You need to set a Custom Function "Using Aperture Ring" to "Permit".

Then you can set an aperture on the lens.

For the K100D the procedure is then something like this:

Set camera to manual, switch to MF and select SR. Then switch on the camera and you will be prompted as to what focal length you are using. Select this and you are ready to go.

Set aperture. Half press shutter release to activate meter and hold half pressed. Press AE-L button to stop down lens. Sets shutter speed appropriately. Complete shutter release.

Perhaps K100D owners would check I haven't miissed anything out there as that was from memory.

It was a light hearted comment Dirk! Anyway, nobody could make my coffee worse than I make it myself.

What a sight to greet us with over our morning coffee! Whatever next?

For weddings I used to use an auto flash but setting the ISO on the flash at two stops faster that the film speed. The result is that the flash under-exposes, thus just adding a bit of fill-in to an outdoor portrait. At normal portrait distances this seemed to work very well.

I've not been looking forward to having to go TFT so this thread is very useful. The day will come....

Not for us to draw conclusions without the full facts, but I'm curious as to what explanation is sought from eBay.

I would have thought that the issue was the description. Was it fundamentally flawed in a way that the seller should have known, or was the error of description something that could have been reasonably overlooked? In other words, a very different thing between an error and a deception.

The first thing I would do if I was unhappy would be to e-mail the seller and make them aware of the problem and see what they would suggest as a remedy. A refund after return of goods would be one option. Negotaitions would not involve eBay or PayPal unless personal negotiations proved unsatisfactory.

The second issue is why is the ruturn of goods and a refund being ruled out by the seller? Does the seller disagree that the description was flawed?

As to what would happen if the goods were not accepted by the seller, then I guess they would come back to you, maybe even with a postage charge for the privelidge. At the moment of course the postal strike makes it a bad time to send anything, although I understand the managers are trying to maintain a non-guaranteed Special Delivery service.

Good luck anyway at resolving the problem and hopefully it will be amically resolved in the end.

You could always construct a model of an industrial landscape on your kitchen table.

Three weeks to make the model and 1/500 second to make the photograph?

I find the best way to get an IR look is to use Channel Mixer in Photoshop.

Increse the red and green channels and reduce the blue channel to taste. Adjust the overall brightness. Add noise and Diffuse Glow to simulate the effect of Kodak IR film.

The other way is to use a R72 IR filter, but then you need to compose and focus before you fit the filter as it is totally opaque.

The GX-1L should be able to be used with the R72, but the K10D is more heavily filtered and isn't very good for real IR.

Some super stuff and no surprise that Lilly has been out worthy winner.

After you post your new competition, Lilly, I'll "sticky" it for you.

Well done!

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