Take a look at the size of the metal lens mount, then take a look at the little 1/4"-20 threaded hole known as the tripod mount on your camera. The lens mount is much stronger. My point is, your camera IS LIGHT WEIGHT compared to the structure of the lens mount. People have been hanging heavier cameras than yours off the end of tripod mounted lenses for a long time. I'm assuming you're not mounting this tripod to an adventure-touring off-road motorcycle, or a rocket.

It could get worse. If you firmly attached a lens to your tripod mount, and then firmly attached the camera to the same tripod mount somehow, and assuming all this stuff is fairly rigid (which it better be, or it's not worth owning) any tiny misalignment in your rig would cause very large stresses in the lens mount (actually, large stresses throughout the entire assembly between the two mounting points) as you tighten up the last part of your assembly. I suppose you could design something adjustable, but that sounds like a lot of time & money spent fabricating and machining a complicated rig for no good reason.

I think you are worried about a non-issue, but I really like that you put independent thought into this structural loading issue. I love this stuff, that's why I commented. BTW, I'm an engineer, and I know how to do the pertinent calculations, but that's a lot of work, and I'm not gonna do it because I think the answer is obvious based on the above arguments.

How'd you come up with that? Why not a sunfish? Please explain. Actually, I did laugh.


Carp.

"I don't see how is the laptop if it was just adjusted and the thumbnails look good. I have adjusted monitor brightness lower but it only makes it darker and doesn't restore the richness and good contrast shown on the camera LCD and in the thumbs on the laptop. I'm about to pull my hair out. Anyone have any suggestions? Is a laptop just that different from a desktop?"

My vote: It's the laptop. A $600 laptop won't have bleeding-edge-of-technology graphics capability. The colors it displays will be different every time you look at it with the screen set at a different angle, every time you move it to a different colored room, lights on/off/dimmed, time of day, sunny, cloudy, room curtains opened/drawn, and again after warming up for 15 minutes. Best case for contentment, get familiar with your laptop on-screen monitor controls so you can quickly adjust it on the fly for various lighting conditions. Perhaps adjust to a test photo that you expect to look a certain way before you view new images. Good Luck.

Barnes & Noble did have a few British photo mags, too bad they were all about $13 per issue, ouch. No doubt the subscription price is also a lot. I will buy them occasionally, especially "Digital Photography" which looked interesting and some ads even quoted prices in US $. Note that Canon uses different model numbers in Europe than in N. America. Except for the namebadge, I think the actual cameras are the same, should be easy to translate.

There were still a couple copies of the March '17 Pop Photo available, but I already had one. Selection of other U.S. photo mags was sparse.

My Pop Photo subscription expired with the last issue, some coincidence. I'd already decided not to renew because magazines, a lot of them, generally seem not to be as interesting as they used to be. Time, Parade, Sports Illustrated are particularly pathetic lately. Blame it on the InterWebs or my increasingly curmudgeonly tendencies.

Two thoughts: 1. DPReview.com camera reviews seemed kind of similar to Pop Photo reviews to me, and 2. When I used to subscribe to several motorcycle magazines I noticed that British motorcycle magazines were way more fun & interesting & (unfortunately) expensive than American mags. The pictures were about the same, but ... you know ... it was their language first. I think I'll pop down to Barnes & Noble later to check their huge magazine racks for British photo magazines. If I get lucky, I'll let you know.

Because us people like guns. I tried to hijack the topic down a Star Trek trivia path, unfortunately went over like a lead balloon. Now, about your caps lock key ...

Star Trek anyone? Ferengi Rules of Acquisition #1 "Once you have their money, never give it back."
Sorry if this was only funny to me, but after 34 years working in Air Force acquisitions I just can't leave this stuff alone.

I have no idea why you're having that problem, but my Canon Pro9000 mk2 came with s/w (Canon Easy-PhotoPrint EX) to print from .jpg files. The canon s/w seems more straightforward to use than print command built into any photo editing app I've tried, and seems to offer easier control of printer specific options, like paper types, etc. Should be easy to try that and compare, maybe learn something useful about this fog problem. You would think that a pro 100 would have more options to experiment with than the older 9000 mk2 (and you would think that the Canon s/w should let you get to all the options on that printer that exist). I've been thinking of upgrading to a pro 100 so I'm interested in this problem. Good Luck.

burkphoto,
That was a great answer that will let me figure out if I will ever be interested in learning those capabilities. Thanks very much!

[quote=G Brown]Sadly there is quite a lot in PS PSE and LR. Your camera software is quite limited ...

Quite a lot of what? I was hoping to learn what PS, etc. does that the camera software does not.

Many years ago a friend of mine used like PS v1 or v2 to blend a third eye into the middle of his 6-month old kid's forehead. We all thought it was hilarious, but his wife got kind of pissed. I don't fully understand that since the original nice baby photo was still saved, and she had a good sense of humor generally, but I don't think he ever pulled that particular trick again. Anyway, that's not what I'm looking to do, just want to pull details out of shadows, fix white balance mistakes, crop, level horizons, etc. I just want to fix stuff while leaving the photo looking normal. What capabilities am I missing here?

Perhaps this question deserves a new topic, but here goes anyway. I own 3 different versions of Photoshop Elements, and also Olympus Viewer 3, Sony PlayMemories & Nikon ViewNX-i (CaptureNX-D, etc.) which it seems like I have to use to keep my cameras & lenses firmware up-to-date anyway. Sony seems to have updated their S/W such that it does less than it did when I first used it a few years ago, but I like the Olympus & Nikon S/W. The Adobe products seem to try to force me into storing things on-line which I absolutely will not do, and likewise, Windows File Explorer is plenty powerful enough for me to organize my many thousands of photo files, and I'm not at all interested in learning another new organizational scheme.

I'm really good at staying up-to-date on technology. I'm an aero engineer for crying out loud, a good one, and I've done pretty well for myself for a long time, though obviously never learned to stop writing run-on sentences, but if I take the trouble to learn a new program, I'd like for it to be better than what I already have. Finally (sorry) we get to my question. What is it about Adobe PS, or Elements, or Lightroom that I would actually use that is better than the S/W that was included with our cameras?

I apologize in advance for my snarky and insulting tone, but I sincerely mean to be helpful. Call it "tough love." You should not be "comfortable" with any of this and it's not even a good question to ask. You need to learn more about communications security (bank, computer, internet, e-mail, telephone, etc.) before someone steals all the money in your bank and pension accounts. Why would you say they are not all crooked? My experience is that if they call you, they are either trying to steal or trying to sell something you don't need. It has nothing to do with their accent. The one exception is if your credit card provider calls to notify you of fraud or other problems. Even then, you should not talk to the person who called you, but instead call the phone number on the back of your credit card so you know for sure who you are talking to before you discuss any details.

You sound like a well meaning person striving to be polite (and Canadians really are polite, I mean it, You gotta love'em, except when you're playing hockey against them) and cooperative, but that attitude is inappropriate and dangerous when financial data (or hockey) is involved. Did your mother ever tell you not to talk to strangers? That still applies. Really. You need to find a trustworthy source of security advice. Best Wishes.

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I think "Speed Kills" is a traffic cop slogan, not sports, certainly not ice hockey. In the Air Force we say "Speed is Life."

Looks like Granny can get along just fine without anyone's advice.