Film was fantastic at the time, I used it for 22 years.
I do miss the time in the darkroom and the enlarging and printing....but now that's it.

When the Pentax *ist D came out, I bought it straight away. I sold both my film cameras and that was it.

I had a weak moment last year when I almost, almost bought a Nikon F5...but it was a silly dream.

Something Womble wrote earlier: b) Digital makes me lazy, film makes me think.
I don't have that problem, set the camera to manual and that makes me think.
I love digital and there is defintley no going back


Paul

Tell you the truth, I mainly use manual focus as I hate it when the auto-focus takes time to "lock on" to a object specially if the object is small and in between leaves.

Unless this is just me of course.

I have lost many a good shot because of this problem.

Younger photographers won't understand going back in time as it were to manual focus. Everything has got to be auto.

I bet there aren't many people that turn auto off completely on the DSLR's. I always think that the only way to learn how to use your camera properly is to turn it to manual. Manual focus, metering, exposure, etc.

This is how it was taught old school and it's the way I know. I sometimes look at these new cameras as a way of cheating. People stick them on auto everything and say they know how to use a camera, but shove an old camera in front of them where you have to do everything yourself, then they are lost.


Rant over


Paul

I have just read the comments from the start, my first comment states that I agree with the above. What I meant was that I agreed that the images looked a little flat. I do not agree with PaulyRichard though (sorry).

I do really like the images and Kris, I do think they will look good printed in a set.

I personally would print them nice and big and have the mount and frame hand made.

Paul

As someone who has only ever used SLR's and DSLR's and my wifes awful Nikon compact, and believe me it's an awful camera - (I do like Nikon so it's not that reason) - I just wondered what the benefits of having a bridge camera are.

I suppose for some, lugging a DSLR around everywhere you go is a pain, but don't you notice a lack of quality in your shots???

Please don't think that I am having a dig at anyone, that's not my intention at all. I mean sometimes I get tempted to purchase one but I think that I would regret not having my DSLR's around just in case a once in a lifetime shot came about.

On the other hand, my father in-law has a Panasonic Bridge and ironically I helped him choose it. He wants to upgrade it now as it's a little old. This X70 could be right up his street.

Paul

Just wanted to say that both my PC and laptop are calibrated and I calibrate every week, but I still find them a tad flat to MY liking.

Everyone has their personal choices on how contrasty an image should be. If Kris likes the shot this way then who are we to argue.

Paul

Agree with above, more contrast needed

Paul

What's an instruction manual???



Paul

Basically Google Ads pick up on the words used on this website, so obvioulsy Pentax is used alot and so is photography. The ads are related to the content. I guess the reason you sometimes get the odd obscene one is because of the section in the gallery "Nude and Glamour".

The reason the ads are on here is because everytime an ad is clicked, the website creator gets money from Google. It's not a great deal for the odd advert but it does add up. Some people make hundreds of thousands of pounds out of it.

As some people have suggested, you can download Ad Blockers to your Internet Explorer. Personally I use Firefox (also known as Mozilla) for all my surfing as it's safer and the add on's are fantastic.

Paul

Edited: the usual dodgy spelling

The thing is with stock libraries is that there are so many contributors of high calibre shots, the competition is huge. You may have taken what you think is an outstanding image but you can bet anything that that shot has been done already by an established photographer on that or any of the other many libraries out there.

My advice to you is to set up a decent website, put your images on there with a facility to pay online. Then advertise your site, really advertise it. Then sell them from yr site.

I have been to craft fairs, shopping centres, christmas events, etc and sold my work and made a nice respectable amount from each of them. I have a good website, or should I say - had a good website until a server went down and lost everything, I am now in theprocess of building another one - so yes I have sold from my website and again I do well from that.

Your own websites show your work and your work only, it's a great way to start and finish.

Also with some libraries they won't allow photographs that are taken in the J-peg format. They prefer RAW, just so you are aware of that.


Paul

I think she loves me more as she is so desperate for me that this is the second time she has personally written to me!

Cor I sound desperate

Paul