I bought an Olympus OM-D E-M10 a few months ago. It came with a 90 page "Basic Manual," only 30 pages of which are in English. This was enough to get me up and running.
It also came with a CD containing a comprehensive 160 page manual in PDF format. I have considered getting it printed and bound, but can't find any place capable of doing this in a page size that matches the Basic Manual (5x7). 8-1/2x11 is too big to carry in a bag suitable for this compact camera.
There is not, to date, a third party book available for this camera. One (by David Busch) was supposed to be released last November, but the publication date has slipped several times, and is now April 30, according to Amazon. This camera has been available for almost a year now, and still no guides available...
For those unfamiliar with this great little camera, the Menu system pretty much stinks; the Info button helps a little but not much.
/Rant Off
Nice site, but the list of cameras is at least a year out of date. For example, no Sony A6000 or Olympus E-M1 or E-M10.
Lets stand, my fanny's tired
No wonder the word showed up as mis-spelled! :oops: :oops:
I repair and clean PCs part-time since I retired from engineering. I have personally received dozens of emails from Comcast over the years telling me that my computer "may be infected by a bot." This has never been the case; I use Avast free AV software and Comodo's free firewall at all times. When Comcast sends me a warning, I use Malewarebytes Anti-Malware and/or Spybot Search & Destroy and have never found an infection of any kind.
It took several tries but I think that I have finally persuaded Comcast to stop sending me these false alarms. I just checked and the last warning I got was in November of last year.
filerunner wrote:
Don't be silly, a flash won't work at that distance. You should use a reflector. :)
There is a phenomenon called "earthshine" when sunlight reflects off the Earth and (barely) illuminates the New Moon. I've seen photos of this and they looked very cool, but the apparent movement of the moon during the long exposure required for a decent shot mean that a standard tripod won't cut it. You need to use a motorized astronomical tripod that will track the moon as the Earth rotates.
Look into Paint.Net. The current version is 3.5.11 (I think). It does layers and just about anything else you can imagine. I have just started learning it, but the interface is similar to PS. It is NOT a MS program, despite the .Net in the name, and it is free. I believe that there are Mac and Linux versions as well.
http://download.cnet.com/Paint-NET/3000-2192_4-10338146.html
natron wrote:
A nit to pick
one stop faster than f/1.4 is f/1. One stop slower than f/1.4 is f/2
just sayin
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Natron: out of three pages of comments, you're the only person to correctly give the difference in speed between f-stops.
As you wrote, f/2 is one stop slower (dimmer) than f/1.4; an f/1.8 is only 2/3 of a stop slower than an f/1.4.
Sorry to sound pedantic, but... :lol:
Amazing image, Marcia.
BTW, as MisterWilson pointed out earlier, the link from your profile to your website doesn't work. I played around with the url and found that if you remove the "
www.uglyhedgehog.com/" portion of the link everything works properly. Very nice site, too.
Mudshark wrote:
A long time ago in a place far, far away...young photojournalist would take the 4X5 white cards that came in boxes of 4X5 sheet film and place them behind and above their strobes to fill in the "raccoon eyes." When I worked at the Ft. Lauderdale News and Sun Sentinel...we used Windy's chili spoons, concave cup facing subject, the big white ones, rubber banded to the back of vivatar 283 strobes for extra fill. At some point, years ago...I started cutting up old white foam core boards making the below type cards to either rubber band to the strobe or just hand hold if I was doing off camera work. If you go off camera with this rig and are creative where you do the bounce you can achieve some amazing results.
The key is the same one used in pistol shooting...you have to shoot a lot of photos but eventually you can hit the target with great regularity...practice, practice, practice...
I've got a drawer with 6 or 8 of these things in it...I've wasted money on Gary Fong, etc. I like my simple home made ones better and they use fill cards that were destined for the trash.
I urge Hogs to play with this technique...the results can be amazing and it's KISS simple...
Tip...tilt the flash down toward your subject a tiny bit to allow some raw flash...especially in DARK ROOMS...
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I'm with you, Mudshark. I used to use a 3" x 5" white index card held on to the back of the flash head with a rubber band. I'd tilt the head about 30 degrees above horizontal and fold the index card down a little bit to direct the bounce onto the target; worked like a charm! I learned this trick from a photojournalist's article in one of the photo magazines back in the '70s.
If I remember right (which may well NOT be the case), Murray the K was on WINS, 1010AM when it was a Top 40 station. "Cousin Brucie" Morrow was the evening DJ on WABC.
Hang in there, Erv!
I smoked for 17 years, having started at age 14 (Stupid, I know!!). My wife (also named Jan) had taught our daughter, then a toddler, to cough whenever I took out a cigarette, although she denied doing it...
I quit cold turkey one day because it was raining too hard to walk a block to get another pack. People I worked with had menthols, but I hated those. By the time the rain slacked off enough to go out, I had gone about six hours smoke-free, the longest I ever had. I realized that I had quit without really trying to. It has now been about 35 years without a cigarette - I never dared to have even one, because I don't have much willpower, and I'm afraid I might go back.
I may not be the healthiest 65 year old guy around (diabetes, two coronary stents in the last year, prostate cancer three years ago) but I'm alive.
Again, hang in there. You're over the hump now! :thumbup: