Recent content by robmiller

Doing that is just the same as using a higher ISO, and will produce just the same noise.

Trying to charge a university hockey club for photos would be as heartless as it was hopeless.

I've never understood it either. I don't keep any of my boxes but I look after all my kit—the notion that they're linked is bizarre.

All of the comments mentioned in the article are light-hearted, nobody has whined about anything.

Why would you need to communicate via an internet message board? What do you think people did before the internet was invented?

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Absolutely, and it's a shame that more people don't know about it. Focussing and metering are entirely separate actions that shouldn't be combined, and the associated advantages for focussing and recomposing are the icing on the cake.

It is. Deleted users will leave gaps, but it's still an accurate representation of how many users have ever registered before you, including spammers and inactive users and absolutely everyone.

It's where you replace a colour in an image with something else. It's most commonly used when you sit someone in front of a green screen, then replace the green with an image—like when they interview someone on the news and it appears that they're in a room with a beautiful London view, as...

Yes, although putting it on a D700 or D3 would be a total waste of a sensor.

Technically yes, but you don't need to be changing temperatures—it's just from moisture in the air. That's why people put silica gel in their camera bags.

Nope, you're spot on: this will get you the lowest amount of noise possible in a single exposure.

I would always be polite to a policeman—out of self interest if anything—but it's pretty disturbing that it's become accepted that the power relationship is such that you need to massage a police officer's ego in order to stop him abusing his power against you.

The cop leaps to an absolutely ridiculous conclusion (selling photos to Al-Qaeda? What the hell?) and the idea that you should have to walk on eggshells not to offend a policeman in order not to be arrested for nothing is a pretty terrifying one, sorry.

Since when has the police's job been to hassle people who are obeying the law?