That guy has Enthusiasm! He's right though. The MX-1 has the magic....

To be honest, I think it's over-thinking things. The switch shouldn't be an issue, but use the auto off if it's more convenient.

Fantastic and what potential when combined with some APS-C lenses? This should be brilliant for wildlife coupled with, say, a 200mm and the Adapter Q.

In terms of overall character, I've settled on the 43mm Limited, but the 40mm is also good. It's basically a long standard lens on APS-C, but not too far adrift from the 58mm that was at one time still considered within the standard bracket for film.

The 55mm f/1.4 is the APS-C equivalent for the film 85mm f/1.4 lenses.

I set all my cameras to manual switch off. It's very annoying if the camera keeps switching off when I'm shooting a sequence of images.

Settings are retained only for a period of time usually, which suggests a rechargeable power source good for a few days. If there wasn't some power or some non-volatile memory, we might not be able to change batteries without losing all our settings.

The *istD had a button cell for this purpose and the 645 a built in Lithium battery that needed changing every 5 years or so.

£18 is a very good price. It wouldn't still be on the shelf in a shop if I'd seen it!

Unfortunately, the shops I've seen have a more inflated idea of prices.

The left thumb is around the lens, supporting the camera. Now there's no aperture to change it can help the forefinger to operate the QuickShift mechanism. Not that doing that is difficult!

Nicely done, it works very well.

For some shots, I find that Photomatix can be very useful for making black and white conversions. Even from a single exposure, we can tonemap using the available presets or starting from scratch. I like a couple of the presets, one being the Creative and the other being the Monochrome. There's a choice of mono so the closest to the desired effect can be chosen. I then tonemap and save as a JPEG. I open the tonemapped file in Photoshop CS5 and adjust there as desired.

Here's a few examples:












Any comments or thoughts will be welcome.