These are great Iqbal. I like the dof effect in the first, the backlighting in the second, and the expressions caught in the last. But the third would have been 'shot of the day', if only the focus was perfect!

Nice exposures and tones.

All the best Simon. Really enjoying the 10-20mm, by the way!

Why did you make it a colour problem then? You identified the problem with your school as being that it was 70% black, whereas you could have just said it was a rough / disadvantaged school. I don't think there's anything wrong with moving to posher areas to get your kids a better education, but why make race the main issue as to why your local school was underperforming?

Sounds terrific. Reckon white'd be nice too.

DFA WR prime lenses.

Keep the midrange model K-7 sized, 10fps 16mp sensor with low noise and 1080 video. Announce plans for a FF sensor.

£60 is more like the s/hand price for the Tamron. I'd wait and see if the 50-200 kit lens - nice and compact and optically very good - was enough.

The A80-200 takes up far less space and is lighter than the 55-300, with more reliable focussing lol. Can't really help re compacts but the panasonic lx3 seems to have great iq, whereas casio have some tremendously fast shooting compacts.

If Father Ted's photo doesn't encourage you to visit, I don't know what will!

At the moment it is raining stair rods outside.... fierce and aggressive rain.... makes me wish for a WR lens, it's very dramatic.

(I pass this castle twice a day on my day to and from work).

I never had much luck with pano's, they would never merge or blend very well - there was always a blurred area where they didn't quite match. But I recently had a go using the F 35-70mm lens, and PSE7's photostitch, and was surprised to see the results.... I have crawled all over the image at 100%, and can't see a blade of grass out of place!

Either 35mm is a very good 'straight' focal length for pano's, or PSE7 is just much better at merging photos (there did seem to be more options)... or both!




A large version of the image here (warning, it's VERY large :mrgreen:link

Now I'm ready to try this out on some slightly more interesting scenes!

May as well keep it for shooting when you feel there's a risk of getting mugged for your camera, or use it as permanent an M42 body as Tony (Tozza) does. Bet it still takes great shots though eh?