Absolutely... cosmic... shots. So beautiful, just such sad consequences down on the ground

Monkey in the rain - - - Just superb! I hope you can retrieve some of the blown highlights but it's lovely anyway.

It is a lot quieter.

'Course if the aperture is wide open, it really will be silent!

Or proof that PITA Mac users are more likely to actively seek out threads like this and bother voting in such polls?

I work in a design practice, using Macs, and there is no practical reason for us to be using Macs... in fact we have to run Windows on a 'virtual machine' simply in order to use Autocad. I can only conclude it's because designers like the 'look' of Mac hardware and software ("Oooh, shiny!"), and think PC's are for accountants

I have found a little app which makes my Mac experience slightly less painful though: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/30591/right-zoom

Very good price. They must be shifting them out to make way for the newer models. Don't forget to register the camera online for special offers link

Isn't that the opposite of what he's saying? Marginal light rays being less perpendicular, they are simply not picked up by the sensor and therefore don't contribute to exposure or the softness and size of out of focus blur.

However if this was the case in practice surely people would have noticed? The camera can covertly 'gain up' the image to counteract underexposure without you knowing, but it can't hide the appearance of OOF areas.

You will be running exactly the same software on a mac and will have to pay more for equivalent performance compared to Windows PC. I use a mac for work and PC at home. I've had photoshop crash without warning at work many times, never at home! The mac user interface is also annoying- can't maximise windows, resulting in a confusion of open windows behind the one you are working on. Windows is clunky but easy to use.

For the internet etc think of size in pixels e.g. 600 pixels long for the gallery here. That would also be a decent size for ebay although sometimes I go up to about 1000 pixels.

The resolution is then academic as the image will always display at the screen resolution - 72dpi usually - no matter what resolution you save at.

In photoshop my resizing drill is: 1 - resize to 600 pixels along the longest edge. 2 - Use the unsharp mask filter to restore sharpness lost during the resizing process. 3 - Save as high quality jpeg.

Definitely quite frightening!

Good job he's a Pentax user!

Good blog btw, think I'll bookmark that. Liked this piece of advice: