Actually, I was talking about all these things, but no matter.

In that case, why don't I change the date to 30th August? Would that suit? It's finishing part way through the day that's the problem.

That's useful to know Forgherder and we'll all meet there to take our competition pictures!

I wonder if they sent delegations all over the world to quiz those who had already hosted the games and could advise on any pitfalls?

When it might have actually been a good idea, probably not!

Witley Court is indeed well worth a visit.

Actually you can't close the competition early, because it's an automatic system. Sorry, there's no way to do that and you won't be able to choose a winner until after midnight.

One other small edit made as we haven't included Ricoh cameras in our brief yet.

Otherwise, looking good and let's hope for an equally sound response to the second outing of this new competition.

What a wonderful sense of deja vu!

For the benefit of Pentax Users, why not look at an online picture library such as www.fotolibra.com

I had a friend who was once outraged that I could crop images in the darkroom. He said it wasn't fair on "the rest of us" but then , he did have the choice to set up a darkroom as well.

However, before I had a darkroom I ordered a print larger than I wanted and then cut it to suit. Was that unfair too?

The first step would be to send it to JPS for a quote for repair. Then you'll be in a position to judge the relative value of repair or replacement.

WG-1 cameras are available on Amazon at low prices and the WG-2 at rather higher prices. Look at the SRS website for the current lineup.

W90 cameras are rare second hand, presumably people are keeping them, so that may not be an option.

Ah, but that's all a bit extreme walkeja.

The darkroom took the negative and we manipulated it as we saw fit, using whatever techniques appealed. Shading and burning in, choosing a paper grade, maybe using split grades, maybe toning...it's endless.

Digital photography is simply the electronic version of doing this and Photoshop follows darkroom practice very closely. Thise who never used a darkroom will not be as aware of this.

All the things i do now in Photoshop I could and did do in the darkroom. It was probably much more difficult to do in some respects, but not in others. There really is no difference.