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    Fujifilm Minilab Adding Noise

    I guess it could be Fujifilm Minilab performing a sort of chroma noise reduction, considering that the print is so devoid of colour compared to the original photo, yet it does not explain why more noise is present.
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    Fujifilm Minilab Adding Noise

    I've recently made a few prints at my neighbourhood Fujifilm Minilab and have noticed that in a few of the prints, noise appears to have increased in the prints! This occurred only for the photos which were taken indoors under artificial, dim, yellow, lighting. Viewing the prints from far...
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    WTSell: DSLR - Canon 400D Body Only

    Advertisement Category: Want To Sell (WTS) Equipment Type: DSLR Equipment Brand: Canon Equipment Model: 400D Body Only Price (S$): 350 Description: Just hoping to find a buyer for my very first DSLR which I've outgrown. PM me if interested. Real Name: Vernon Condition of Item: 9 Warranty...
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    Dust Growth on Sensor

    I've taken the photo at f22, and this looks quite worrying! It is a crop from the bottom left corner of the image. Is this fungus growth?
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    Dust Growth on Sensor

    Thanks for the help. I've not cleaned the sensor myself, neither have I sent it for cleaning before. But sensor cleaning will definitely help right?
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    Dust Growth on Sensor

    By the way, the crops are not actual size anymore since the original file is 1280 pixels wide and clubsnap automatically resized it to 1000pixels wide.
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    Dust Growth on Sensor

    Hi, I've been looking at my photos, and noticed that there are streaks at the bottom left corner. These streaks appear to be the same size regardless of focal length. It is not a lens issue as I have switched the lenses to test out. Can anybody confirm if these are streaks of dust? Because...
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    Compact High Speed Flash Sync

    Thank you all for your responses, it seems like the answer would be PnS cameras employing electronic shutters.
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    Compact High Speed Flash Sync

    Hi, I've noticed that it is possible to use forced flash on compact cameras in bright daylight, even at very high shutter speeds. How is this possible on a compact camera when even DSLRs commonly top out at 1/250s?
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    D3 review at dpreview.com

    I'm curious, what does viewfinder magnification actually mean? The D3 has a viewfinder magnification of 0.7X, but the E-3 has a viewfinder magnification of 1.1X. So which is better?
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    Help Telephoto Aperture

    In terms of absolute aperture diameter, does an f5.6 20mm have the same aperture diameter as an f5.6 300mm? Otherwise, why does an f5.6 300mm have more background blur than an f5.6 20mm? Or is the amount of blur the same just that it appears less DISTRACTING due to the narrower field of...
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    Fujifilm S100FS

    only human can be so evil...
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    new S8000fd owner in need of help here

    For cameras like the S8000fd with a small sensor, it is rather difficult to achieve bokeh. You can try to zoom all the way and then use the largest aperture possible/smallest f-stop number. The effect will be more pronounced the nearer your subject is, but make sure that you are still far enough...
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    F100FD Samples

    http://digiarena.zive.cz/default.aspx?section=21&server=1&article=5199 Found this website that has zoom and ISO series as well as miscellaneous samples. I was looking at this image in particular http://digiarena.zive.cz/UploadedFiles/905040150.JPG and found the highlight rolloff to be...
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    IE Destroys Bokeh?

    Yup, I've tried it before but realised it didn't work so I googled on it to find out more only to realise that Microsoft has an error with this option, enabling or disabling the option doesn't actually work and another more complicated process of editing the registry is needed. But I also...
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    IE Destroys Bokeh?

    Do you guys have the problem of Internet Explorer compressing the out-of-focus/bokeh areas such that the colour gradient is reduced and shows up as very unpleasant dithering? Upon refreshing of the image, it will load the original uncompressed one. However is there a way to remove this setting...
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    Image Stabilization makes Photo Blur

    OK, I'm sorry for bringing this old topic up again, but I googled about image stabilization on tripods, and it seems true that image stablization CAN make photos blur when on tripods! The link is at http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/image-stabilization-on-tripods/ if you guys are...
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    Going to europe for riot pictures

    Pardon my ignorance, europe got war meh?
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    where's a good place to print photos?

    Comparing Fuji to Kodak though, Wilhelm Imaging Research has shown that that fuji prints can last 40 years while kodak prints last only 17. Ink permanence is a point you might want to consider...
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    F480

    The photos are grainy most likely due to the dim lighting conditions. The grain(noise) is due to the increased ISO setting of the camera to compensate for the dim lighting conditions so that you can get a sharper(but more noisy) shot in that kind of lighting. What I would suggest is to turn...