Wasn't referring to you Stefan!

I have sent you a PM.

Terms and conditions are at the bottom of the page and the request for them was answered by PM.

Just in case anyone was wondering, although few will be surprised, the political thread has now been removed as some of the participants took things too far and definitely crossed the line.

We have a mixed age group and a mixed audience here so a bit more restraint would be appropriate.

I don't think that was the advertised intent....

Not sure what the time was without checking but it was getting towards the end of the day, so I guess 3pm or so at this time of year.

Please stay on track in this thread.

This is because the signal produced by the sensor in dull light is weaker, has to be amplified more and this results in increased levels of electronic noise.

On film, if you keep on sending more photons of light (long exposure) more silver halide crystals will be activated and be able to be developed. These crystals either activate or not and the total that do affect the density of the silver image produced.

The sensor does not behave in the same way, rather producing an analogue signal from each pixel that needs to be digitised in the A/D converter.

No flash, just low natural light last Monday at Martin Mere. We've got to the point these days where nobody believes a picture can be just as it is and we tend to look for complicated post processing. Here the only processing was a slight tweak to levels and some sharpening.

Too much sharpening or not is a matter of taste I suppose, but I would generally favour less rather than more. If you think I've overdone it fair enough!

A Pigeon at Martin Mere, happily posing for the camera:
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This is using the SMC Pentax-FA 80-320mm, which I am very pleased with. The extra 20mm at the long end is quite useful for wildlife.