Can't stuff like this be confined to the Classifieds?

All great shots, but No: 11 is about the clearest I've ever seen.

Won't the water damage the flash!

The best slide viewer I ever came across (still got one)
was the GAF Pana-Vue. Just drop a full film of slides into
the hopper and view by pushing the sliding handle in and out.
I even bought the hopper version they did for a projector.
Nothing else was as fast

Only available now on ebay link

A mains alternative is the Kaiser Diascop 50N link

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For those who can't appreciate B&W photography, these
W. Eugene Smith photos might be useful link

or Magnum slide show link

I am amazed how many people on here don't know who the famous
B&W portrait photographer Karsh of Ottawa was and why famous
people were willing to pay thousands to have a B&W portrait by
him even when colour was more popular

http://www.flickr.com/photos/festivalkarsh/3040576889/in/photostream/


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yousuf_Karsh

Colour monitors are very poor for viewing B&W.
They are not the best for colour either... rather
similar to a piano that's out of tune.

3 lens colour (RGB) which was very high quality was available
from about 1905

I suppose with any work of art to anyone who is unable to appreciate what art is.... "coloured in photographs" will always look better.

Leonardo's sketches would look better if he had used a K-5 and printed them as 20x16 colour pictures.

Michelangelo's Statue of David would also look better as a digital colour picture of David stood on a plinth with his naughty bits hidden with a pair of shorts link or this link

It's totally wrong to say that B&W is substandard to colour... a lot of
photographers did exceptionally creative work in B&W. Far too many to list Adams, W. Eugene Smith, Bresson, Bailey, Kertesz, Brandt and even Fay Goodwin who was excellent in B&W, but just couldn't get to grips with colour. What about the great B&W work (done over periods of many months) for LIFE Magazine.... a colour publication.

No doubt the woman that coloured these works of art in will be very busy dealing with lawsuits for the next few years.

The chairs are superb now Bob

That crops good Bob

I think I'd remove the white strip at the top and paint the
red bit in the middle of the table legs black.

Quite a nice effect although I can't make my mind up if I like such a small DOF in B&W. I like the colour shot of the chairs best and you could get a good alternative by cropping of everything above the handrail leaving just the black strip of the handrail at the top.