Recent content by Dan1502

It turned out to be a very small cockpit so I could only take one lens and went for the 70-300. The pictures weren't great as I was shooting through perspex, could hardly move the camera without hitting the canopy and most of the time it wasn't all that smooth. I ended up bumping the ISO up to...

I think we will take off between 3 and 4. I'm not sure how long the flight will be but as we're heading to Caernarfon we should pass over Llandudno. The pilot is a friends of my parents who has built his own plane (this is the third he's built apparently) - he's a highly skilled...

That's fine, I was really thinking whether the 17-55 would suffice but am now thinking the 11-16 and 70-300 might be best. Yes 5000ft over Snowdon rather than 3000ft into Snowdon might be best. Maybe we'll go under the Menai Bridge! I might take them all but am not sure how much I can take...

Apoligies if I've posted in the wrong place but I wasn't sure where to post this and as the number of viewers on this forum is the highest and I leave in a couple of hours I thought this to be best. Anyway, I am going on a flight in a light aircraft along the N Wales coast this afternoon and...

Assuming you are keeping the aperture the same then you need to introduce more light by either reducing the shutter speed or adding light with a flash or other source of light. Of course a slower shutter speed will mean difficulty keeping the camera steady so a tripod is needed. I couldn't be...

I thought you had to have the camera calibration licence for i1match software along with the colour passport to do this. If there is free software to calibrate the camera for use in ACR I would be grateful for a point in the right direction as I have an i1 pro.

Having recently profiled my printer with an i1 pro I was amazed at the difference the different conversion settings made, ie the difference between relative colourmetric and perceptual. Contrary to what I've been advised on here, I'm now thinking of using Adobe RGB colour profile setting in the...

Regarding profiling, you can order a free guide on native digital's site. You actually go through a purchase process but the price is nil and you get emailed a download link. If you are not totally up to speed on profiling knowledge then it's a useful read.

When I was learning about underwater photography using a compact I was told (or read) that noise was a big issue as ISO increases and that I should try and keep the ISO as low as possible. This stuck with me. Somewhere along the line I was also encouraged to underexpose if anything (I guess...

It's probably worth hiring or borrowing them to try

My first and only attempt at this. Comments welcome. With hindight I think I should probably have used a narrower dof to blur the busy background.

First one at ISO3200, 50mm, f8, 1/10s This one at ISO100, 50mm f8, 2.5s Opened with default ACR settings, cropped a bit, resized and saved. (I had little room to take these at 50mm focal length so the camera was against the kitchen wall with me trying to use manual focus and live view...

I've just had a play with the calculator and was surprised too as I've done very little at anything over 55 mm so far. It seems the only option is to take the picture from a meter or two further away and crop. I guess the depth of field view button (I mentioned earlier) would be very useful in...

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RAW is raw data whereas jpeg is the camera applying processing to the raw data to produce the jpeg, losing some of the raw data in the process. You 'develop' the raw data when opening the RAW file in lightroom. I'm not sure about lightroom but in Adobe Camera RAW you can only open the RAW .CR2...