your showing your age with that old chestnut I dont remember it of course

No problems for David, he just waves his passport and camera in their faces and in an outraged voice exclaims "do you know who I am!

Nice shot David, difficult exposure too with the black door in that bright light

Will I get a better print if I resize to print size and sharpen accordingly before printing out?

Up to now I have simply worked on an image then sent it to the printer, in the printer properties box I then have to rezize it to fit the paper, even using A3 paper means the image prints at around 20% of its actual size, will I lose sharpness on the print doing this?

I have used an Epson R300 seemingly without problems and recently the Epson1400, always printing using the "Photo RPM" setting and more often that not selecting the print for "sharpness" setting too.

Mine have Jessops written on them, does that confirm they do (did)

MPG; have you tried ebay?

Thats interesting Yves, My PC is just over a year old and it wont read SDHC cards, I have to use the reader provided with the card or upload directly from the camera, yet my considerably older laptop will read OK.

I was under the assumption that it was the reader itself, if what your saying is correct then XP on my laptop must have included or automatically updated the software for this yet my PC running Vista doesn't/hasn't???

I'm off to look for a patch

Sincere condolences Don.

Looks more like he's been surfing xxxmeerkitty.com to me!

now Scott, if I could just suggest a tasetful crop.......

I take it you grow tulips over there

I think the third shot is a cracker though I'd be tempted to crop the right slightly so the tall trees go right across the image.



It might for someone whos colour blind

Looking at the second shot I can see why the first appears overexposed, the colours on the cart are really pale,

Stop press!
I was about to say maybe I was wrong but the wife just appeared over my shoulder with a coffee and asked what I was looking at, when I scrolled up to show her the first shot her comments were "over bright"

I would try again when the light isn't as bright, especially if it fairly local.

PS: its amazing what the 18-55 is capeable of.

In that case its a little Bugger

I think its a bit overexposed, the cameras meter was probably fooled by the contrasty light, and the angle looks a bit odd, for this particular shot you needed to be absolutely square on. Dont throw the camera away just yet though, its a well seen shot and the technical quality is sound. It gets me wondering why the name has been re-written over the original with the addition of a later date? A very intriguing subject.
Didn't Bilbo Baggins live at Bag End

Did you take any more shots of it?

EDIT: Just had a look at this in photoshop and the histogram shows a good exposure, I suppose its taking into account those dark shadows on the right, I opened up levels and adjusted the middle slider to around 80 to get the image more to my taste, it darkens the shadows a bit but really brings out the colour of the paint and rust.