Recent content by Erty

Would a darker or less dense material help? The original picture has a very pale model whereas Fon is a fair bit darker. It is hard to see anything behind the reflections of the white fabric.

For cameras with a vibratory cleaning function if you do it twice it maps the bad pixels. This seems to work: Take a picture with the lens cap on at high iso (noise reduction off). Straight after this run the sensor clean twice. Then take another picture on the same settings.

Excellent. That is a very good price. You might find it has some hot pixels so it would be worth doing the cleaning function trick to map them out. Once she gets used to the D3S you can get a D3X and pretend it is the same camera.

The D3 was great in it's time but the D3S is noticeably better in the dark. I still use one sometimes. If you loved the D2 colours then the D3 and D700 can replicate them with the right picture controls. All the D3 series have awesome ergonomics and just feel nice to use. They also have really...

Nikon 135mm f/2 DC. Shoot it at f/2 and crank the background defocus dial up to 11. https://imaging.nikon.com/imaging/information/story/0032/

Castlerigg stone circle. D700 and 0.35mm pinhole Everything is bokeh

After a certain speed the global electronic shutter takes over. The D40 is much more reliable than a D40x, which is purely mechanical shutter.

Yeah. I got a D6 with just over 400K clicks for £1200. To be fair it looked like Park Cameras got 3 at once from a commercial user and were trying to move them on them quickly. Given how I shoot it, there is not much chance it will break in the next decade or two. How fast a shutter operates...

There is a little dot in the bottom left hand corner of the viewfinder that lights up when it is in focus.

I had a play with various mirrorless systems at the last Welsh camera show. They must have had all the autofocus bells and whistles operating as the focus speed was a bit slow on most of them. I think my D6 felt faster than everything except the Sony A9iii. I've got a suspicion that mirrorless...

Best thing to look for dirt on the sensor is a pinhole camera. £20 from Holga.

This is a nice lens. Go for the one which is f/3.3 at its widest. Super light to. The old 28-105 is really good to.

The 24mm is a great lens for wide stuff. My general purpose lens is a Sigma 24-105 which is pretty much equivalent to a Nikon 24-120 (but heavier). With a D810 it is pretty big and heavy. The 24mm is really good and with a D810 has a lot of crop ability. For buildings I'd go with the Nikon...

I was keeping an eye on the RGB histogram. It looked like the vast majority of the light was red. I put it on sunny white balance and exposed to the right on the red histogram.

Nikon D7200 300 mm F/4.5 AIS lens Solar film filter. 100% crop in. In-camera double exposure using image similar to the one above superimposed an a scene half an hour after the eclipse. The real Sun is off to the right and a lot smaller as the scene was 17mm, not 300.