I'm in, Ripon area, be glad to meet up if we can agree timing and location.

Saturday, before the snow started:

COMMON BUZZARD



SOUTHERN WHITE FACED OWL



MEERKAT



All at Thorp Perrow Arboretum, near Bedale North Yorkshire. If you're ever visiting look me up.

Quite a few people have been giving shouts out to the Tamron 70-300mm and it shots like these it seems to hold its own very well.

my limited experience of using the burst mode tells me what you say is true, it's usually the first or if you are lucky the second shot thats worth keeping. The aim should be to get the shot first time, but keep your camera set to burst as a fallback. For me burst comes into its own when i shoot my kids running towards me using the superfast 50mm which refocusses between shots. For sport the action is so much quicker that unless you get it on the first shot you'll only have out of focus stuff on subsequent shots in burst mode.

On my K10D burst mode is always on but I don't use it much. However, its amusing when my wife takes a picture, always sets off the burst, think I need to set the USER mode to wife settings!

Absolutely right. A sigma 10-20mm Pentax lens just went for £280 inc postage on there. £320 at SRS, and I guess if you shopped around you might get it for a little bit less. Prices on ebay after Christmas have gone a bit silly.

just got back from snapfish my original version of this before I was trying to drop the reddishness down, and it actually looks fine. So go figure, I guess if I wanted full control I'd have to use photoshop and calibrate with the printer snapfish use.

nice one MattMatic. i don't have PS yet and what you describe probably would have taken me two hours haha...and when I do get it my missus will be not just a camera widow but a PS widow.

I think you really brought the produce up in the chiller really well for what you did there, and can see what you you are doing with the butcher himself would work well, not sure if its my pc screen but that part looks a bit blown out, but I still get the picture.

You've kind of made the picture look more like it was shot on film with what you have done there. I like that.

I will probably have to send this as is to the folks, they have a design company who will presumably tweak it a bit themselves.

Hi

I would really appreciate comments on a pic posted in the gallery of a butcher at work. I just posted it. It's for an article in a local newsletter.

Many thanks

I'm hitting a limitation with my two main companies I use, Photobox and Snapfish. I have a large file (24mb) pano to print. Snapfish have a limitation in that the software online doesn't "suggest" you put the pano picture inside a bigger picture if you see what I mean, it tries to drop the ends off. Photobox does this part right so you could print the pano inside a bigger picture then cut off the white edges afterwards. However, they have a 10mb file size limit for upload.

Does anyone have recommendations for any other company where what I am trying to achieve may be possible. Printing large file size panoramics.

Maybe not the first to comment on this but when you look at the exif on pics in the gallery you get some odd fractions which do my head in and leave me saying I can't be bothered to fire up the calculator

Is there a way to show shutter speed in the way you'e normally expect to see it?

some have said due to the weakening pound that prices will go up. I don't buy that. I think the 16-45 will come down further in price and it's worth waiting even with the current cashback. Then again I'm not in any hurry and am happy enough with the 18-55 until I'm getting up close to a building and find its limits. Then again I might save for a bit longer for the Sigma 10-20mm. Whatever you go for you will get a lot out of and inevitably hit the limits of what you have and want t buy something else.