I don't know if I'd narrow it down to specific brands, but digital cameras can be very clever little devices. "Matrix" or "Evaluative" metering modes will use a database of pre-programmed 'scenes' to ...

The idea would be to use a digital camera to meter a scene and then use those same settings on an unmetered camera. It works pretty well, as long as you match the field of view of the lenses. There ar...

Two handy pages from Nikon: http://support.nikonusa.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/14439/related/1/session/L2F2LzEvdGltZS8xMzUzMTkxMDQ5L3NpZC8zTWt6ZnhibA%3D%3D http://support.nikonusa.com/app/answers/d...

Welcome to Shuttertalk! In my experience the debate about megapixels can be divided into two camps: those who think that higher pixel counts don't matter, and those who own a Nikon D800. MarkC. Wro...

sakamojo Wrote: (Nov 15, 2012, 05:38) -- check the JPEG available shoots on my 8Gb card and it said about 769 photos....then.....I changed it to RAW and it came down to about 274 (or so).....then in ...

Good to see you back!

Very cool, and a nice find. I do sometimes forget that I have rolls of film in cameras, but the results never look this good.

I don't have much to add, except that the inexpensive tripod that I bought from the store in the mall when I first started out is my oldest remaining piece of photographic equipment, and it has its pl...

Thanks, Vlad, both for your kind words here and for everything you've brought to Shuttertalk. I have to say that I also really enjoy your tour of the Venus beach. The gentleman in the second photo fas...

Thanks, Rob. This is an odd thing to be passionate about, I know, but both this place and the bricks fascinate me. My collection probably totals a couple dozen pieces - they're material for a continui...

References: The Leslie Street Spit: • Wikipedia overview (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Street_Spit). • Toronto Port Authority (http://www.torontoport.com/Port/Harbour-Maintenance/Lesli...

Staso / Gray: the story of a brick. http://photo.matthewpiers.com/photos/i-TKKwxZC/0/XL/i-TKKwxZC-XL.jpg Not far from the noise and intensity of downtown Toronto is the Leslie Street Spit, an im...

(…and there's just a touch of 'wave' optical distortion.)

pinmollusc Wrote: (Oct 3, 2012, 21:49) -- Good luck for your next big photo competition.:) -- There are still a few days left to submit an entry in Shuttertalk's own challenge – you can put this to...

I have doubts about any rumour – I thought that the idea of the 36Mpx Nikon camera was absurd – so my track record it pretty bad. But even though a 5D3 price cut is inevitable, I have a really hard ti...

You mean the Ken Rockwell who published a 2500-word review of the D600 after only reading about it on the Internet…? I suspect that what the rockstar has discovered is that all these Nikon cameras r...

Very nice. The palette looks like film. The sky looks a bit bright for a snowy winter day, though. I typically keep my exposure compensation down by a third or two on overcast days, but if my suspici...

I think I may have just finished taking photos for my entry… they're only just being imported into Lightroom now, so I could be wrong. :D (…but there's something else coming up later this week that m...

I shouldn't read these things in the middle of the night – I saw this in the wee hours of the morning and thought that it must be a prank. The 35/1.4 looks good, though, and – assuming that it's not...

I was able to play with a pre-production model today, and I have to say that it is a nice-looking little camera. It's longer than my S100, which gives it a more camera-like shape, but the lens collaps...