I thought I'd want to share this with you all. It's not really a "deal" hence me posting here in the General Chat.

I checked MAIL.com recently and found out that they were able to procure the domain name PHOTOGRAPHER.NET. I've been using MAIL.COM for the last year now and have found them to be OKAY.

So what does that mean to you? You can get your own "[email protected]" email address, should you find a need for one.

Free, unlimited space, and Android app, and a nifty "mail collector" feature where you can open your other mail from other email accounts. It's really feature packed, but I'm still using my Gmail account as my main one.

Hope you find this useful, if you do register, tell me what you think!

Now imagine if PentaxUser struck a deal with MAIL.com and when you get a PentaxUser Plus membership, you also get an email address "[email protected]" running off of mail.com's servers. That'd be cool!

DISCLAIMER

I am in no way affiliated with those guys at mail.com, but I do tend to listen to some metal music before going to sleep.

PM replied to.

This is a courtesy bump. Still selling my gear.

Price for the package: £220 including RMSD.
Price for just the camera, lens and 1 battery: £170 including RMSD.
Price for just the grip and 1 battery: £70 including RMSD.

Again it's for the following:

* Samsung GX-10 DSLR Camera (with mount cap, strap, and cables boxed with manuals)
* Samsung SBG-D1V Battery Grip (with contact points cap, boxed)
* 2x Samsung SLB-1674 (with battery caps, and a charger)
* Samsung Xenon 18-55 Kit Lens

It is looking like that my next camera will be a K-r instead of a K5. Just because it's more camera than I could ever want in a package, and that I cannot justify almost twice the price of a K-r just for the K5.

Now the REAL question is, which colour do I choose?

Black, Red, Yellow, Blue, Purple, Pink?

...and this thread is going to be deleted in 3...2...1.... LOL

Wow, 1400 actuations! That's a very good price. Mine's nearing 20k actuations already.

Beautiful! Good job on the border, and damn that's a nice spot for the sun's rays!

Welcome to the forums! Best tip I can give you is to spend time with your camera. Become a weekend photographer! Every week set a place you go to and bring your camera with you. Take different photos of these places!

Since you went with Pentax (lucky you), I recommend that you buy a Manual Focus lens from eBay, preferably a Pentax SMC A 50mm 1.7 (shouldn't cost too much). That should give you a lens you can use for portraits, or playing with the depth of field with your subjects.

Keep on using it, and the rest should follow.

Haha! Seriously though, thanks for the tip Pentaxophile.

Going through my photos in 2010, and I remember this day when during sunset (7:00pm in July) me and my family saw this light in the sky. It looked like it was a few miles away, floating still, flare-like, and it was there for at least half an hour before just disappearing.

Photo:




Any idea what it might be? Please be advised that the sun is to the left, and is off camera. It looked considerably larger than in the photo. I didn't get the chance to use a telephoto with it, and I'm looking for the video I took of it as well.

EDIT UPDATE

...and here's the video.