Not sure, there's a whole street here in Melbourne covered in graffiti, including the wheelie bins, that's very interesting.

Lovely picture, look forward to seeing more. The K5 looks like a very good camera!

Lovely close-ups, I especially like Holstered and Mason's .Secrets

I-berg very generously gave up his Sunday afternoon to take me on a walk around Melbourne with our cameras, a most enjoyable and hopefully quite fruitful outing! Here's a few from the afternoons expedition.

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Grille





Valve




As always, couldn't resist a couple of shop windows:








C+C welcome.

Both cameras are set to 200 ISO, using Av, but the K-m sets itself to 1/45 and the K7 to 1/180. All the settings are identical, yet the K-m under-exposes.

My wife was trying out my (our!) new flash on her K-m last night, and all the shots were under-exposed by about one and a half stops, even with +1 dialled in on the flash, and we also tried +1ev on the camera. The under exposure occurs using TTL or bouncing it off the ceiling. It exposes perfectly when attached to my K7. Her camera uses 1/45th second and mine 1/180 with the flash attached, I don't undersdtand why they use different shutter speeds, or if this is in some way part of the problem? I'm pretty new to flash photography, any advice appreciated. The flash is a Tumax DPT386AFZ.

Apart from this I am very happy with the flash, and my entry for the weekly competition was taken with this and a home-made soft box I knocked up yesterday from a plastic container, some tin-foil, and the translucent material the flash was wrapped in!

I think the traffic warden rumbled you!

Nice shots! I do a bit of this sort of stuff myself sometimes, though with the camera round my neck. Most of the ones I shoot in malls are done like this.

Is your office in the middle of the road?

Nice! I esopecially like the berries. Have fun with your new camera!

Here in Qatar there's no problem with using a camera in public places. You obviuosly have to be a bit sensitive about who/what you are photographing, but most people respond favourably to requests to photograph them. I did have one incident where a woman accused me of taking her picture when I was in fact photographing a building (she was not even in the frame) but apart from this isolated incident I have never had a problem even in the souks.

I agree about equipment, it's the image that counts, whatever gear you use. Look at the pictures Bwichmawr gets with his very modest equipment. One of my favourite lenses, the Sigma 24mm Super-wide, cost me £30. I just saved a bunch of money buying a TTL flash by going for a cheap brand I had never heard of, but it works really well. However, I wouldn't want, to trade my K7 for an earlier model.

I would also like a couple of ltd. primes, but mainly because they are fast and small. I'm under no illusion that they would make me a better photographer.