Don't mind Gareth, he's just pissed off cos' your producing better pictures than his Nikon

NO NO NO!

You guys have it all wrong, TOLLS are a payment to use a road or bridge and a bane upon society, TROLLS on the other hand are nasty hideous creatures that are a bane on society.......oh sorry, you were right in the first place

464 members online today 6th February 2013

I wonder if that figure will change as the day progresses

And do we qualify for the Guinness book of records

As it's your first wedding I would suggest taking the camera body and kit lens with the 50-200 kept in the car as an emergency back up, obviously take spare batteries and flash. Worrying about your gear or even what lens to use and messing about changing them will only distract you from the task.

Having said that there is one very important thing missing from your list and that's a second camera body at least make sure you have access to a decent compact.

I do agree with this comment but there seems to be a growing number of people who are just happy to have a few snaps to remember their big day, the number of times I have heard "we don't want to spend a lot on photo's that will go in an album and hardly ever get looked at"
Of course this is no excuse for bodging it and you still need to get decent snaps!

I'd go with extension tubes too, and they are available with contacts.

Ditto to all of the above, I've had pictures do really well in several competitions only to do really badly in others, it just comes down to the Judges preferences.

No competitions for me this year though, I'm taking a sabbatical from the camera club so no more complaining about judges for a while

I can't say I've had problems with the DoF on the crop sensor, I just stick a longer lens on and move further back, ALL formats will have both pros and cons, at the end of the day you work with what you have or what suits your style, so do we really need to continually argue about F/F v APSC.

+1

Thanks for the warm welcome back folks, and also the telephone call earlier from a certain member who got the wrong end of the stick and thought my health had deteriorated (you know who you are:wink

As for BEER?
Just had two or three pints of Greene King IPA over in Bradford whilst meeting up with some friends, unfortunately the weather stopped it from been five or six and we made a hasty retreat back to Leeds, having to negotiate the A58 as the slip road up to the M62 was blocked by a snow plough trying to clear it Fortunately my wife is quite capable of driving in snow and had to overtake several less capable drivers.

Ey Up!

Thought I may as well log in and say Happy New Year, as my last login was Dec 29th

Had a few drastic lifestyle changes recently, had to jack in the camera club and definitely not going to be going out with a camera any time soon as I'm concentrating on my website/business.

I might still pop in here from time to time to see how pointless things have been