Recent content by Garry Edwards

Because language - and the way that we use it - changes over time. Some people also call the diopter lenses that can be added to a lens to allow closer focussing filters too, but they should be called supplementary lenses, and polarisers should be called polarising screens Stacking filters just...

Fair point, a 10-stop ND filter is necessary for some types of photography, and even I have a polariser - but, as I pointed out, a polariser is not a filter.

The police pass these complaints on to their specialist department, which only actually looks at a tiny number they're useless.

There's nothing unusual about this, it's basically just a 419 scam, named after Section 419 of the Nigerian penal code, which it contravenes. I was getting letters just like this in the 70's, the scammers then moved with technology and sent them by fax, and now it's usually by email, but they...

Any filter has the potential to protect the lens from damage, but there are downsides 1. 2 extra surfaces that can degrade image quality 2. Increased likelihood of flare 3. Filters are of course further forward than the front element of the lens, making the lenshood less effective A polariser...

Yes, charities vary, enormously, but most are run as businesses, whatever they may say to the contrary. Look them up on the charity commission website https://www.gov.uk/find-charity-information to check their finances, which may surprise you. In technical terms, this should be a very easy gig...

I must live in a parallel universe because cash is still king for me. For a start, there's the farming side, most farmers still prefer to deal in cash, if we sell someone a few bales of hay for example, or a machine, it's nearly always cash, although most farmers still use cheques. And my...

(My bold). I don't think that the beginner book will be of much use to @F6teen, it's specifically written for beginners who want to learn the basics of (outdoor) photography and so is likely to be of little interest to the OP. I only mentioned it because it makes suggestions about suitable...

As above. I too think that you'll struggle to find a useful course, successful product photographers are generally too busy to run courses, and a lot of the people who run courses are only good at making money from courses, plus it's very much a specialist subject. I think that there are some...

My bold. It's a bit harder because the product emits light, but photographing light-emitting products simply means photographing it with flash, and setting the correct length of shutter speed needed to show the required amount of emitted light, which is simply trial and error. And anyway, as...

No, because I wasn't expensive:) It's a Browning, but I wore it out and now shoot a Benelli M2, hit 41 on Saturday. And, getting back on topic, that score needed lots of experience and a degree of knowledge and care . . .

I'm the quiet, retiring sort:)

I think that the camera choice is the least important of your decisions. My beginner book "Learn Photography" https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CFB2TX6R recommends a DSLR that's a few years old, and I think that's the right advice for you, more modern and more expensive cameras do have some...

(My bold). I disagree, in my view these are not the "nice to have" shots, they are the essential ones that will sell the product. Apart from the seller, who cares what the product looks like? Nobody does, what people care about is what the product will do for them, so if people are going to use...

So, the product is LED strips? With the greatest possible respect, your photos don't show what it is, what it does, what it's for or why someone should buy yours rather than someone else's . . . Some of this may be because YOU know the answers to these questions and so you haven't addressed...