A PM has been sent.

I have now selected a Winner so we can now see what happens when we do.

Congratulations to our winner by the way. Superb shot.

We await timbo but if we don't hear anything soon we'll start making enquiries!

You don't have to cut and paste. The advantage of what I did was that you can just enter the comments directly whilst looking at the image. Anyone who prefers to do it as one block can happily do so, this was just an experiment.

Also, even doing what I did it would be possible to post a summary message. You would be able to see the winner, but I held back from pressing the button until a couple of other things were sorted technically.

In any event it would probably be more cost effective to buy some new AF lenses and sell the MF ones on eBay. Certainly it would be much easier.

No you can't. The lens has been moved away from the camera by inserting the TC so optics are required to accommodate this. The result is a 1.7x increse in focal length.

All the black of the sky makes the camera increase the exposure to make it grey. This the moon, being a bright highlight, is washed out.

The answer is less exposure. So just set things manually and start with two stops less than a meter reading and then keep reducing the xposure until you get the results you want.

With a digital camera you get the feedback straight away so this process won't take long.

Many thanks Epithet Man, a job truly well done with admirable speed. While you were doing this I was doing the same for another competition on the ADAPS forum! Do we all never sleep?

So timbo would you please go to the gallery and use the start a competition button to set up your competition. If the title could carry through as "Weekly Competition #55....plus your subject" that would be ideal. Have a look at the JR's Competition to see what the format is and if you have any problems or questions, please ask. Finishing date should be Monday 28th July, which will finish the comp at midnight on the Sunday.

You will be a trail-blazer with our new format!

Nice set of pictures - very impressive.

That would be my choice of lenses and in fact that is what I use.