and if your budget is very tight, the Pentax XP is a great option and probably the APS-C body with the most features at this price.
DxO Photolab for all (best for auto corrections and denoising). PS Elements and nik occasionnally.
The water you get from the tap in Salzburg or Munich (for free) is about the same you buy in the US in plastic bottles...
Assuming you'll do some street photography in some of the oldest cities on the continent (Lyon, Arles and Marseille) you better travel as light as you can. Backpack if fine, but you'll carry it all the time you are on your legs...
G Brown wrote:
Quite a while ago a friend of mine (A Chef) wanted to open a campsite and bistro in S France..all fine until it transpired he HAD to employ a French Chef. He was told it was the law! That put the scuppers on it!
Another b.s. of fake news...I spend a lot of time in the Provence and know several chefs who aren't French. It is true you have to apply French labor law, maybe that's what your friend didn't get...
They don't move that fast. Your camera will be on a tripod anyway. Any wide angle camera will do with at least a 2.8 equivalent aperture. Look for a body which can handle up to 6400 ISO, that will give an exposure of about 5-10".
I compromised on a QHD 27" (Benq PD2700Q).
For in-depth technical understanding, try to find a used copy of "Exploring Black and White Photography" by Arnold Gassan and A.J. Meek, ISBN 9780697125231. Try www.bookfinder.com
Blaster34 wrote:
Purchased on eBay? I usually eliminate 'China' from my search criteria and look strictly in the USA for my products first, can't find it, then I expand. For a few dollars more, I will always try & support America and America business first. Not to say it won't work for you but as a previous poster related, demise of a US company, marketing or manufacturing.
Lenspen is a product of a Canadian company...And guess where it's manufactured...
jeryh wrote:
As a matter of interest, UK mags in general seemed to have greatly increased in price, whilst the actual content has gone down; apart from the few professional mags. , where you still get good subject matter, the vast majority seem to dwell on how to alter digital images, instead of concentrating on getting the image right in the first place ! And of course, the old standby, the latest and (best) digital cameras and lenses to take your hard earned cash ! I always used to try and get the past copies of the good US mags, but a lot of them seem to have gone to the magazine graveyard. Even our Amateur photographer Magazine is so thin now, it is hardly recognizable from ten years ago.
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Amateur Photographer may be thin but it's full of useful content. At 2.99 per weekly issue...
The glasses don't look that "antique". Maybe someone who played with wet plate.
Eizo monitors are professional grade and well outside your budget. As a compromise you would look for following criteria: 27" screen size, non-glare IPS panel, Resolution: 2560x1440 (WQHD), Colour depth: 10bit (1.07 billion colours)/8bit + FRC (1.07 billion colours), a close to 100% sRGB color gamut, Listed : no older than 2016. Response time is unimportant if you don't use it for gaming and brightness is uncritical since you would process in a shaded room. This gives you a dozen models from Acer, AOC, Asus, Benq, iiyama, Lenovo and Viewsonic in your budget. I personally bought the Benq PD2700Q which is a model optimized for graphic work.
Recommended features for a non-Mac: from 15" non-glare IPS display, 1TB HDD, SSD, dedicated graphic card, RAM from 8GB, quad-core i7, illuminated keyboard, card reader, USB3, Win10 home. With those features you find 2017 models from Dell (XPS15), HP Omen, Acer Predator, Asus ROG Strix. Prices is the US ca. 900-1400 USD.
Anthony Morganti's LR tips on facebook are quite good. On the printed side, most comprehensive LR book is Marin Evening's.
Sorry, don't understand why it didn't attach my version of the picture.