I found this beauty in my garden today. I've never seen such a large caterpillar before, other than in a butterfly farm.

It's longer than 10cms (see last image) and about as thick as an average sized man's middle finger.

K20D + D-FA 100mm 1:2.8 Macro + AF540FGZ + Lumiquest Softbox.

Otherwise more commonly referred to as perspective correction, the software equivelant of tilt 'n shift.

Is the corrugated sheet really grey at the top and blue at the bottom?

I'm bemused.

The technology in your *istD is 7 years old. How can you possibly imagine that the K10D/K20D/K-7/K-5 are not significantly different?

To put you wise, they are poles apart in fact. The only feature of the *istD that I miss is it's TTL compatibility. How much do I miss it? The more I use P-TTL/Manual, not very much.

The *istD is a super camera, but the newer models are much better, and I don't mean that they have more functions & features that see little use. I mean that the modern cameras a more capable of taking good images in a wider variety of scenarios. Try getting a useable image at 6400 ISO with a *istD.

Do yourself a favour and try a 'modern' DSLR. I'm sure you will be pleasantly surprised.

The Expodisc gives the best results in my opinion, and to help you avoid the mistake I made, by the biggest you need for your largest (filter thread) lens. Then by cheap step down rings for the others.

It's not something you can do quickly though if you have to change a ring to suit the lens in use at the time.

By far the simplest, easiest, and quickest to use is a Photographers Grey Card. It's 18% grey one side, white the other. Simples.

Just keep in mind that for each change in lighting, you'll need to make another reference shot.

After that, it's all done in post processing.

Awesome. He played a good mix of old and new tracks.

I saw John Mayall at an outside live concert in Lorca, Spain last year.

Amazing for a 75 year old.

My wife is a big fan of his and has been for many years.

Some very famous musicians did their 'apprenticeship' as one of his Bluesbreakers.

I've seen this before but I did it anyway, and scored 3. I apparantly have a slight problem in the green/blue part of the spectrum.

Well done. Glad you got it sorted.

If, like me, you have a shed load of slides/negs to scan, it's not a 5 minute (or even 5 month) job. What I do now is try and do one box of slides, or one packet of negs every day. At leat I know then that they will all get done . . . eventually.

I'm now down to my last six boxes of slides, then I can start on the two suitcases full of negs.

I do hope WD/Hitachi/Seagate bring out a 500Tb HDD for £75 very soon . . .

I've no personal experience of this scanner but is it not possible to use an older SCSI adapter, like an Adaptec 1540 or 2940 for example?

PM sent re O-ME53