The camera will probably be upgraded long before 100,000 exposures...

It's a reminder of what happens to second-hand values if the wrong name is on the front of a lens.....

You'd sell a pentax manual focus 50mm f1.4 well enough, but I doubt that a Chinon would go for more than a fiver, if it went at all.

WE usually refuse weddings, but did one recently. Sue and myself both shot hundreds of images to a pre-arranged plan, but with an eye out for one-off gems, and both used either 16-45mm or 18-55mm lenses.

We shot from pre-wedding preparation right through to some experimental disco shots, finally finishing around 10pm. This is hard work.

You have absolutely got to know what you are doing.

Unless you are very, very sure of what you are doing, I would urge you to think very carefully about this wedding. You are asking questions that, in the context of what you are about to do, are somewhat disturbing....

2. A fast lens has a wide aperture, f2.8 is now comsidered fast, but in the realm of prime lenses it is quite slow. f1.4 is a fast lens, f1.2 very fast, there are even f1 and f0.95 lenses (that last one being the "Canon Dream" of the late 50s/early 60s.) Wider aperture equates with larger aperture, not smaller, although, confusingly perhaps, the numbers become smaller!

3. Stopping down is the act of choosing and setting a smaller aperture. If you move, say, from f8 to f11 you are stopping down the aperture by 1 stop. Stop down metering means that the aperture has to be physically closed (viewfinder goes darker as a result) to take a reading at the working aperture. Open aperture metering means the reading is taken with the lens wide open and then it closes down briefly when the shot is taken, instantly opening again to facilitate composition and focusing with a bright image.

It will all come together as you start to understand the terms better.

Hi Randy, welcome to PentaxUser!

If any of us sold a few prints to someone, I think we would not expect them to even attampt to use them in a publication without our permission and a further payment being made.

I think if you reverse the question like this then the answer becomes pretty clear.

It's for fun, so don't worry about it overmuch, just enter something appropriate. If it can be new that's great, but time can be a problem and I'd like it to be as inclusive as possible. Open to all.

The trouble with making rules is that you tend to need more and more of them as new problems arise.

Just enjoy it....

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