Sony really let us show what marketing means since the camera didn't change compared to Minolta. So they only sold more because of that and they or third best selling brand now in last then 2.. 3 years, it's very sad that marketing is so powerful and that hardly any one looks at quality.

Also the difference between burst mode and video is I believe that with burst mode the mirror goes up and down constantly, you're making photos very fast so that will wear down your gear.
Video mode doesn't do that so your gear should last considerable longer.

The f/number, focus distance and focal length influence the width of the depth of field (DOF). To increase DOF now simply use a higher f/number probable f/11 should do the trick but try f/8 first to not slow down the shutterspeed too much.

To be honest though I don't find it annoying that the tail isn't sharp, you'r looking at his head afterall.

Ken the first one is f/4.5 and the other two f/5.6 I don't know what browser you are using but right click and option most of the time reveals the EXIF data or else you can couple Photome to your browser and you can do right-click and say "open with Photome"

Edit: Scott was faster

Very nice photo, the purple works great with the water most of the time blue seems to work better but will doubt that with this one.

The only thing I can criticized is that the highest drop isn't in focus.

You just need to make some money with your photos and the problem is solved right, so go outside and get better

I've bit of the same problem though.
Lenses are mostly fine but bags...
My first bag was to small and now I find my second bag to big so Now i'm looking for something in between

With lenses, i first bought a macro lenses. very expensive but I knew I would like it and so I did luckily. A I also bought a lens with a large zoom range. Now that I know what range I like I sold the lens and bought the DA*50-135 that fits my need perfectly. I've my eyes now on a wider lens... maybe the DA*16-50 since that makes a nice set but I don't really need it.
With try pods... don't buy cheap. Just don't try to cut corners to save money there but just get what you want. If you cut corners you won't be happy so will buy a new one 2 years later. If you've a good tripod you might buy a monopod later and get a different head and so your collection grow in that.

I hope it makes sense, just see your camera gear as an investment. It wont cost you a lot of money since it holds his value quite well and will also bring you joy.

You also have it Matt, Less though.
The distance of the focus point to the background has a lot to do with it and maybe the close focusing.

Your very stunning photo Matt.


If you look at the sharp flowers and you look left to it, you see that the grass looks like that. A little glassy like Greynolds say.
In your photo it's far less and not really distracting.
With your photo you clearly see it's the range if you look at the flowers just a bit further away they look far more smoother.
It's probable just the area behind the DOF.

What you see now is of course the whole photo, no crop, so you can easly crop some so that it appears bigger.

I'm sure you will love the lens Bob, I bought it mainly for portrait use but on holiday it was on my camera 90% of the time. Like MAtt said it renders the colours very well and it gives you a 3D feel.
Only I'm not to always happy with the bokeh, photo #3 is a good example of that, I think the bokeh is distracting there.

Yes we should be out taking photos but we need lenses to do that so, this is interesting!

About the crazy Dutch he has it from the USA forum so it's those crazy yanks... or wherever they are from.

CRT Cathode ray tube
TFT Thin-film transistor
TN twisted nematic
IPS in-plane switching
MVA multi-domain vertical alignment
PVA patterned vertical alignment
FED field emission display
SED surface-conduction electron-emitter display
LUT Lookup table

Hmmm I don't think it's very usefull Womble