Recent content by jon ryan

All lenses need occasional calibrating, just as your car needs to be serviced from time to time. A single knock can put it it of kilter enough to notice at pixel level. Also, in the very nature of digital photography, RAW images in particular can seem a touch 'soft'. Sharpening in post is simply...

Have you a/calibrated the lens recently, and b/ sharpened in post? Both can help

How on Earth did we manage before bokeh? And I'm old enough to remember a time before HDR. How we suffered!

The 'sensor clean' on start/shut-down vibrates the sensor which will remove lose dust, but stuff like pollen, or oil and soot from car exhaust, particulates from smoke machines in clubs and at gigs, will stick too hard to vibrate off. Anything hard - salt crystals, say, from the beach - could...

Wot Kodiak said. I've been using one for a couple of years now. Takes all the fear out of sensor cleaning.

Stanford Prof Marc Levoy has posted his entire Digital Photography Course on line.

Just think it should be mentioned that Bath has two universities. Bath University is the bigger and tends more to the sciences (my nephew is learning how to take brains to bits, or something, there). Bath Spa University is just out of town and is more about humanities. Both have good reputations.

Tried Airbnb?

I sharpen mostly in the PS RAW field now. And reduce noise there if needed. In fact, I probably do 90% editing there.

I didn't see it. Thanks for posting, 579. People, please do re-post stuff. If you haven't seen it before it's quite likely others haven't. And if you have, just move along.

Very

Compared to the £, the € is rock solid...

Phoning is always good. That way you get to shout at someone. Far more satisfying than email. :)

The pound is tanking because of the Brexit fears. Nothing to what will happen if Brexit does!

We may never know...