Agreed. I guess it is either a mechanical adjustment or perhaps something in a hidden or external service menu but I don't think anyone has found it yet .

Glyn

As long as you are never temped to use the horizon correction function .

My K-7 went the same way, but only in the horizontal plane, in the vertical plane it is fine. However I got so fed up with the conflict between the actual view and level display that I turned the level function off (and got the ev-bar back in the view finder).

On the K-7 the level stops working anyway if the camera is pointed up or down around >30 degrees so can't be depended to work in all circumstances.

If I ever have to submit my K-7 for a service or repair I'll ask to have the level fixed as well but for the moment I can live without it.

Glyn

I think, and hope, that I'm getting better. Certainly the competitions in this forum have made me think a lot more about what I am trying to achieve and how to get there before I start.

The downside is that I find it very difficult to use anything out of my archive as I now know that I can do so much better .

Glyn

Thanks, its been a fun day here today all-round. My youngest daughter made me a grandparent this morning .
(It does make you feel old though )

Glyn

I'm in, but not too seriously

Hipperty is back introducing his sister, Babs, in this tongue-in-cheek promotion of Hipperty's favourite local produce.

Glyn

ICE gets my vote too. It works fine most of the time but if it goes wrong I found there is almost nothing you can do to fix it.

At the other extreme, if you want ultimate control, then I think Hugin is worth a look. It is also free but has a fairly steep learning curve for anything other than auto. It can however often rescue your work where, occasionally, ICE has failed.

Glyn

Fiona, Many thanks for setting a good subject, your excellent, well balanced, comments and judging. I think you did very well.

Congratulations to Pentaxophile for the winning, spring woodland image, which I really liked. Congratulations also to our runners up and everyone else for a marvellous, diverse, set of interpretations.

Glyn

Apologies about the quality. A quick take off my pc screen.

If you point at the PU icon you get this:

[IMG]http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w20/GlynM/Temp/IMGP0975-c1.jpg[/IMG]


I think this icon does the same thing in your profile. It does on mine.

Glyn

Edit to improve the image using a screen dump.
Edit 2nd time: Gone back to the old image as the screen dump image lost the pointer

I'm in with a rather traditional spring image.

I've been rather busy recently but took some well needed time-out this morning, when the wind dropped, to capture this image.

Apologies for not participating in the recent competitions. Some time ago, perhaps a little rashly, I agreed to review, comment on and judge the annual photo competition for the local U3A branch. I have just finished ploughing through 74 pictures and now only have to pull it all together ready for a presentation on Tuesday. Then perhaps, if I survive, I'll get my life back .

Glyn

Young Wallflower

[IMG]http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w20/GlynM/Misc/IMGP0884-c1s-small.jpg[/IMG]

A young, spring, wallflower in my garden captured today while there was a short pause in the wind.

Shot on 14th April
Pentax K-7 with the Samsung equivalent of the DFA100 macro
1/25sec, F7.1 & ISO200.
Tripod mounted.

Glyn