...and Dan's got some bellows now...

But just hasn't got a week to get the thing in focus.

But has now got a 10mm lens he could try reversing...

Might give it a go tomorrow.

Dan

Ok, Ok!

Dan

By the way, you won't find mention of this in the Manual, because it was only introduced with the first firmware upgrade.

Dan

If you use Av or Tv mode, you can assign one of the e-dials to control ISO. So for Av, I have the rear dial controlling aperture and the front dial doing ISO.

If I'm in manual mode, I find it easier to quickly switch to Av, adjust the ISO, then switch back to manual, rather than going to the function button.

E-dial functions are controlled from the custom setting menu.

Dan

Here's the same picture, but with a little USM applied to the left hand side only. There's not a huge amount of difference to my eyes, just a bit coarser, perhaps I overdid it a bit...




I do resize in stages, but I halve the dimensions each time, and use USM. Will try it with the high pass filter though.

Why do you upsize your pics to 11Mb though??

Dan

Couldn't find anything. Can anybody else help? I'd be really happy if I could set it to 70% as a default, or at least get it to remember what I'd set it to last time I'd saved a file for web.

Dan

That's okay. For some reason it (I use Elements 4) defaults to low quality every time, whereas version 2 used to use the previous quality setting. Bit of a pain - there's probably an easy way to change it but I just haven't got round to looking for it.

I'll have a quick look now, if I find anything I'll let you know.

Dan

When you say you've checked the original, is this the full size original (TIFF or raw for instance) or the original jpeg that you uploaded to Photobucket?

It looks like it's been saved on the lowest quality setting when 'saving for web' in photoshop, but if the original jpeg looked okay, then photobucket must have done something to it.

Dan

By the same logic, if a repair was uneconomical, you could always get a replacement secondhand body for peanuts.

I justified 'going digital' by working out how much I was saving by not buying film. I was paying about £7.50 to buy and process a roll of slides, and my initial digital investment (3 years ago) was about £1400. 4 months later, having shot about 6500 images, I decided I was quids in.

In addition to that, I'd shot subjects that I would never have seriously considered before (macro for one), and tried techniques that I wouldn't have bothered with using film.

To an extent, digital cameras are disposable. I agree with you there. They will certainly get to a point where a repair is not viable, and that will be much sooner than with a film camera. However, if nothing goes wrong with it, and it produces results that you're happy with, there's no reason why you couldn't keep one for years.

If you're not desperate to get one before the K20D comes out, I'd hang on and get yourself a secondhand K10D. I would imagine there'll be a fair few popping up in camera shops/ebay. You may yet see mine on there...

Dan

You might find more details about Epson Inks here: http://www.whypaymore.epson.co.uk/

It does depend on the printer (i.e. what type of ink it uses) and the paper, as if the paper doesn't absorb the ink correctly it can shorten its lifespan.

Dan