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<p>Hi Michael, what kind of climbing photography will you be doing? Will it be photos of other climbers on sport routes or do you want to take photos while climbing longer mountain routes?<br>

Most DSLRs will work fine but I would go with Nikon just now, what´s more important are lenses. What I fine works best is to shoot looking down from above the climber with a wide angle lens, something from 10mm to 35mm on a crop body. Also I don´t know where you live but here in Spain we climb mostly in the shade so it can be quite dark so fast lenes are nice to have. You can also isolate the climber from the background with a fast lens.<br>

You can shoot from the ground with a long lens but it´s much harder to get an interesting shot that way.<br>

Now if you talking about taking your camera on a climb while climbing say a multi-pitch then maybe one of the Mirrorless cameras would be better.</p>

 

<p>I agree cameras that shoot Raw should have an histogram showing the Raw data but untill they do I use UniWB.</p>

<p>Laurent...yes I get good results I´ve not had a problem with focus shift from one shot to another.</p>

<p>I some times focus blend for landscapes. I take 3,4 or 5 shots with diferent focus planes and then manually blend them in Photoshop.</p>

<p>If you shoot RAW have a look at useing Uniwhite balance it will take all the guessing out of useing your historgram display when shooting in RAW.<br>

Here´s a link to get started <a href="http://www.guillermoluijk.com/tutorial/uniwb/index_en.htm">http://www.guillermoluijk.com/tutorial/uniwb/index_en.htm</a><br>

Mark</p>

<p>I have Photomatix but never liked the results, so now I exposure blend in Photoshop CS5 useing luminosity masks. Here´s a tutorial <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FEqsWqG0Hg&list=FLfFgIG1fS342KTYYSajXcyw&index=18&feature=plpp">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FEqsWqG0Hg&list=FLfFgIG1fS342KTYYSajXcyw&index=18&feature=plpp</a></p>

<p>I have Photomatix but never liked the results, so now I exposure blend in Photoshop CS5 useing luminosity masks. Here´s a tutorial <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FEqsWqG0Hg&list=FLfFgIG1fS342KTYYSajXcyw&index=18&feature=plpp">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FEqsWqG0Hg&list=FLfFgIG1fS342KTYYSajXcyw&index=18&feature=plpp</a></p>

<p>Have a look at the square CPL filter from Lee ,I wish that I would have bought one of these instead of a round one as I have the Lee holder. See here <a href="

<p>Hi..Well on my screen which is calabrated and viewed with IE9 the Adobe RGB looks more saturated, especially in the reds. It´s the sRGB that looks washed out which surprises me.</p>

<p>Hi...I had this happen to me with two DVDs. I had backed up some RAW files on DVD useing windows vista and when I tried to read them only a few months later I couldn´t, I tried this free program I found on the net <a href="http://www.oemailrecovery.com/cd_recovery.html">http://www.oemailrecovery.com/cd_recovery.html</a> and got most of my files back. I now don´t trust DVDs at all and use an external hard drive as well.</p>

<p>Hi try this...<a href="http://www.oemailrecovery.com/cd_recovery.html">http://www.oemailrecovery.com/cd_recovery.html</a> I had the same problem with a DVD. I did a google search and found this free software. I got most of my RAW files back useing this.</p>

<p>I second that. I´ve had the Canon Pixma ip4700 for three weeks now and all though it´s my first ever printer I´m very happy with it so far.</p>

<p>Hi Charles...Thanks for your help,I seem to have got things sorted out now.And I´ve just down loaded the driver update, I can´t say I can see any difference but my laptop is just over a year old. One thing I´ve given up on is trying to run both screen with two different resolutions,I´ve been all over the internet and some say you can and some say you can´t. I can´t, to work on my 23" screeen at 1920-1080 resolution I have to shut off my laptop screen.<br>

thanks lot<br>

Mark</p>

<p>Hi...I´ve just started printing and want to work on a calibrated monitor.I edit my photos on a laptop a HP Pavilion dv5-1130es which is not the best option so i´ve added a second monitor a Samsung 2333hd 23" DTV monitor, again not very good but it´s what i had. I´ve calibrated the samsung monitor with a Spyder 3pro (well I think I have) I´m not bothered about Calibrateing the laptop screen. I have the second monitor to mirror the laptop screen. Can someone tell me if this is posible and if so how is it done? In the Spyder 3 software where you can select which monitor to calibrate I have only one option, It says "Monitor PnP genérico-1" there is a drop down box with two options but both are the same "Monitor PnP genérico-1" in both. Is this normal ,how do I know if this is the second samsung monitor? If not normal what should be in the drop down boxs and where do I find it? The laptop is useing Windows Vista home premium (32-bit) and the Graphic card is nVidia GeForce 9200M GS.<br>

I hope someone can help with my Confusion, and thanks in advance.<br>

Mark ...</p>

<p>Hi..I shoot RAW with a Canon 500D,and I´ve made a custom WB called UniWB (google it) use it with a nuetral picture style and it makes the histagram match the RAW data. You can check this by downloading free softwear called Rawnalyze. If you can live with a green cast to your LCD it works really well.</p>