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For the past couple years I've been involved at a site called DPChallenge.com, short for "Digital Photography Challenge". Its focus is to provide site participants with weekly challenges (one open to anyone, two additional open only to paying members, plus two monthly member only Free Study...

Still collecting data and impressions. Hooked it up to the dock yesterday and upgraded the firmware (lens shipped with v1.0 and is now on v1.3) which seems to have improved both focus and OS lock (initially I was underwhelmed with the effectiveness of the OS handheld at 600mm). There are two...

@MaxBlake, if you haven't done so yet, hook your lens up to the dock and upgrade your firmware. I've seen an improvement in both the AF speed and the Optical Stabilization. I've set my C1 and C2 profiles so that I can get all 3 types of OS by flipping the switch. The language around the full...

I chose this because the image quality and focus is head and shoulders above the 150-500mm Sigma I was using. OOF areas are far less noisy (not ISO noise, the old Sigma just looked sort of random - bokeh was poor) and focus is extremely fast comparatively. What's tweakable? Autofocus, and...

I'm doing some focus testing of the Sigma 150-600mm and in my poking around I'm trying to determine my approx. focus distance. This is in the EXIF data but it's displayed as 126/10. I can't remember if this is in meters or not (i.e. 12.6m, which is probably right based on the photo). Help an...

Consider this a placeholder for an evolving set of impressions on this lens. I've spent more time looking at it and thinking about it than actually shooting with it so far. I'll save those observations for my first big post. I did take advantage of the beautiful day and went on the deck to do...

Because there's a part of me that would really like to know what each of these switch positions do without resorting to trial and error.

Dear Sigma, This is not the way to publish a user manual on a $2000 lens. Not only is it impossibly unwieldy, you've rendered it so that at least 1/4 of the available languages (including English) are impossible to access immediately next to the diagram no matter how the folds are...

There are always choices to be made and I find that most people who are trying to get their images to pop tend to over-emphasize things like sharpening and saturation. As you work an image you tend to lose sensitivity to just how much you've emphasized color - I know I do. I'll come back to...

Simply stated, "Wow!!" Camera Raw 9.5 now available In the past Adobe has been 1 to 4 months behind Nikon, so the fact that they have Raw support before the release is amazing. This means either Nikon made the cameras available to Adobe before release, or Adobe got hold of pre-release...

Since it seems to take forever for a Deal thread to be approved I just thought I'd give everyone a heads up that Benro's version of the MeFoto Roadtrip (their Series 2) is on sale today only at B&H. I love my MeFoto so much that I got Benro's carbon fiber version (less than the price of the...

Deal Zone, Deal of the Day at B&H The Series 2 is the Benro equivalent of the MeFoto Roadtrip that I use all the time. The alluminum is 1/2 the price of the MeFoto and the Carbon Fiber is $20 cheaper than an aluminum Roadtrip. I use mine so much that I decided to spring for the CF so I can...

I posted this in another thread and did a quick look-around to see if this was posted before and couldn't find anything, so here goes (mods, feel free to delete or merge if this is somewhere already). In the past folks have been told to go to various websites to upload a JPEG (which many of us...

Two posts above yours (back one page) I posted a link to a Photographylife story on the issue that speaks to how to test for it on your camera. Take a look and test it out. Easiest way seems to be to shoot into the sun in Live View mode and look for a darker bar across the top as it only shows...

Found a pretty clean Polaroid Sun 600 LMS camera in a box in the basement. Seems pretty clean and I suspect it would work. All I'm seeing as film goes is either 8+ year old vintage stuff (at almost $50 for 10 shots) or film from The Impossible Project that runs about half that. Seems the new...

I joined NAPP 3 years back and when it because KelbyOne I hung on to the membership because they honored the $99 NAPP renewal price instead of the $250 they were now charging. My membership comes up for renewal in April, but I just got an email from Kelby saying they have "processed my...

There's a Warp Text feature with the Text tool in Photoshop that gives you all sorts of control over the warping of your text, with or without distortion. Use Arc instead of Arch to get the most unmolested look to your text. Real easy to use. To invoke it after you've typed your text, with...

February 5 A good chunk of my photos yesterday were taken without a lens on the camera, but I did manage this one as I was taking out the trash. About 10 feet of Vole tracks emerged as the snow melted. Neighbor's cats better get busy.

OK, the Whiskey can wait, at least for a minute. I took a D7100 and shot at 1/60s at ISO 6400 with just the body cap on and absolutely no JPEG adjustments on. Here are the results... RAW JPEG Fine JPEG Normal JPEG Basic Once again, I have no idea what this proves beside I really...