I thought I'd tell you what happened this evening.
I was out with my wife in the car and went to a place called Grangemouth (in
Scotland). It's a huge oil refinery and looks like something space-age or
from another planet. As we drove though, I stuck the camera out the window,

Can anyone recommend a worthwhile portable studio lighting kit for a
cheapskate amateur, wana-be professional.  I have a Nikon D50 if that
matters.  It is my hope to find something under $500, but I expect
that to be difficult.

While surfing and contemplating my remote shutter release quandary, I came
across the following:
http://www.instructables.com/id/E90RXVLN05EUIFO9JW/
Mine shall be made of metal instead of wood, but this answers all my

Okay, so I am 17 years old. And I have my first job and am getting 100
dollars a week (about). I am looking for a camera. A nice digital SLR
one. This will be used for capturing images of numorous things but my
main object will be wildlife. This includes zoos, ones found traveling

How low do you allow your battery to run before changing it out for a
fully changed battery?
And, in general, does a half or more discharged battery affect performance?
TIA,

Hey All,
First, I want to say I am not bashing DSLRs. They are excellent for
their purpose. But I feel  like I should promote the reasons, other than
technical, I think people should consider shooting with film. I speak

I have a Sony DSC H1, and I am building a mount for it so that I can get
about a foot from feeding hummingbirds.  I need a shutter release cable that
is about a foot long.  The Sony does not have a pre drilled pre tapped
receptacle for the common shutter release cable.  So, I ...

can anyone suggest a good slide show software that writes to DVD for
regular dvd players that will allow text, and transitions and music?
I tried arcsoft photostudio expressions and I get errors everytime I
use it.

Quick Q about RAW shooting...
am i correct in assuming that RAW is essentially a digital negative,  the
'bare bones' of an image , different to a jpeg where the camera adds it's
own image processing?

A variety of photo prints are available at Deviant Art
http://www.pfister.deviantart.com

I see conversions from digital focal length to 35mm focal length in EXIF
data on folks photo galleries, i.e. 800mm (35mm equivalent=1200mm).  Is
this conversion on any kind of curve or is it a constant?
Jim

Hello, my name is Toni and I am from New Bern, NC.  I entered a photo
contest with Hewlett-Packard and Snapfish.  I recently found out that
I made it in the finals.  I am wanting to pursue a career in
photography and winning this contest would be a great opportunity for

I've been looking at the D200 lately and found that Costco has just
about the best *legitimate" price out there at about $1550.  That was
last week.  This week, it's no longer on the website.
I stopped down :) to Costco yesterday and was told that they no longer

Does anyone know which software I would need to be able to produce an eBook
such as the one show here?
http://www.annabelwilliams.com/education/ebrochure/annabelwilliams.exe
I have no idea how it was created, but would love to make one myself.

Hi, all.
I'm doing some portrait photography, and currently my lighting system
consists of my master flash and a slave flash. Not very versatile.
I'm looking for a good, *not too expensive* lighting system for