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My Canon EOS 5D Mark IV is asking if the inserted battery is original or not. What are the implications of my answer?
I bought my Canon 5D Mark II used, and there were two 3rd party batteries included. Recently I got the 5D Mark IV, and I do not want to throw away all the batteries I own. The 3rd party batteries worked well in the 5D Mark II, even with registration…
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What's the difference between the Canon and Nikon lenses mounts?
I was wondering what, if any, are the technical differences between the two mounting systems. Does one auto focus faster? Can one hold more weight? Things along those lines that make them different.
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Who took this picture of a Concorde during the 1973 eclipse, and how?
I know this picture was taken during the 1973 eclipse that was tracked by the Concorde 001
But I haven't been able to find information regarding attribution and techniques of the photograph itself. How it was taken? was it taken from another…
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Should I be worried about ownership of photos taken on my camera by others?
If you are at a social event, such as a party, and someone wants borrows your camera to take a couple of photos (which will typically be of the photographer!), are you concerned about copyright issues?
(Ignore for a second the many other issues,…
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How could I have counteracted purple lighting?
I recently shot an event using just a standard Nikon D3200 with kit lens. Nothing special, but it did the job.
The only obstacle was that the event made heavy use of a strong purple lighting which while easily correctable at the start of the night…
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How much of a difference do different color spaces make?
How much of a difference does it make to use one of the extended colorspaces vs. the normal sRGB? And what difference does it make?
Are there situations where it is not important, and conversely are there situations where using an extended…
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Other than the iMac, what's a brilliant display for my images?
When I started researching gear to start my photography passion I fell in love with the large iMac display. The large bright screen at the best buy was showing a sideshow if images that looked better than life and I was in awe.
Since I am a…
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Why is image stabilisation making images unsharp?
During vacations and travel I tend to use my Nikon D90 and a 18-200 VR (image stabilisation) lens.
I was very annoyed (and had no explanation) when I found images to be unsharp, which had be made in wide (20-30mm) and very fast shutter times…
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How much contrast should I have?
Or rather:
What artistic effect does a high-contrast photo have on the viewer?
What artistic effect does a low-contrast photo have on the viewer?
How do I know when high contrast is "too much" or low contrast "too little"?
When should I be looking…
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Can I legally sell a photograph with a border made to look like an old Polaroid print?
I'm planning to do an exhibition in the near future where I want most of my work to be illustrated in the Polaroid photo format like the image bellow.
In this exhibition I may sell some work and someone asked me the question "Can you legally sell…
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Is there a standard vocabulary for posing?
I've been looking for a definitive catalog of named poses.
Catalogs consisting mainly of unlabeled photos are easy to come by. "1,001 Poses for the Professional Photographer," kind of thing. This seems like a cave-man method of describing a pose.…
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Why use JPEG instead of RAW?
Why would a photographer want to capture images using the JPEG format over an available RAW format? The obvious argument is memory card storage, but assume that my available memory card storage is adequate for either format within my shooting…
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What fixed lens to use on a cropped sensor DSLR for mountain landscape photography?
This spring, I want to do a few trips to mountains to take some shots of mountain landscapes, including in sunrise/sunset environments.
I already have a Nikon 18-200mm VR (3.5-5.6). I imagine that it would be better to buy one fixed-length lens with…
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What is the cause of this non-uniform bokeh effect?
A friend of mine is thinking of buying a used medium-format film TLR camera (a Mamiya C330), and he showed me some of the test shots he'd taken with it. I was struck by the curiously non-uniform bokeh in some of the photos, like this…
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What is the CTG file in Canon SD card?
I have a Canon 550D and in the SD Card I found a file \DCIM\CANONMSC\M0205.CTG
What is this file used for?
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