I promise!

Taken from this thread.
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This will depend on what you're going to do with the image after you've cropped it (just viewing on screen/web, or printing too?) and how good the image is in the first place. Your example looks underexposed, so boosting the brightness afterwards increases the noise.

This is a 100% crop from a K10D with DA*300mm.




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What Hefty said!

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Two weeks ago I gave a talk entitled 'Wood' - I'll have to have a look through the slides...

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John, why not take up Hefty's offer? Let the current owners know what you are doing and how much you expect it to go for, get Hefty to place your maximum bid right at the start and then leave the auction to run its course.

If you get it, it's all fair and square and above board. If someone outbids you, then the owner's happy because it went for more than you thought it would.

Make sense?

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If you think it's only 'serious photographers' that buy SLRs these days, you are wholly mistaken!

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https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/topic/red-kites-at-rhayader-13176/p-0

Obviously it depends on the birds and the situation, but I wouldn't necessarily write the K10D off for bird pics.

I've had a number of occasions recently which have pointed out to me that Canon's AF system needs as much input from the photographer as any other system.

Several weeks ago I was doing a tuition day in a camera shop, and had two separate people (one with a 40D, one with a 50D) ask me "why are so many of my shots out of focus?".

An acquaintance of mine recently got herself a 50D, popped out to take some shots to show me, and half of them were woefully out of focus (and when I tried it, it seemed to want to focus on anything but what I was pointing it at, although admittedly that was using auto focus point selection).

Finally, I was giving tuition to someone with a 1D mk2 and was shocked when it was focusing on things in several steps, as in: focus a bit, stop, focus a bit, stop, focus a bit, stop, focus a bit (nearly there by now!), stop, focus a bit - focused! That was with a Tamron zoom, but even so...

I'm not saying these people wouldn't get different results from any other camera, just that the idea of Canon's AF system being foolproof, or some sort of holy grail, is clearly a myth.

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The SR is automatically switched off when using the 2s timer.

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K10D, I've moved this thread to the 'Your Photos' forum, as it's more appropriate. I did it with a previous one too. If you're posting photos and wanting C&C it's the place to put them.

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I'm currently free that day, so may be able to attend, but working the next morning so wouldn't be able to make it a late one. I'll try to keep it free and come along.

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