Nice shot Dave, I was there in 2007 and loved it, Were the gardens in flower :

Amazing place.

This is a shot I took of the lily pond. Don't mean to hijack your thread and will take it down if you wish.

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Your too quick for me George

Emma, A fully charged battery is all you need.

It only takes a couple of minutes to update your firmware, If the camera was to shutdown while in the process of updating, it will render your camera inoperable.

You don't need an AC adapter for this purpose.

Just ordered one as a backup for my K7

Interesting effect Mike, How did you achieve it : Was the web moving and the strange effect on the left was from the flash.:

Thanks Ken but spraying insects with ether sounds a little risky, I may end up spraying myself and falling asleep on an ants nest


Stacking will give you more magnifcation, I used 2 lenses with large apertures (f1.9) and struggled with too much light from the ring flash. (as the settings mentioned above clearly state), I avoided stopping down the stacked lens and left it wide open, which gave me a bright viewfinder and made it easier when composing a shot,

Heres a shot of the setup I used
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Thanks HG, Not too much juggling I was using catch in focus, by moving my head back and forwards a few millimetres, with little margin for error, and I missed more than I hit.

Ken, they were both about 10mm's in size.

Does anyone know what the magnification would be on this setup :

I was experimenting today with stacking lenses and started out with my 77mm ltd and stacked a 43mm ltd on top.

I also made up an adapter to attach my AF-080C ring flash to this rig.

I am only about 2' away from the subject when taking these shots and it can be very tricky achieving focus, especially as these were hand held.

Camera was in manual, stacked lens (43mm) was wide open, 77mm lens was at f22, flash set to 1/4 power with -2 flash compensation, shutter speed at 180sec.

What do you think :

These have been marginally croped, just to remove some vignetting.

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Sorry to hear of your loss Yves

I had a couple of glitches with my K-7 today, My battery meter was reading three bars, which indicates full, but I have been using it for a week so it wasn't fully charged, I switched the camera to movie mode and instantly got a battery depleted alert, and the camera shut down.

Switched it off for a couple of minutes and turned it back on to picture mode and got the 3 bars on the battery meter, Turned it back to movie mode and got the battery depleted again.

I put it on charge and took the memory card out and downloaded the pics to my PC, formatted the card in the PC and when the battery had finished charging, I put it back into the camera and switched it on, I then got a memory card error, I took it out and tried it in my K20, and it worked fine, Put it back in the K-7 and got the memory card error again.

I tried another card, same thing, memory card error.
I switched it off and went to work. When I got home I tried it again, It all appears to be working now including movie mode.

I'm not sure if the 2 issues are related, but I suspect the low battery power has had some sort of adverse effect on it. But it is worrying

My spare battery arrived from Chris at SRS today, so I have that on charge at the moment and will see how it goes.