I thought the main error was that he'd listed 30 lenses at £800 each, rather than 30 lenses for £800. But getting the zoom description right should help him too.

Dan

"The seller ended this listing early because of an error in the listing".

I should say so.

Dan

His reward to you, surely!?!

Dan

If anyone wants one of these, I've got one they can have at half this price!

Dan

P.S. Free postage too.

I use the histogram on the camera a lot, it's the best way to see if you've got the exposure correct, and as you say, the screen isn't easy to see well in bright light.

A simple shot is often the most effective - if there's too much going on it can be a bit confusing (again, as you say, like life ).

Dan

Not when you're shooting RAW. Contrast adjustments are made purely in post processing. Of course, if it's a really sunny day and you're going to get a more contrasty image than if it's overcast, but other than ensuring you have a good exposure (are you familiar with the histogram feature when reviewing the pictures on the camera's screen?) you can't actually make a shot like this more contrasty at the shooting stage.

In iPhoto (I haven't used it, just had a look at the Mac website), you have the adjustments tool, which looks like this:




The graph at the top is the histogram, which shows levels of dark to light (left to right). The little arrows underneath it are sliders, if you move the left hand one to the point where the graph starts (the bottom of the blue peak on the example above) that will mean that blacks are actually black, not dark grey. Likewise, move the right hand slider in to ensure whites are white, but not too far or you'll lose detail in the highlights. The middle slider affects the overall look of the shot, moved to the left the image will look brighter, but can look washed out. To the right and it will go darker over all, but can look too dark.

That's a powerful tool in itself, which can easily be overlooked, but it's the place to start when considering contrast. Have a play too with the sliders for exposure, contrast, saturation etc. Just don't take it too far! Also, remember to keep checking that histogram to make sure the changes you've made haven't moved the histogram around and meant that you're losing detail in shadows or highlights, you can always readjust those sliders.

Dan

Exposure looks about right but it looks to me to be lacking in contrast. Could be that it is, or might be partly down to the colour space. Keith, was the image saved as AdobeRGB? If so, that would be why it looks a bit flat to me. sRGB is the best for web viewing.

Hope you don't mind, but I had a tinker with the contrast:




That's more how I would prefer it, but that may not be the look you were going for.

Dan

P.S. I like the simplicity of it, nice shot. ANd the second shot is even nicer.

Yeah, I know. Just that with an RRP of £899 they would probably have done it for £799 or so. I suppose I'm used to seeing things announced with an RRP, then when they're released, they're actually £100 cheaper, not the other way round.

Dan

I'll try not to. I'm looking at either lenses I simply don't use, or that will be replaced by the Pentax (the Tamron 300mm f/2.8 ), and my MZ-5n body. Only extra thing which doesn't really fall into those categories is the 1.7x AF Converter, but I only use that with the Tamron, so...

That's them! Note the evil glint in their eyes.

Yeah, makes you sick, doesn't it.

Dan

Just because you can't help yourself when a pretty lens comes into view...

Still need to look at finances I think, tot up what I can sell to (partially)cover the cost. Still a bit miffed that the price jumped up £100 here.

Dan