Can anyone offer me advice please? I am looking for help with colour matching.

I have found two methods, these being the Grey Card and the White Balance Lens Hood which seems not unlike the old Weston Invercone to look at. Aside from the obvious consideration that you would only need to buy one grey card to suit all lenses regardless of filter size, which would give me the most reliable results please?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can offer help.

I'm with Sean Bean on these........Luvly!!!!!

The Airbus A300 ST is a regular visitor to the Airbus Industrie Factory at Broughton.

I was fortunate enough several years ago, when I worked there, to be allowed access to the cargo deck. It is enormous,and felt as if I was standing in a cathedral. The cargo door is, I believe, the largest door ever constucted for an aircraft and may only be opened under relatively mild wind conditions.

Mind you the earlier transport aircraft the consortium used, the "Super Guppy" which operated from Manchester Airport was a far stranger looking beast in my opinion, especially when loading, as the whole of the front of the aircraft hinged.

The Aircraft transports A320 and A330/340 wings, though the A380 wings are too large and they travel via the Dee and Mostyn Docks, thence by sea and road to Tolouse. Specialist Barges and Ferries have been built for the purpose.

Oh Wow! Stunning Images, all of them. If I could only produce one like that I would be a very happy photographer. Thank you for the link.

pm sent re both lenses.

Ditto the grip. Excellent service. Thank you Pawel.

PM sent re: Battery Grip.

50mm Planar arrived this morning, as promised. It looks and feels excellent. I cannot wait to try it out. I wish I could afford the 35mm to go with it! Thanks to Chris and all at SRS for their excellent service.

PM sent re: 50mm Zeiss T*

As someone with an engineering background it is my firm belief that precision components, eg: a lens mount, made of metal are superior to plastic, in both dimensional stability and wear-resistance. I believe that the durability of metal will allow more lens changes without wear than will plastic.