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  N70 Manual
Does anyone know where I can find the manual for the Nikon N70 camera online? I've misplaced mine and am having some problems....
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January 04, 2005
 
  Nikon Camera Troubleshooting
I get an error message FEE and the Nikon N70 camera wont take a picture. ...
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December 30, 2004
 
  Printer Filling in White with Color
I have an HP 7130 all-in-one printer. I'm using ILFORD Galerie injet paper (both glossy and pearl). The colors are pretty accurate, and the detail is good. But today I printed out a pic of a ...
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December 29, 2004
 
  picture of the Sun
I was wondering if anybody has tryed to take a picture of the sun by placeing a welding lens onto the camera lens?...
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December 29, 2004
 
  Auto Settings on Canon S70
Happy New Year to all on the site.I recently bought the Canon S70 -all the reviews say it is a great camera. I need this camera for indoor and outdoor. The shots seem to be very grainy above 100 IS...
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January 29, 2005
 
  Lens Not Stopping Down
I have an ongoing problem: a few of my lenses need to be 'cleaned' on a semi-regular basis because the iris will stick open. The ones that seem to have the most problems are Vivitar lenses...
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December 29, 2004
 
  Lens adapter.
Does anyone know if there is an adapter that can be used on Canon FD lens to use on their Canon EOS cameras? Have a Canon 10D with a 28-135 IS USM. But also have a couple of older lens from my A-1 ...
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December 31, 2004
 
  The Twin- lens reflex
Question 1. The Chief advantage of the Twin-lens reflex camera is its.-compact construction, light weight, and fast loading-simplicity durability and quietness-absence of parallax erroror -ability ...
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December 29, 2004
 
  What is located within the lens
Question 1. What is located within the lens and consists of several small spring-powered metel blades that overlap.Question 2. On A camera what part is fragile and easily damage.Is it the Lens, ape...
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December 28, 2004
 
  Malfunction of Promaster 100-300mm lens
I use a Pentax ZX-10 with two lens. The 30-80mm works perfectly on the camera. The 100-300mm focuses perfectly but the shutter will not fire every time. Do you think the problem is in the contacts ...
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December 28, 2004
 
  How to replace Interfit 250 strobe bulb
I have an interfit 250 strobe, and a replacement strobe bulb for it. I can't, however, figure out how to replace it. Is this an end user job, or do I have to take it somewhere and have them do ...
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December 27, 2004
 
  battery failure
Just bought a Minolta Maxxum 5 (refurbished) on Ebay. Camera looks like new and seemed to work okay but the 2 Cr2 3v Lithium batteries died after less than a day and now the second set of batteries...
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December 27, 2004
 
  Calibrating Mac and PC monitors
My photography partner has a Mac laptop and I work with a PC. I often do the necessary adjustments on our photos (using Photoshop CS) and give them to him on cd's so that he can then take them ...
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December 31, 2004
 
  how to use a monolight with Canon Rebel
Hey, I have a digital Rebel and just got a monolight from Alien Bees but don't know how to plug the sync cord into my camera. ...
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December 25, 2004
 
  Where to get a 35mm Nikon camera repaired?
Where can I get a 35mm Nikon camera repaired and refinished. It was purchased in 1978. Are there repairs still available for a camera that old?...
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December 27, 2004
 
  Old Minolta Model V2
It's my dads old 35mm. The film advance lever won't operate but if I activate the timer mechanism it sounds as if it's working but the shutter doesn't open or close. Anyone know of ...
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December 20, 2004
 
  New camera....Minolta how to.......????
I just bought a Minolta x 370 from Ebay with inspection everything seems to be working plus I bought a minaul for it as well. But I don't have the manual yet. My question is how do I open it up...
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December 19, 2004
 
  Canon T90 and 420EX
While the instruction manual for my 420EX didn't mention the T90 once, Canon's online description includes the T90 is the list of cameras "compatible with TTL flash mode". HOWEVER, when I s...
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December 22, 2004
 
  problem with light meter
Help! My Sekonic 358 light meter stop working for no apparent reason. I don't use the meter a lot and the batteries were still fine. Two weeks ago it was working fine then yesterday nothing....
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December 16, 2004
 
  Lighting Ratios
I am trying to understand how to get lighting ratios of 3 to 1 - 4 to 1, etc., etc., etc. I realize this can all be done with a light meter. I would like to see a chart that shows what f4 to f5.6 t...
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January 09, 2005