I too love my Acratech GP. Only issue as a gimbel is using a big heavy lens with collar and "handle". Attaching to lens, it swivels as needed. Just awkward on tripod. But it works! Very easy panaramas, with L bracket for vertices, or horizontal. Useable pano markings. I like it better than my 45mm "chromed" ball head.
Unplug power from a printer, re-power after three minutes, while waiting check queue to see if any remnant is still there. Unplug and then replug USB cables, if the first suggestion does not work. Do this with computer off. If that doesn't work go to device manager, go to printer properties and reassign USB ports. If that doesn't work, install "stalled printer repair", a free download. Be careful where you download as the site may try to give you additional junkware.
After writing the above, I think you had a USB malfunction and the print ques locked up the printers, a common issue with older HP printers, maybe insufficient internal printer memory, hence the cache clearing by power removal. Stalled Printer Repair has saved my bacon for years. Good luck...
Yes, the Sony A7r2 and other ILCE shave a crop sensor mode, i lose megapixels, but...BTW, my Sigma is an A mount and I use the Sony adapter. If Susieq251 found an E mount APSC lens, she should be able to use it at FF, just smaller mpx. MTshooter, has a great deal for an e mount 16-35 zoom, I wish I could afford it. Oh well, the flexibility that the Sony FF E mount cameras offer is amazing. If the OP had a Nikon WA, she could use an adaptor and solve much of her problem. BTW, for Real Estate photography, AF and AWB is NOT the way to go for consistent quality results.
Hi Susieq251,
I am a Real Estate Broker and amateur (semi, i do get paid for a few of my shots). The WOW factor that many love to achieve is by using UWA lenses; on a FF A7m2, that would mean wider than 17 or 18 mm. Most rooms do not require this extreme lenses. I, for one, am sick of seeinf HDR 30" ranges looking like six foot ranges and sinks elongated to impossibility and floors/ceilings angling up and down.
I suggest youtubing Norman Cool or buying his books. Now, to your lens situation, Viltrox has a manual 20mm 1.8 lens that was reviewed favorably by many. At $400. or so it is a good value. Especially compared to the Sigma 20mm. I have a 7Rm2 and use, with Sony adaptor a 10-20mm apsc zoom. I use it without vignetting and at about 20mpx instead of 41mpx. Even at a lower resolution, if you use the 10-20 Sigma (used about $250.00) you will have a range of control and get your technique down pat. Then you can shine. My 24mm - 70 mm works fine as well in normal rooms and exteriors.I assume you are a real estate agent and want to control your pictures. Most MLS pix are limited to 5 mbs. So a smaller resolution would be fine. Get a good tripod, a wireless remote, a manual speedlight or two with triggers and have fun. For MLS your Camera at reduced resolution will provide you good, if not superb, pictures. Buy used lenses and have a productive career.
There was a discussion about this lens a few weeks ago. I have this lens in the 3.5 aperture version and used it weekly with an cropped frame Sony A77m2. I use it with a Sony mirrorless with Sony adapter as a full frame equivalent at 18 mpx. it now operates at 10mm instead of 15mm at the widest aperture. Excellent color balance after PP from raw and SHARP. great value.Of course if the grass is always greener...
Mine is the344ARH.
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I know, this is the old system with the angled thingy that goes into the slot. This what you have. I can email the part numbers for you to compare. In about twenty minutes. Nice system, switched to mirror less and a different set up.
Jack
I sent you a PM with pix. You have not responded. If you have no interest let me know.
I typically email 20-40 pix a week for my Real Estate ads and requested additional shots from clients. When uploading to MLS, the pix must be under 5 mbs each. Usually I upload about 30 pix. Adding my 2 cents to this discussion; after PP, I use a program called jpegmini PRO. I can decide the dimensions and size by pixels or by optimizing. The program appears to squeeze extraneous pixels out and produces very high quality jpegs. One of my advertising media graphics personel asked, "How did I produce the quality in the small sizes sent?" I told her of the product. She said that my ads repro great, and the quality of the pix was better than needed. Lately my jpegs start out about 40 mpx and sent as 3 to 7 mpx files.
The reason for this discourse is that one can send multiple quality pictures via email with jpegmini Pro. I never send from a program; I save to desk top in a file after PP and export from LR library using the jpeg mini Pro extension.
That looks like it. I just got home, i will look for it in a bit and send you a picture.
Jack
I have an older cotton carrier holster and belt set up in my garage, Liked it until i went to a different set up. I will take a pix this evening to see if it is what you want.
Jack
As a travel camera, I have the Lumix LX 100 and love it. Not quite pocketable, but easily handled, the newer iteration you are thinking about is improved over mine. The camera feels like quality and produces, in camera, very HiQ jpegs. I liked the choice of picture configuration and again, the look of the shots. The fully Auto mode works well, though I use aperture priority. I was in Charleston SC this past spring with my daughter's tennis team and was delighted how easily the lx100 became a street photographers dream. The zoom is useful and one has the option to post process Raw images if desired. The viewfinder is very good and should be used for quick composition. Get the LX 100 II, SHE WILL LOVE IT, of course you might use it a lot as well. A very versatile camera.
I have one and use mine for Real Estate photos, and for tight spaces. On my Sony crop sensor cameras it is equiv. to a 15-30, when using it on my full frame A series, it becomes 10-20@ 18 megapixels. It is a very good lens for Landscapes as well. If one adds the phrase, "For the money", the lens is a STEAL. Enjoy it!
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Jerry,
Farberware cookware had a raised center in the pots and pans. as they heated up, the centers would expand (aluminum bottoms, stainless steel tops) to make a better fit to the heat source. Aluminum is or was supposed to be a superior conductor of heat.
Gave many Farberware sets as wedding and housewarming gifts, years ago. You might check ionization as the culprit in the odor when it rains scenario. You certainly seem a " man of all seasons..."