Thanks Andy,

I can highly recommend it, our kids both really enjoyed it despite be quite young (almost 3 & 1), lots of older kids around us too getting into it.

Away from the arena stuff the rest of the castle and grounds was all decked out with re-enactors, I think they camp on site for the weekend and live as close to the period style as possible, so they're all cooking and cleaning and making things as you walk around.

Really fun day.

Taken at Dover Castle on sunday.

Full set here: link













One of the best re-enactments I've seen in a long time.

Ahh, viewfinder, that's me not paying attention sorry, I'm with you now!

Thanks for the settings Gareth, I'll have a play tonight whilst watching the meteor shower (if the weather is kind to me).

Thanks everyone for your help...results to follow.

Thanks,

So I need to take 2 exposures, one of the sky and one of the dark cloth? (same exposure length?)

Do I then just combine the images in something?

No I didn't.....didn't know I was supposed to! so that would be for part of the exposure I assume, are there any rules here? Half the exposure....a few seconds?

Wow what an awesome photo!

What settings if you don't mind me asking?

This is something I've toyed with in the past but never managed anything decent. Tonight I decided to finally give the astrotracer in the K3ii a go, but to tell the truth I'm fairly lost with it.

Can anyone share their experience with using it or help me in anyway with the general setup?

I basically pointed the camera at the sky, activated GPS and the astrotracer, it told me that 5mins was the maximum, I let it expose for 5mins and got a lovely white photograph of nothing.

I thought I could set my own exposure time, but the UI seems to indicate this deactivates the astrotracer?

In the end I left it in BULB which seemed to indicate the astrotracer was now on and just guessed how long I should expose for. It ended up being 118 seconds, and after some playing in Lightroom I got the following:




So it looks like the astrotracer is definitely working as there are no star trails, but the original image was so over exposed.

My settings:

118s | f2.8 | iso400

Should I be doing something like:

3mins | f10| iso200 ??

Thanks for any help!

K-x, apologies.

3 images from a few years ago in Paris, taken with a Pentax KX that I no longer own.

Found these 3 when reorganising my pictures and importing to Lightroom.










I've posted my favourite in the gallery also.

£400 seems a little pricey for this considering the 55-300mm F4-5.8 ED WR is currently £279.00 on SRS.

Looking forward to the reviews as I'm always looking to replace my 55-300 DA L with a WR.