Thoramay glad you are so frank and you really should be
He has capture the world we take for granted in another way, it almost look like a dream so soft is it.
They are art but they don't need to do anything with you or any one else, art doesn't have to touch you I believe but it can.

Lets see.. what about these?
Marian Drew







Oh and I like this artist
Peter liepke link
Someone here said, he only saw a noisy photos

Are these more in the line you think of as art.
Which photograph do you like?

But today the make the lens elements for a lot of lenses so I'm sure they know a bit about lens design or not?

Wonderful photos again Andrew.
I already see the first book lying in a field of flowers, now that would be a impressive shot, maybe it's time to learn more about photoshop

I've never used high pass sharpening, I actually use unsharpening at different values for each colour, there are twice as much green pixels then blue or red so you don't need to sharpen that much but blue has the gives the most noise so that even gets a bit blurred.
I had this method from Matt that explained it here on this forum, don't know if I'm the only one still using it

Auto tubes are also quite expensive I believe.
The best option might be to get a 50mm lens from Ebay and a reverse ring and reverse mount the lens on your camera or get those cheap extension tubes.
That's the cheapest way to do macro photography i believe.

As for manual mode it's actually quite easy with pentax because of the green button.
When you press the green button the camera will automaticly set the correct exposure.
Now in the menu you can say it must act like Av, Tv or fully automatic when you press the green button.

I've it set so that the green button acts like Av, so basicly you aim at something and take a metering by pressing the green button.
Then you take a shot and see how it is.
You know what the effects are from f-stop, shutter time and ISO to come to a good shot, I'm sure you can do it now.

H4D-40 is also quite new. link

Seems there is a war going on that we hadn't notice yet

Since the 645D has the same sensor for half the price the future does look quite bright.
Hopefully the can put up a nice lens range in no time.

Most digital MF cameras are crop so there is nothing to be ashamed about.
Just for fun.
The 645D has the KAF-40000 sensor from Kodak... do you know what the Hasselblad H4D-40 has? link

I wouldn't worry about the crop

But London isn't the only place they show art, there must be a place that's in day trip reach.
Look on the sites of major cities near you, most have a museum.

I think art is personal to everyone although there are some things all arts have in common.

What do you think of these? link
he won 2 gold IPA awards with his work.
- Non professional Nature Category
- awarded winner for the landscape category

Simply the grace at how he has captured the scene is stunning.
Do they do something with me emotional... no but they are aestheticly super pleasing to my eyes.

Ken Rockwell is Ken Rockwell again, only Nikon is good enough.

I'm thinking of doing photography study and I must say that the 645D looks interesting, it's just a small step away from the high end FF camera's.
It would indeed be intersting to see how the market will react on this, hopefully the 645D has what it takes to stand up against the rest.

More photos and info http://pentaxdslrs.blogspot.com/

Strange that it does not have lower ISO, I had hoped for ISO 50
Although it does have quite an high ISO compared to what other MF do.

Trapezoid prism finder is that normal?

I wonder what the buttons SD0 SD1 and drive do...

K10D I was only joking
You said burden and I translated that to the burden of carry a FA* 600mm f/4 lens, don't take it so serious

That's a yes and no answer in my case since it does not add any value of knowing it if you only use an APS-C sensor.

And then it's about focal length but focal length is lens specific not camera.
An 55mm MF lens would preform the same as a 55mm FF lens on a FF camera and they both act the same on an APS-C camera as well.