One thing you will have to look out for is backlighting if you are taking photos of the couple at the altar - those look like pretty big windows to me! Otherwise it looks fine.

Well 12.5 % price increase still seems like a dramatic price increase to me - which is what I stated in the first place, but of course things are different on your tax haven island. Maybe we will all have to move there.

But all else isn't equal George - the surcharge is on the price to the importer, the VAT is on the price to the consumer - so including the surcharge. It's the same as paying VAT on excise duties. Yes you do that too.

There is a frantic action being brought by various MEPs and consumer groups to stop it - pointing out that there is no European camera industry worth mentioning to protect so the surcharge is just another sneaky tax.

I have just read on a Dutch news site that the EU are almost certainly going to impose a 12.5% import surcharge on all digital camera which can also record short movies, categorising them as cam-corders not cameras. VAT will be charged over the surcharge as well, increasing dramatically the price of these cameras.
Hopefully Dslrs will reman free of this but the writing is on the wall - they will find a way to impose it no doubt. And if they don't I can see a dramatic rise in demand for simple Dslrs which will be used as glorified P&S cameras.

Sadly it is only open to resients of France Métropolitaine (incluant la Corse), so only those lving in maonland France ot Corsica. Don't think it's worth me emigrating again just to take part

Check beforehand with the church that they allow flash photography - many will not allow it!

For my son's wedding recently his photographer friend used just one lens the whole time, never used flash, shot in RAW and turned out wonderful photos.

Look for the unusual shots too. Get some of the bride at home preparing for the day if you can. Aim to capture looks between the couple too. Don't just concentrate on the standard wedding fare, make it your own whilst still giving them the shots to remember their important day.

Oh and good luck!

I don't know if it is a sign of things to come or just the sheer number of people asking for it but I see that Dixons (no relation to the UK shop any more) now sell the K10D. Until a month ago they were strictly Canikon/Sony as far Dslrs went. Now suddenly they are heavily plugging the K10D as is my local photographic shop, and official Pentax dealer and the same one as told me when I was looking for a dslr a couple of years ago that Pentax were dead in the water, I should buy a Canon!

Exposure compensation doesn't reset automatically - you have to remember to do it. I think you maybe used it for another photo and didn't realise it doesn't reset. I did that once too, but only once!

Ok I've dug a couple out from Tanzania. These were taken with my Ds, as jpegs, on auto (I'd not long had the camera and didn't want to miss a shot faffing so used it as a glorified P&S ) with a Tamron 28-300.
The first at 300mm, the second at 230mm. First one slightly cropped but otherwise straight from camera, second one I increased the saturation slightly. Not treated for web publishing so not sharpened at all.



As you can see this lioness is much redder, as were all the lions I saw.



Another cute mother/baby photo

Pete, having watched a professional woldlife photographer doing his PP you would be astounded by how poor many of his photos seem straight from the camera, but after being through Bibble and PS they are stunning. He using a €4500 Canon and big, expensive glass, but straight from the camera you would go mwah, believe me.
I agree with the others though that the lion photo is over sharpened, and I find the colours a bit dull. My experience of lions is that they are much redder than that, even under the noon day sun in Tanzania. I'll try and find one of my photos and post here.