Where we have a horizon line, as we clearly do have here, it is really essential that it's straight.

The other enemy to straight horizons is of course barrel distortion in wide angle lenses....

I think your problem starts with metering Deryn. There are books all about metering, hundreds of pages I'm afraid!

However, there is fundamentally no difference between digital and film for metering. Both should give the same result. As Pentaxophile suggests, how about starting with a less challenging scenario? Then, we need to remember that any meter is just a device for measuring light levels, reflected light in this case.

Meters are (ostensibly) set to measure 18% reflectance, a mid-grey. So your meter reading, if it was solely of a Caucasian face, would render that face as grey. It's not grey, so you need to modify the exposure to make it lighter. On film +1 stop on negative materials, on slides and digital maybe +0.5 stops maximum. This is an instance where you could usefully use spot metering and manual exposure.

When you have this sorted, then you can use any metering pattern you like and just apply compensation. But you need to be able to judge when and how much, and that's where practice comes in.

My advice is buy a slide film and shoot all 36 shots as best you can. This will show you how well you are metering and initially might be something of a shock. Anyone who can meter accurately with slide (transparency) film will have no problems with digital.

The P30n is a manual focus camera, so focusing is done by eye, using the central split image if required.

The idea Deryn is to focus on the face but for the exposure point the camera at something that won't be fooled by the bright sky. Then use AE lock, recompose and shoot.

I find that very curious to be honest. Do you see those colours as realistic? They don't look like any natural colours I've ever seen, and I mean by looking, not in relation to film or anything digital.

That is true Algi, but could be down to the processing. The 43mm doesn't have to look like that.

I'm sure it must cause problems, so I only use single vision glasses.

Well it doesn't have to if the value means that you don't need tracked or insured shipping.

On the other hand, if you are dealing commercially, even in a small way, then ask yourself would you deal with anyone who wants a payment but won't reveal their address? Suppliers who use accommodation addresses get quite a lot of suspicion in these and other forums.

What is your concern over providing your contact address?

Pentax discussion and images only Ian, no other marques I'm afraid.

Ultimately your address is on the package, without which you won't be able to use tracked shipping. So the buyer will always know your address, which is not unreasonable.

You can't publicly pick up your address from PayPal and if it's only a payment being made then the only thing visible online is the e-mail address being paid to.

You will have to give personal information to Pay Pal to use the service, which also is not unreasonable. This is confidential though between you and PayPal.

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