Recent content by Mike Milton

I shoot and work from raw. That said, my camera has 3 banks of settings that can be chosen like modes (P1,P2,P3) and I have them set up to quickly change from tracking and high speed multi images to single shot modes with differing AF details. This saves quite a bit of time. Each bank takes all...

I'm with the crowd advocating the slide copy attachment for your DSLR. At the price point you have for a scanner, they are mostly junk. I have a Minolta Dual Scan and would say that is is (just barely) adequate for negatives and not very good for slides at all. Indeed, if you have a copy stand...

If you are printing inkjet, you also need to keep in mind that the ink mixes as it is adsorbed by the paper (intentionally) and, as mentioned earlier, the driver works to manage the fact that the pixels in the image may span a great many pixels on the device as well. In the real world, quite...

I use Flickr, G+, and Shutterfly and have a 500pix account (unused) and a few more. Most of my photography is casual. Flickr: - I like that I can upload a large file and people can choose what they want from 'all sizes'. I have that limited to contacts. - Geotagging is great and I find...

Some followup on usability items: Custom Setups: There has been a way to save sets of camera setups for quite a while now. With the 1Dx, however, you can set up C1,2,3 as you like (they basically save everything) *and* they are immediately selectable as a mode. Specifically, one cycles through...

to do it in PS... - create a new layer with a duplicate of the background layer - apply gaussian blur to that layer - decrease it's opacity to the level you like you can, of course, use other blurs, be selective in the area selected, use other mixes Yes the effect is much like soft focus...

Easy - enabled multi exposure (2 frames, averaged) - took a sharp pic - defocused and took another pic - you are looking at the resulr

Myself and a friend spent a day this week shooting with the mkIV and the X. One thing we tried was the multi-exposure and here is an example: Clematis | Flickr - Photo Sharing! The X struck me as quieter although some fee the opposite. The sound is briefer in any event. The tracking does seem...

... we are talking hours at this point. There was quite a bit of manual reading required (a surprise) so the changes are more than expected (a good thing). I've been off busy on my other avocation, music. Its nice to be back. cheers, m

After a bit of a wait, I picked up my 1Dx yesterday. This was an upgrade from a mkIV. There has not been time for much experimentation but here are some very preliminary impressions. -I find the indication of AF points in focus in the viewfinder more difficult to see compared to the mIV...

Well, there seems to be a few underlying sources of commentary: - I've just bought it, so it is great and the things I chose not to buy must be crap; otherwise I'd be stupid - I've never actually held it but I've read stuff and, if I don't follow along with those posts, I'll look stupid - I use...

I think this is an interesting way to capture in a photograph a brief moment without diluting the aspect of focus that is a strength of photography in the way that a typical video does. These remain a single image even though they have some movement in them. Indeed, the movement strikes me as...

yup, see sig below. The most frustrating loss was that, at the time, canon did not make a body with multi-point spot focus. I had to wait for the EOS3 (which I actually still have but do not use)

My wife had one and I had a T70 which eventually was swapped for a T90, one of my favourite cameras of all time. It was stolen in a break-in and that led to us both moving to the EOS line as insurance-driven replacements. The best feature of the T90 was multi-spot metering .... that really...

yes, vintage Cameras (or any collectables) are a whole different thing and not driven by function at all