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Fixed it for you. Or would have if this forum supported the “strikeout” tag. It's clear that they've made a very poor attempt at deception here. Their product may or may not perform as they claim, but their use of images of a BB fired from a BB gun to support their claims about how normal...

Unfortunately, it does not come with useful instructions. I found reference to it somewhere else on this forum, leading to enough information for me to figure out out for myself. I don't feel like looking for that now, which is odd given that I did feel like trying to take this picture of my...

Because this is a spring-driven clock, someone has to wind it on a regular basis in order for it to keep running. I believe the Russian text “2 СУТОК” means that it can go two days between windings.

Third entry.

Second entry. Same square cutout on the front of my 50mm lens. This time, the bokeh is provided by the top edge of some shrubbery in the near foreground. Who says you have to “Be there or be square”? Why can't you be both?

First entry. The corner of my car, shot with my 50mm, with a square cutout in front of the lens to shape the bokeh formed by the trees in the background, with sunlight streaming therethrough.

Here, we see Orion, peeking through a wisp of cloud. The three stars that comprise Orion's belt point downward to a very bright star. You must never make jokes about this star, nor otherwise treat it lightly. It's Sirius. Stock 18-55mm “kit lens” on my D3200, zoomed out to 18mm. 2.5 seconds...

What about the “Contact Us” link near the bottom right of every page on this forum?

“Classic”, in what sense? Seriously, you think this lens has any business being paired up with an F2? It would look ridiculous on a classic F2. On a classic, 1970s vintage all-metal body, it would look like cheap plastic, totally unworthy of the camera on which it'd be mounted. This...

A yard-like area in my apartment complex, photographed at night. This was composed of twenty-nine different shots, each using my 50mm lens, 20 seconds, ƒ8, ISO 100. I used Microsoft ICE to stitch the images into one large image. This image really needs to be seen larger than the size...

I'm amazed that nobody else has posted any eclipse pictures here, yet. Surely there are others here with much better equipment and techniques than I had at my disposal, and better weather conditions, who ought to have taken better pictures than I was able to take. Anyway, here's something...

Ancient Vivitar 85-205mm ƒ3.8 zoom lens mounted to my D3200. 1/4000 of a second at ISO 100, aperture set by the crude pinhole aperture accessory that I described above, but now with an even smaller pinhole.

I did some test shots of the sun, to get some idea what I was up against. As I feared, even with my Vivitar stopped all the way down, and the shutter speed at 1/4000″, the sun's too bright. Live View mode, I noticed afterward, imposes a minimum of 200 on the ISO rather than the 100 I thought...

Second entry: “Harvest” usually refers to the product of a farmer or a gardener, who has put work into growing a crop, that is now ready to be taken and put to use. Wouldn't it be fair to apply the word to the fruits of any other labor, applied over a period of time, finally leading to the...

This theme had me thinking in terms of very old-style photographs, black and white, grainy, soft focus, not a lot of sharpness or technical quality. With the aperture wide open, my ancient Vivitar 85-205mm zoom lens is perfect for that. At smaller apertures, it takes nice, sharp pictures, but...

My first entry for this theme. I was on my way out to take some shots for the weekly theme, and wasn't thinking of this monthly theme at all, when I spotted these pumpkins, and they just seemed to be calling out “Harvest!” to me. I had my ancient Vivitar 85-205mm zoom lens mounted to my...