Recent content by Teflon-Mike

Oh-Kay. I'm not sure why a high fps rate is important to you for starters. used OM's with wionders that achieved about 3fps, and, well, I burned a LOT of film very quickly.. and I don't think, even in the arena of gig-photography, it got me many more 'keepers', but even so, 3fps aught be more...

A Petrol Powered View-Finder. AKA a 'CAR' to get out and about and find stuff to take a photo of. You can probably still find a working streetable car in the trade in lots for under £200... if not it'll still buy a lot of petrol or bus-tickets etc. Or in short... best photographic purchases...

I think that one or other of you is probably over-thinking things here. Most entry level DSLR's have a green box 'point and shoot' mode that needs no more know-how than a camera-phone or compact. Start there, your O/H don't need know about apertures and shutter-speeds and the exposure triangle...

I came to 'web' from a carer in full scale engineering. (We made bits for Tornado's and the ilk!) through a a couple of extra curricular courses, one a C&G in photo, one in IT with the OU. Doing photo-Resto's of old Lane-Rovers and old motor-bikes sort of tied the threads together. Anyway.. read...

For birding, the 70-300's are much vaunted. I don't do birds though... b-u-t, the Nikon 'Kit' 55-300 had the same reach, and is a much cheaper lens. And I find it pretty Oh-Kay for most general purpose stuff. The 55-200 is even cheaper, and used to be bundled with the 18-55 in the entry and...

See Tut: - Ultra-Wide-Angle vs Kit & Stitch, featuring a fish! Basic point is "More Land, does not more 'Landscape' make". And I exemplify with a few, deliberately 'boring' shots from an 8-16 UWA and a 180 FoV 'full-round' fish-eye, and what you get with the kit 18-55, with and with out...

I'd forgotten about this, and concur. Remember comment in prior post, I did a shutter-speed 'limbo' with my daughter when she started her GCSE photo, and was progressing from compact and camera-phone, and not used to using the peep-hole view-finder. Claims for the VR on our lenses were that you...

Remember what we were saying about f-No being a ratio of aperture diameter to the lens focal length? I expect that because them porpoise were so far away, you were using that Tammy super-zoom, and zooming a long way in. hence restricting your f-no. Tip... use less zoom! (or cheat a bit and do it...

Do you understand 'The Exposure Triangle'? You have 3 'settings' on your camera; 1/ the Shutter Speed 2/ The Aperture or F-No 3/ The ISO 'Sensitivity' For any scene, there's a certain intensity of light falling on your subject, being reflected into the lens of your camera, which has a 'meter' in...

First up 'Sharpness'... oft mooted, seldom particularly well understood, A~N~D why on earth is this your comparison criteria? Was the picture of the thermometer particularly pleasing? Would ANY camera have made it much if any more so? Oh-Kay... onto some mechanics of the cameras. According to a...

It takes half a pint of water to cover a film in developing, or to make up the dev/bleach/fix solution to develop it. In the grander scheme of ALL the environmental 'nastiest' involved in the manufacture and use of a 35mm film..... YOU are worried about about less plastic than is in a pair of...

Shutter-speed - Aperture - ISO The balance of the three is known as the 'exposure triangle - go google. As one goes up, other has to come down, and you generally you want as low an ISO as possible to avoid 'noise', as fast a shutter-speed as possible to freeze motion and as small an aperture...

Whole point of interchangeable lens cameras is they have interchangeable lenses. Means you have two issues/targets. 1/ Camera Body 2/ Lens. Of the two, the lens tends to be the more crucial, and you're in a world where if you have Interchangeable Lenses, they tend to be the expensive bit that...

No, you are confusing the crop factor, and or format equivilencies. On the same camera with the same frame/sensor size behind the lens, a lens is a lens is a lens, and an 80mm lens from an MF camera remains an 80mm lens, whether its on that Medium Format 120 roll-film camera it's native to, on a...

Its not the camera that takes the photo. It's the person that presses the button. I would suggest (just a little flippantly) if you like hiking, and that's where when you take most photo's.. best investment is probably a new pair of hiking boots. You don't need a new camera to do more of what...