Hi,

I was a pro studio shooter for some years and this issue never goes away.

When you take any photo (whether you are an amateur or pro), unless you work for someone else (like a studio), YOU have the copyright of your photos..this is automatic. When you submit, or sell your photos to a 3rd party you still have the copyright..UNLESS you sell this with the photo, or waive your rights to keep the copyright. Many photo competitions are very naughtily now requiring entries to waive their copyright.

If someone re-uses your own photos without your permission, they are infringing your copyright. This is illegal. You can charge them whatever you see fit, for using your photos, you can demand they remove them and stop using your photos, or you can sue them....your choice.

cheers Steev.M.

Hi,

I have been experimenting with all sorts of metal hoods for my Contax Zeiss lenses for the last few years, as the Contax ones are huge and un-wieldy.

I have only found B+W and Heliopan who make 3rd party 'branded' ones. Both are excellent and tricky to find, as well as being a little expensive. I have found a few used ones from ebay and from UK web dealer sites, but they come up very infrequently...try Ffordes and MXV..I have had success with both.

Both the B+W and Heliopan 'tele' hood seems designed for 85mm ish lenses, so should be fine with anything longer. I use a B+W tele metal hood on my Contax 85mm lens.

They both seem to make three hoods...wide, standard and tele. I approximate they are designed for 28mm, 50mm and 85mm lenses roughly.

I have also searched on ebay many times with the search term: 'metal hood' or 'metal shade'. You will also find some of the 1970's and 1980's manual focus systems used metal hoods and may be compatible with others. For example, the Minolta MC lenses often used 55mm metal hoods, which match my Contax lenses 55mm threads.

Many of the Nikkor hoods are metal screw-in ones. On ebay there are also many chinese metal hoods, usually sold by USA sellers. I have tried some and many are nicely made...but again it is guess work as they also are usually just labelled wide, standard or tele....have fun..

cheers Steve.

Hi,

Wanted, for Pentax LX:

FA-2 plain prism finder (the one with no hotshoe), LX strap connectors, LX strap, LX grip A (plastic one), any other LX accessories or prism caps etc.

cheers Steve.M. (UK)

Hi,

Wanted, Pentax K bayonet lenses below, must be optically mint & mechanically fine, cosmetics not very important..

SMC-M 28mm f2, SMC-K 30mm f2.8, SMC-K 85mm f1.8, SMC-M 20mm f4, also Voigtlander 40mm f2.

cheers Steve.M. (UK)

Hi,

HK price: 736 EU + 40 EU (post) = 776 EU

Customs & vat, etc are very approx 22% to add to tot (inc post)..this is a rough rule of thumb. (there is NO WAY UK customs will miss an item of this value)

776 EU plus 22% = 946 EU...= approx £752. (current xchange rate)

IF they use UPS to ship it, you may get an extra steep UPS fee on top, as much as another 25 GBP.

How does this make sense, when a UK one costs about 800-850 GBP, with no shipping worries, easy return if problems etc...

Hi,

I just have an ME Super for the first time..and may keep it, I just have some Q's for users, since I have no manual for it.

Can the exposure compensation dial be set in between the full stop click stops it has, so you get half stop compensation?

..and are there any common faults or issues to look out for?

thanks Steve.M.

Hi,

Just a tip for ebay searching....you can do wild card searches..

ie search for: 24-90* will find 24-90mm and also 24-90/3.5 24-90/4.5 etc (just examples)...so will take into account differing sellers item titles..

cheers Steve.M.

Hi,

In 3 years of using this site, I have only has issues in the last month. If these ads are new, or now different in some way, maybe the site mgr, should consider changing them, especially if users are having problems? could a moderator respond please with help or possible explanation?

cheers Steve.M.

Hi,

Over the last 4 weeks I have failed to get on here several times. The norton blocked the site saying it was a dubious site.

Yesterday the site was completely down and this time, the microsoft phishing filter took a dislike to this site and took ages to let it through. It seems to have an issue with the ephotozine ads.

what gives?

cheers Steve.M.

The only real way to get top price for a scarce item like the mirror zoom, is selling on ebay..but it must be worldwide, not just UK...and only you can judge if you want to do this, bearing in mind all the recent anti-seller changes on ebay.