It's only a good price if you will use it (or can sell it for a profit).
Thanks for the tip, Steve!
The real question is: Why do you not want to use all of the tools available to you? I use my camera light meter and autofocus and when the situation permits, I often set the ISO, aperture, and shutter speed to provide the results I want in my photo. But when time is critical, I don't hesitate to use an automatic setting when it will help me get the shot.
Great shot of the katydid. She apparently enjoyed your attention.
That's a nice photo and they are beautiful doors, but I think they are crying out for an infrared photo treatment.
jaymatt wrote:
My wife’s half-grown cat 20+ feet up in a black cherry tree. (Note: we did not call the fire department; it’s smart enough to get down by itself.)
Nice shot, beautiful cat and cherry tree. The cat looks right at home on that branch.
jayluber wrote:
Thanks. That little guy is looking right at me!!!
I think he is sizing you up for his next meal.
Nice set, but I favor the first.
I love black and white and your photos are beautiful examples.
OneShot1 wrote:
Saturday 4/25/2020, about 7:30 PM, looking east from a high point in the Flint Hills of Kansas, called the Cattle Pens, along the Kansas turnpike. I think this was the brightest rainbow I have witnessed.
The Flint Hills are range-land used for cattle. Every fall the ranchers drive their herds uphill to a group of cattle pens alongside the KS Turnpike. From there they are easily loaded into trucks.
That is an impressive storm and an equally impressive photograph. Nice work!
I shop online at Adorama, B&H, Amazon, Walmart, Cameta Camera, KEH, MPB, UsedPhotoPro and Abe's of Maine, wherever I find the best price. Thanks for responding.
I want to buy a new laptop which I can devote entirely to photo sorting, grading, editing (with Lightroom and Photoshop), storing and uploading for printing and sharing. In addition to photo use, I will also take this laptop on vacations and other trips and use the Wi-Fi capability for email and occasional web browsing. I tend to shoot a lot of photos and I rarely discard a shot unless it is clearly out of focus, poorly exposed, or has some other glaring problem making it unusable. I tend to be a packrat in that regard. This will be a totally new system, purpose built from the ground up. What I have now is a total mess of stuff on memory cards, memory sticks, hard drives, DVDs, and CDs. I want an organized system with everything in one place with an offsite backup either in the cloud or on a good quality portable drive.
I want to keep costs under $2500 if possible and I am more familiar with the Windows environment than the IOS system, though I do have both an iPhone and iPad, so I'm not ruling out Apple. I would really like to have your suggestions about both hardware and software.
Thanks!