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Are Canon entry DSLRs getting worse and worse?
The direct replacement for the 1300D (the Rebel T6 in the USA) is the 2000D (Rebel T7 in the USA), which is an incremental improvement over the 1300D; the 4000D represents a new model line below, and ...
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In 2016 are optical viewfinders on Point and Shoot now dead?
What you're missing is that most compact cameras will use an electronic viewfinder, rather than an optical one, if they have a viewfinder at all. Apparently a lot of folks don't mind composing and ...
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In 2016 are optical viewfinders on Point and Shoot now dead?
Are optical viewfinders on point and shoot cameras now dead? Probably, yeah.
I notice that in the 2011 answer to the other question you link, Itai suggests that they were then a "dying breed", and ...
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What is the Godox Alt / Mask feature?
The MASK / ALT Feature
The MASK or ALT custom function on some of Godox's higher-end strobes defines groups and a firing sequence for those groups for multiple lights. Successive presses of the ...
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Are Canon entry DSLRs getting worse and worse?
While Philip's answer talks about why you cannot compare cameras of different levels with each other without considering their price (in short: the 2000D is the successor to the 1300D, while the 4000D ...
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Are Canon entry DSLRs getting worse and worse?
Are Canon entry DSLRs getting worse and worse?
Yes. Yes they are.¹
They're also getting cheaper and cheaper.
Consider this:
The 1300D, which had more features than the 4000D does, was listed at $...
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How is a dual camera smartphone "12x zoom" when one is prime and the other has a 2.3x zoom?
ZenFone 3 Zoom sets the new bar for mobile photography, combining two entirely new camera systems. A 12 megapixel ƒ/1.7 aperture, wide-angle lens with ASUS SuperPixel™ Technology is primed to capture ...
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Does the lighting make the girl in red's skin look blotchy and are her facial features slightly over exaggerated?
There are some unusual aspects to the shot. The shadows on the left face make it look like a strong flash from the left side (notice the nose shadow is photo-right of the nose). On the other girl ...
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What should I consider when selecting radio flash triggers for legacy flashes?
If you just want to optically control the SB-600 and SB-800 the way you did with a D7000's pop-up flash, you could purchase an SU-800 and use that on the Z6ii's hotshoe as the commander unit. You don'...
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How do I remove the grid overlay when viewing photos on my Nikon D5600?
The grid should only show up if you go into the retouch menu and select straighten. I'm not finding any other selection to cause that.
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How do I remove the grid overlay when viewing photos on my Nikon D5600?
You can do two things:
First check if switching through the view modes when pressing up and down while reviewing a picture already cycles through one mode that shows the picture without additional ...
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How do I remove the grid overlay when viewing photos on my Nikon D5600?
Look for the word "grid" in the section of your camera's reference manual that covers how to view/review images on your camera after shooting them. Almost all digital interchangeable lens cameras have ...
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What determines a cameras max FPS for still images?
For mirrorless cameras like the Canon M5 and M50, it is the processing power and speed of the camera’s digital processor. The M50 has the newest Digic 8 processor while the M5 uses Digic 7.
For a ...
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What photo characteristics work best with facial recognition software?
This will totally depend on what facial recognition software you are using. A few other things to suggest are:
Make sure there is no occlusion of the subjects face in an image (such as wearing ...
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Does the lighting make the girl in red's skin look blotchy and are her facial features slightly over exaggerated?
Part of the difference is the hair pulled down tight behind the ears vs. brushed loosely over the ears. Her head is slimmer when the hair is pulled down tight. Strong lighting from the side also tends ...
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What is the Godox Alt / Mask feature?
What is this mask?
(I will prepare a couple of diagrams for this)
A mask is an image of the silhouette of what you need to be masked to be used later in post to cut the object and make a transparent ...
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How is a dual camera smartphone "12x zoom" when one is prime and the other has a 2.3x zoom?
Imagine if I have two lenses for my interchangeable lens cameras. One is a 10mm lens and the other is a 50-120mm lens. Both cameras have the same size sensor.
If I covered an event with each lens on ...
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How is a dual camera smartphone "12x zoom" when one is prime and the other has a 2.3x zoom?
I would expect the total zoom will include the digital zoom so nothing to do with the other camera.
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