Davidarich

@Davidarich (985)

Australia • Age 79

Joined myLot 16 years ago

Beyond the Image

www.davidrichphotography.org

Davidarich's Responses

What's the safest way to clean a camera lens

Pitstop @pitstop (14044) • Australia 17 Dec 10

My Canon Camera lens has a few smudges in it and also some dirt on it and the edges. What's the safest way to get tehse smudges, fingerprints and dirt off the lens in a safe way?

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Davidarich The three step routine is: 1. use a bulb blower (NOT compressed air) to blow off all loose particles 2. any dirt that remains should be removed with a camel hair brush or a specially designed lens brush 3. remove any remaining smudges with either a lens...

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What is the really best brand of digital camera?

sandrahon25 @sandrahon25 (114) • Philippines 10 Jan 11

I want to know the best brand of digital camera - anyone knows? Is it more expensive,? digital camera is good for making videos and I need to find a good one with less expensive... can i know where can we find good digital...

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Davidarich No, No-one really knows which is the best brand - but it is one of these: Leica, Leaf of BetterLight. Brands you may never have heard of with price tags that are staggering - A low-end Leica would set you back more than $7000, Leaf backs start around $30,000...

11 Jan 11

Looking to buy a new camera....

nicholejade @nicholejade (2430) • Canada 9 Jan 11

To all of you that are professional photographers or who are really intrested in taking professional looking pictures can help me with deciding what is a good camera to get. I am partial to the Nikons or looking into the Canons....

cameras

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professional photography

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Davidarich As a professional photographer I would advise you to try any camera you are interested in in the shop - Canon, Nikon, Sony, Panasonic and others make fibne cameras. Canon and Nikon between them account for about 90% of the cameras used by pros with the full...

10 Jan 11

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How to crop

godsgardener4002 @godsgardener4002 (281) • China 1 Sep 10

Does any one know how to crop a photo ? I have the date on the bottom of my photo and would like to remove it using Gimp. Thanks

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Davidarich First, I strongly advise you NOT to use MS Paint unless you can afford to degrade your image. You have an excellent tool in TYhe Gimp and it will do what you want and preserve you image quality. Click the button in the Toolbox, or use Tools ? Transform...

3 Sep 10

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Camera for the kids

OpinionatedLady @OpinionatedLady (5965) • United States 25 Jul 10

I am looking to get digital cameras for my 9 and 11 year olds for Christmas and was wondering if any one had advise as to which ones I should get them. Brands, and what not. One is very much into artsy pictures of flowers and...

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Davidarich Your budget is going to determine a which cameras to get - within any price bracket the features tend to be quite similar between brands. I have grandkids around the same age as your children, and as a professional photographer, I love the way they have...

28 Aug 10

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I am planning to gift a digital camera to my sister. What is your thought on it?

xorticanz @xorticanz (377) • India 22 Aug 10

Its been a while since I am planning to gift a one for my sister. Finally i got my hands wet. Yes I have decided on the model which has taken a while for me. I have decided to buy Fuji AV 100 model. It costs around 90$ only and it...

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Davidarich Well, xorticanz, this is a very basic camera, and if you hope that the aspect ratio and aperture are good in this as a professional camera person will look, you will be terribly disappointed. The zoom is actually 3x, not 4x, although for an extra $10 you could...

28 Aug 10

Do you use the software to edit the digital photos?

youless @youless (112561) • Guangzhou, China 17 Aug 10

Today there are many easy softwares to edit the digital photos. After editing it, the photos look so professional and beautiful. However, most of the time I won't edit the digital photos because I like the original versions much...

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Davidarich Sure I do. It is a fact of life that the images straight from digital cameras require at least basic manipulation to bring out the best in them. That doesn't mean that they have to be altered or fake - but noise removal, sharpening, colour balance and...

28 Aug 10

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USB Cable

Rozie37 @Rozie37 (15499) • Turkmenistan 24 Aug 10

My usb cable for my digital camera is buried in my storage in another city. Many times I have attempted to retrieve it, but that would require me to wade through a whole lot of precious items(junk)and boxes and things like that....

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Davidarich The card reader is a good way to go, Rozie, but unfortunately it may not be a complete solution for you. It will get the images of your SD card OK, but the little GE includes 32MG of internal memory, so unless there is a way to transfer images from the...

28 Aug 10

which is best??

satz0249 @satz0249 (125) • India 10 Jul 10

I want to buy a 14 mp digi camera .. can any one suggest me which one i can opt for?? is sony cyber shot good??

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Davidarich Sony Cybershots are good cameras and are very good value for the money. I don't know why you have based your decision on the pixel count - consider, the more pixels, the less usable the camera is in low light (higher ISO + more pixels = nasty, noisy...

5 Aug 10

What is your current digital camera you use>?

SilverKing @SilverKing (1003) • Canada 2 Jun 10

I use a 8 megapixel 3 times optical olympus digital camera a got for my christmas gift a few christmas's ago. Works great !

camera internet photography picture computer

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Davidarich I'm a bit of a camera junkie - my carry-around camera is a Canon G11 (5x zoom/10 Megapixel and 1.71 censor with HD movies - but sometimes I carry my Panasonic LZ5, which has a 7x zoom. Apart from that, I use a Canon 7D, a 50D and a 20D as my back-up. Want...

19 Jun 10

new camera..

elizabeth23 @elizabeth23 (51) • United States 17 Jun 10

i need a new camera... i love taking pictures and i need a really nice one... so what kinds are good?

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Davidarich Without going into brands, the quality of the photos your camera produces depends mainly on the size of the sensor. The tiny sensors in phone cameras are neat, but the images are pretty useless if you want to do anything with them beyond view them on a small...

19 Jun 10

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Canon S90......

Ansen zhu @mac_fish (723) • China 24 Mar 10

Hi,mylotters, anyone here has used this camera?? How about its performence?? I bought it in Feb,and it cost me around 400 dollars. At first,I spent a pretty long time to choose one camera between Lx3 and s90,the former one is...

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Davidarich The LX3 probably IS the better camera, but not by a lot, and that Canon lens is a lot more versatile - whichever one you chose, you would have got an excellent camera, and as someone who owns and uses both Lumix and Canon cameras, I know you will get a great...

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How think about Nikon P90 camera

Sir_bobby88 @Sir_bobby88 (8231) • Singapore 29 Mar 10

It has 24 x optical zoom , it was told that it is equal to a 624mm lens which very far !! It is the best budget camera around ?

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Davidarich There are a lot of these superzooms on the market just now. The Nikon Coolpix P90 is not bad, but there’s nothing that makes it stand out, either. The Olympus SP-590 UZ has an even longer lens and is much cheaper while the Canon PowerShot SX1 IS is a bit more...

8 Apr 10

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Homemade Reflectors

theyangone @theyangone (16) • Philippines 6 Apr 10

How do you make homemade reflectors? What must be the things needed to make one?

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Davidarich Foil, mirrors and similar material fixed to card is equivalent to a spotlight - very sharp shadows, bright highlights and an excessive dynamic range for most purposes. For portraits and most group shots. a sheet is fine - just roll it up and carry it with...

8 Apr 10

Traditional or digital camera...?

elamel @elamel (127) • Philippines 4 Apr 10

Which do you prefer traditional camera (this is the old camera which is using a negative film) or a digital camera?.. as for me it depends on how will i used the shots. If its for archival purposes then i prefer the traditional...

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Davidarich There is some confusion here, Elamel. Unless you have a medium format or larger camera, your film based images are not of the same quality as the photos from any current digital SLR, or even some compacts. it has been 5 years since the resolution of a...

6 Apr 10

The best freeware antivirus

icecubic @icecubic (1845) • Indonesia 6 Mar 10

I'm looking for freware antivirus today since i have a difficulties with my kaspersky antivirus. It can't be updated as the key is blocked. Are all of cracked antivirus can't be updated? can you suggest me what is the best or list...

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Davidarich There is something basically wrong with using a cracked antivirus to block viruses: after all, the same people who write virus programs are the people who crack code.... why would you trust software that can be cracked, anyway? AVG is free and is amongst...

7 Mar 10