Thank you Gwyn, sadly my France isn't that great.
With the EU and the free trading and all this might be interesting if the shipping costs aren't too high.

Gwyn, I'm with you and I don't see what difference it makes if you see other entries or not by the feeling of being involved with it?
And the waiting is part off the game and it encourage others to enter, when you see a very strong entry with almost the same photo as you, you might think twice submitting your photo, thinking it's a waste off time.

I agree with that but only with the progress thinking if you want to enter or not.

I've replied to everyone that entered and I don't have the feeling anyone was worried that their entry was not right or that it ended in a black hole.

Presets are very easy to make in lightroom.
Just open a photo in develop window, do the developing you want to save (auto's also work but will save the auto action not the values that come from it)

Then on the left where you see the history you also see the window presets.
Simply click on the + next to it and you will be prompted with a window which things you want to save as a preset, name the preset, click create and you're done.

I've lightroom 3 now but I believe lightroom 2 already had some standard presets as well including some B&W, you could use those as you base and edit them to your liking and save the adjustments.

About the infrared.
That's indeed right but like you said it first it sounded like the CMOS sensor was to blame but that isn't really the case, it's the filter infront off it.
You can have that removed, some companies do that.

ps. here is a nice site and it has a B&W preset but also a lot of other tips and tricks that would come in handy when you're using lightroom so bookmark that site http://lightroomkillertips.com/2009/presets-better-black-and-whites/

Now that's a good price
Do you've a link?

My price was without shipping
€ 827 = £674 today's exchange rate

Also at Foto Klein has the Pentax K7 for €827 (£674)

The KX with kit lens is at Klein €459 (£375)
at Foka that one is €449 (£366)

Thank you all for your comments and the one that entered, thank you for taking part with it. It was all experimental and we now know what work and what not.

Care to elaborate that John?

I agree with that here but I also agree with Neil.

What did the ones that entered think about the photos being submitted and then displayed all at once and did you took another approach in making an entry than with the other comps?

The problem is with such a short time that it interfere with the other two comps quite a bit, that's one reason this one was longer. I was hoping the longer comp would attract more entries since you don't need to judge the number of entries doesn't really matter.
Maybe we should do it as John suggested?

I'll leave it in Doug's hands to start a new competition in the same place as the weekly competition. About the running time, 2 weeks might indeed be better since the number of entries didn't depend on that and 1 week of voting.

Thank you Gábor, I already have the model before the Bamboo and was thinking of stepping up to the Intuos4 but have no idea if it would be worth it.

I think there isn't enough interests to continue this comp, if someone disagree please say so we can still continue.

I like the idea of the voting though, maybe at the end of the year we can vote for the best photo of the year and upload the photos in the normal competition where also the weekly is held?
Maybe something to think about later.

Voting is closed.

Doug won with 65% of the votes.



The results
#1 Doug - dougf8 - 65%
#2 Iqbal - ReklawyksEkul - 15%
#3 techno terminator - 0%
#4 Adrian - DrOrloff - 5%
#5 Tel - Telstar - 0%
#6 Tony - 0%
#7 Gary - JForeigner - 5%
#8 i-berg - 10%


ps. I don't have everyone user name

Don't know where you read that?

There simply isn't a camera that works flawlessly in all situation or is there?