As Karlo says ^^^^. When a £60 lens and a 12 year old camera can get results as good as this, why bother with the latest and greatest?

Steve

Then you'd like the book, too . Apparently, if everything that is non-slime suddenly vanished, the slime that's left would be a shimmering, ghostly outline of both the entire surface of the earth, including the upper and lower surfaces of the seas, and the detailed innards of its inhabitants (you and me included). Fascinating stuff - and it's everywhere!

Steve

I had an hour to kill after dropping off Mrs L for a hospital appointment (regular checkup, nothing to worry about). There was a book on the back seat of the car and the Q-S1 in a coat pocket. What to do first? The camera won. So I walked the couple of hundred yards from the hospital car park to a suburban nature reserve that was new to me. Then back to the car to read the book and wait for the 'I'm ready to be picked up' phone call.

Here are a few of the photos from the nature reserve, all with Q-S1 + 02 lens. And the title of the book? 'Slime: A Natural History'. Well, it had to be, didn't it ...

Thoughts and comments (on the photos, not my choice of book :wink welcome as usual.

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Steve

I can't see any problem with the WB in any of the photos, but of course I wasn't there at the time and I'm not looking at them on your monitor. Yes, a white balance card will help give you the colour temperature at the time. However, from what you say it seems you want to reproduce what you perceived at the time. And the word 'perceived' is important. What you perceived depends on a lot of factors, reproducing it isn't just a matter of colour temperature. And then there is memory, what you remember might not actually be what you perceived at the time. My advice? Set the camera WB to 'Sun' then adjust colour temperature during post-processing until you are happy with what you see. Don't worry about whether it accurately reflects the light at the time, you're presumably doing it for fun rather than payment so all that matters is whether you like the final image .

No need to apologise for lots of dog pictures - a willing subject like that is a joy to see. My in-laws once had a dog that looked like yours. Lively and intelligent, could be a bit of a handful though, particularly if bored (the dog, not the in-laws :wink.

Steve

PM sent with (hopefully helpful :wink comments.

I enjoyed looking at the book!

Steve

And a HNY from Lubbyman to everyone in and around Pentaxuserland.

Only 358 days to Christmas and every one an online shopping day .

Steve

Thanks. The bird is a jackdaw. Definitely not a raven, far too small - but looking at the picture again, I've just noticed that there isn't anything to give a sense of scale, even the clifftop grass is much shorter than 'normal' grass.

Steve

Nice to see a turnstone again, I haven't seen one for ages - probably because I haven't been looking! Mind you, that camouflage makes them difficult to see on a stony shore if they're not moving.

Not sure about numbers. They are non-breeding visitors so UK numbers will depend on what is happening elsewhere or even whether they are prefering to go to other shores rather than here.

Steve

Have you clicked on and read the link in the original post ... ?? Here it is again

Steve

With Ricoh/Pentax declaring that "our goal is to provide PENTAX camera products that involve intricate, time-consuming, satisfying actions" and making it very clear that they will not be following the crowd and developing a mirrorless substitute for their DSLRs, might this be what they should be aiming for? Not a mirror in sight...

Steve