Small size, light weight, screen not optical? I'd be very happy with a new Q with built-in EVF as well as screen and with latest generation sensor. And, of course, integrated with social media for the new generations .

Steve

Harrison Cameras do part-exchange...

Steve

Nice to see you again, Gareth .

That picture doesn't just look nice, it looks really nice. You definitely haven't lost your photographic touch .

No need to feel guilty about not getting out and taking photos. I'm in much the same position, albeit for a different reason. It's just one of those things that life throws at you. And you're helping others to develop their photographic skills and insights, which in the grand scheme of things is ultimately worth any number of photos of beaches etc.

Steve

Yeah, I was right. You can see the glow from the cauldron and the luminous trails from the flight of the broomsticks

Steve

First Witch: When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
Second Witch: When the hurly-burly's done,
When the battle's lost and won.
Third Witch: That will be ere the set of sun.
First Witch: Where the place?
Second Witch: Upon the heath.
Third Witch: There to meet with ...
All Witches: ... SPAD!

Shakespeare got it wrong .

Steve

I've just bought a couple of (non-photographic) things off eBay. I knew what I wanted, eBay was just one possible source, I found what I wanted at a reasonable price, haggled a bit off one of them then pressed 'buy'. If that's what other people are doing, few views might simply be a symptom of people not buying much from anywhere except for necessities because they don't have the money.

Steve

Less than half the price of a ticket for an Oasis gig at Wembley stadium. An absolute bargain for a little gem of a lens. Please put Spad out of his misery by buying it before he changes his mind and decides that fisheye is actually better than ultra-wide angle or that fisheye astro is the way to go . If I didn't have one I'd snap it up, but I do so I won't.

Steve

Well, 100 squids is about what it would cost to have a coffee or pint of beer from a coffee shop or pub once a fortnight for a year - not even one every weekend. So which would give you the most pleasure and memories??

Steve

Yes indeed. That's what ultra-wide does. It isn't distortion (although true distortion can also occur), it's just a perspective that is very different to what we experience through normal sight and we therefore react to it as something very strange (or alarming!). I had that reaction after getting a Tamron 10-24mm and using it at the 10mm end for the first time. But once you understand how to use that perspective creatively, it becomes just another tool in the creative toolbox to be brought out as and when it will give the effect you want. Personally, I don't use it much but when the need arises then I'm glad I've got it in the box.

So Spad's question about whether to keep the Sigma 12-24mm is actually two questions:
1. Is the perspective that the lens produces at the widest end one that you want in the creative toolbox?
2. If that perspective is wanted, is the Sigma good enough on the other attributes that you want from a lens (resolution, sharpness, handling etc. etc.)?

Steve

These are superb.

In this context, I'm not sure that 'bubble bokeh' is an appropriate term. The bubbles are a creative element in the total picture which you've used to great effect, rather than just an artefact of an out of focus area.

Steve