+1000I HIGHLY recommend a program called Irfanview.
+1000I HIGHLY recommend a program called Irfanview.
I come from the generation of photographers who used to wax poetic about the feel of a Leica shutter release in the same way that PPC shooters write odes of joy to impossibly-lightweight, oiled-glass-smooth double-action revolver triggers. I always used to feel slightly second-class with my lowly Nikons - F1, Nikkorex, and many, many more over the years, up to the F5 and D40, with many side trips into other brands and larger formats.
I've given it a good run with thousands of pictures through several autofocus and digital cameras. I conclude that that muscle memory will never go away.
Shutter lag is something to which I will simply never adapt.
There a couple camera review sites that will rank cameras based on auto-focus speed and shutter lag, but I can't remember them off the top of my head. At one point Fujifilm was the fastest, but dunno if they still are. At least they are all faster than they used to beI took that approach with my last camera purchase, a Fujifilm X100T. It's nice and takes great pictures. But it's not fast. I need fast.
I also found out that if I'm using DX lenses (for smaller array camera), on a camera body with a larger array, the circuitry will automatically crop the image to appear as it would in a DX camera. Now, THAT is pretty slick!
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I remember a period like that. I was once in love with shooting landscapes in pitch dark conditions. I'd open the shutter then hike around with a large strobe (affordable strobes with built-in "electric eyes" were still fairly new back then) and flash the parts of the landscape I wanted to appear on film. After long enough that I began to worry about reciprocity failure, I'd return to the camera and close the shutter.My favorite thing to do as of late is experimenting with exposure and shutter speeds. Shooting a star filled night sky and getting light trails is awesome. Also experimenting with different perspectives and shooting black and white and just letting the lighting speak for itself.
In that case I agree, but I couldn't have gotten this with my cell phone
Disclaimer: Just about anyone with any photography experience probably could have done those 10 times better.
do you have any plans to rectify your picture posting problem?
Apparently, during the last TGT crash, pictures of unknown origin were packed into my gallery storage. None of the pics were posted by me and I don't have a clue as to what they are.
Several Emails to our new management have done nothing to correct the problems. I can't delete them and they won't help me to remove them. I found a few of my old pics that could be deleted so I did that. It left room for about 3 photos.
There are some pics in that gallery that I really want in my album and my concern is that they would delete ALL of the pictures! Summed up........Our new managers declined to help me, so I'm stuck with a gallery full of crap, origin unknown.
Oddly, they also deleted 10 positive feedback posts and once again, declined to fix that. At least they left me ONE positive feedback!
BUT....I'm glad to be here, enjoy the forums and the Serenity prayer says something about "accepting the things I cannot change" so that's what I did.
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