Probably your style pervades every photographic decision that you make when selecting what you photograph, down to the composition and the exposure. It's you, not some external construct.

I like how you are thinking about it and trying to make some pattern out of your photography.

As for Whitby, what's not to like about the place. It's a great location full of interesting things and of course people. We'll be back there ourselves sometime soon, I fewel an urge to return and "re-work" it, just as you describe.

It is the Bold Monochrome JPEG setting, so the image out of the camera is in black and white. As the effect is exactly what I wanted, there was no point in trying to achieve it via any more complicated route.

This does mean there is no colour image though, so part of the pleasure of it is going out and shooting just pure black and white, just like choosing a black and white film.

Weekly competitions end Sunday at midnight and then there is either a short or sometimes not so short delay while the judging takes place. The judging for Old has been completed and we await the winner creating the next challenge.

There are stickly posts at the top of this section of the forum that describe rules and give guidance. The competitions are actually entered here: https://www.pentaxuser.com/competitions

Hope that helps!

Weather resistant isn't waterproof, but it's all a matter of degree. My cameras happily take rainfall in their stride, but before any lens is changed or a card changed then I do make sure the outside has thoroughly dried off. I also wipe any extended zoom barrel on the lens with a hand to remove any excess water before zooming back.

It's not been a problem, but of course if there happened to be a faulty seal then there could be a problem potentially. Given that cameras are to be used I just bash on though and ignore whatever the UK weather can throw at us.

A selection of images shot today at Dunham Massey. Q-S1 set to Bold Monochrome, with 8.5mm, 5-15mm and 15-45mm lenses.

Getting a Benbo tripod back in its case (and presumably a Uni-Loc as well) is a feat worthy of due recognition. An octopus is probably a very good way to describe it.

However, they are also very fine tripods.

Yes, indeed. But all marques offer firmware upgrades and make improvements after customer feedback. It depends how it's presented I suppose.

I have never mixed marques as main systems, but these days I have to mix them on a daily basis. They need using all the time to avoid confusion, and certainly it highlights that some have very logical operation and others do things the hard way.

No idea. This was something Ken put up a long time ago and at the time it worked fine. Maybe it's no longer supported properly by whoever designed it. It's not part of the PU site design.

As it never took off, it just died quietly, until resurrected now.

I think of it as comparing two standard zooms, each in relation to its own format, which I do feel is a valid comparison.

I've reviewed both for EPZ and the 28-105mm I found to be a much better lens.