What you need is a second camera body, then you can have both lenses in use at the same time.

Just a thought.

Dan

Are you sure? Looks like a different species to me, possibly a crane fly?n ANd the one on top seems to have it's mouthparts in the back of the other one's head - not a good sign.

Of course, I may be wrong, there are many insects where the male and female are quite different.

Just found this, seems the one on top is a Robber Fly...

Dan

Yep, that 3rd one is wonderful. I'm guessing it's a crop, but it's still great at this size.

Dan

Yep, sky looks wierd, the house and rocks look okay (but still a little odd to me, but I'm not a great fan of the HDR 'look'), but those dust spots!!

Wish my cat Charlie looked like this Charlie.

Dan

See my reply in the other thread.

Dan

It looked absolutely spot on to me. It was one of Belinda's few comments I didn't agree with.

Dan

John yearns for the panoramic feature of the MZ-5n, which were blinds that closed down in the viewfinder and also over the film aperture so that the top and bottom of the viewfinder and film were masked off to create a panoramic.

I certainly found it useful for composing panoramics when I was using film, although I would tend to still shoot normally and mask the slide off with card afterwards.

Gartmore has a good point though John, if you want the maximum quality and don't mind some photoshop work, you can take several photos across a scene and merge them with software on the computer. A handheld card mask might be useful for seeing the composition first in this case.

Dan

Firmware wouldn't help here because the MZ-5n uses a physical device to crop the image in the viewfinder.

I suppose you could be drastic, if you wanted to shoot panoramics 100% of the time, and mask off the focusing screen. Be best with a spare one, perhaps a very thin card mask could be inserted either above or below the screen? Above it may throw manual focusing out, below it may not be secure.

Just a thought... :

If you used Liveview on the K20D, you could make a simple card mask to place over the screen on the rear of the camera. You could use this to review shots you'd taken when using the viewfinder too, although you wouldn't see the effect when actually taking the pic.

Dan

That almost sounds like you've offered advice in the past and it's been ignored... Can't think of any examples off the top of my head at the moment though...

Dan