds and frequently use most of the 50X zoom available on my Canon SX50 camera, which has a 1/2.5” sensor (about 25 square mm). I want to compare the superzoom image I get to what I ...

after i shoot videos for a few minutes these black dots appear on my video. I am aware that my Nikon is mainly a photography camera but i am not sure why this keeps happening when i shoot video https:/...

In illustrations of the focus point of a sense, it looks to me to be infinitely small and as a result the resulting convergence of light would not yield an image. If the focus point is NOT infinitely ...

Colors don't have to be a mixture of red, green, and blue because visible light can be any wavelengths in the 390nm-700nm range. Do primary colors really exist in the real world? Or did we select red, ...

I am looking for digital cameras that are able to recognize faces(automatically or by user input) and save those as tags in XMP using either Microsoft Photo 1.2 Schema or Metadata Working Group - ...

Does anyone have any experience with the Canon 10-18 used specifically for night landscapes or for doubling in Astro photography? I already understand it is a slow lens, and obviously not the first ...

This is driving me a bit crazy. I'm using a Nikon Z6 with the 24-70 F4. I cannot access the interval timer shooting menu (nor the time-lapse movie or focus shift shooting); the camera insists "This ...

Some cameras lock in and autofocus (continuous focus) on a subject as they walk torwards the camera and back away from it during video. How do you configure the mark 3 eos 5d to autofocus on a subject ...

With my macro lens I can go so close that even ring flash doesn't really work, how can you light up your subject especially if it's small?

I recently bought a Nikon 35-70 mm f/2.8 lens with some scratches on the front element. I exchanged the front element with the element of an old lens I had lying around. Everything works fine, but now ...

Is there a tool that can help you do such thing? Can photoshop do it? Matlab can, but I don't want to use it.

The micro four thirds specifications originally want lenses to be image space telecentric if possible. It seems that some MFT lenses actually follow that recommendation. Can reversing such a lens ...

I am trying some 3D scene reconstruction in blender using my phone camera but in order for the program to do its math it needs to know the sensor width and focal length of my camera in millimeters but ...

I would like start scanning 120 and 35mm films, but my flatbed scanner (Canon Pixma 9155 AiO printer) doesn't officially support this. It doesn't come with a film holder, the software doesn't support ...

I have the Canon 50mm f1.4 which had the common focus issue due to deformed inner focus ring. I have straightened the ring and the lens now had full range of manual focus, but Autofocus cannot find a ...

Guys I just bought a YN560-TX PRO for Nikon and I did a firmware update and now is not turning on. Does any of you know how to do a factory reset, or something to help? I really need this to work ...

I have been reading about depth-of-field and presume to have a sufficient understanding of what it means and how it is related to lens properties, lens aperture, focal length, sensor format size and ...

I took this picture in a soft box illuminated by three 5000k 10 watt LED flood lights (one on each side and a third on top) I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S5 to take the picture, ISO 100 and Matrix ...

I took up my camera by the lens when the camera was attached to a tripod. Will it cause any damage?

i got this bright and dark line difference since last 5 months and it happens often but not always is there something broken in my image processor or what  im using fujifilm xt100 and fx 35mm changing ...

I am scanning 35mm negatives of old family photos and came across a roll I can't make sense of. The images are all printed upside down. What's more confusing, though, is that they appear in reverse ...

Long story short: What I have: Panasonic GH4 Endless 3D printing options for making my own adapters Very, very nice japanese retro prime lens from almost 50 years ago (yeah, it really looks ...

Is there any software to edit RAW DNG pixel data without demosaic, and save changes directly to RAW?

I've been using my Epson V600 (or sometimes, GT-X820) for 6 years. I have gone through Apple updates and having broken Epson software before. (Currently running OSX 15.1 Cat) However, this time ...

I'm trying to form a list of the different kinds of materials that have been used in analog photography for the capturing of images. Not necessarily the chemical emulsions, but the 'surfaces'... for a ...