I have just got one of these and was wondering what others with this nice little add-on do with it. Do you leave it on the camera perminantly or just use it when doing macro or for other manual focus situations?

It seems to me that I can see all the viewfinder through it, that includes all of the viewfinder information and there appears to be no vinyeting!

I believe it is using a Zigview. Howeve, I don't know if it is Pentax compatable.

Last month's Digital Photo had a tuturial on taking pictures of water droplets. They used a standard lens and pop-up flash set to 1/200th at F11 (to ensure depth of field) all outdoors to get the results. They used a straw to provide the drop and suggested pressing the shutter just as the drop left the bottom of the straw with just a few cms between the straw and the surface. The results needing enhancing as they were underexposed, but not by enought to loose detail.

I still have the article. There was no mention of high speed flash sync. Though I have read about using B setting in a dark room with the flash triggered by a device that reacts to sound. Still no mention of high speed flash sync there either!

I was under the impression that a standard flash speed was sufficient to freeze a water drop.

Thanks guys. BBQs are not something I have much opportunity to shoot and I didn't want to melt my camera!

Next time I will bear all these comments.

Thanks, I took several pictures as it was hovering, the first when I reviewed sent me straight fo the shutterspeed dial! Others were higher up but I though the gap between the sea and the copter was right in this one.

I cropped this on on the third for the sea, it was origionally across the middle.

These were some of the others I took:

Experimenting with fire, this is as taken, no editing or cropping. What do you think? Does it work? Does it need any editing?

I was Lucky enough to be crossing the Solant when Coastguard 1 carried out an exercise of the back of our ferry. Even more lucky, my camera was on my back!

What do you think? I have just cropped, straightened out the horizon (less than 1degree off!), applied curves and cloned out an annoying ship on the horizon below the helicopter.

That's a shame as I did this one specially!

There I was, already with my entry and the competition shows Judging, can't enter!! However It is only Sunday morning, not Sunday evening! Help!

John,

The overall look is good, however there are two points that draw my attention: 1) Bottom right corner appears to lack contrast (in fact this seems to happen in other areas of the picture too) and 2) top right there appears to be some ghosting over the window, almost looks like a reflection in glass.