#2 should just make a competition I think.

If that doesn't work maybe we could do an open topic and simply vote a monday for the best photo through a poll???

For the DA40 I would just leave the hood on it's of metal and the entrance is only 3cm wide or so. You need to be very unlucky if something would go through that that would damage your lens.

I agree with that however I would at Natural Density & Graduated Natural Density filter to the list. For ND I would get threaded one, maybe even a Vari ND and for GND square system are better because you've more controll where to place the transistion.
If you don't know what I mean Google thee filters and you see what I mean.

GND are very handy when shooting landscapes with clear skies, the sky is then often brighter then han the ground and a GND darkens the sky but leaves the ground unthouched, that way you can get a nice ven balanced exposure without a burn-out sky.

Sky light or UV are of almost no use on digital because these wave-lengths are already filtered out by the filter that's infront of the sensor.

The new Sigma 150-500mm F5.6-6.3 APO DG HSM is on special offer at SRS for £649 and it weight 1.9kg indeed but all long lenses are heavy

Well you do have these monitors.
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Here is a full explanation on how they do it link

The price start at $25.000,00 just in case you want one.

Iqbal do you mean something like this, that was what I was talking about in my previous comment?
http://www.fogscreen.com/en/product/English/

Thanks for the link, only knew about the dynamic contrast thing.

The same thing happens also with lenses now, they say that you for example get much better bokeh with rounded or more blades but that's only a small part of the story.
Just compare the DFA 100mm and the DFA 100mm WR, they both have the same optics but the WR has rounded blades.
But of course it's a thing that's easy to advertise, the same is true for calling a zoom lens Macro only to make it more interesting.

As far as I know Kodak doesn't have CMOS sensors

it's actually some kind of curtain with oleds in them that can display images.

There's however a special kind of mist that forms a curtain and you can project images on that, saw that once on TV.

Glad I could find some support here

Yeah I know what you mean, I was talking just before the turning point so Bambi, Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and the last one would be Lion King before it went down hill.

Now I'm often watching Ghibli movies, you should look them up once
Grave of the Fireflies is from them and it's the only animation I've had tears from in my eyes and I watched that movie when I was 19.
Princess Mononoke is a classic, a lot of action.
Spirited Away is one of the best know one here and won a lot of awards
I also really liked Howl's Moving Castle, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, My Neighbor Totoro and Whisper of the Heart.