Don't forget the crop factor. You can use a step-down filter from a 55mm- and perhaps even a 58mm-filter lens and not get vignetting.

My 49mm-filter ring flash works fine using a step-down ring on my 58mm-filter macro lens.

G

Nowadays we have a computer and a darkened room.

G

G See below.
JR John Riley
EP E-Photozine (I think)
PP is post-processing (in other words, mucking about with the image in PS (that's Photoshop) or some other similar IESW (image-editing software).

TTFN

G

Your guess, I am sure, is correct. Brian is referring to my mild reproof for excessive PP-ing.

Technically, I think this is a far more restrained and (to me) acceptable piece of work than the earlier efforts.

Very good lighting, perfect exposure, delicate PP work. Very good.

G

Hazza,

You've got a good location, lovely light, effective use of depth of field. It's not bad at all, except that the buildings on the left look a bit odd, as though they were falling away down the hill.

G

If any 16-45 owner buys the 16-50, he/she might well sell the 16-45.

So keep an eye on Ebay.

G

The predominant element in the Isle of Man is wind, lots of it. It's a wind-farmers delight. We do get rain, but so far we have escaped the deluges on the mainland.

Let me know if there are any retro lenses that you are interested in. I stll have a few that I need to sell.

G

You'll soon get used to it, and if you don't, you'll be cutting yourself off from more and more superb new lenses.

G

I think you need a terminology overhaul.

An 80-200 is a zoom lens - not a prime. Prime lenses have a fixed focal length; zooms can be set to any focal length within a range - in this case anywhere between 80mm and 200mm.

So do you mean a manual focus lens, or a manual aperture lens? The latter are less easy to use on modern Pentax cameras (which includes all the digitals), and the K10D's meter doesn't like them at all.

My view is that there are some old prime lenses from the manual era (focus and/or aperture) which are worth having. Very few old zooms are worth having, though the 75-150 and 70-210 are both good.

In particular, old macro lenses are a good buy. You really don't need automation with macro. And old long tele lenses are much cheaper than new ones, and often very good too.

By the way, I am only talking about SMC Pentax lenses here. There's a lot of inferior rubbish out there.

G

Could you please let me have his address. I've got some stuff I need to sell.

G