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Wedding Photography - Eeeek!
You need to scope the venue out ideally a month, a week and then the night before to check out the light. Can you get away with available light or will you need flash? What time is the light good and when does it start to get dark. Are the ceilings too high to use for bounced flash for when its too...
Posted by cardiffgareth on 16/12/2015 - 17:41
Wedding Photography - Eeeek!
Wedding registrars vary from the really helpful to the self centred you can't do anything, our local registry office are marvelous, usually only rule is not to take photos of the registrar and no photos of the actual real signing and this happens a lot so they usually have a dummy book at hand. Usua...
Posted by cabstar on 18/12/2015 - 18:22
My Chrisrtmas present
That vest looks just the sort of thing I need. Most times when I'm out and about taking pictures I carry two cameras with two lenses but sometimes I need a bigger lens choice so the shoulder bag comes along too. That has a painful effect on my shoulders and neck after a few hours. I've never fancied...
Posted by davidtrout on 28/12/2015 - 10:27
Discharging and storing batteries.
'Haven't we been hearing that SDM motors should not be left inactive for long?' My thoughts exactly. Don't fret about the batteries, but exercise any SDM lenses at least once in the month would be my advice. Hope everything goes well and you're soon back shooting again. Good luck.
Posted by SteveF on 07/01/2016 - 21:14
Discharging and storing batteries.
Hope you can get back into your photography soon Stan, i sympathise greatly as i know how it feels, Spring isn't far off now! :wink:
Posted by autumnlight on 08/01/2016 - 17:10
Buying From Abroad
There is no import duty on digital cameras. There is VAT but I can make it a business purchase quite legitimately and claim the VAT back, I suppose I would need to see the terms of the Pentax warranty that would be supplied with the Camera to verify any geographic restrictions.
Posted by johnjbloomfield on 15/01/2016 - 15:05
Buying From Abroad
As with most 'grey' imports, it looks attractive -- and is, unless anything goes wrong. In that event (at this point you have to weigh up how lucky you feel), you'd be sending your camera back to the US to make a warranty claim. The likely bother and delay involved has a cost that might shrink or ...
Posted by CMW on 15/01/2016 - 15:37
Buying From Abroad
Probably delay ought to be a factor as well. I can imagine if we had to send a lens back to Japan the delay in the warranty repair might be quite long. I could be wrong, but I'd really only want to do that as a last resort.
Posted by johnriley on 17/01/2016 - 10:48
Buying From Abroad
John wrote: Probably delay ought to be a factor as well. I can imagine if we had to send a lens back to Japan the delay in the warranty repair might be quite long. I could be wrong, but I'd really only want to do that as a last resort. John have you read the current forum post: Rico Pentax awful...
Posted by Horst on 17/01/2016 - 12:54
Buying From Abroad
I purchased one of my cameras in the far east whilst out there. When back in the UK sent it to Pentax (Slough) via Jessops for a warranty clean (apparently I was entitled to it). The camera came back with no question about country of origin. It seems as long as you buy from an authorised source, the...
Posted by RayB on 18/01/2016 - 16:58
Buying From Abroad
Problem is duties and the aforementioned warranty issues. I would also add delivery time as an important factor. Stick to EU and you can't go wrong. Only ones I've considered for a big buy was B&H they had a great offer on K3s a while back but once I added the shipping and import charges I actual...
Posted by BruceStrachan on 19/01/2016 - 20:11
Permissions for Candids?
To keep this "in thread" I am cutting and pasting my comment from this weeks competition... "In France, that is a bit tricky... hence my comment in brackets above. Publishing candid shots of people photgraphed in France is illegal... it is against the very strict French laws on privacy... every...
Posted by drofmit on 25/01/2016 - 13:46
photographing traning excercises, advice needed please?
Hi, I don't know anything about Serve on, but i am on the fire service here in Ireland. As it seems to be night training, light might be your biggest problem, they will most likely have lights set up so they can work but they may hinder you at times also, a tripod might be handy for some shots and e...
Posted by derek897 on 21/01/2016 - 18:48
Images for 70-210mm lens by Sigma?
I've seen a 70-210mm lens second hand for £16.99 but I cant seem to google images for 70-210mm lens. Can anyone send me a sample of what image's I could expect please? The lens doesn't come with a lens cap, but has AF on it which I am assuming is auto focus.
Posted by AuraTodd on 23/01/2016 - 15:43
Images for 70-210mm lens by Sigma?
There are no Sigma 70-210mm lenses listed on the PentaxForums legacy zoom database ..... There are two 70-200mm f2.8 Sigma models, but they are premium items and I do not think you would find one for £16.99. I think you should go back to the shop and check the lens in detail for its exact d...
Posted by McGregNi on 23/01/2016 - 16:28
Images for 70-210mm lens by Sigma?
I used to have the 70-210 in Silver, It was a good walkabout lens if you didn't mind the long focal length, this was back in the day of film and I found the aperture ring a pain to operate as it's really narrow and so close to the camera body, of course that doesn't matter now, you just put it onto...
Posted by fatspider on 23/01/2016 - 23:59
Black Grey Squirrels in London
Morning Saw a Black Grey Squirrel around the back road entrance to my garage in Hayes, W London, this morning (no camera at the time, but i'll try to get a shot in the near future) - anyone else seen Blacks in the London area?
Posted by jeallen01 on 25/01/2016 - 11:57
Lightroom and Photoshop Alternatives
I understand the original problem, but who can predict what will happen to all the alternative versions to Photoshop etc? Who could have predicted the subscription model when we all using Photoshop 6 or 7? Nothing in the IT world is certain, but the algorithms that Adobe uses are usually superior...
Posted by johnjbloomfield on 03/02/2016 - 09:41
Lightroom and Photoshop Alternatives
I an a big fan of ACDSee Pro and am now using ultimate 9. There is no importing or exporting and it simply picks up your file and returns edited version to the normal windows file tree. It is pretty easy to use and I always come back to it after trialling other programs. The RAW converter is as g...
Posted by miles500 on 03/02/2016 - 15:13
Lightroom and Photoshop Alternatives
that you have to subscribe for life to keep accessing your files But you don't.....you can access your files with any suitable program at any time. PEF, DNG, TIFF and JPEG are the most likely ones, none of which should be a problem. In what way do you feel they would become inaccessible to you? The ...
Posted by johnjbloomfield on 03/02/2016 - 18:42
