Hi Matt,

to leave the long exposure shots out for a minute..




this is one he posted earlier. If you look at the full sized jpg (seventh post, second link) there literally hundreds, (maybe even thousands) of dead/hot pixels. It doesn't look normal, and this looks like a normally exposed image. Sensor on it's way out maybe?

Cheers

Liam

Hi John,

if you have a look at the 7th post in the thread, there are a couple of pictures taken in daylight, and it does look as though maybe the sensor is faulty. Ther noise reduction removes them, but then it's meant to.

Cheers

Liam

Hi Brian,

obviously you wnt to get your ebay reputation sorted out, but the next thing to do after that is to contact the Trading Strandards office in Salford (assuming he's not lying about his location).

http://www.salford.gov.uk/business/tradingstandards.htm

Trading Standards
Turnpike House
631 Eccles New Road
SALFORD
M5 2SH
Telephone 0161 925 1346
Email [email protected]

Apart from peeing people off, this is illegal. There's even a separate department in the police set up, just to deal with illegal selling on ebay.. mainly for shifting stolen stuff quickly, but this would be considered as something worth investigating, especially if he's selling a few thousand a month.

Cheers

Liam

Hi,

this was mentioned before, but I can't find the thread.. however, this link provides the way to tell the differences,

http://reviews.ebay.co.uk/FAKE-SanDisk-Ultra-Secure-Digital-Cards-Exposed_W0QQug...

Cheers

Liam

Hi,

it's a great, well composed shot.. but as critique only, did you use a tripod? The Lady and Gent watching make the photo, but seem to be a bit hazy around the edges. If you could get a similar shot, but focus on the audience components as a crisp and clear aspect of the shot it would work really well. I especially like the woman's silhouette, as if she were watching her children on the ride. Her position in the image is A1. Get a nice static feature to the image, and then base the rest of the photo around it. The rides are allowed to spin and blur so that's no problem.

I'm usually proved wrong in my judgements, but I hope that helps.. again, a nice shot.

Cheers

Liam

That sounds okay..

Everyone who contributes, first has to sign an agreement to that effect or something. We've got hundreds of members.. no solicitors (attorneys) anywhere?

How about Matt and John as editors in chief. There's not much they don't know between them.

Cheers

Liam

Hi all,

I had an idea, which is always a bad thing..

How about this forum getting together and writing and publishing a Pentax specific book. This could include history, equipment, lessons.. well everything you can think of to do with owning and using a Pentax camera.

We can write a book and if it's at least passable these days, there are publishers that will publish for free, albeit for I assume a higher % of the take. I think we've got regular members here that have the knowledge to cover most, if not all the info that would be needed to make a complete Pentax anthology. I had a quick look and there are 50 people that have posted 50 times or more and newer regular contributers who'll be there soon enough. 180 pages at an average of 3 pages per member won't be too high a mountain to climb, and with the magazine, I assume we have copywriters, editors etc. to call on for expertise in publishing and stuff..

Six months to get it together and roll it out for the summer. Might even make a couple of quid for the site.. or an absolute fortune for all of us.. K1Ds and a full set of *Ltds all round...

Just an idea, but a good one???????????

Cheers

Liam

You beat me to it Kim..

Hi Will,

you need to put the url of the actual image in the
tags.

I seem to remember that there is some sort of copyright issue with hotlinking (displaying the image from an external site, rather than just posting a link) pbase images, even though they're your images????

Matt will know more, but for instance, the first image would be tagged thus..

[ img ]http://i5.pbase.com/o6/42/735842/1/71950942.DRyu7Mov.RiverEtive_05crop.tif[ /img ]

I've put spaces inside the image tags to get around the above problem, but you can see the idea.

Hope that helps,

Cheers

Liam