I been trying to improve my skills in Macro Photography
and have always been a little frustrated at the limited depth of
field you can achieve when working with a macro lens at a
magnification ratio of 1 to 1 or higher.

I have one of those composite frames meant to hold a bunch of pictures
of varying sizes and shapes.
I'd like to use software (I have an old copy of PSP) to lay things out
into one image file, then print as an 8x10 (the size of the frame) and

Last Saturday evening, we had an indoor X-mas party (actually in our living
room).
The living was well lighted.
I took some pictures with Sony P100 camera after setting at ISO 400.

Well, going through the San Francisco airport today, it seems
like TSA found something terrible in my bag.  As I went through
security, they found a problem.  The x-ray line was stopped and
my bag was put through again.  Uh-OH!  They think there is

For all of us waiting, seems the price is beginning to drop on the 5D

Just checked B&H and they are offering it for $3149. Happy Holidays!

Somebody can explain me what is a a diference between a Close-up Lense and a
Macro Len, and between a wide angle lens and fisheye lens?
What's your opinion about Opteka Lens
I have a Konica Minolta Dimage Z3., I would like to buy a wide angle lens

I have the Canon 20D and want to set up an indoor studio.  I plan on
getting the two softboxes w/strobes and a rear fill strobe.  I know the
Canon 20D has the speedlite built in but my question is what does it
take to fire the remote studio strobes ?  I recently noticed in ...

Hi everybody, This month I want to buy Canon D20. Could you give me an
advice what kind of lenses to bue - only Canon, or there are cheaper
ones with the same quality? And two more questions: when is the best
time to buy the whole kit (after Cristmas?) and from which store in New

Please post links to cheapest supplier of Manfrotto Magfibre Monopods
                     Thanks Dougie

When a camera is advertised as having, say, 5 MP (effective), what does it
mean for them to be (effective), and why is (effective) in parentheses?

Any comments on whether it is advisable to let my camera (Canon 350D)
rotate vertical images, or if I should do this myself in Photoshop?
I seem to recall four years ago when I bought a G2 that the common
wisdom was that Photoshop handled the rotation much better, but I'm

So my http://donwiss.com/pictures/BrooklynStores/ pictures are rubbing
someone the wrong way. Yesterday my web site had a Denial Of Service
attack. There were 497 simultaneous connections. So not to bring down the
other customers on that server, my host cut the site off. Not knowing

my  d-540 always defaults to resolution of HQ  for the life of me I cannot
figure how to reset to say SQ1  and have it come back on to that after
turning camera off. Any Help appreciated.  Max

Hi Group, I need help/suggestions on how to produce a scan such as those
shown in the links provided below.  The scans are of coins.
Specifically the scans noted with the prefix “desired” are what I want to
achieve.  Those noted with the prefix “typical” are what I and nearly

I'm thinking about buying the Epson P-2000 storage viewer for
transfering digital images files and freeing up my CompactFlash cards.
I have 8 - 1GB cards that I use with my Canon 20D and original 1Ds.  I
can't see where I'd need more than 40GB (about 35GB free from what I