Somebody here once wrote "Buy cheap, buy twice." The cheaper article is cheaper for a reason.

We've all done it, picked up what we thought was a bargain, only to eventually decide that we should have spent more wisely in the first place.

This of course does not apply to everything in life. I never buy Duracell batteries, for example.

Yes it can. A poll wouldn't really be a poll without a choice of answers. A minimum of two answers is necessary.

You enter a poll question and an option. For each additional answer that you want to include, click the 'Add poll option' button.

Example:-

Poll question:- "Do you prefer film or digital?"
Possible Option 1: "Film"
Possible Option 2: "Digital"
Possible Option 3: "I'm happy with both"

My effort, processed only in Lightroom 3.3, uploaded into Picassa Web Albums.




Cropped, straightened, B&W, added vignetting and film grain effects, tweaked contrast, brightness, sharpening etc. to give it an old world look.

Even though it's a separate drive, it is still partitioned. It might have only one partition which you should be able to remove/delete. Then simply create a new one and job's a good'un.

You have a PM.

The K20D is an exceptionally fine piece of kit. I have two of them and have no plans to replace them for quite some time, years probably.

Images I've seen from the newer bodies seem to me to offer no improvement over what I can produce.

They might offer better low light performance, but that's only any use if you are going to use the capability. I don't, and it's not because I can't. I happen to think that the K20D performs perfectly well in low light.

Good glass is the key really. Good glass on just about any DSLR, and the skills and knowledge to use them properly, is what gets the best results IMHO.

Even a top of the range Okie Kokie D999Si+ (whatever DSLR) won't produce it's best images with the equivalent of the bottom of a milk bottle slapped on the front of it.

Good composition and a lovely pose.

It lacks sharpness and contrast I feel.

Is this a crop?

Stretchy fabric flash diffusers. Rubbish. I threw them in the bin.

Gorillapod, hot shoe spirit level, lenspen, none of which ever see the light of day.

PS: Raynox 250 + D-FA or FA 100mm macro lens = horrifically close focussing + extreme magnification.

The next time you go out in cold weather, take a plastic food bag with you big enough to put the camera and lens in. Before entering a warm house, place the camera in the plastic bag, and seal it. Remove the memory card first if you need to work on your images.

Leave it in the bag until the camera and lens temperature has equalised with the ambient room temperature (could be several hours). It will not mist up again.

The moisture (mist) would have formed when the cold camera was exposed to the warm and humid atmosphere of your home. The moisture in the air condenses on any colder surface that it touches. In this case, the internals of your camera.

You need to set the owner to the user account you use to log in. If there is only one user account (not Administrator) and it has no password set, you may not know what your user name is. To determine what your user name is, click Start, your user name will appear at the top of the right hand column.

If that user name = 'owner' then you should try setting the owner of the drive that you want to reformat or delete contents to the user name 'Everyone'.

To do this, follow my procedure above but before you execute the "Select the account of the new owner" step, Click the 'Other users and groups' button. In the dialogue box that appears, type 'Everyone', click OK, then continue with the remainder of my procedure above at the "Select the account of the new owner" part, and select the user name 'Everyone'.

If you need to, on the Security tab of the drive properties, you can also add the 'Everyone' user and grant Full Control to that user.

If that doesn't do it, I'm stumped too. The only other thing I can suggest is that you download the appropriate disk diagnostic tool from the drives manufacturer's site. These diagnostics usually include a low level formatting utility. That will certainly reformat the drive to the state it left the factory. From there, you should be able to partition and format it with a file system.

Doing so of course, will permanently erase everything on it.

One last thought. Can you not simply delete/remove the offending partition and start from scratch by creating a new partition?