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FYI: I usually reroute my FedEx shipments to my neighborhood Walgreens since they allow that for free. You just present ID and sign at photo service counter. UPS is good at leaving at my back door. But I have an account and can reroute delivery to a UPS store. I just have to know ahead what...

The first problem is because Image Review is turned off. It is under the "Playback Menu" (might be just the play icon in the menu system). Also hiding in there is the setting for how the Delete button behaves. Factory default setting requires you to press delete a 2nd time to confirm you want to...

The camera is showing as being in auto-ISO so it is the camera going there. I say something failed in the meter. Or the sensors for metering are covered with debris.

Something looks wrong with the exposure meter. My only thought is to try Aperture-priority mode and change the metering from Matrix to Spot. Then see if it still over-exposes. But it is still broken even if that works. My thoughts being that maybe some debris is covering the AE sensor.

See? holding you back! You are getting by with less, but you could be making much better. :)

But more seriously, if you feel as if your gear holds you back in some way, it truly is time to upgrade then.

Congrats on your Z9 starter kit Clovis! 😁

I have a Z8 or maybe it's successor possibly being my next body, with my Z5 becoming the low-res 2nd body. But I also have an upgrade plan for all of my F-mount lenses to new Z-mount, and I want most of that to be completed before buying a new body. Trading in current hardware is going to be key...

$1600 left on my furnace loan. Been waiting for the final numbers on the eclipse trip before trying to pay that off aggressively. $11,000 principal left on my car loan. Yeah, that will be a bit longer.

Yeah, I just wrote a $878 check for my credit card statement last weekend. Over 90% of that was expenses for my eclipse trip last month. That new Z14-24mm f/2.8 will have to wait again. I even have 2 lenses ready to be traded in.

I have encountered the issue with a 3rd party lens working on 1 body but not another. In my case it is the most current version of the Tamron 90mm F-mount. Worked fine with a D7000 and then a D750. I bought a Z5 and FTZ adapter and it won't work. I did my research after the fact and discovered...

One more for pure fun. Obviously an impossible shot, the moon comes from an image taken in 2020.

Scott, not sure if you checked this but make sure you don't have this website set to display as desktop version. Site is mobile-aware and has an easy access navigation menu that disappears to the upper-left corner to be out of the way. I am on android using Duck-Duck-Go browser which is...

It's really very mobile friendly on Chrome or Chrome-based browsers. Way more so than the old forum software. What features are you missing that are there on a desktop platform?

Some more tonight. I might be done now. This first one is a composite. I enhanced an earlier image posted here and pasted the moon and solar prominences from the 2nd photo here over it as an overlay blend. This is a single image and a lot of experimenting in the Local Contrast sliders...

Looks like it's all about wifi connection security. Meh.

It starts in the setup menu of the camera. Adobe RGB instead of sRGB. Then the Picture Controls. I like the natural tones of Standard, but many use Vivid. This part can be altered in post for past shoots. You can also download and install custom Picture Controls, or use the Picture Controls...

When you process a Raw file, the original stays unchanged. A separate description file is created that describes the alterations. So the crop will not happen until you export the image to some other file format. I would guess that is why the size still reports as original. Edit: I reread this...

Cindy, try searching with the word "acrylic" also. You get different hits. I don't have any specific source to recommend. But I do recommend buying in bulk because the cheap acrylic stuff from China has a way of cracking and breaking when you look at it wrong. For my watch collection I have 20...

I had technical issues during my session. I forgot to tighten down the manual adjusters on my star-tracker mount. This caused the mount to wander during the initial partial phase until I discovered the problem as I was removing the solar filter for the totality event. I had the intervalometer...