I can't really see why there is so much fuss over the K10D's noise at ISO1600. Firstly as Goosies "proper" image shows, their ain't that much noise, secondly, software does a damn good job of removing it (and leaving the detail, as per Pentax's intentions) thirdly, there is no such thing as a free lunch, if you shoot at high ISO you have to expect some trade off, fourthly, before digital most of us wouldn't have shot at much above ISO400 (well I never did).

Peter,

When I created the example above, I did not realise that there was a real website called "mywebsite.com" that was only supposed to be an example of the code!

The code [img ]http://www.ammonyte.plus.com/images/wellpacked.jpg[ /img] (without the spaces inside the [] brackets) produces this:-




If I wanted to create a link to that image i would use "url" in place of "img", so that
[url ]http://www.ammonyte.plus.com/images/wellpacked.jpg[ /url] without the spaces gives this:-

http://www.ammonyte.plus.com/images/wellpacked.jpg

Does that all make sense?

Peter,

You won't "save space on the upload" by having photographs horizontal rather than verical - the same amount of data has to be transferred regardless.

To seperate out your image from text try it like this:-




1/125 sec @ F8 4000mm FAJ lens

[img] http://mywebsite.com/images/sample1.jpg [img]

1/60 sec @ F11 50mm smc 1:1.7 lens

I have deliberately put spaces so we can see the code in the img lines.

Does that make sense?

Yes, I too am confused by that AEv compensation setting - I thought I'd wait for a smarty-pants to explain it to me!

Basically it seems to be describing an oxymoron - if it can't get a proper exposure, how on earth could you automtically compensate for anything :

Ok, so if you had to limit yourselves to just one of the above which would it be?

Yeah I know, hard task!

I haven't decided on the USER setting yet. Today I was using the TAv quite a bit. I was trying to photograph the red kites at Watlington Hill, so I set a fast shutter speed to freeze the action and a moderate d.o.f with an F8 aperture (so the focussing would not have to be spot on) and let the camera sort out the ISO (set to 100-1000). Trouble was the wind was so strong, they were soaring quite high and the 50-200 even with a 2x converter didn't do them justice.

I got mine for £133 from amazon. (£157 inc p&P)

- Except it is now in langley for repair!!

Methinks it will be a hat of spun silk!

Just recieved the latest issue today, and now know why John R was asking about favourite magazines, and also what MattM has been up to recently. Nice work gentlemen!

Probably beacuse non of the retailers could afford to start a fight them.