Both Minolta and Polaroid did some really solid little table top tripods which can also be held against a wall or a tree... or even your chest/shoulders. Pentax may have also done something similar there's one shown on page 196 of the K-5 Manual, holding a flashgun.

There's a Polaroid one on US ebay at present link the postage is too high for the UK though.

Looks just like a gun when it's in the pouch!

Don't worry if you haven't got the agitating pin. Inversion agitation by turning the tank upside down and back is far more reliable and consistent.

I always wanted to be a pony express rider for Wells Fargo carrying
money between banks in the wild west

Professional job I'm afraid. Apart from the KA 35-105 it would probably be cheaper replacing them

UV light only removes yellowing from a lens.

All the cases are better thrown away.

I've just bought a lens with bad fungus on the rear element and nothing I've tried so far will shift it. I've ordered some Pond's Cold Cream off ebay to see if that will. If it doesn't I might have to try polishing it off with cigarette ash circa 1910

That wouldn't apply to photographs though Stefan, because the client always choses the frame and it's billed separately.

I've never heard that one Stefan?

Even if your not selling frames Simon, it's important to display the photographs in the best way possible and that means in a frame. It's also an old trick to display very large pictures in order to sell smaller ones.

Feathers are unreliable for test purposes. What you are actually photographing is the light forming shadows on the feather and there will be a big difference between underexposed and overexposed in the sun out of the sun etc. A piece of cloth of all one colour is the same, without the shadows cast by the light it will be all just one colour.

Postage stamps with a lot of detail or foreign banknotes are better.

I'm not really a big fan of Marstons Pedigree (cans), but I noticed in some supermarkets that they have dropped the can size down to 440ml from 500mm and kept the price the same (£4.49 to £4.99)..... Hobgoblin seem to have done the same...... they should rename it to "Cheeky Devil" Equivalent to a 14% price rise

Health drinks such as "Innocent Smoothies" have done the same reduced from 1000ml down to 750ml and kept the same price £2.79. Equal to 33% increase in price. Tesco's were doing two for 4 quid which wasn't too bad, but when I got home I found they'd charged me the full £5.58 without any reduction

Also for JPG's set the sharpness to either 1 or 2

I have noticed quite a few people complaining about the WR lens.
I have the Mk2 which should be the same optically and it is
excellent.

I wouldn't go to close to these link

Johnny Kingdom BBC Wild Ponies on Dartmoor.