Hello all. I have a problem with my Canon Powershot S50.  I picked it
up the other day and noticed that I can't see anything through the LCD.
It's black.  Then when I pointed at things to take a photo, nothing
showed -- I just got black. I've opened and shut the door over the lens

Raw Essentials reads my raw Pentax *ist PEF files for a second, then
turns them into pink or bluish squares that are uneditable. Does anyone
know about this issue? I think it's probably the kind of raw files produced
by the camera: FastStone will show them but won't let me ...

It's a shame they stuck with the old 1/1.8.  The camera has great
resolution, but then noise clubs it's quality like a baby seal.
I suppose the camera might have ended up too large (for them)
if they had to provide a lens that would support a larger sensor?

Can anyone give me any suggestions for lighting smallish  (from say a camera
size up to size of a PC monitor)  items for photographing. It is nothing
professional but mainly for taking pictures of items for sale on ebay. I
have tried using a small table lamp but this appears to give ...

    Took a few shots with the S2 at a night parade.  These are
hand held available light exposures ranging from 1/10 to 1/60.
http://members.accesswave.ca/~parklane/irfan/S2night.html

Is there any way to change the color temp of a strobe to match tungsten?
Right now I have a lot of hot lights but want to pick up an alienbee 800.
For hi-key I was hoping to use the hot lights on the background and the
strobe for the main light.  Thanks...

Having dutifully done my homework, I settled on getting a
Fuji Finepix F10 as a first digital camera.
When I got to the (very reputable) photography store, the
salesman immediately tries to discourage me from buying a

what is  the  difference  between  a  d  lens  and  one  with out  a  d
  i am looking for a good  macro lens and i found  one  with out a d  I
am  using a new d 70s  cam
thanks

Does anyone know if someone makes a conversion lens adapter for Fuji F11 or
F10? (I'd like a use a wide angle conversion lens with F11.)

My sony w5 states safe operating temp is 32f A photo store told me
Cannon is also 32f . Is this true for Cannon Rebel-EOS  etc . Is winter
photography finished.

This camera seems to get pretty good reviews except some complain about no
image stabilizer.  I know this would be an advantage with a camera that has
10x optical but is it important enough to make one decide not to buy this
camera.

Anyone recommend any good, free, easy to use, photo sharing software?
Just want to put a few family pics on-line and let various relations
download at their leisure.
Thanks,

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This site reviews many current commercial camera cleaning systems, and
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I've really appreciated in the past dpreview's web professionality
especially on the structure/presentation/tests part.
Nevertheless I was quite disappointed when, having read Canon's Powershot
G3, I've bought it and shooted my first pics, to realize rubbinesh of what I