Absolutely stunning, both the image and the thing itself. And at x9 on the sensor, it's a great technical achievement. Love it!

Steve

Another vote for the portrait version. But only if portrait shape will look right in the space on the wall where you want to hang it .

Steve

Interesting, I'd never heard of C2PA before.

Personally, I doubt that it would have much impact on social media because much of that is too ephemeral, inconsequential or trivial for evidence of authenticity (or even authenticity itself) to be relevant. Same for some mainstream media content - if an editor wants a picture of a glass of beer on a pub table, it really doesn't matter whether it was an unaltered photo taken in a real pub, a staged photo in a studio or an AI generated image. As far as I can see, C2PA is only relevent when an image could have a serious impact (e.g. as evidence of a crime). And even then, if an editor is sent a non-authenticated image of a significant event in a war zone and they have no access to anything else from that area, are they going to reject it because they can't prove its pedigree? I doubt it.

As for amateurs, it seems to me that it can be safely ignored unless you want to enter competitions that require it.

Steve

"On a more relevent note, spent a couple of hours with some good friends in the tap room at a local brewery, a good evening was had and much beer drunk."

Good man!

On a less relevant note, this is being sent from a machine running Windows 8.1 which is no longer supported by Microsoft. But so what? It still works .

Steve

No joystick on the K3ii, it appeared with the K3iii. Presumably changing the focus point with a K3ii is the same as with the original K3 i.e. press buttons to move among the focus points. It can be done, but the joystick on the K3iii is much easier. Even then with AFS you still have to press the back button again to refocus.

Steve

See answer to same question posted in General Digital Photographic chat.

Steve

Sounds like it's working as it should. The back button is replacing a half press of the shutter button, the action of which is given in my K3 manual as "When the shutter release button is pressed halfway and the subject comes into focus, the focus is locked at that position.".

From the camera's point of view, when you move to another subject it's just an example of the subject moving on the sensor. The camera doesn't know (or care) whether that's due to the subject itself moving or to you moving the camera. Adjusting focus when the subject is moving on the sensor is what continuous AF is for.

It's worth persevering with back button focus. Many of us find that focusing and refocusing is easier when focus and shutter release are done separately rather than by the same finger. It's just a matter of training the thumb to do something different to what it's been doing for most of its life .

Steve

It took me several viewings to see what must have been obvious to everyone else . But it was worth persevering. Excellent !

Steve

No. 3 for me, too.

I'd like to have seen a bit more space around the flower in No. 1 and more of the bright light on the flower in No. 2. Am I beginning to sound like a competition judge? Aagghhh, no, help!!!!!

Steve

Thanks, folks. The lawn is now back to normal length for October. It's also full of weeds from all those seeds which set during the summer months. It isn't just bugs and beasties that flourished when the grass was long...

Thanks to the low sun for that. And even in the shadows, the long grass created its own colour of light within the grass which seemed different to that above it.

And I'm glad that I'm not the only one finding lacewings to be difficult subjects! Butterflies and beetles were easy in comparison.

Unfortunately not. I'll have to try again next year .

Steve