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That's not what was said. The point is that it's faster to switch on and off an electronic shutter than to accelerate a mechanical one to the correct speed, and retard it again.

Sounds... Great? :D

I think that depends on your definition of everyday :) For me, a slingshot would be a tad large, because I like to carry a backpack to put a coat, food, drinks and so on in ;) But I'm no pro.

Seems to me like he could just back up a bit and go around. Or ride on the pavement.

To take part of this topic - I'm also interested in whether I should invest in a protective filter (or more than one, of course.) Obviously if you crunch the lens into the floor, a filter's not going...

No, hypotheticals do not. Hypotheticals are an important part of the reductio ad absurdum approach to discrediting an argument. If you suppose that something is true, i.e. accept a hypothetical...

Minor point - perspective is a function only of subject distance, i.e. if you have a subject that is a long way away (you are therefore likely to use a telephoto lens) then it has a "compressed"...

A straw man is an argument designed to look like an opponent's, but which has a logical flaw in that the opponent's doesn't, thus being easy to destroy. In other words, you build a "straw man"...

Well, I just requested one from our Central Library, but it hasn't arrived yet :D

But this is not the point - irrespective of whether computer users do or do not read hard-copy, there is nothing...

We can't have a reasonable discussion if you dismiss everything as "irrelevant, convoluted." Yes, we are dealing with hypotheticals. Obviously, since I don't know all the shots you will ever make in...

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Whenever I do any work on photographs, I keep a clean copy of the original in case I need to go back to it. This avoids any excess artifacts creeping in.

While this is correct, the degradation of an analogue signal is not the same as that of a compressed digital file. If you recompress a compressed file in a lossy format, each time you lose a bit more...

Straw man, how? I give you a specific example where your way of shooting won't work; that's not a strawman, that's a counter-example. "Asked and answered," is rhetoric, which is entirely different to...

Well, I'm sorry, Ed, but I guess if you can't understand non-too-complicated English, any reasonable discussion is out of the question.

So, Ed, I'm also assuming that you wouldn't crop if you were taking a picture of a building - you'd just get wonky lines, eh? Given that your panasonic doesn't have a tilt/shift lens, and you're not...

Check out the Statuary at Columbus Circle. In the wide shots, you've included the trees beside the building and someone's head. In the zoomed, you've chopped a hand off. And you think we should be...

Pre-cisely. If you have enough resolution, then cropping creates ZERO observable effect on the final image. So while it's better to try to frame the shot properly, cropping is a tool that can and...

OMG HERESY! Where did you get a crazy idea like that?



Did it not occur to you that most of the people who want to learn probably do not need you telling them the very basics of photography...

So, Ed, what is the difference between a shot that was cropped in the viewfinder, and one that was cropped in post production? Is there some feature of cropping that always, universally and...

I see. So coldrain was right. No hard feelings, coldrain, I thought you were being overzealous, but I actually think I agree with you on this one.



Right. Why didn't you just title the topic,...

Look at the performance at ISO1600, or 3200, of a dSLR. then compare it to the ISO200 or 400 of a point and shoot. The larger sensor gets you two or three stops. Thus, with the same f/2.8 aperture,...

While I regard coldrain's argument with skepticism, and with humour in mind, I do seem to remember the thread about light and noise which was a bit crazy, too, and could surely be to do with...

The crop of Miss Bubbles is brilliant, in my opinion - definitely better than the original.

So, Ed, picture the situation: You've been shooting some people shots, with a 100mm or so lens. Suddenly, across the street, you see a kid take a run up to a water fountain. Do you, A) switch your...

So, EdGreene's basically saying that it's better to compose properly than crop later? Doesn't seem particularly revelatory to me...

And sure, it's better that way, but if you can only do a certain...