The clue is in the name: Glosgas.

We won't ask about the gas.

G

An excellent program for those new to digitography is:

http://www.irfanview.com/

Free, fast, flexible and easy.

It'll show you your data, and do a thousand other things.

G

Of course, I should have said that the only downside (APART from the exponential storage issue) is......

Thankfully, hard disks and DVDs are now pretty cheap, compared to two or three years ago.

G

Well, having finally parted with the money for Phase One Capture One LE, I am now getting to grips with it properly.

I am amazed to find how much detail there is to be recovered in pictures that look so horribly over-exposed that normally you wouldn't give them a second glance.

Indeed, I even started undeleting pictures that I had thought were beyond hope.

I am now wondering whether the policy of slightly under-exposing to avoid blowing out highlights is right. RAW seems to reach parts that JPEG can't even imagine.

So thanks to that Apostle of RAW, Matt, for so actively promoting RAW itself, and Capture One. I agree that once you get into it, the C1 work-flow is fast and easy, and the only downside compared to JPEG is the longer initial download time. But that's not much of an issue.

G

Auto smileys can be a nuisance. Your smiley should have been an 8 and a bracket. To do this you need to leave a space between the two.

G

I should point out that I am a RAW convert, and 256MB gives me 16 pictures. That's why I call it small.

G

It's one thing to choose a small card for fear of losing images in the event of failure, and another thing to call a 256MB card "large".

Those who are worried about card failure should remember that a 256MB card will be taken out of the camera, placed in a card reader, and then replaced in the camera EIGHT times more often than a 2GB card (which, incidentally, costs less money per MB).

Since damage or failure are more likely to come about as a result of this handling than from sitting peacefully in the camera, I would say that you are much more likely to suffer image loss from small cards than from large ones.

George

You jest, surely.

256MB is a LOW capacity card, even if you're shoooting JPEG, and absurdly low if shooting RAW.

For RAW, which is where you should be aiming, you should get at least a 2GB card. Fortunately, these represent good value in $/Byte terms.

G

Screw mount bellows units cost very little on Ebay. I paid about a tenner for mine. The 100mm length is generally more useful than 50mm, so things are looking good for you.

Does this look like your lens:

http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/lenses/primes/short-tele/K100f4-Bellows.html

It's the K mount version, but I'm pretty sure yours will be optically identical.

G

Yes, they put the 100mm into K mount, but not the 50mm.

G