What a super subject!

The only problem I'm going to have is choosing which one to submit.

Glyn

If you are thinking about buying a canon printer then it is worth looking at the canon outlet shop on ebay:

Canon Outlet

These are called "refurbished" but my experience is that they are in a new condition with a sealed print head and a complete set of new cartridges and may well be shop returns when a newer model comes out.

Some care is needed to make sure not to get carried away in a bidding competition and end up paying more than a new one.

I recently bought an ip4500 for £42. Which was less than a set of print cartridges at high street prices.

If you are just doing B&W then a simpler printer like the iP2500 might be an alternative. This only has 2 ink cartridges, black & colour, and go for around £20-25.

Glyn

Different Scales

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18/1/09 14:25 (and then 3 hours of Photoshop!)
K20D with DA*16-50 @ 28mm, F8, 1/45 sec and ISO 100.

Assuming that this was using auto focus I suspect that your DA*16-55 is suffering from a little front, or possibly back, focus. This will be more noticeable wide open and disappear as smaller apertures provide a larger depth of focus. I certainly had this problem with my 2nd, but still an early, example.

However one of the advantages with the K20D is that it allows you to adjust the auto focus point on a lens by lens basis.

I used the focus test chart produced by Tim Jackson but the link to his site does not seem to work any more. I'm sure others can be found.

Glyn

P.S. PM me with your email address if you would like me to send you the Tim Jackson chart and documentation.

The cats around here are very photogenic although this one keeps cropping up in odd places:

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Glyn

Farnham is is a very nice place but the county boarder has a kink here and we are on the other side of Aldershot on the edge of the Ash ranges.

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(Although when the red flags are not flying it is a very nice place to walk)


Glyn

It is only just inside Surrey. We are only a few hundred yards from the Hampshire boarder and close to the garrison town of Aldershot. Surrey house prices climb on some sort of logarithmic scale the nearer they are to London and the further they are from Aldershot

So its probably not worth as many decent lens as you imagine.

Glyn

Gosh, thank you. I'm a little disappointed with it. I did not want to put it up as the first entry so was very pleased to see your entry which I think is superb.

I put the hall light on to create a sort of welcoming feel but this gave the camera a problem with the white balance in the orange light and created some blue-tinted shadows which were not obvious until I had gone back inside.

Glyn

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Somebody has to keep Prieni honest.

We had a little dusting of snow overnight.
Here is my home in the snow before dawn this morning basking in the orange glow of the street light.

K20D with DA*16-50 @ 28mm
2sec, F2.8, ISO 200

05/01/2009 at 07:16

Glyn

I agree it can be frustrating when the camera does an end to end focus lock when trying to capture a moving target.

Taking pictures of aircraft in flight this summer I found that it was an advantage to have a lens with quick-shift focus, in my case the 55-300. I could manually shift it near enough for the auto focus to reliably finish the lock. It was then usually fine in AFC providing I did not stray off the target. However if it did decide to wind right out I could shift it back faster than the camera without having to disengage auto focus although you have to release the shutter button so that the manual shift is not fighting the auto focus.

Before the 55-300 I would have used the Sigma 135-400 for aircraft but I felt the quick-shift focus gave the 55-300 a real advantage.

Glyn