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I agree with JR about the halo - it's a technique that works best on glamour girls in my view - but otherwise I think all the pics are superb.

You have serious competition from your daughter!

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Comment by George Lazarette posted on *istDS in the studio at 01/01/2006 - 18:04

You'll soon get bored and confused if you try to read the whole manual. It's not a work of great literary merit (even in Japanese, I suspect), and should only be used as a reference.

Just dip into it when you need to. You'll go mad if you try to read it all at once.

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PS: Just be grateful it's not a Minolta manual. They're used in classes on how not to write manuals.

Comment by George Lazarette posted on Language settings on *ist DL at 30/12/2005 - 23:03

http://www.m-fortytwo.info/firstpage.htm

Comment by George Lazarette posted on Strange number on Spotmatic at 29/12/2005 - 21:14

The difference is that the 80-320 is rather better.

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Comment by George Lazarette posted on ist DL... newbie....zoom lens question at 23/03/2006 - 15:59

You need a strong dose of Boz.

http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/

In a nutshell, all Pentax 35mm bayonet lenses, otherwise known as K-mount lenses, will fit your camera.

If the lens is an SMC Pentax-M lens, or an SMC Pentax lens (note the missing suffix), it will not have an aperture ring, and will have to be used in manual mode.

All other K-mount lenses (suffices: A, F, FA, DA, D FA, and FAJ) will give you access to the automatic metering modes.

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Comment by George Lazarette posted on ist DL... newbie....zoom lens question at 16/03/2006 - 01:14

If, by the words "standard zoom lens" you mean one of the dozen or so that have an A setting on the aperture ring, then, yes, it will work properly with your DSLR.

If it doesn't have an A setting, then you will have to use it in manual mode, or Av mode at full aperture.

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Comment by George Lazarette posted on ist DL... newbie....zoom lens question at 15/03/2006 - 22:26

Seems SD cards haven't lasted too long:

From the Greater-China Press (my favourite daily read):

"Memory card assembler Chip Hope will extend its presence in the memory SIB packaging sector in 2006. The company has also rolled out a new Lumistar memory card series during mid Dec with Pentax adopting the memory for its digital cameras."

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Comment by George Lazarette posted on Whoops - there goes SD! at 28/12/2005 - 21:13

Picture Window Pro does most things PS does at a fraction of the price. Not pretty, but not aimed at idiots, either.

Capture One LE is perhaps the best RAW converter. It does everything, and its workflow features are very good indeed.

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Comment by George Lazarette posted on Photoshop Elements or Paintshop Pro X? at 28/12/2005 - 20:34

If you can, get the F* 300mm, not the FA*. They are optically the same, but the former is preferred because of the detachable tripod mount and excellent built-in lens hood.

The F* 300mm is eminently hand-holdable too, and tracks flying birds reasonably well.

It's one of the greatest Pentax lenses.

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Comment by George Lazarette posted on pentax fa 400 mm f5.6 EDIF at 01/01/2006 - 13:05

One point about copying slides with a macro and a light box is that it is so much quicker than using a scanner. I bought a relatively expensive Epson scanner a few years ago, but even with Firewire it takes an age to do a scan. So my thousands of slides languish unseen.

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Comment by George Lazarette posted on 77mm Limited, 85mm F1.4 OR 100mm Macro 2.8 at 07/01/2006 - 16:49

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