haven't these been on sale in Japan since the launch of the KX?

yeah, it's a Subaru club - as if it wasn't obvious

Ah yes, these are all with the 50-200, for once I used AF and.. well, I think I really want a 70-200 now

Mostly shot at ISO200, for 1/160 - 1/320 @ f8 or so. Sharpening USM only.

Bret

thanks for the comments, guys. I'll agree on #2, but I think i might then overcook everything else. Don't know. And I already cloned out the worst of the dust

Here's a set from the last session (there will be one more this season, probably....).
These are simply autoprocessed. Too many good shots. 700+ taken, 90+ keepers; they've been sharpened a tad and the curves have been set, so much/some of the snow detail is blown out.

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Bret

I haven't seen lens or body prices rise anywhere this year apart from the UK, and ALL the major manufacturers did it, Nikon and Canon included. That is, simply put, a poor excuse. Yes, there's massive price competition within the marketplace - the only new bit is that the US is probably not buying as many DSLRs as they might, possibly because saturation is rapidly approaching.

Price rises: your currency collapsed - it's been around parity at 2007/08 new year and again at new year 2008/09 against the Euro. It stayed below 1.1 for the last twelve whole months. Over the past couple of months it's moved towards 1.14, and that's only because Greece has given the speculators something to think about. Yes, I do keep an eye on it as I tend to purchase across borders.

I would try and find some numbers / graphs to prove my point, but I've got the remainder of the icetrack pics from yesterday to complete and they need to be done.

Bret

sorry? Only you guys got the price rises, I'm pretty sure they've been consistent in Euro-land.

I also find that summary misleading in the extreme. It's "sales down 20%", "significant price competition limiting profitability". That is not "20% sales decrease due to price war" and anyone who can read that into it deserves a job in advertising.

Bret

no. I've tried a lot of stuff and SR has simply been on since. I see no reason to turn it off. I was obviously seeing something else, since now it's fine, even on a rocksolid surface and at 1/320 @ 200mm.

Bret

those are really rather good, especially as a set.

Bret

I might be "unloved" for this, but the forum software is .... err... pants. That the search is not really usable also does not surprise in this context.

I can't set replies per page, my time zone, editing is plain strange and there's no tagging option.

Using google helps: k-m2 siteentaxuser.co.uk does bring up some results, but the crawler doesn't seem to like the forum software, either...

... or unless the flash is set up so that it drains a cap in some way? the only other way I can think of for the second curtain is that the initial flash would happen - blitz - reload and wait - go.

Second curtain doesn't work with triggers, remember. Is this important?

Bret