A good approach for sure ....it can be seen in those 'blooms' I referred to. You did well remaining still for those long exposures ..... I imagine that the smallest bodily emission would have ended all possibility of any further shots!

Great results! A beautiful place, I will try and get there one day. You have dealt with the extreme technical DR challenge very well , and you were right to retain depth in the low shadows ... what we can't see is easily imagined. I like the little 'blooms' of light around in the foliage, adding points of focus and attention.

You were risking it on those rocks with that self-timer one !! I assume that was a 12 sec job ?! Could have been a real action capture

I didnt think it would end up being a simple question! Even though mathematically challenged, Philips analysis makes good sense to me.

I doubt though that there could be much practical point in such viewing on a camera LCD screen , even assuming good light conditions to see it clearly ....?

I'm confident that you will easily Gareth ...you'll get better light and better opportunities. You've made the most of this time though, and the best ones are those at the longer focal lengths where the smooth stones gain a sort of 3D depth from the perspective, and there's a great contrast with the swirl and swish of the water.

I personally prefer those with a warmer, traditional mono toning, not so much the more bluey ones.

Jeepers Creepers, Crikey, Shiver me timbers!! That looks like the setting for one of those Aussie killer mutant movies....Wolf Creek or something? I can just imagine them hiding underneath those cars as those big tramping boots drag through the dust while they hunt down their prey!!

Ok, I've been watching too many horror films.... But they're very evocative images, showing the decay of human existence amongst the timeless, ancient landscape .

No, not much, only 1 Cider with supper

I'm sure it was clear enough to anyone who knew anything about Pentax 67 cameras ..... It was amazing to see those images of such a beast! That thread at PF that Jak found is interesting too .... One poster said it fits any 67 cameras, it's just the issue of how to connect the flash if needed. That does seem to answer it ... It seems to be a standard size and fitting.

I'm sorry, I don't understand what you are referring to. If we are talking about 67 medium format cameras (which was my assumption) then I don't understand the question about them working together. Why would two cameras need to work together with hot or cold shoes?

Perhaps some more detail about exact models, or a description of what exactly you are trying to do would get more knowledgable members to join in ......

I don't know anything about those camera models, but if you want to use a flash on the camera then ideally you need a hot shoe , that seems logical.

I'm assuming a coldshoe is for using a flash with a simple PC cord, certainly not as convenient as a flash that communicate more through a hot shoe.

I didn't really feel I understood your question exactly, but I hope this might start some useful discussion in any case!

Thank you Philip and Derek .....great minds huh !

It should be pointed out, there is no ambient light in these photos. The settings of 1/180th , F8, ISO 200 ensured that the fairly dim room recorded as pitch black without the flash. The angle of the wall bouncing of light has created the sort of 'light spread' you see, which I hope looks fairly natural and complementary.

Even with such old equipment, the on-camera bounce /light shaping techniques are far easier to handle and manipulate than the process of setting up off-camera flashes and umbrellas and things. Certainly for this type of quick, casual home situation, then it's the most practical approach, regardless of the age of the gear or the particular modes of operation that are needed.

I am still always amazed when I see examples of modern Pentax DSLRs working with far older equipment as accessories, and producing great photographs with the combinations ..... whether its old film era lenses, extension tubes, bellows, old flash gear, our Pentax DSLRs are keeping this stuff going and meaning we get ongoing long term value out of it all!

I used a combination myself the other day .... it seemed to be exactly what was needed. The 'Two rather old' items were the A28 F2.8 lens, and the AF 280T flash, and the 'Not so New' is the Pentax K7 (I'm reluctant to start calling that a 'legacy' item for now!!)

The occaison was No4's third birthday, and the A28mm just felt like the right thing to use .... and being a manual focus lens I needed to use an 'Auto-Thyristor' type flash in order to get automatic flash exposure control. I believe these two items come from the same era, around the time of the LX .... please correct me or make that more accurate if you can.

In any case they certainly went hand in hand (well mount and hotshoe) and I thought made a handsome looking combo with the K7 .... really quite amazing considering the amount of time and technological differences between them all! The fact that they enable great images and are technically a joy to operate makes the whole business just a lot of fun!

Here's a couple of phone shots of the equipment, primed for its task .....









I chose the A28 lens because its the largest aperture lens I own at that focal length, and I wanted a good view for focussing. Even though I chose to shoot at f8 this was still handy for focussing as the light was varying with the curtains being opened and closed.

The AF 280T was operated in its Green A mode (close range) .... the ISO is set with the slider lever and the correct aperture is read off from the green scale figures. I was being told to use F11 for ISO 200, but because I was bouncing from a wall and corner I instead set F8 on the camera to allow more flash light to record. I made fine tuning adjustments to the flash exposure with small ISO nudges (eg to 280 / 160).

Here's a couple of the results ... I was very pleased I chose to shoot with Two Rather Old and One Not so New ! ... and I felt very lucky to have such excellent choices available to me!