I'm still up for it, as long as nothing paying comes along.

Dan

Available from here.

Dan

I think you might be surprised Peter...

Select f/22, point the camera at a plain white surface, defocus it, and see if the image the camera produces is a clean, plain tone, or a plain tone with various dots on. I'd wager the latter.

Dan

No, Elements doesn't support actions, as far as I know, or at least you can't create them using Elements.

That programme was (I assume) 'Wild Places of Essex' by Robert Macfarlane, and it was taken from his book The Wild Places, which is a nice read. Try anything by Roger Deakin too, a big influence on MacFarlane.

I've always found Rainham Marshes a bit flat for my liking, as far as photos are concerned, I prefer somewhere with more trees, and a bit of contour. Good place for shots of Water Voles though, not that I've ever got any there.

Dan

Glad to have helped.

Dan

I always use the hue/saturation tool when doing B&W conversions in elements.

In your layer palette, click the 'new adjustment layer' button (circle, half black, half white), and select hue/saturation.

In the first window that comes up, slide the saturation slider to the left, making the image black and white.

Now drop down the 'Edit' drop-down box (currently says 'Master'), and go through the other colours shown there, adjusting the 'lightness' slider, and seeing what effect it has on the image.

When you're happy with that, click 'okay' to save the new layer. You can then add another adjustment layer as above, this time a brightness/contrast, or levels, to work on the contrast in your image.

By using layers like this, you're not actually doing anything to your basic image, so if you don't like what you've done, you can either delete those layers you've just done, or double click on them to readjust them. You can also paint in masks, so they only affect part of the image.

Dan

Try SRS for a new one at £155, or not sure if London Camera Exchange in Colchester stock them, but it might be worth giving Dave there a ring, they're a Pentax Pro Centre now too, nice to have one in the county.

Cameraworld don't seem to have the 48 listed on their website.

Dan

Can only suggest that you carefully compare the two mounts and see what the difference is. If you can't see a difference, post a photo of each of them from different angles and we'll see if we can spot one.

Might be something along the lines of this thread, something might just need a tweak.

Dan

Hmmm, don't think my rubber eyecup would fit on that...

And Steve saying "Much better, ie clearer & sharper than the Pentax Pentax O-ME53" doesn't help.

Dan

P.S. Mike, is there anything you don't buy?

Would have been sold in 5 minutes if I'd been looking.

Dan