No, you got it wrong.
It is not proposed you would be able to refuse service to someone who is divorced. It says you would not be required to participate in the celebration of that divorce.





Well, yeah, but right now it is the businesses that are facing the discrimination and not being allowed to have their religious freedom. There are trouble makers who purposely seek out opportunities to be discriminated against and then go on a crusade to make an example of them. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This law is the reaction.[/quote]



You are completely without a clue on this so rather than argue with someone who chooses to state a deluded opinion rather than fact I will simply state you are wrong and move on.



Ask the photographer who was sued for not desiring to be a PARTICIPANT in what she considered a morally objectional activity. An activity that, according to you, is not even legal under AZ law.

Well... legally speaking, a corporation IS a "person"

The symptoms describe heat stroke. A life threatening condition for sure.
So many don't understand the need for proper hydration that I always carry extra water in these situations and make sure everyone stays hydrated. An old habit from my Army days.

The chain of events is always:

dehydration --> heat exaustion --> heat stroke

If you stay hydrated you will never get to the other 2 stages.

Drink water!

God is slow to become involved in these matters.

Exactly!

A hobbyist would not need this unless it was someone with just far too much money. This camera is marketed at professionals who know if they need this capability or not. Some do not but some do.
The value comes with being able to get good results in every single job. Often photographers don't know what they have to work with until they show up. It would be bad for business to suddenly discover you are unable to deliver the product you promised because the venue was darker than expected.

There are many reasons you may want to (or need to use high ISO). Weddings come to mind.

Indoor events normally have poor light and flash is not always allowed so you would need a camera with high ISO capability. That doesn't mean you would necessarily shoot at 450000 but if that is the max for that camera then the manufacturer feels is produces at least marginally acceptable results at that ISO.
Now go back to your wedding where you are shooting at 6400. Your camera that is capable of 450000 is going to produce incredible results at 6400 and that is why you need a camera that can do 450000.

First of all I do not condone this detention at all.

That being said, you mess with the bull, you get the horns.

Sounds like he knowingly and wilfully violated the laws of a soverign nation. If you don't agree with the laws you stay the hell out of that country.

I can't believe anyone would want to travel to NK. The North Koreans can't believe it either so anytime a "westerner" visits they will be subject to extreme scrutiny and will be suspected of being up to no good. Stop visiting that wannabe country and stop spending money there. There is nothing there worth seeing and the next time you think you are going to change someone first think about how difficult it is to change yourself.

That's good eatin' right there! Trim the spines first.

When I drink I always called them beer goggles.

All I can say for sure is none of my canon cameras have any focusing issues. I don't know what you mean by ethical service but nikon certainly can't brag about their service, especially when compared to canon.

Just like sb said, the type of photography you want to do is the same type of photography everyone thinks they can do so nobody is going to value your work and you will find it hard to make more income than you will be spending on equipment. If you know anyone who doesn't even have professional camera equipment yet and plans on setting up a studio and going pro then you know what I am saying is true. Get a camera and start taking photos of everything and find your niche. Go everywhere with your camera and take pictures with your camera. If everyone else there is taking photos then there is interest but you have to do something they aren't doing. Try to find something someone else can't or won't do.

You may go to the high school football game and see everyone taking photos. Don't be like them. Can you spend a few thousand more on better equipment and develop the skill to get the shots they never could? That is your niche. Now the question is will anyone pay for your shots or will they expect them for free? Maybe they would like you to pay to host "proofs" online and they will buy the ones they like, but maybe they will just copy them for free?

If you are going the portrait studio route prepare to spend thousands and devote a large space to it to compete with what everyone else can do at home. You will need props and all those other things a hobbyist wouldn't invest in to set yourself apart.

I should add that as good as RAW is, not everyone actually needs it. If you are taking family snapshots in good light and you are happy with the JPGs straight out of the camera then you may be very well wasting your time with RAW.

RAW comes in very handy when parts of the same photo can be both over & under exposed. It also comes in handy when you realize you just took 100 photos in sepia or B&W and didn't realize the camera was set that way.

You have missed some very technical details that easily cause confusion.

Technical:
First of all, every digital camera shoots RAW every time. Some cameras only have the ability to convert and save this RAW data a JPG and others allow you to have both. Any camera settings such as white balance, sharpening, etc. are all applied immediately to the RAW data and a JPG is produced. If your camera allows saving RAW then the RAW data is saved and the settings that would have produced the JPG are attached.

The part that matters:
When you take a picture with your camera you have various settings that can change the way the resultant photo looks. The obvious example is white balance.
When you shoot in JPG those settings are applied and you are stuck with them. Sure you can make some changes to the JPG but some detail will be lost and you can never completely undo the settings the camera applied. Some data has simply been lost forever. Some data is simply discarded because it is determined to not be needed.

When your camera creates a RAW file it also attaches a sidecar file to the RAW that contains instructions for all your camera settings that will make that RAW look exactly like the JPG. When you import your RAW into lightroom the settings are applied and your RAW will look exactly like your JPG--just like you wanted because that is how you had your camera set.

Here is the good part. Lets say you had your white balance set wrong. The RAW only includes the white balance setting, it does not apply it to the RAW file. (Lightroom just displays it that way for you). If you want to change the white balance you are simply changing the instruction in the sidecar file. The RAW never changes but the way lightroom displays it does. That means you can make any changes you want as many times as you want. The base file is never modified and all the image data is there for you to work with. If you were working with a JPG the actual colors in the image have been changed and each change is going to further degrade the quality.

So the short answer is your RAWs look like your JPGs because Lightroom is reading your camera settings and applying the same edits that your camera applied to your JPG. The big difference is you can completely undo the RAW settings if you want.

Most cameras do a pretty good job for average shots just setting them in auto everything so you may not need to do a lot of editing. Those challenging conditions where you can lose detail in highlights or shadows can't be recovered from a JPG because that data doesn't exist anymore. Many times it can be recovered from a RAW.

No. It does not. She wants to be a wedding photographer.



I think those folks were using a DSLR in auto mode when all they needed in the first place was the SX50.

I feel your frustration with nobody telling you what to buy and kinda being vague about a recomendation. With a $400 budget there are a lot of good cameras out there but not many that would be a good starter version of the camera you would need for weddings. A good DSLR with a lens for $400 is going to require some shopping. You will be looking at used cameras so look at the Canon T2i, T3i or 40D, 50D, 60D... what ever you can find with a lens in your budget. That should narrow it down for you. The T2i/T3i will be less like the xxD models that are the type of camera that you will eventuallly want but it is close enough. For Nikon suggestions you will have to ask someone else.