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Road_Dancer wrote:
True, but the lenses are made to Leica standards, enough that Leica are a) happy to put their name to them, and b) rebadge and sell some of the same cameras as Leica cameras.

Played with one of the new Lumix Bridge/interchangable lens jobbies at work recently, and the macro is stunning. But... It's not a compact, so I'd keep my FX (Or similar) and my K10 thankyouverymuch!

Don't take it for granted. The worst compact film camera I ever owned was the Leica AF-C1 - the lens was easily beaten by any of the top marque rangefinders of the 1970s.

Comment by johnriley posted on Curious- what compact do you use? at 26/10/2010 - 22:24

I have an Orange dongle and have 3GB permonth in the contract. It's indispensible when travelling, but performance varies depending upon the type of mobile network in the vicinity. GPRS is dreadfully slow and UTMS is tolerably fast at just under 2Mb.

Comment by johnriley posted on netbook advice at 26/10/2010 - 21:18

You can upsize very effectively in Photoshop providing it's not excessive. In fact, it's pretty much as good as Genuine Fractals now.

A 4MB image would be very small, so I presume you're referring to a compressed JPEG. When opened, such a file will be more like 20-40 MB, depending on the pixel count and the complexity of the image.

Comment by johnriley posted on Possible to increase photo size? at 26/10/2010 - 21:15

Is it you? Not really, it's modern life and the consequence of everyone cutting costs.

The upside is the facility to pay anyone, anywhere in the world and, of course, also to be paid. The alternatives pre-PayPal were slow and expensive and risky.

PayPal has freed personal transactions without which eBay would be much more difficult.

Comment by johnriley posted on PayPal - be very careful of how you deal with them! at 26/10/2010 - 21:09

Yes it does pay to ask. It also pays to be a reasonable customer rather than an irate one!

As regards PayPal, that's the way it works and it's all there in the terms. The seller has got their money and PayPal take it from your account or your default backup funding.

Probably best to leave a small balance in the PayPal account to cover anything unexpected.

Comment by johnriley posted on PayPal - be very careful of how you deal with them! at 26/10/2010 - 21:03

Only the same? When slides have a 5EV range and colour negative 7EV I think we're doing pretty well with all digital cameras....

Comment by johnriley posted on DXOmark review of the 645D sensor at 26/10/2010 - 19:44

I'm not sure this helps anyone's buying decision though - it doesn't really mean that much in terms of real world photography.

Comment by johnriley posted on DXOmark review of the 645D sensor at 26/10/2010 - 17:46

A little bit more iunformation would be good, also a link that works. Don't forget that nobody knows you as this is a first post, so please give us some more to go on?

Comment by johnriley posted on 645D anyone? at 26/10/2010 - 17:44

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John, that x90, has it got any pc socket or hotshoe for studio lights? or are you just using the flash manually to fire your strobes?
does it do p-ttl with Pentax strobes?

I use it with continuous lighting for my eBay shots. The beauty is that the same lens will go from 1cm to infinity so regardless of the product there is minimal messing about. It works and the quality is actually excellent.

There are some things that compacts do better than DSLRs, in some circumstances.

Comment by johnriley posted on Curious- what compact do you use? at 26/10/2010 - 16:48

For pocket: Pentax I-10

For studio: Pentax X90

Comment by johnriley posted on Curious- what compact do you use? at 26/10/2010 - 15:25

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