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  1. Wally Billingham

    Antivirus software

    Mac killed my inner child (warning the video below is PG13) [video=youtube;cvXZVJXIyqM]
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    Analog film / Digital sensor

    Since digital cameras are still a relatively new technology improvements with various cameras has been far more than just the sensor. There have also been advancements in the computer hardware, memory, and processing speeds that make them possible. This mirrors where computers were from the...
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    Samsung Using TL500/EX1 with optical viewfinder?

    I never noticed that little green light before. Yes it is there and it could work in theory but the problem would be that you have no idea which focal point is in focus. You could set the camera for a focal point however. I leave mine on the center point 100% of the time
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    Cindy, the baby longhorn, taken with A33

    very cool, thanks for sharing. Makes me hungry for a T-Bone
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    Samsung Using TL500/EX1 with optical viewfinder?

    since the camera is a zoom and not a prime fixed focal length lens using an optical finder would not really work. In theory you could use one from a rangefinder and mount it to the hot shoe but the issue would be getting that to match up exactly with the lens on the camera as the camera has no...
  6. Wally Billingham

    Street Street photography (Image thread)

    some recnt stuff from my wanderings in Washington DC untitled by eye of wally, on Flickr untitled by eye of wally, on Flickr untitled by eye of wally, on Flickr
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    How to make a living by taking pictures

    the best way to make a small fortune in Photography is to start off with a large one
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    Micro 4/3 Thom Hogan on the future of Olympus.

    I actually do not see either Panasonic or Samsung buying Olympus. For Panasonic buying Olympus offers nothing of any real value. What they would want would be the talent in the design and engineering divisions and they would be easy hires once Olympus bites the dust. In Japan buying a bankrupt...
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    Samsung Samsung EX1/TL500 flash white balance problem

    The issue is that you are never going to have super results indoors with any camera using the tiny flash that is built into modern compact cameras. The solution if you are unhappy with the white balance your camera is giving you is to set a custom WB which is very easy on the EX1, or shoot in...
  10. Wally Billingham

    How many webbrowsers you got aboard

    I have all of them so I can test my coding on the various websites I do. I use Internet Exploder just about all of the time since IE7 came out
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    Samsung A couple of EX1 questions.

    I got one of the cheapy Ebay charges as well and several batteries. When I go out shooting street I leave the LCD on 100% of the time and the batteries last around an hour and a half. They work great and are 1/4 the cost of the "real ones". I don't have the auto lens cap, you will have to let...
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    Fuji Fuji New Rangefinder form!

    I think that Fuji made the same mistake that Sigma did with the DP line. They made an announcement that went viral around the various photography boards, then waited WAY to long to bring it to market, and by the time they do the excitment is gone. They should take a page from apple who will...
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    Samsung A couple of EX1 questions.

    Glad it worked for you :biggrin: My guess is the firmware has something to do with different video frame rates for PAL and NTSC, my guess is both would load just fine. Also if you look at the EXIF data on mine it says that it was shot on an EX1 not a TL500 yet I have a TL500. When I first got...
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    Samsung A couple of EX1 questions.

    it sounds like you have face detection or one of the other gizmos like smart filters turned on. You select the focus point in the menu. You select the camera icon, then select , "focus area", then select, "selection AF". sounds once again that you have face detection or smart filters turned...
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    Fuji Fuji New Rangefinder form!

    I must admit the more times goes on, and the more I shoot with my Samsung EX1 the less excited I become with this camera. There are just too many options in the compact space for far less money than this camera. The Sigma DP line offers an APS-C sized sensor and nice fixed lens for far less. The...
  16. Wally Billingham

    TIFF files and image editors (Silver Efex, Topaz, etc.)

    TIFF files were one of the original image formats. I used to use them on Macs and Amigas way back in the day 20 years ago. The word TIFF is an acronym for "Tagged Image File Format" and in theory they can be in any bit depth but there is no practicle advantage to being more than 16 bits as 16...
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    Apple iPad workflow (or iPad vs Lightroom, sofa vs desk)

    JPEGS are fine if you have a properly exposed file, it is when you need to push/pull exposure that the extra data in the RAW file helps. One thing I used to do was to shoot in JPEG most of the time and then just click over to RAW in tricky light. Another thing you can always do if you just...
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    Samsung Samsung EX1 appreciation thread

    the cap is kinda a pain, but I do not know what else you would do for a cap that would not be much larger. I attached mine to the same side of the camera that the shutter button is on. If I remember correctly that is different than what the book says. By doing that I am able to palm the...
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    Samsung Samsung EX1 appreciation thread

    I have not really found it to be an issue. Remember you can stop the lens down and you turn down the iso to 80 iso. On a camera such as this you are never going to have shallow DOF so there is no real reason to shoot wide open unless you are in dim light. And if you going to shoot portraits...
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    Samsung Samsung EX1 appreciation thread

    Thanks for dropping by my blog and for your kind words. I find the EX1 to be an amazing street photography camera. For my shooting style I use the center AF point only, and shoot using aperture priority mode. I like to leave it at around f/4 for more DOF and set the ISO as low as I can while...
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    What will the CP+ bring to table?

    I think they will release one soon, only it will be a video camera that takes EOS lenses and will also shoot stills. I also see a low budget "SLR" that takes EOS lenses only will not have a mirror and will still be the size and shape of an SLR really the future of mirrorless cameras lies in...
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    Samsung Samsung EX1 appreciation thread

    thanks for that tip, I never would have thought of that
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    Samsung Samsung EX1 appreciation thread

    You can have my Samsung EX1 (TL500 here in the states) when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
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    How many cups of coffee do you drink every day?

    BTW I also drink quite a bit of Green Tea with Jasmine. I buy it at an Asian Grocery Store, I find I like the cheap stuff made for Chinese Restaurants better than the really expensive stuff
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    Fuji Fuji Finepix X100 prototype preview

    of course it clicks at full stop marks, I have no issue with full stops on the lens ring and would want locking clicks that way I would not have to worry about it slipping out of the f/stop that I wanted. They are simply trying to copy the look and feel of classic manual lenses like found on...
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    Fuji Fuji Finepix X100 prototype preview

    I wish I could find the link now, but I remember discussion on this exact topic on one of the street photography forums I visit back when this was announced, that provided a link to a review and interview with someone from fuji from Photokina. What Fuji said then was that there are full stop...
  27. Wally Billingham

    How many cups of coffee do you drink every day?

    I get all the coffee I want for free at work so I drink 5 or more cups a day when I am at work and none when I am not
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    Fuji Fuji Finepix X100 prototype preview

    very nice, I have always liked the idea of a real aperture ring on the lens in whole stops. I know that is a disappointment to some but there is also an "A" position which will offer full electronic controls in partial stops via a menu on the LCD or full auto aperture also via a menu. The idea...
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    Fuji Fuji New Rangefinder form!

    a 23mm lens is a 23mm lens, the fact that the sensor is smaller than a piece of 35mm film really has no bearing. The circle of confusion kicks in yes but that has no bearing on objects in the background as that is an artifact of diffusion not focus. One of the advantages of MF was that you could...
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    Fuji Fuji New Rangefinder form!

    this is the one spec that I find hillarious, and one that will bite Fuji in the end "There are nine aperture blades in the lens of the FinePix. This allows for smoother blurring of background when using a large aperture, such as F2." unless Fuji is somehow able to change the laws of...
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    Sony Sony NEX Infrared- Vancouver Night.

    cool shot, the IR and fisheye combine nicely BTW Pete when have you not been in your hippy days?
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    What are your interests / hobbies besides of Photography / Video?

    I enjoy sleep something I do not do enough LOL, I also enjoy eating and cooking, making websites, computers, and spending time with the kids
  33. Wally Billingham

    Thanks for visiting this site, in which country / area do you live ?

    I currently live in Laurel, MD, USA which is just a little bit outside of Washington DC USA
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    Night as day

    these are very cool. I have done the opposite turning daylight into night time with IR film and a Holga camera which is a fixed lens serious compact (at least the way I use them) Moonrise Lake Erie by eye of wally, on Flickr
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    Sony ping pong ball diffuser

    very cool, back in the day when I shot weddings I found that the best flash diffuser was a simple coffee filter held in place with a rubber band. Never would have thought about a ping pong ball
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    Hardware & Software of Cameras

    that model already exists for the iPhone camera. One interesting thing with my Samsung TL500 that I was not expecting (and to be honest have not and will not ever use) is that the camera has built in PC photoediting software that a PC can read when you plug the camera into a USB port. That way...
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    Confusion - a personal view

    I would add Schneider-Kreuznach to that list. They have been making very high quality lenses in Germany for a very long time and are very popular especially in LF circles. Currently Samsung uses them in their serious compacts. Having said that I think the biggest bottle neck in serious...
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    New user from Maryland

    hello and welcome from a fellow Marylander. I grew up in and recently moved back to Laurel
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    Street Street photography (Image thread)

    back in 1991 the rap/hip hop group "Naughty by Nature" scored at top 10 hit with the song O.P.P. To them OPP stood for "Other Peoples _______" you can fill in the blank. Anyway one thing I like to shoot when I am on the streets is other peoples photographs. I often find tourists posing for...
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    Street Street photography (Image thread)

    I find the same thing to be true when I shoot with my Samsung TL500/EX1. It looks like you are sending a text on a phone. This is a self portrait I took of me in a large pyramid shapped mirrror outside of the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. This is how I shoot all of my most recent...
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    Sony NEX 5 external pro microphone connection

    sorry I guess I read the question incorrectly
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    Sony NEX 5 external pro microphone connection

    what you need is an XLR to mini plug cable. They can be found at any music store that sells guitars, keyboards or PA systems for $5-$20. The more expensive ones will have gold plated ends which are not needed and the cheaper ones will not be very high quality. Get the ones in the middle. Radio...
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    Feedback forum slow and/or unable to get pages to load?

    must be a server issue, I am having the issues with IE, & Firefox on Windows and Linux
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    Which operating system(s) run on your electronic devices ?

    I use several flavors of Linux on various machines for various reasons, but my main PC which I use for internet use and photography uses Windows 7. I have been using Windows since 3.1 and have never had any issues with a virus, trojan, or anything else of worry. I can build a windows/linux box...
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    Street Street photography (Image thread)

    [video=youtube;JFVyerFIVAM] these are the highlights from my wandering in Washington DC on 1-1-11. I made this for my flickr stream to be posted on my blog on 1-15 but here is a sneak peak from Youtube since I can link Youtube videos here. In case you are wondering this was produced with a...
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    Leica If leica were to make a new digital CL...

    from my experience Bokeh or should I say the love of Bokeh is a relatively new phenomenon that grew up around the internet and the DSLR. Much like HDR, Bokeh is a fad that some people really love and will go to the ends of the earth to achieve, and for others they simply do not care. After...
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    Street Street photography (Image thread)

    untitled by eye of wally, on Flickr don't you always wear winter coat and hat to the steamy jungle?
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    Expoure bracketing, mettering for the highlights

    when shooting negative film especially B&W negative film the adage was to expose for the shadows and develop for the highlights, meaning that you exposed the film to get good shadow detail but would control the zone where you would place the highlights in development. This is Ansel Adam's Zone...
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    Street Street photography (Image thread)

    untitled by eye of wally, on Flickr from the DC metro (subway)
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    Street Street photography (Image thread)

    :yahoo: Actually Ray I likes what you said also. It's all good
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