"Brutal honesty" is a bit of hyperbole. Plain honesty is all that is required.

The topic you linked to, Opethian, says it all.

G

Well done, Sir.

Would you mind buying snow shoes, ice axes, sou-westers, heavy fleeces, 4x4 vehicles, a couple of St Bernards, and about 1000 tons of coal.

That should guarantee a mild winter.

G

G rolls up his sleeves, sharpens his axe, and prepares to shed blood!



G

I nearly lost another member to the forum when my barge broke down. Two members, if you include me.

However all turned out fine in the end, though the heron photos were apparently a disappointment.

G

There haven't been any sold on Ebay recently, and I am at a loss to suggest a price. Does anybody have a link to the site of somebody who monitored all lens transactions on Ebay?

G

Yes, but serve them separately as an hors d'oeuvre. No point in wasting good meat.

G

I crop a lot. Even with a zoom lens I seldom manage to frame a shot perfectly, and when I see it on screen I have a much clearer idea of what needs to be in the picture and what doesn't.

As Cabstar says, you need to be know what your subject is before you can make cropping decisions, and you should have known what the subject was when you tripped the shutter.

In this picture, if the man is the subject, I would crop from just above the sign to just below the hanging flowers, with a little bit off the sides to remove irrelevancies.

G

I have an F which I seldom use. I don't require a 50-135 though.

I'll try to see what the going rate for them is.

G

So, are you back yet?

G

Hence the danger of relying on tests, which can't measure the more subtle aspects of a lens.

G