Recent content by Jim Ford

I believe that with the Olympus OM-5 all you need to do is to open the shutter and watch the image come up on live view. When it looks the right exposure you then just close the shutter. Jim

Yes you could - good aurora have been seen as far South as Folkstone. There were some good images on the Aurorawatch site, but I can't find them now they've been transferred to flickr. http://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/ Jim

What you mean a Nikon kit lens? ;^) Jim

The third paragraph on this page is interesting: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/cameras/picture-having-a-good-memory-20120530-1zhwj.html To summarise, the journalist considered that of two prints, the one from the m4/3rds Olympus OMD EM-5 was "the sharper, more detailed, more...

Wrong - they do grow upwards: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_spike ;^) Jim

Here's a link to a description of my home made automated stacking rail: http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15673&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 I've uploaded one of the images to this site's gallery: I'm just waiting for some Spring flowers I can test it on! Jim

Neither can the human eye - but the brain fakes it. You look at the window and the shadows get blocked up because your iris closes down - but you don't notice it because you're looking at the window. Vice versa for the room interior but in this case the window gets the highlights blown because...

I've used this method for removing fungus (No. 3 with hydrogen peroxide and ammonia). It worked very well: http://www.ehow.com/how_7770957_clean-fungus-lens.html Jim

Doesn't surprise me in the least, and I've seen the problem mentioned before! Optical Image Stabilisation is an ugly kludge - a legacy from film days when there was no other way to do the job. If Canon and Nikon were to start again with a clean drawing board they would use In Body Image...