You can do it with one of these:

http://tinyurl.com/3do68g

Make sure you get one with a 49mm filter thread for the 50mm 1.4.

It enables to focus at a distance of about 6 inches, rather than the normal closest focus of a bit more than a foot. So it's not all that amazing. I think extension tubes are better.

I would suggest that it's worth spending some time going through the Custom Settings menu, looking at all the possible settings.

Even if you decide that you don't want to change many of them to something other than the default, it will give you a good idea of what can be customised and how.

If you do this with the manual open at p33, you'll see a handy reference to other pages in the manual that elaborate on some of these - and the ones that don't have their own section seem to be fairly self-explanatory anyway.

There's way more in there than I would ever have wondered about independently, so I think it's worth going through it systematically just to see what's in there.

Well there are several very interesting shots in that series.

I particularly like #12. Extraordinarily minimalist, but with enough detail in the texture to make it still interesting.

I've got one, but haven't really used it much. I'll report back ASAP.

I believe PeteKD has one too.

No. A clothes peg might do the trick, if it didn't squeeze too tight. The membrane-type button looks like it would be quite easily damaged if you picked something that held it pressed with much force.

I have a Remote Control F, and it does indeed work as the manual says. B exposures work fine with it.

I can see John Riley grinning, albeit sympathetically...

Well, I imagine there'd be a custodial sentence for busting in on the frequency, and saying something like, "Shuttle* Nine Whisky, go around, I say again, go around, acknowledge". It might do the trick, but I'm not prepared to suffer that much for my art...

Very rarely enough traffic in the evenings for that sort of thing to be common without Air Traffic Control intervention, or thunderstorms near Heathrow.

Or did you mean PhotoShop?

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* That's a BA domestic inbound, not something returning from orbit, BTW

Some nice clouds just before sunset a bit earlier tonight. Just thought I'd share it with you guys.

Not at all, always happy to pass on such gems of wisdom.
"Failry" is the word - not these ones. We're talking Disintegrationsville, Arizona, here. It's all in the airing cupboard, but it's going to be a case of slicing them open (once dry), emptying the reformed papier-mache out, and replacing it with something stiff. Cardboard, maybe.

The bag itself isn't bad, actually.

Ok, so you've acquired a slightly skanky camera bag in an eBay auction, you really only wanted the lens but it was attached to a camera, and that was in the bag.

It's no worse than a lot of your own crap, but this is someone else's crap, so you want to spruce it up a bit.

Obviously you empty out all the unspeakable bits of unrecognisable stuff that accumulate under the flaps, but then what?

Obviously, it goes in the washing machine , and comes out pristine.

Here's the tip:

Do the separators, er, separately. The stiffeners inside the velcro-y bits are cardboard, goddammit. And now a bit, er, yucky.