Talking of the Red Arrows, this brings me on to another question, which I suspect will mean that I have to start reading through some of Matt's writings on colour management.

What I usually do is edit my picture, save it as a JPG, upload it to a gallery and post the link.

However, When I did that with this picture, the colours looked muddy, although they were fine in CS3, and indeed in a noddy image viewer like the default Windows one.

So I poked about a bit, and found 'Save for web and devices'.

The result was this:

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It's much nicer, but all the EXIF data's gone.

Is there a simple fix for this, that means I don't have to start studying just yet?

Agree with Don here. Effects like that are nice enough, but the noise spoils it.

Trampy, how new is your monitor? Reason I ask is that until a few months ago I was using an old but still very good (or so I thought) CRT monitor.

It turned out when I got my new LCD, that all the photos I'd been editing for the old CRT were appearing very noisy on other people's newer monitors - since my old one was very dark in comparison. So to get it right for that, the brightness had to be boosted up, so it looked awfully noisy on modern LCD displays. I was in shock when I saw my pictures on my new monitor, and had to re-edit a lot of them.

Do you think?

How would I go about selling it?

Purple fringing.

The Tamron 70-300 does seem to show a lot of it.

A 100% crop from the DA 55-300:

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And it would be rude to exclude the Eurofighter Typhoon.

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This is the 'Grace Spitfire', so called because it's owned by a lady called Carolyn Grace. Her late husband, Nick, the previous owner, and a well-known display pilot, was killed in a car accident in 1988. Already a pilot, she learned to fly it, and has continued flying and displaying it ever since.

Interesting observation.

The effect is due to the fact that I'm panning on one of the aircraft, releasing the shutter a moment before the other one reaches the viewfinder.

The panning effectively doubles the rate at which the other one crosses the viewfinder, so it would require a much shorter exposure to freeze both.

FA-18 - not a wide angle lens.

This one just after take-off.

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Thanks. If your 80-320 is in good condition, it should fetch about £100. So I'd really recommend that you sell the 80-320 and get the 55-300. I can't think of a better-value way of getting a substantial improvement for that zoom range.