You can never be sure enough nowadays, you never know, its always better to make completely sure and fumigate the face completely

No need to be over sensitive over my comment. All I did was just explain my ignorance in the matter, and in case you missed it I did also thank you.

Don't know why suddenly your comment above. I wasn't criticising you for advising me, more so just stating that I had already got the idea and wanted to avoid originating a debate on this as we all know how an issue such as this instantly blows out into a big discussion. We have had a few around here focused on this subject so just wanted to avoid it, again

As explained earlier, this is my first upload with images where strangers appear in my shots and I didn't know if I would be stepping into a cobweb of trouble so I attempted to minimise it by blurring slightly the faces of other people in the image.

I get it now that there shouldn't be any problems in taking and uploading shots of general public here, a few of members have cleared that out for me, so I hope this doesn't turn into a debate about this. This wasn't my intention at all.

Thank you again

And I thought I had more or less grasped this aspect of ratios and focal lengths etc etc But now I am confused again.

So in laymen terms please, so that I don't end up with my grey cells in a spaghetti junction:

If I fit my 300mm lens in a full frame body supposing that a pentax had one and take a shot of a bird and and then use the same lens in my K20 and take exactly the same shot, what is going to be the difference?
Will the bird image in the print from the full frame body look further away (smaller)?

Or in principle these two shots would be similar because if I crop the full frame image to bring the bird closer in size similar to the K20 the IQ of both the images would be the same.

Doesn't the crop factor in the full frame body image reduce the pixels in that case?

A few days ago at SRS I tried the D300 and the D700 with exactly the same lens, at 200mm range and in the D700 it looked smaller compared to the D300 while looking through the viewfinder.
Having said that though I must add that when the lens was attached to the D700 the AF locked faster even than the D300 and when I enquired why that happened I was told that it would be typical to do that in a full frame, being faster I mean.

So I am assuming that if I printed the images they would be different as the D700 would show the far off subject further away than the D300. But I take it that the image would be wider, am I correct in assuming this?

Thanks Cliff

Its the Eastcote miniature railway, Roxbourne Park

Thanks Martin and Martin

The second one actually was a fluke, the droplet escaped more to the right, and I was about to discard the shot when I noticed the reflection of the little droplet which appealed to me

Last one of the day, I think

This is becoming quite addictive Even though didn't have a lot of time to play but still had to have my fix

Just a few to satisfy my addiction playing with drops

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Also another option if you want a good solid foundation to build on think of attending one of the workshop sessions that Daniel Bridges runs.

Check him here on link profile and you can see his website also or even send him a PM and discuss your requirements. A very friendly and helpful chap . It could be what you are looking for.

Thinking of becoming a train spotter and then progressing from there to plane spotter as I build some fast focusing skills with the help of you forum members

So thought best to start with the smaller ones still

C&C greatly welcome as usual .

By the way I blurred couple of faces, I never know if I can get into trouble by uploading faces from strangers although this is an open public ride, but just in case I am not stepping into something that could put me into some legal problems I blurred them anyway.

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