You're doing really well with this, it's great how the design encourages experimentation and you're making the most of it. I've been waiting for a misty morning, but I think you've stolen the mist...

We don't know what the alleged law-breaker was doing before he was arrested, so better to leave that up to the police to present the evidence and the jury to decide.....

A few years back, Sue worked for Jessops in the Trafford centre and it was a highly functional, positive team full of enthusiastic photographers. The shop was overflowing with accessories and cameras alike. There was strong team spirit.

After a couple of years and being promoted to assistant manager things did well for a while and then financial troubles started. All the assistant managers were made redundant, as were the store managers. The whole ethos collapsed and waves of new management became increasingly reckilewss with their solutions.

Clearly these solutions did not work. So let's blame the market forces, including our willingness to pay, and the failure of management teams to find a solution to basically an impossible task.

I'm not forgetting that 2,000 people now face having no income and that will still include plenty of enthusiastic, keen people who deserve better. The demise of jessops may have been inevitable, but it's not something to be celebrated.

It seems it's up to negotiation with the Administrator.

According to this:
http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/england/consumer_e/consumer_taking_action_e/consum... we end up a creditor of the company and way down the list for getting paid.

This has already been posted and withdrawn as it turned out to be not free after all - has this now been resolved. Does anyone know?

In the early 1960s the two top professional systems were...Nikon and Pentax.

Pentax produced some very special professional and scientific products, such as the Nocta night vision kit for surveillance and the UV Takumar lenses for scientific use, recording oscilloscopes for one.

Pentax Takumar lenses were also used widely in other mounts such as Alpa, who offered them as part of their own range.

Pentax also produced the first fish-eye lens that could be used without locking up the mirror. 1960s fashion photography lapped it up.

That's just a snippet of what went on, back to the FF rame discussion it will be interesting to see what Pentax do, if anything, but whatever it is could be quite unique. The Pentax design team are a canny lot, although they keep making things that appeal to me, which is very annoying to my bank balance....

I believe you are right Peter about the lenses being optically identical. All of our 18-55mm lenses have been similar in performance, so you must have been unlucky. We've had eight of them in total and still have two WR versions:

I'm sure that in those specific conditions you do need flash mdc. It's what the customer expects and needs, a fairly flat, even representation of themselves.

I'd be tempted to use a flash bracket though, to move the flash away from the lens axis, and if flash power is a problem use a lower powered flash or a diffuser on the more powerful one.

As for ring flash, that makes for very flat lighting indeed and might look a little odd for portraits. Also, the highlights in the eyes will look strange and I wonder what your customers will think of that. Where ring flash is used in intra-oral photography, often a small auxiliary flashgun is added to one side, to ensure that there's a nice highlight on the teeth. Ring flash alone is very textureless.

What do you think?

I've removed a couple of posts - do please keep classified ads to the point of the buying/selling process.

Many thanks.

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