Oh, this should be fun. Haven't got anything useful, so hopefully I can find time this week to get out and about with my camera. Got a couple of ideas already.

Thanks

Thanks for clearing that up John.


I think
So is there any way to know from an F stop what my DoF would be at any given distance? Or does that come from experience?

Whilst I agree in principle with Gartmore, I've not had the guts to try this out properly myself

I have, on a couple of occasions, done this and asked first, but the shots looked a bit posed and on one of them, I was so embarrassed having asked that I rushed the shot and cut the top of his head off

Looking forward to seeing your shots Stefan

I'm glad Pete asked as this has confused me also.

So, just to take this one step ( or should that be stop? ) further; why are the aperture settings marked as f3.5, f22 etc if they are not directly the f-stops? Or is this a throw back to the early days when all lenses would have been fixed focal length.

Also, again from looking at older lenses, I'd been led to believe that the f-number was the approxomate DoF range. So, at f22 I'd get 22metres in focus spread out as 1/3 in front of object and 2/3 behind. Is that correct?

I've seen this sort of thing a few times.
I'm watching some saddlebags for my bike at the moment. All the bags over £5 seem to get loads of bids and go up in price.
The bags I'm watching are 99p and have been for a few days.

Strange, but hopefully will play into my hands.

L= Lock. Stops you releasing the shutter by accident.
Auto is auto exposure.
The two shutter speed buttons are active when you use the camera in M
Don't think the body sorts the aperture out..but could be wrong.
125 is 125th of a second and is the speed for using flash.

The left dial is exposure compensation. But I never did use that, so I'm not sure how it works.

I've got a PDF file of the manual somewhere, PM me with your email address and I'll dig it out and send it to you. It'll probably be next week as I think I've got it on my work PC.

Logarithms......oh, nightmares of my schooldays

Thanks guys, I'll take that out of my "Watched Items"

Partially because I like gadgets, partially because I want to tell the camera what to do, rather than let the camera do its stuff, I'm thinking of getting a light meter.

Now, mainly because I have no money, I'm looking at getting an old "vintage" one.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Weston-Master-III-light-meter_W0QQitemZ170306496659QQcmdZV...

If I do get it, can anyone tell me how to use it

Got mine £9.95 off ebay. Arrived two days later.
I got it from a "Vintage camera" accessories shop. But, as the K mount hasn't changed down the years, I'd say, far from a drawback, it is a selling point (IMHO)


Oh, My friend paid almost £30 for a T ring adapter for his Canon DSLR.Another plus for Pentax!