Im about to buy my first DSLR.. how long would it before its outdated
This does concern me as its hard earned cash
Should I go for the Top end or a model thats just about to be superceeded
hence its cheap.

I'm, I guess, what would honestly be considered an advanced amateur
photographer. Now I do mostly bird photos. I have gotten my approach
to the point that I get quite close to some birds and with some good
lens I'm able to get what I consider great shots. But with the sound

The Nikon D3 latest firmware release has clear reference to 6048x4032
pixel size option, and "D3X" name in the code.
Of course it could just be Nikon's programmers version of a practical
joke ;-0

So, now the resolution tests I've seen have indicated:
The 14 meg. Pentax K20D has "roughly" the same real resolution as
Nikon's 12 meg D300.
The A350 Sony (14 meg) has lower resolution than either the Pentax or

Nikon D60 gets it's clock cleaned.  Olympus 4/3rds would lose big
time.  Noise for the 2/3rds is still high, but detail is amazing.
Unfortunately, you get the normal horrible chromatic aberration that
all superzoom P&Ss have.  There is just so much money they can put

Buy China products to thank the Chinese vendors who post here.

Judging by the quality of some newspaper
colour pictures, someone must be making a
camera suited to one-shot HDR photos.
This would involve a camera with 3 (or more)

I'm using demo version of autostich downloaded from
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html
When I'm trying to stich all landscape mod shots it works well. Well I'm
trying to stitch all portrait shots only somehow softwre get confused and

Does anyone know how to test sync voltage on Monolights?  I have a set of
Smith Victor 110i monolights, and I can't find the voltage anywhere.  Thanks
blah

I'm thinking of buying an alpha700 to replace my Minolta d5. I assume
the pictures will be sharper, but I don't know if they'll be $1000
sharper!
Does anyone have an a700 that would be willing to email me a high

People say that 10-22 is good for landscaping and architecture. I understand
the aspect of doing architecture shots, being close to the object standing
on narrow city roads.
When comes to landscaping. I do landscaping using say 18mm and everything

In Image Data Converter, the second palette (with DRO) won't show up. No
matter what I try. Does anyone have a solution?
There is no update available.

I'm using a Canon Rebel XT.  If I set a custom white balance, and then shoot
raw will the raw file retain the custom white balance settings?   Thanks
Blah

When editing and saving in CS3, many componets of EXIF data are lost (i.e
focal lenght)
Maybe there is and option in CS3 preferences to keep focal lenght but I
couldn't find.

Features:
   * FW Interpolation to 10.0 Mp
   * White Balance: Auto, Manual, Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten,
Fluorescent