Looking for photo equipment tips & tricks? Ask all of your photo equipment questions in this Q&A.
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New Monitor and Calibration
So, please don't laugh at me. I just now discovered that I need to calibtate my monitor so that what I see will be close to what I get back from the lab. So, I think no problem. I usually have ... |
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Speedlight won't fire
Hello,I recently purchased a Sunpak PF30XN for my Nikon D100. The Sunpak is iTTL compatable but the D100 uses DTTL. The camera recognizes that there is a flash on the hot-shoe but the flash will ... |
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Travelling with Camera Batteries
I have heard that the airlines (or the FAA) have restrictions on the number of rechargeable batteries that are allowed on board the plane. My wife & I are planning a 1st time trip to Alaska in... |
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How do I get my Pentax flash unit to work?
I've got a Pentax K10D with an AF-540FGZ flash unit...I've read my manuals, but this thing won't fire. Its getting juice, I can light up the LCD on the flash unit, but even in total da... |
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Extension Tubes
I have a Nikon D70 and I bought some extension tubes. I cannot seem to get them to work correctly. When I put them on my camera and then put the lens on, I cannot see anything out of my viewfinder.... |
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Digital Camera seems to be broken
Hi All,I am new here and really need some advice. I recently borrowed a friends digital camera (fuji finipix) and although the camera wasn't great it served its purpose fairly ok and I returned... |
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Canon 40D - How to shoot from the LCD Screen
Hi,I'm new to Canon and can't figure out even after reading through the manual how to have the LCD screen on so I can view my shot through the screen versus using the viewfinder. Can you on... |
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Canon 400D Not Good with RED
I have a Canon 400D which I love but it doesn't record reds accurately. I was recently shooting a chili and the hot red turned out a dark orange. It's never bothered me before but this ti... |
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Fuzzy pictures with closeup filters
Hi, last week I bought a set of closup fulters for my Nikon D80 camera. The set came with a +1, +2, and a +4 closeup filter. I put the +1 filter on my lens, no problem. When I put the +2 and the +4... |
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Studio strobes turn on but dont fire..
I recently obtained two strobes, one is a Multiblitz Kompakt-Studio vario 350 and the other an Elinchrom 11.Both turn on but dont fire when I push the trigger/test button. Even arter turned off and... |
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Focus Screens Canon rebel xt
Anyone ever change / replace the focus screen in a canon rebel xt? I've read some discussion about it, but am always looking for more experience to mine for gold. I want to replace with an exa... |
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Front Focusing on Nikon D50
When I try and autofocus with my D50 I always get blurry shots. I finally figured that it always is sharpest in front of whatever I focus on so I printed a autofocus test chart took a pic and found... |
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Charging batteries
I have a spare battery for my Nikon D70s and I got in the habit of leaving it in the (plugged-in) charger. Will this harm it somehow? If I take it out, will it lose its charge?... |
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Sony Digital Still Camera Batteries
Can I use Sony NP-FS11 battery in my Sony DSC-55 camera, instead of the original model NP-F10? I understand that the original NP-F10 is no longer available. Are there any other makes of batteries t... |
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Note to Self
So here I am loading the first roll of 120 into the M645j I got from shutterblde.com last month (sometimes a camera suffers snail's pace usage). Beautiful day at lunchtime. Outside of the store... |
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Canon PS2 broken!
The lens will not retract and the camera will not function at all. I get a beep and it says E18. Can the camera be fixed for under $100.?Thank you for your help.... |
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Rear Flash problem D80
Hi I have a nikon D80 - I've been trying some rear flash action (thats NOT a euphomism ;-) ) however the flash always fires when it opens and close.....do I have a settign wrong int eh camera s... |
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quieter mirror flap sound?
This may be a silly question, but is there any way to make the sound of the mirror flap quieter? I have the Sony A100 and the sound is SO loud when I take a picture. It's very distracting in ... |
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Adding tags to Tiff images in Elements 5
I need to add tags to my tiff pics in elements 5 but cant figure out how to ? Adding tags in the organizer works find for the jpg images but once I turn my raw into tiff, the tags wont show up in t... |
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film noise
I have a Canon PowerShot S3 IS and I love it as an all around general purpose camera. However! It is all but useless for indoors. ISO over 200 has extreme (in my opinion) film noise. I took an ind... |
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