I recently bought a Sony RX100iii as a lighter travel alternative to my Canon big guns. Happy with the quality of the photos, but when I upload them to my PC, all the files are locked. I have to open them in Photoshop, tweak and save them as new files to unlock them. Does anyone know if there's a setting on the camera to prevent this? Never encountered this issue before with my 7D. Thanks.
Been lurking a while and finally saying hello. My photography journey began about seven years ago, when I started working in the communications office of a K-12 private school. Lots of photos needed for the web site and publications, and the office only had a banged up CoolPix that took some duct tape to keep the battery lid closed.
I decided to invest. Poked around online a lot first for info on Canon and Nikon and was frankly a little shocked by the vitriol spewed by the two camps at each other. For whatever reason, I went with Canon, though ever since, I've occasionally suffered some grass-is-greener feelings.
I now shoot a 7D with the 580EXII flash. My two workhorse lenses are a 24-70 and a 70-200 2.8 IS, and I traded up to their most recent iterations last summer. I also have a 50mm f/1.4, which I love, and a Tokina 11-16, which I haven't found as useful as I'd hoped. I got a Eurodisk as a Christmas present but haven't tried it out yet. I edit and tweak with CS5 Photoshop, and usually need to.
I do some outside work, some sports, but I'm mostly indoors, in classrooms, gyms, auditoriums, in mostly low light conditions, at least for photography purposes. Also a LOT of fluorescent light of various hues. I have a good eye and get plenty of shots that are useful and even...admired [very often candids, not posed], but I'm frustrated by my inconsistency and feel woefully uneducated, technically.
Am I joining a long line by saying I feel like I'm on a constant quest for tack sharp focus? And too often, it's a frustrated quest. I rarely know why when a shoot just goes wrong for some reason, and start grasping at straws, fiddling with shutter or aperture or ISO, sometimes improving things, sometimes not. I've picked up some tips from local pros we bring in occasionally to shoot important events, but in all cases I just take tons of shots, trying to improve my odds.
I guess that's why I joined this list, in hopes of learning from people more knowledgeable than I am.
I've been reading recently about the full-frame 6D and wondering if it'd be worth adding to my arsenal. Would love to hear from anyone who has thoughts about it or experience with it. Would it be significantly better in low light than my 7D?
Also, do you guys trust Ken Rockwell's reviews? Thanks.