Half of those are as i listed, and the rest are suitable for colour landscapes. The polariser will bring out cloud detail and suppress reflections in glass and water. The graduated ones will enable correct exposure of the foreground without burning out the sky. The 81C will warm up your pictures to a golden glow - lovely!

Hope that helps, but any book on basic photography should give you all the information you need. A library could be the answer.

Which colour filters to you have?

The most useful with black and white film are:

Yellow - gives correct tonal rendition with panchromatic film.

Green - lightens foliage

Orange - darkens blue skies, brings out clouds, brings out grain in wooden furniture

Red - very strong effects, as orange but much more so. Cuts through haze.

No it doesn't limit the voltage, but I've had no problem with any modern studio flash systems. I might think twice before using any very old flash kit.

A simple hot shoe adapter will slide into the hot shoe and has a synch plug on it for you to plug your studio flash into. It works just fine. You don't need the expensive pentax version, just a plain simple adapter of any vintage. I use one that's probably thrity or forty years old.

CMYK would make sense for printing, but the printers we use are actually RGB devices, so it's a wasted conversion.

If we ever met some other race that could resolve huge amounts of detail with their eyes and had ultra-fast brains, they might be totally unable to see our pictures as anything more than a mass of individual dots. And maybe our movies as an incomprehensible slow slide show (with all the slides blurred!)

So you're right, we do only need a certain amount of quality before any more is quite pointless to us.

Generally, cameras with such small sensors do not stop down far. There is so much depth of field that it's unecessary, excpet for where you want less DOF and then that can be an issue.

f8 is probably the smallest aperture you could expect. Give me a DSLR any day by choice!

I can comment on two models, the S5i and the 750Z.

The S5i is a little small for me and I have trouble keeping it still. Sue has no problem with it and she can produce excellent A3 prints from it. Quite staggering quality.

The 750Z is bigger, but still very compact. This has more resolution and can also produce superb A3 prints. This i can hand-hold with no problems. It also appeals more to me in that it has all the manual setting options i would wish for.

Both cameras have small sensors and it could be that there would be more noise than a DSLR at high ISO settings. But we don't use high ISO settings, so it's not a problem.

I would thoroughly reccomend either of these cameras, and therefore probably lots of other similar Pentax models as well.

However, for the best general handling the Digital SLR is my best choice.

Well essentially no difference, apart from age and maybe the materials being different as time goes by. Shift lenses are usually (if not always) totally manual anyway, so even electrical contacts may not be an issue.

The 6x7 became the 67 when it was updated and modernised. All accessories fit both equally well.

I'm just curious as to how many of us are members of Camera Clubs/Photographic Societies and if so which ones. The reason behind this is to see if there are any joint activities we could arrange, be it meeting up somewhere or just exchanging Speakers to do something for each other's Events programmes.

I'll start it off by saying I'm Vice-Chair/Syllabus Secretary/Treasurer of Atherton & District Amateur Photographic Society ("ADAPS", which is near Manchester.

Anyone else?