I watched a video yesterday. Mike Moats did one for NiSi with their 58mm close up lens with no power rating ie 10X.
I have extension rings but rarely use them. I have always thought any auxiliary lens degrades resolution. experience or thoughts?

Good info, lots to digest, thank you.

We have a 72 in. TV installed at the Library meeting room. It works quite well for displaying photos. My Zoom account can handle 100 but we rarely have 30. In the meeting room I would only expect a dozen as many will stay home and watch via Zoom. As to cameras, that is part of the issue. I have a Nikon D750 that will shoot video and other DSLRs at hand. This is the task at hand, shooting video with one or more cameras and piping it all into a laptop running Zoom. I am sure a off camera microphone would be of value especially if we have a member giving a basic class for new photographers and he wants to move about and draw on the white board.

thanks Bill.

It is called a hybrid meeting and my club has picked up members out of the area over Covid time with the use of Zoom for our meetings. Many would like to meet face to face and we will still bring in presenters over Zoom during the meeting. I have to get head around shooting video of the people in attendance and link that into the Zoom link. I am needing some help here. Video streaming or Blogging or whatever is needed to tie it all together. Any help and advice would be of interest.

If you get the 105mm make it a Micro/Macro. I have an 85mm love it when I use it which is rarely. Macro 105 is on my camera half the time.

You are welcome, BTW I like what you did crafting the image. It moved my eye all over.

My initial reaction was that it is to dark, there are golds and tans that could be lighter & brighter. It struck me as being heavy. Just my thoughts I would lighten it overall and see what it looks like to bring out the movement in the image.

We have been trying to reach you regarding your car extended warranty......

I agree with Delderby. that is what I was going to suggest. This is a tripod that rolls up and fits in your pocket so it goes with you with ease and it is always at hand. get a short 1/4 20 bolt and some sturdy string. You can just stand on the string hanging down a first to find the length. Then tie the end on something you can stand on and wind the string up on to stow it. Your larger arm mussels used in pulling upward will dominate and steady your shot, Best of luck.

No, your program loaded and will not run, my update will not load.

Some of you don't understand. I have updated on my desktop PC OK and it fails on my laptop. Something on my laptop is not making happy with AF. I have made many laptop updates in the past. This current update and the previous will not get past "setup". Something they or I have added is causing a conflict. I changed the setting and it still has not uploaded.

Not to be a bit thick, I changed my setting as suggested. how do you upgrade with Microsoft store. I am not interested in buying it again. Or are you still getting it direct from Serif?

I downloaded it and when it started up the first thing I did was try to move the taskbar from the bottom to the right side of the screen which I have been accustomed to. No go, after digging into it, moving the taskbar to the right side is not permitted in Win11. So I reverted to Win10 which it permits. I like what I like. Stupid Microsoft.

I am in the same situation, I downloaded AF update and it loaded on my desktop W10 with no problem, it fails in "Setup" with my laptop running W10 even in administrator mode. I got some advice at the AF forum that addressed issues at the registry level that are above my ability to address. Keep us posted if you get anywhere with this.