By the late 1960s the top press camera was the Pentax Spotmatic which had replaced the twin lens Rollies which in turn had replaced the earlier plate cameras.
My experience on newspapers in the North East of England was that the Pentax Spotmatics ruled well through the 1970s before they were usurped by Nikons. The Nikon FM2 became popular on my newspaper.
Nikon then ruled until the Canon EOS models came out in the 1990s. Since then Canon seem to have dominated the newspaper world although there are still a lot of Nikons in use by journalists.
david

Thank you Scott for your detailed judging and congratulations to Glyn and the other podum finishers. It was a good choice of subject and brought out some excellent pictures.
david

Past Learning
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Learning before the age of TV
Taken: Crook Hall, Durham
When: May 12 2010
Gear: Pentax K10+16-50mm lens, handheld
Settings: 1/25th sec at F4.5
ISO: 500.
Lighting: Artificial
PP: Cropping, slight levels adjustment, slight reduction in saturation, but keeping the warm artificial light.

My favourite hate is the misuse of the apostrophe when used to denote a plural. But we must remember that language, even perfect English, is evolving and Shakespeare's grammar would sometimes fail the test today.
Some words have changed meaning even within the past few decades and American English is becoming far more common.
david

I'm trying to get my head round the concept of a 'left hand eye'.

Great set of pictures, this must be Melbourne's answer to our Goths. People doing oddball things makes for great photography.
david

Miss Julian has also appeared in my Portfolio John. I wonder if you could erase her/him.
thanks, David.

This has now topped 4,000 views. Is this a record for a Your Photos thread?
david

The experts often get it wrong. I read in a photo mag a few years ago that for A3 prints you should have at least an 8-10 mega pixel camera.
My earliest digital pictures were on a 6mp *ist DS and I got perfectly sharp A3 prints with that.
From my 10mp K10 I've had A3 prints accepted in an international exhibition - one was a heavily cropped image so that in effect it was 2.8mp.
Some of my camera club colleagues had massive A1 prints done for an exhibition at The Sage in Gateshead. The cameras used were mainly in the 8-10mp range and included earlier Pentax, Canon and Nikon models.
So yes, a 10mp K10 can well be used to produce A2 size prints.
david

Stunning quality in all of these images Andrew but my favourites are No.1 + 2 for the exquisite definition in the sky. I don't see how you avoid clipping the sun without making the picturea so under exposed that you would lose all other detail.
david