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Aug 27, 2017 13:30:38   #
Cool. Rock on.
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Aug 27, 2017 13:28:09   #
PTSD is an extreme form of Depression, resulting from a traumatic experience. Drugs can depress the depression, somewhat, or mask it somewhat, but not cure it. All depression is the result of realizing the differences between your hopes, dreams, expectations, etc, and your achievements / experiences. If you expect to live in a 40 room mansion, but end up living in a one bedroom apartment, you will be mightily depressed. If you expect to be homeless, living under a bridge, but end up living in a one bedroom apartment, you will be happy indeed. Your expectations / achievements / attitudes towards it all, make the difference. PTSD comes from expecting to be safe, happy, pain free, etc, and then being beaten, raped, nearly murdered, crippled, etc, in a mugging, accident, disaster, war, or such. I have been through: landslides. mudslides, avalanches, tornadoes, hurricanes, typhoons, blizzards, floods, flash floods, Tsunamis, earthquakes, house fires, forest fires, animal attacks, muggings, gun battles, auto wrecks, major illnesses, kidney stones, seeing loved ones die, and more, and I have never been depressed, let alone suffered from PTSD...because I EXPECT life to be full of pain, loss, danger, and the like. Anything that happens lives up to, or surpasses, my expectations, so I am not depressed by it. Attitude-not drugs-is the solution.
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Aug 27, 2017 12:39:59   #
Impossible. Cameras which fit comfortably in the pocket will not have the substantial zoom range.
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Aug 25, 2017 18:25:28   #
Take lots of photos. If most of them come out well the lens is good. If they are all crap-out of focus, etc-the lens may be bad.
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Aug 25, 2017 18:19:26   #
No built in flash on the D850. Built in flash units tend to cause glare / lens flare as they are too close to the lens axis. Pros tend to prefer to avoid such, so they rarely use a built in flash, even on cameras which have them. As such, cameras which are intended for pros, usually-though not always-lack a built in flash. When a pro does have a camera with a built in flash, and the pro uses that flash, he / she usually does so as a trigger to trip several external slave flash units. Generally, it is better to use an external flash set a bit higher above the lens axis than most built in flash units sit. If you are going to do that-use an external flash-you have little use for a built in flash...so why have one? Why pay extra for one you won't use?
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Aug 25, 2017 18:08:26   #
But If I tell an anti-NAZI joke, you'll get upset, eh?
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Aug 24, 2017 11:38:01   #
Forget Canons. They all have image blurring AA filters. Get a Nikon D7200. Lens wise, have a wide angle item-say a 20mm lens, and a telephoto lens, or two...a `100mm, and a 300mm, for example. Lenses of 300mm, or higher, (500mm, etc) will do better with wildlife. If you get a zoom lens, you will get better results from one in which the big end is 3 times, or less, the smaller end....a 200-400mm (2X), rather than a higher power one such as an 18-300mm (16.6X). With a DX camera-like the D7200-the crop factor is 1.5X. So, a 300mm lens on the DX body produces a field of view equivalent to that of a 450mm lens on a Full Frame body. Buy used or factory refurbished.
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Aug 24, 2017 11:33:04   #
Experience is a great teacher. Work on one thing at a time. Experiment with the same subject at different shutter speeds, then at different apertures, then different ISOs, etc. Play with double exposures, different lighting setups, etc. Learn to really SEE, so that you notice the foreground, and background, and such. You don't want tree branches 'growing through' your model's ears, light poles growing out of the tops of their heads, and such. Get the shot right, in the camera, instead of being sloppy, and relying on editing to correct the mistakes.
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Aug 22, 2017 14:36:09   #
You want what does not exist...one setting which is best for everything. You might as well ask The Tooth Fairy to marry you at Harry Potter's house. What will be best for the instant happening action will not be best for architecture, landscapes, etc. Manual setting is all about fiddling with buttons, and settings. Trying to shoot in Manual, without fiddling with buttons, and settings, is like trying to win The Indy 500 without driving fast, or risking a crash. To override unsteady hands, use a fast shutter speed...but that will involve buttons, and settings. Pickpockets are no problem is you have nothing for them to pick. Leave your wallet, ID, passport, etc, at home / in your hotel room, and walk around with just your camera on a strap around your neck / waist. Keep a spare battery in your front pants pocket.

The best travel photos will be shot on your own, while taking time to use buttons, and settings, and tripods, and filters. For hurried shots, as part of a group, without buttons, settings, tripods, etc, go Automatic / Program mode. Go auto everything, and take what comes quality wise. Use Matrix Metering. Think ahead. Shoot subjects in the east in the afternoon / near sunset. Shoot subjects in the west in the morning. For indoor portraits, in the northern hemisphere, use the light from south facing windows. Contrasty subjects-light on the right side, shaded on the left, etc-need spot metering. There is no overall approach....except staying with Auto / Program modes. Everything else will vary from hour to hour, subject to subject, etc. Make a choice, and go with it. You can try settings which will usually do fairly well in a general way...ISO 100 in sun, 400 in shade, etc, F/8, or F11, for medium DOF, a shutter speed of 1/2000 second for action, or 1/125tha of a second for still subjects. Consider using a shutter speed which is at least as high as your lens focal length....1/125 second for a 100mm lens, and so on. Shoot at one setting, and then reset and shoot at another setting, to get several different exposures...but that involves more buttons, and settings. Get serious about photography, by taking time, and using buttons, and settings, or remain an Auto bound snapshooter.
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Aug 21, 2017 03:06:40   #
Speaking as a formerly handicapped child, I say: "Good riddance to the jerk who built a career on mocking the handicapped."
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Aug 21, 2017 03:04:57   #
I bought an iPhone 5S last year (then 3 year old technology), and paid $99.00 for it, and have had no problems with it yet. It has downloaded new OS updates, so it is as modern as can be. I pay $35.00 per month to Straighttalk.com for service. I don't have all of the problems that my friends have dealing with AT&T, Sprint, etc.
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Aug 21, 2017 02:57:35   #
Yeah. Be sure to get one with an exploding battery, and keep it in your front pants pocket, or stuffed in your waistband, so it burns your manhood off when the battery explodes. Nothing says: "I'm cool!" quite the way that being neutered by an electronic appliance does.
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Aug 21, 2017 02:54:05   #
Generally, 'Street Photography' is taking photos of things /people / activities on city streets...things such as: street signs, cars, pedestrians, cops directing traffic, city buses loading passengers, shoppers window shopping, punks mugging passersby, store fronts, alleyways, etc. It may include 'candid' shots, but usually doesn't...as most people see you, and your camera, because they are on the lookout for: muggers, cops, etc, and will be alert enough to spot you. Street photos may include people, or not. A picture of a dog urinating on a sign post in a street is a street photo.
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Aug 21, 2017 02:41:36   #
You can buy grey market, and never have a problem, and so save a lot of money. You can, also, buy grey market, and have a problem needing repairs. When repairs are needed, the grey market item will have to be shipped back to Hong Kong, or wherever-at your expense-to get repairs under the non-US warranty that comes with the item. The cost of shipping the defective item back to grey market land for fixing, and then having it shipped back to you when fixed, will be paid by you, even if the repairs themselves are free under the foreign warranty...and the shipping will probably cost more than you saved by buying it. So...do you feel lucky? If so, buy grey. If not, forget grey.
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Aug 21, 2017 02:33:18   #
It will work, and then you will need a new cell phone....which will cost a lot more than the $1.99 per pair eclipse glasses. Don't forget to also test to see if your cell phone is waterproof...by throwing it in a nearby lake, river, or pond. Then you can drill through the case, to gain access to the concealed speaker port. Then use a hammer to prove how shatter resistant your phone's screen is. Give it a few good, hard, whacks. I always knew there were fools advising such things on Youtube videos, but I never really thought anyone was dumb enough to actually try them. I never figured on Racmanaz, though.
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