Thank you, Derek and Andrew - here are some of the roof bosses in natural light (handheld at ISO 1000); the central one depicts the murder of Thomas Becket; they are about 5 feet in diameter!




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Philip

Another good set, Nigel, from which I would choose 2, 3 and 7. There could be a few slight adjustments to colour balance in some, e.g. to make 5 a bit cooler and 8 a bit warmer, but that is just a matter of personal choice.

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Philip

Thank you, Stu and Nigel.

It is a very impressive place Stu, and I agree - I have no religion but I find that many churches big or small are wonderful buildings and pleasant peaceful places to be.

Nigel, the aperture was actually f/5.6 (enough to include about 3.5m onwards), giving 1/30s at ISO 1000, so well within the SR capability for 28mm focal length. This technology still amazes me!

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Philip

Inside Exeter Cathedral with the hand-held K-3 and 28-105 zoom in ambient light:

1. The Quire (choir) and Organ - some of the carved oak dates back to the 13th century:



2. The stone Pulpitum Screen (between the Nave and the Quire) built in the 14th century, with biblical scenes painted in the 17th century:



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Philip

Number 3 for me also, for the wonderful layering of the hills. If it were mine, I might try it with a bit less sky, and where the water meets the land, it looks as though the image needs a bit of pincushion correction?

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Philip

Is this an example of want v. need? The K-1 looks to be a superb camera, but for your photography do you really need the extra resolution, or the extra stop of shorter depth-of-field, or a couple of stops of ISO performance? Just considering one of your lenses - you already have super-wide capability in the Sigma 10-20; the equivalent 15-30 on a K-1 would weigh nearly double and the combo would cost over £3000. Pixel shift could be done now with the K-3II at much less than half the cost of a K-1, and it will probably be featured on the next APS-C, along with much improved high ISO like the K-P. But, of course, if you want full-frame, then go for it!

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Philip

I agree with the comments above - a nice set of a fascinating location. (I remember being a fan of the Prisoner and keenly watched many of the programmes, but without much idea of what was going on.)

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Philip

Thank you, David - it's good to know that it has worked well.

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Philip

Thank you for viewing and commenting, Nigel - perhaps I should have kept quiet about the composite! You make an interesting observation re. barrel distortion, which I admit I can't see! I have made 10x8 inch prints of both images and the left of the tower appears to me to line up along the straight edge of my ruler.

I wonder if what you are seeing might be my interpretation of the perspective of the scene. For tall buildings shot from near ground level, I always leave a tiny amount of vertical convergence because, in my view, making verticals parallel can give the impression that the building seems to get strangely wider towards the top.

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Philip

The image was captured during a couple of hours spent in Exeter during last week. Some of this info might possibly be of interest to some viewers:

The day was dull, so the light was not very favourable. I had the K-3 with the new DFA 28-105 zoom which seems excellent to me on APS-C. However, I could not get back quite far enough to fit the cathedral comfortably into the frame at 28mm, so I took two hand-held shots - top and bottom in landscape orientation. These were then stitched together on the laptop by the free Microsoft ICE software. (Viewing the original at 100%, I haven't yet managed to find the join.) Using PaintShop Pro, the resulting colour image was cropped slightly to 5:4, and some adjustments were made using the histogram tool and the unsharp mask tool.




The mono version was produced from the original stitched colour image using the free Nik Silver Efex software, based on Preset 005 High Structure (harsh), and with a few extra adjustments in PaintShop Pro.




Any comments welcome.

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Philip