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Reasonable lens I think, just a bit plasticky. I took this with it - not the best shot I ever took, it was dark and I was wallowing on the floor trying to get a sharp shot with slow shutter speeds / wide apertures:

The shot is cropped quite a bit, maybe 50%.

It's not a full 1:1 macro, only 1:2, so you need a close up filter. For about £50 you can't go wrong, but I wouldn't pay a lot more than that.

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on cosina 100 macro AF at 22/07/2011 - 16:21

Rest and be thankful you didn't have to schlep a big heavy zoom up here, perhaps?

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on older Prime vs newer Zoom at 22/07/2011 - 16:16

Algernon wrote:
The shot mountain underneath the church interior on the page I gave before looks really weird the way it's sharp in the centre and soft at the edge.

There's no indication of aperture used, and the shot's on film... looks to me like the aperture was f2.8 and the focus was on the lamp post.... http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn172/chakrata/ce6e5af1.jpg

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on older Prime vs newer Zoom at 22/07/2011 - 16:13

If we're having a love-fest for this lens (the Superwide II) let's not forget it does close-ups rather well too:

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on older Prime vs newer Zoom at 22/07/2011 - 16:09

It was a well taken shot and you've had some good advice for getting it better last time - get 'em just before their lips meet, and take careful note of the background to save fussing about in PS later on

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on My first attempt at portraiture at 22/07/2011 - 15:33

Smeggypants wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJH9F7Hcluo

Excellent video about a bunch of snappers who went into the City of London and took photographs in a pulic place.

having been to Canary wharf a couple of weeks ago, I experience almost exactly the same approaches from security

Excellent video, refreshing to see the coppers on message AT LAST!!! And I hope those security guards learned something from the whole timewasting experience! ::

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on Stand your ground!! at 22/07/2011 - 15:25

I'm terrible with numbers too Don, but I don't have dyscalcula - I'm just bit thick!

That was a great video, I thought with the epic music you used for it, that you were going to culminate in the stand-off with the park official

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on Stand your ground!! at 22/07/2011 - 15:09

Yes of course, True Stories. I didn't know that about Egglestone, but I can see contemporary photography style all over that film. The obsession with highway interchanges, metal buildings, and flat ultra-drab agricultural landscapes reminds me of Gursky.

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on Has anyone seen... at 22/07/2011 - 14:32

Was never one for working with my hands

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on Welding Mask Glass at 22/07/2011 - 12:42

Plastic spines (the type used for binding reports) could be used for tidying any sharp edges.

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on Welding Mask Glass at 22/07/2011 - 10:16

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