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Over Riding Minolta AF Settings
Hi,Thank you for this site! It's great!Now my question: I have a Minolta 300si, AF. I have been shooting birds lately and am unable to get enough light down the barrel of the 500mm lens I... |
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Filter w/lens hood
I have a Sigma 170mm to 500mm lens which requires an 86mm circular polarizing filter. When I use the lens hood, which is a bayonet type made for the lens, which the mfg. says to use at all times t... |
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Studio Lights - What is What?
I have a Nikon D-1 and SB28DX Speedlight. I also purchased a portable studio light kit with 2 AC modeling lamps & an AC slave flash. This kit didn't come w/ any information about these li... |
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Winning photos
Out of curiousity, slides or prints; which % represents more winners? What is percent ratio?... |
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Developing pictures
Hi, I have always loved photography and done a lot of it. But now that I am 30 I am finally getting serious about it. I have always been asked on some level to do portraits of my friends, but now... |
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Setting the Date
I have a Minolta Freedom Zoom 70EX camera. Just recently it stopped printing the date on our pictures. Since I have two children, the date is very important. I can change the date, but for some ... |
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Dodging Lightning or At Least Avoiding It
I want to take some shots of an electrical storm over the ocean or over the city I live in. I've found a good spot (I think) on a lookout which overlooks the city and the ocean at the same tim... |
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Studio Lighting
I was given a monolight(bowens esprit 500) for xmas. I don't know how to set it. Is their a good book showing how to set(power settings, f/stops)studio lighting? The manual is useless. I have a... |
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Spot vs. Partial metering
I believe the Canon Rebel 2000 (which I had stolen from me) has spot metering. I'm cosidering either an Elan II or the new Elan 7 but neither has spot metering, just partial and at some percet... |
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film rating
ive heard many a pro photographer talking about shooting on 100 asa,but rating it 200 asa or pushing it one stop at the lab.what is the significance of that and how many stops can you push. if I sh... |
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Mastering the Exposure Meter
I have just bought a Sekonic zoom master L-508 light meter as I am doing more and more serious work with larger consequences and want to feel secure in being able to calculate correct exposures ins... |
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TTL vs. E-TTL
Looking for new flash for my Canon Eos camera. The dedicated flash I like gives me TTL, but another flash with similar features gives me E-TTL but is more expensive. Could someone explain the diffe... |
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Pictures were underexposed
I went to a horse show today in an indoor arena and shot three rolls of film. I wanted to use an aperture of about 19 or so, but when I set the camera to that aperture, the camera set itself to a s... |
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Ghost Shadows
I have this "ghost shadow" that comes up on my portraits. I saw that someone else has had this problem back in September of 2000. Someone mentioned that this is because there is a stronger light ... |
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Colour filters
I need to shoot photos under florescent lighting in the room. please advise what filters to use and compensate the green light eg the magenta or blue filter etc.. also the type of film + aperature/... |
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Photography at wedding spots & wedding cakes
I have a nikon f80d lens 20-80mm. How do I take good photographs at weddings spots like church, and halls and particularly the wedding cakes which are white and the wedding gowns which should not s... |
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Telephoto Lens
What are the differences between the mirror lens and the typical telephoto lens? Which is better for wildlife photography and for what reasons? I am looking to buy a lens somewhere around 400mm +... |
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I need help staring a greeting card business
I am interested in starting a mostly web-based business of printing invitations, announcements, holiday cards using digital photos or scanned photos.First, I need to get the best software to be abl... |
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Flash Photography
I am trying to photograph ceramic objects (5" to 10" tall) placed on a white cyclorama. I am using a flash "bulb" at a 45 degree angle and another flash almost directly behind myself.I am getting t... |
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damaged photos
does having your hand over the flash damage pictures... |
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