Hi Geprge,

the import duty on my DL was IIRC, £34, so around 8-9%, rather than 17.5%, which keeps it reasonable..

Cheers

Liam

Hi,

DigitalRev have them as well,

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Pentax-K100D-K100-D-18-55mm-Lens-kit-Bat-6-Gifts-AAX0_W0QQ...

this is where I got my DL, and I couldn't fault them. Re: the free gifts.. the I had the camera bag as a freebie with mine, and it's a handy little gadget bag, or if you just wanted to take the camera and one smallish lens attached to a party.

Add £30 odd for the customs charge though, and they do guarantee even with that, they'll beat your own country's in stock price by £1.

Worth a look for comparison.

Cheers

Liam

Hi Galoot,

I did enjoy the pictures a lot, hence thinking that they were good enough to protect. I thought that you'd made them secure yourself with the transparent gif overlay, because it is a good idea..

The large images are probably just printable, but there's plenty of people out there willing to copy photos on to their own website and pass off your work as their own.

I've built a few web sites, and just like to help out where I can..

Cheers

Liam

Hi Galoot,

Nice pictures.. especially the sunset on the bottom row.

re the page itself, nice touch putting a transparent gif over the images, to protect them from getting stolen. It should keep the casual thieves away, but you would probably be better off watermarking or signing them if you want to make sure of that. It's only a couple of seconds to get the piccy of the 'spot, for instance. I won't say how for obvious reasons though..

Cheers

Liam

Hi all,

just found out that they've released a beta version of Lightroom for Windows.. which probably means that everyone else knew about it days ago..

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom/

I've only just got in, but I'll have a go with it a bit later.

Thought you might be interested.

Cheers

Liam

Hi all,

first the link..

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=D48E808E-B10D-4CE4-A141...

It's a plugin for Explorer so that you can view RAW images via Windows Explorer, as you would with any other file type. It doesn't list a compatibility with any Pentax cameras, but does seem to cover the main Canon and Nikon models. It will no doubt, in the future do the pentax ones as well, and it may well work on some already, but having tested it, the DL isn't one of them.

You may want to test it out, and I know some of you do use other models anyway.

Hope that helps,

EDIT: I also found this on the same page, if it's any help?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1E33DCA0-7721-43CA-9174...

Hi smc, and thanks..

I upped the saturation of the magenta (for the clover) and yellow a touch (it highlights the greens a lot more than upping the green itself), and sharpened it for the web, but it's not far off the image that fell out of the camera.

As far as the lens goes, t's a cracker.. the only problem being that the back of the lens (nearest the mount) protrudes too far into the body of the DL to use without either a TC or tube. But as I use it entirely for macro images now, that makes no difference. It fits fine into the body of my ME though, so it would probably be fine on most if not all 35mm bodies.

Fitting a 2x converter onto that combination gives you the chance to do some real micro work as well, with a magnification of around 5x.. although the DOF is so small that a tripod, preferably with a geared rail of some description, is essential.

I just looked on ebay for one, and there aren't any, but keep your eyes open.. I wouldn't sell this ever, but someone might..

Cheers

Liam

I took this last week, but it doesn't really qualify for the Lake District thread, and I didn't want to jump on any of the current macro threads, so I'll start a new one..

Lens used is my Soligor 70-210 macro (constant f3.5) with two 30mm Makinon tubes.. great for handheld bugs, as you can shoot from a distance, and not scare them.

This is one I took last week..




*ist DL | Soligor 70-210 Macro (with two 30mm tubes) | 1/1000 sec @ f3.5 | ISO 200

Using the tubes means there's no real loss of light, so hand held is simple, even though the lens/tubes combination is over 8" long and quite heavy.

Cheers

Liam

That's a nice shot John,

I have trouble justifying the gear I've got at the moment ("why do you need all those lenses, you can only use one at a time".. sound familiar chaps) , so that lens may have to wait for a bit, but it does do the job.. in the right hands of course.

That should sell easily locally. I'm thinking of putting together a few shots and (trying to) selling them in a pub we went in, that sells local (well I'm in England, so that's sort of local) photographer's work. Now I know I'm no pro, but the few on the wall that were going as limited edition prints for £42 unframed.. well...!! I reckon with shots like yours, you could retire in a month, six weeks tops.

Cheers

Liam

Hi John,

we were there Thursday.. just stopped off to have a look on the way back from a walk up a mountain..

It is nice there. I tried quite a few of this type of shot, holding the camera at about 6" from the ground, with the 18-55 at it's widest, and this was one of the better ones. Not having an angle-finder, it was a bit of guess work to get a level horizon, so I'll probably check out ebay sometme, and see if the prices have come down.

I've got lots more photos, they'll go on my site at some point.

I wouldn't mind seeing an example from the 12-24 if you have one handy though.

Cheers

Liam