Recent content by Terrywoodenpic

In a few years time it will be a source of research as to why there was a sudden gap in the visual record of children's daily lives. It will be an anomaly in the historical social record. It will reflect poorly on our times. And social mores. It is hard to make out when the tide will turn...

I asked the question where should you place the lights when doing portraiture with flash This is the answer I was given. I have seen worse given to less open questions.... For classic portrait lighting, position the key light at 45 degrees to the side and slightly above eye level, angled...

AI is an excellent way to gather together facts data opinions and collating them into a coherent order. It is also very good at finding out how to do things, find things and how things were done in the past. It is fairly good of finding about art in general and practical and historic methods...

Have used libre office for around ten years. It is now virtually interoperable with ms office in every meaningful way. It has the advantage of having none of the vulnerabilities of having anything to do with Microsoft.

The only time I had a result that looked anything like tha, was when I had contaminated the developer with some fixer. That was many many years ago.

The old adage that a good big one always beats a good small one once again proofs true. However it is also true the ultimate quality is not the only criteria when choosing a camera

The library only points to the original files if you delete them they are gone. Even if you move a file lightroom loses track of them.

How so the library only stores thumbnails, you still need the original image files that the library system points to.

There are perhaps only several good reasons to take photographs. Most are in terms of memories either for yourself or other people. When I was a working photographer a vast majority of the pictures that I took were for someone elses benefit. The majority of the rest are what I would call...

It is a question of volume turnover and margins and demand. Perhaps they do not have the bulk demand for Fuji to get the necessary ex factory discounts to make it worthwhile. It won't just be a preference. .

Normal retail trade in the UK follows a now well established pattern. Camera manufacturers or the like establish subsidiaries in each country who act as importers and wholesalers , these companies buy their stock from the manufacturer, they also become responsible for all costs there after...

The saving does not come from not paying taxes it comes from not paying the official importers markup. The so called guarantee is actually covered by an insurance policy covering all their sales, and is very cost effective Hong Kong , which is where most of this product comes from is a Freeport...

I agree there are a lot of alternative " facts" on line. Honeywell put the squeeze on a all the major camera makers, over autofocus patents, however better technology was soon developed. It was an expensive but short lived hiccough. Polaroid used their own infrared system from the start. These...

Sony provided sensors to Minolta as they still do today for a vast majority of camera makers. Canon were the only major camera maker not to do so. However both Minolta and Konica were very large on the world scene of office copiers, only second to Ricoh, who were the wold leaders for many...