How do I post a photo in a message in the www.dpreview.com Minolta Talk Forum (and other dpreview.com forums)?
In order to post a photo to appear in a message in the Minolta Talk Forum at www.dpreview.com, it is necessary to store the photo as a JPEG file somewhere else on the internet and link that exact location to the point in the message where the photo is to appear. Not all photo hosting sites allow such linking, but some that do include pbase.com, smugmug.com (both paid hosting sites) and photobucket.com (free hosting site with a very usable album storage limit, but not as well-featured as the paid sites). The editors and many other MTF members have chosen PBase for many of their activities. There are also many other suitable photo hosting sites. As an example of how this works, when photos have been uploaded to photobucket.com and are being displayed in a gallery, each one has a URL in a box underneath it that includes the filename with its .jpg extension. If you select that URL, copy it and paste it into a dpreview message (including the .jpg extension), that picture will appear in the
