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Sep 6, 2023 17:26:38   #
I usually attach the lens that I am most likely to use en route.
I will then carry the camera with that lens attached with the strap over my shoulder and across my chest.
If I take other lenses as well, they will be padded and wrapped before I put them in the camera bag.

One extra hint: inspect the strap for weak spots and at the spots where it is attached to the camera, also inspect the strap on the camera bag.

Esther
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Mar 5, 2023 10:25:46   #
My suggestion would be to contact the tourist office in those places.
I haven't checked but you should be able to find them on-line.
Tell them what your general interests are so they can give you information that fits your visit there.
Do you speak, or understand any Dutch? If I remember correctly both those cities are in the Dutch language area of Belgium.
Enjoy your trip!
Esther
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Feb 21, 2023 11:09:37   #
The strap that I liked best of all the ones I have ever used, was a harness type of strap. Strap over each shoulder, camera in front of you all the time.
Unfortunately, one of my sons liked it too, and since he lives out in the boonies, no camera shops nearby, I let him "borrow" it. Of course everyone knows what happens when your son or daughter "borrows" something: It never comes home.
Now that spring is approaching and I'll be outside more often, I think I'll pay a visit to the camera shop to buy a new one. And this time none of my sons will be allowed to "borrow" it!
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Jan 15, 2023 17:23:26   #
All of you: Thanks for the giggles!
I won't go into details, but I've got a few bad days behind me!
The humor and the giggles it caused, were just what I needed!
I now feel so much better!!!
Thank you all!
Esther
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Sep 12, 2022 10:09:46   #
Curmudgeon wrote:
I need recommendations for software for an Epson V600 photo scanner


I have the Epson V700 and use it with Photoshop Elements.
I've been very happy with the results.
Esther
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Sep 3, 2022 11:45:06   #
jerryc41 wrote:
I kind of expected this. After examining the D5100, D5300, Sony a6000, and a couple of lenses, they raised their offer by $40. Payment is on the way. This is fun! I'm going right to eBay and buy a bunch of cameras just so I can sell them! I'm gonna get rich!


Dreamer!!!
But as long as you enjoy it, go for it!
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Aug 30, 2022 10:22:31   #
Architect1776 wrote:
Why are photos all cropped to some arbitrary XY dimension?
I was in the Smithsonian and I do not recall the paintings all being the same arbitrary dimensions.
What makes photographers believe that they must live in arbitrarily determined sets of dimensions?
Should the image determine the XY dimensions?
Or are we going to jail if we don't follow certain XY dimensions in our creations?


For my Dad the size/dimensions of the photos was a matter of economics. He would buy packages of postcard sized photo printing paper for the standard "everyday" photos. If he printed photos for us kids, he would often print two smaller photos on one postcard size of printing paper. And occasionally, for very special photos, he would print on much larger paper, 18/24 cm comes to mind.
So the dimensions were determined by the manufacturer of the printing paper and the photographer had to work within those dimensions.
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Aug 27, 2022 10:17:06   #
Dannj wrote:
Yeah, I’ve got hundreds of pics of the family over the years. I just hope that someone has kept a few shots of me so there’ll be something to put up in the funeral home upon my demise😂


What is stopping you putting a "package" together yourself?
Two or three years ago, I got myself a ringbinder. It contains :
- a list of people, complete with e-mail addresses, phone numbers and home addresses.
- all my banking information
- insurance information
- medical information
- what items should go to which one of my children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews
- and yes, several photos
- I also included the titles of a few pieces of music that I like very much
- The name of the pastor I would like to lead the service

Every time I think of something my sons should also know, I add it to that binder.
And yes, the two sons who are appointed executors of our wills know how to get into the house and where to find this binder!

Many of my photos are still in boxes, I'm working on them. I am also duplicating the photos so that in the end there willl be four complete sets, complete with dates, names and locations: One for each of our sons.
Yes, it is a lot of work, but I don't have to finish it in one day.
And it is mostly pleasant to look at the old photos and remember.....

Esther
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Aug 26, 2022 10:40:36   #
[quote=EvKar]Sorry if this topic has come up before, but let me stir the pot.

Call me Disappointed…

Been taking pictures for the last 50 years or so, and there was a time that I felt my pictures meant something to someone and that someone was appreciative of receiving them. But is it just me or have any others noticed that people don’t care about the pictures that you’ve taken… it is just your thing? .....
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I have been taking many photos over the years. Most of them are in albums. When the family (4 sons and their wives and children come to visit, these albums come out, usually at the request of the grandchildren who love to see their fathers as little kids.
When one of the daughters-in-law asked what was going to happen to these albums "later on" and could she have this one then ("This one" contained many photos of our oldest son, her husband) war almost broke out in our livingroom: "What about the photos of my husband? You want those too?"
What they did not know is that I was already having 3 more sets of the photos printed, and put them into albums, in exactly the same order and with the same stories as the album they were looking at.
They will not get them until I have finished the duplicate albums, or when I die - whichever comes firsts.
If I don't get finished, my oldest son will finish the duplication for me.

For me, doing this "work" brings back many happy memories; For the grandchildren, as they look at the photos, I tell them the stories behind the photos and so they learn about their family. For the daughters-in-law, it has stopped the possibility of war over the photos.

Esther
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Aug 18, 2022 11:13:09   #
With a result like that, I'd say: Well done!
Hope your patience will last to more of that work! It can't be easy or fast, I'm sure!
Esther
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Aug 17, 2022 09:46:56   #
POVDOV wrote:
Mine is the most recent version. The hot shoe is not removable. So does anyone make an adapter?


Have you tried a search on "Hot shoe adapter"
I just did and although I did not read the whole page, there seem to be some workable ones.
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Aug 12, 2022 10:58:20   #
All of you: Thanks for the memories! My Dad was a professional photographer. He had a darkroom at home, first in the attic, then when we moved to an apartment elsewhere in the city, he took one of the bedrooms to be his darkroom.
As kids (about 4 or 5 years old), one of us was allowed to sit on a stool beside him, and oh, the miracle we saw then. Dad took a piece of thin white card, let the light shine a picture on this piece of card, then put it in a tray of "water" and oh the miracle when slowly that same picture appeared on the card while it was in that water. Then there were two or three more trays the picture had to go through. I had no idea of what these liquids were, but it sure was fascinating.
Dad always kept his darkroom, but a few years later he got a job with a steady income, I started school, and so the sessions in the dk were finished, for me at least. I must ask my brother, but I believe that he still has some of Dad's equipment, if nothing else, at least the enlarger.
But the times in the dk with Dad were precious, because only one of us (I had five siblings) was allowed into the dk at a time, and it meant that for a little while I had Dad all to myself, didn't have to share him with my brothers or sister!
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Jul 17, 2022 09:54:44   #
AzPicLady wrote:
I have used both Blurb and Shutterfly. Both accepted my photos as I had them. Just use the blank page template.


I've only used Blurb, but was more than happy with the results. So were the people I gave them to.
On each and every page I cropped (or didn't) to the format I wanted the photos, even to rounds, ovals and other shapes!
The last one I did is already two or so years ago, and I'll soon be collecting photos for another book: New baby arriving in another 2 or 3 months! (Our 5th great grandchild -this Grandma is only a little bit proud!)
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Jul 3, 2022 09:28:33   #
rplain1 wrote:
If you pass them to your kids, they can throw them out or not. If you throw them out, they have no choice.




I have several shoe boxes and 4 or 5 albums full of photos, some of them dating from long before I was born.
At a family gathering a few years ago, one of the daughters-in-law asked if she could have the old photos.
One of the other daughters-in-law piped up that she was interested as well.
Having four sons, I am in the process of scanning all the photos an putting them in four separate files, one for each of the boys' families. I'm also sorting the originals into four stacks, one for each of them. The boys, their wives, or their children, can then decide what to do with "their" stack.
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Jun 30, 2022 09:17:30   #
I have, and really like, the "Epson Perfection V700 Photo" scanner.
Many of my negatives were (and still are) curved and even putting them in the holder that came with the scanner, did not flatten them.
My solution: From a picture framing shop, I bought a piece of non-glare glass.
I still had some packing tape at home, the kind that looks like there are threads running through it, length-wise, and folded that over the edges of the glass. On two opposite sides I cut the tape even with the edge of the glass, on the other two sides I let it stick out about 1 1/2 inches, forming little "handles" to lift the glass up easily without getting finger prints all over.
Now I just place my negative-strips on the plate of the scanner, put the glass on top of them, and scan away.
With the size of glass I have, I can scan 4 or 5 strips of 35mm negatives together, each of them about 6 negatives long. It works equally well for colour and B/W negs, as well as for the older, much larger negatives, and also for colour positives like slides.
If you're lucky, the frame-shop will have some left-over pieces of non-glare glass and let you have it for free.
If I remember correctly, I got this packing tape from Home-Depot.

PS: Make sure the non-glare glass is a bit narrower and shorter than the plate of your scanner - you don't want it to rest on the "frame" of the plate as it then won't hold your negatives flat.

Esther
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