The important thing for the competition is what the Judge has defined as Street Photography, and he's been quite clear about it.

Don't get confused by other definitions - that's not the way to win!

Balance in all things Amin, as you have hinted in your reply.

I think the good advice is that it's a worthwhile exercise for digital photographers to have shot at least one slide film.

The reason for this is that what you shoot is what you get and it really highlights any inconsistency in composition and metering in particular. There is nothing to be done to save the day by a printing machine or a computer, so it is an exercise in discipline.

Just one film will be fine!

WWT centres are great. We joined recently as we were quite often visitng Martin Mere. Slimbridge is another that we occasionaly visit.

Caerlaverock was different but enjoyable in a quieter sort of way. There's an excellent river and meadow area there that's rich with butterflies and damsel flies.

I've just re-read all this thread, and I think you may have read it in the wrong light if it's annoying you! Maybe try again later?

Actually all you need to do is compose your message and before you press the "add comment" button highlight all your text and press Ctrl+C - this will copy your text to the clipboard.

If the upload fails, then start again, click in the message pane to get the flashing cursor and just press Ctrl+V - this will paste your comment and away you go!

There is a succinct and well written explanation in "The Lens Book" by Roger Hicks and Frances Shultz. He does a good job at explaining the basic principles.

The essential thing is that we know that medium format produces better quality than 35mm.

When related to digital imaging the essential things will be the increased number of pixels and probably lower noise as the pixels themselves may be larger.

When Pentax design the 645D and its lenses they will make sure that it means a better image, otherwise no-one would buy it and there would be no point.

Full frame sensors that we have at present don't really always produce dramatically better images than APS-C so I presume the logic is to go for something with a really big jump in sensor size that does actually make a difference.

I don't want to go into huge detail, but the sharpness on the print will relate to the circle of confusion that we allocate for the format and the resolution in lpmm on the print. This also depends on viewing distance.

Very complicated to describe all the inter-connected factors involved, but we can be sure that medium format leads to bigger, better images. We can see that with our own eyes.

It's generally a good thing to take some time over a post. I tend to hit the wrong key from time to time, but because I type quickly anyway it doesn't cause a problem.

I would suggest the composing in Word (or similar) and then pasting into the message box as a good way around it. It will give you plenty of time to check the content.

After posting, you can still edit for 30 minutes.

They won't take long to load as long as the file size is kept down. Some of the images posted are far too big and this causes the problem.

Try 800 pixels on the longest side, 72ppi, 200K file size, give or take.

Just put the images in Your Photos in a thread - that will keep them all together.