My AF360FGZ was tight on my istD when new but it soon got a bit slacker, slack enough to drop off my K10D in York Minster, creating one hell of a racket and sending batteries skittering across the floor and finishing off the last remaining lug on the battery compartment door, I can remember when Pentax (and all the other marques) made things to LAST!

And while i'm having a gripe I must also complain that our TV has just gone on the blink and we haven't had it all that long, I suppose we'll have to get one of those new fangled colour ones now


Quick edit...PS: it also helps if you remove that bit of black plastic from the hotshoe first

I had a strange feeling that was your intention , still doesn't change the fact I think you made a bugger of them and now they'll NEVER get hung on MY wall



Seriously though, it does often pay to take shots with varying depth of field, as you say, now you'll never know

the first two images IMHO are OK...ish, I would have prefered them sharp all over then I'd have hung them on the wall, the third is my favourite but I would have cloned out some of the debris.

You can laugh but you dont know how true that is (or was), a long time ago when CD writers first appeared on the market I heard of a guy who went into PC World and asked for a pen to write on CD's, the assistant in his worldly wisdom smiled and said "oh no sir, you need a CD Writer for that"

Although the last time I had need for PC world the staff were quite knowledgable though sadly I cant say the same for that famous camera chain

I finally got round to upgrading my firmware to V1.03, which in hindsight was a silly thing to do a week before the trip of a lifetime anyway, all went well and I have spent the last 20minutes playing with the remote assistant on my laptop, the question is, has anyone here actually used this facility for a practical application and did you find the trailing lead a pain in the proverbial.

I loved the Sunbeam too, and the rest, and all the ones not posted here


Looks like the light was kind to you, last time I tried anything like that it was a bright, sunny, cloudless sky all I got was burned out chrome.

How many shots did you take on the day?

You jammy sod!

I'm an old coot myself and have only ever seen one Kingfisher in my life and I didn't even get a blurred pic

Of course he was shooting through a fence, clever enough to buy Pentax then clever enough to have some sense
Although the "blurry" bit on the right hand side is a classic example of "interferance" from out of focus objects (in this case the fence)

I think its a cracking shot for a beginner, in fact I would have been well chuffed with that myself

Love the nut
Love the coloured pipes
Love the sack (looks to be burning out a bit tho')
Love the rusty nut
Not keen on the sunset ot that horrible metal bar thingy wotsit.

I prefer using the remote release, it doesn't tie you to the camera, I have often have set up on a tripod and sat sown a few yards away to wait, especially usefull for wildlife photography.