I'm already agreeing by disagreeing all the time but it doesn't help

A pinhole isn't a lens but besides that I don't believe a lens or even a camera is needed to make a photograph.

I don't think photograph is an orange but more the fruit, I mean we can have a green orange that is sour and we simply call it a lemon. it's not the way it looks but the principle how it is created that makes a a fruit or not.

I see the photograph as the medium and what is captured on that and the way it's processed is the subject.
I think we all agree on this but most say it's the processing the defines if it's a photograph or not but I say it's the medium.

I mean true to life, what is that?
this isn't true to life.


But James Knight-Smith won several photographic awards with his series of these.

And there are some other International Photography Awards winners like these.
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So how can they win a International Photography Awards while they aren't photos?

I remember one member here saying it, lets hope he will come forward.
the 1.7x TC has his own screw AF inside so it doesn't work with SDM but any lenses you fit on it will have auto-focus but it has a limited auto-focus range though so you might need to manual focus sometime.

I believe the Pentax 1.7x converter does work correctly and change the focal length accordingly.

Interesting link John

From what I know the lens optics are the same as the non OS HSM version and you can check out how good the OS is on the other camera brands.

By the looks of it the lens isn't stellar on the long range, when you go over 200mm sharpness seems to go down quite a bit but stopping down to f/8 helps a lot.
Some reviews even say you need to stop down to f/8 to f/11 to get any kind of sharpness at 400mm.

Just forgot the best thing about shooting manual in constant lighting, you can batch process photos so you can work on 5 or more photos in one time since they need the same basic adjustments.
For example I just did 118 photos in less then 30 minutes and I'm now busy with another shoot but the camera was set on M also but with P-TTL flash so exposure is different per shot and that are 205 photos in total, I'm now at photo 30 in the same time

Chris I couldn't find Together We're Heavy so went for Spem in Alium

Together We're Heavy - The Polyphonic Spree & The Arcade Fire - Funeral & Neon Bible

It is then

Just finished one day, did some portraits (118 photos) of my two little cousins, I could batch process them in lightroom so that went quick. They aren't fully processed but good enough for my uncle and the good ones already went through photoshop to perfect them and are hanging on the wall.

One softbox and natural light, K10D + DA*50-135
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Will do your albums later John & Emma

I've to process 904 photos this week and I'm pretty much sure I would run out of music before I reach the end so please suggest some good albums to keep me going

I'll start with Kings Of Leon - Only By Night