That`s the best chuckle i have had all week! Great story!


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Sorry, I prefer to keep that to myself as it is only a small affair with fewer than 400 photographers submitting work.
However if you have a copy of the Freelance Photographers Market Handbook you will find several that accept only Tiff files.

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Samsung appear to be set to produce own brand SD and CF Cards...link]]

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I don`t use Jpegs in my everyday Photograpy, I shoot for a Stock Photolibrary, They only accept Tiff Files in Adobe colour space, Cconverted from RAW so this is the way i work, If i need the occasional Jpeg then i use the RAW + Jpeg button (or make an extra conversion from the RAW file).

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Just had a quick peek at your pics, i prefer the Castle shot, Although i find the bird a little distracting, The Cow shot could benefit from a tad of cropping on the right hand side, Partly to remove the head sticking out of the rear end and partly to remove some of the bright sky which is drawing my eye away from the main subject. But both are very nice shots so well done!

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I have to agree with Dr Munhi, I love my K7 to bits but if buying on a budget then the K20 will do magnificently and give you much more to spend on higher spec lenses. You can always get a K7 when the price drops and keep the K20 as a backup.

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My first Pentax was bought in 1975 {a KM) when the company was at the peak of its popularity. At the time the only real alternatives were Nikon and Olympus. But it was the quality and price of the lenses as well as the superb Body that swung it for me. Nikon Lenses were just unaffordable in the focal lengths that i wanted to buy and Independent lenses either did not give true Maximum aperture ( Say F5.6 on the barrel but actually F or they would drop to bits with intensive use over a year or two! I have 3 Film SLR`s and 6 Prime lenses from 20mm up to 300mm f4 which i still use regularly on my K7. I have a couple of DA* lenses which i find terrific on this Camera but i will sell these when Pentax eventually bring out a Full Frame DSLR and replace all of my lenses with FF. I came very close to buying a 5D mk 2 and lenses but now i`m really glad that i did`nt!!!

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For Framing i use a pootatuck Lion Mitre Trimmer bought over 20 years ago, You can make precision cuts with it even as fine as a hairs breadth. To assemble the frame i use a normal PVA wood glue and then fit string around the outside into which i place wooden wedges pushed tightly into the corners until the glue is completely dry. For the Mount i use a Logan Bevelled matt cutter and an aluminium rule with a stainless steel giude down one side. From one normal sheet of board i can get a double mount 40x50mm ish in size and one frame from a 9 ft length of moulding with enough offcuts to make another frame from every four lengths.Plus of couse the centre cut out of the mounting board can be used for smaller images.I get my 2mm glass either plain or non reflective cut by the local Undertakers! and i use 2mm MDF for the back cut with a stanley knife. I make small saw cuts around the edge of the board so that the tiny pins can be partially buried in the MDF. A small hammer is used to drive the pins into the frame. Then i apply brown paper tape over the pins and about 1/4 inch over the frame at the back. I finish off with brass eyes and gold coloured wire or Nylon cord, Allowing extra length so that it can be adjusted for mounting on a wall.

Hope that helps.

Regards - Pete.

Between 1975 and 1985 i had been a member of over a dozen Camera Clubs (often as many as 3 at any one time), I used to enter Transparencies, B/W and Colour Prints and every year i would win the Annual Trophy in at least one category and occasionally all 3! Even against stuff taken with Hasselblad Cameras. I returned to one of the Clubs last year just to see if it was worthwhile re-joining, But decided against it. I would rather be out taking pictures rather than talking about it!

Regards - Pete.

Buy a copy of the Freelance Photographers Market Handbook, Under £10 for the 2010 edition from Amazon.

Best Regards - Pete.