Recent content by BF Hammer

Can you just use the touchscreen instead?

Just consider what your intended purpose is for the lens and don't make it do things it is not good at. An all-in-one is going to include several compromises in design, with the goal of getting good-enough photos if not great. So do not buy the lens with the idea of replacing 2 or 3 lens. You...

The center player is out of focus, but further back in the image it looks like the right player's trailing leg is the focus plane. Personally I have never needed to fine-tune autofocus. I know it is more of a micro-level fix for a consistent miss by the autofocus system. If you have been...

I took the challenge. I have a Z5, FTZ-II, and a very cheap 2x F-teleconverter I inherited. Keep in mind this is a (dumb) full manual teleconverter and has no AI connector pins for the lens. So no ability to control f-stop here on my 70-200mm lens as there is no aperture control ring on it. But...

Also a very short search by me shows Glazer's Camera seems to be the big retailer in the Seattle area. I believe if I were doing this, I would begin with showing the gear there for any offers. If they are focusing on the Nikon F and F2 not interested in most of the rest, you can just say thank...

I am not an admin here, but I would guess you may want to forego a little of the potential value in order to sell in a shorter period of time. Piecing the items online will get some offers for the "good" items and the others will just not attract interest. Some web sites of used photography...

I do not have an exact recipe to follow. Like with sports, trying to shoot birds flying requires fast shutter and changing light conditions. So I use shutter-priority and try beginning at 1/1000 and adjust up or down guided by reviewing images. In general a full-frame sensor of similar vintage...

Another trip to Kenosha, the historic lighthouse is still there to photograph. This time with the light-keeper's house.

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Zac, Do you not know how to transfer your photos from your camera's card? We need the photos in order to help you, not a screen-capture of you viewing the photos from your phone. What the goal here is to see if your camera knows what is going wrong. You already are reaching out because you...

When turned on, the shutter release will only operate when focus is detected at the selected point.

Just checked on my PC, full frame sensor will capture at 50mm in landscape mode, but a crop-sensor camera would need to rotate to portrait mode. And the star cluster likely would be obscured by the moon if Stellarium is accurate. I have it set to mimic visual conditions.

Can you try to upload a sample good and bad images into a reply to this thread? You don't mention your f-stop and that is the important 3rd leg of the exposure triangle. I and others can read that from the exif data of samples. Upload directly here as nearly every photo host site likes to...

It looks like it would be in a 50mm to 100mm lens required to capture in 1 frame, by estimate looking at the Stellarium phone app. I would have to check on the actual PC software to verify. The moon would look rather small in the image.