George, you may have to press the F5 key to refresh your browser - it may be cacheing the files from your previous visit.

I think he said "buy shares in Enron and Delorean" and "all cars will be powered by snake-oil"

Attempt #2 http://www.ammonyte.plus.com/galleries/showcase/index.html

I'm off for a wee dram of Edradour!

Not at all George, that's the type of feedback I need!

Why PNG? well I had been given some "advice" that it was a better format to use for the web than JPG. I'll find the original RAW and TIFF files and produce some JPG's.

In the same vein as George's original post, I'm going to stick my head over the parapet. I've put a few of the photos that I am reasonably happy with here:

http://www.ammonyte.plus.com/galleries/showcase/index.html

Just remember that I am an insecure 600 pound gorilla who bears grudges!

Aw heck! I wish I had found that out a while back! I take a lot of action shots at various running and orienteering events, and one of my biggest bugbears is unnecessary AF hunting.

On the up side, the addition of Auto ISO in the latest DS firmware has been very useful to me.

Should keep you out of trouble for a while!

Thanks Liam. As the evening wore on and my fingers got colder and the Moon dropped closer to the horizon, my oldish eyes could start to see a little detail highlighted by "earthlight", but higher ISO settings (maybe avoiding 3200) do help.

Liam,

Well here they are http://www.ammonyte.plus.com/galleries/newmoon/index.html, taken with my 70-300mm Sigma lens (+ 2x converter for 600mm, 900mm 35mm film equivalent) and my 500mm Centon mirror lens (+ 2x converter for 1000mm, 1500mm 35mm film equivalent).

I'm not sure if the softness is due to focussing problems in an image with very little detail, a limitation of the lenses, a limitation of the photographer (I wear glasses and somethimes have problems with the viewfinder), or sheer ineptness on my part.

I used mirror lockup and a cable release to minimise movement of the camera. Shot in RAW and processed with RSP 2006.

Liam,

Good point. Earlier this week I was shooting some photos of the New Moon. I used both my Centon 500mm mirror lens and my Sigma 70-300mm lens with and without my 2x converter on the DS, and got some reasonable results, but part of the reason for the exercise was to try various ISO settings as well. Focussing was a bit difficult, partly due to frozen fingers at -2C ! I'm going to try and put a small gallery of the better ones together.

I notice quite a few lenses by Opteka available through ebay at suprising (too good to be true?) prices. Does anyone have any experience of this make? Are they cheap and cheerful or hidden diamonds? (e.g. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/650-1300mm-Tele-Lens-for-Pentax-AF-ist-ZX-L-ZX-60-ZX-7_W0QQitemZ7596083078QQcategoryZ4688QQcmdZViewItem