My other hobby besides photography is going to the odd dog show and taking portaits of the dogs. I usualy ask the owner to stand the dog at an angle were I get a shot front and side and focus on the eyes and try to get a nice depth of feild to try and provide detail across the body. Can anyone offer more help or ideas please. Also many photographers when taking portraits at these shows seem to use zoom lenses when they have the dog at there finger tips and can posistion the dog anyware I wonderd why when surely a better result would be got using a prime lens say 50 or 70mm.

I was having problems with my k 100 D with verticle and horozontals not been true when images were procsesed on my computer. I contacted pentax at there Slough workshops and they agreed there was a problem and I was told to send the camera for repair. After 6 days I recived what I thought was my camera back after repair, on inspection I found they had sent me a brand new camera. My old one was 10 months into the warranty so Im well chuffed.

Cheers mate yes me to there are a team of stone masons who are permenantly employed to the up keep of the building. There is much more to photograph and plenty to keep anyone visiting for a photo shoot busy all day. I find something new every time I visit.

Views of Durham cathederel May 2008

Well for what it's worth Terry the k100 D has given me alot of nice photos and Im very happy with it.

Pentax k100D and sigma 10/20.

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Came across this offer today.

Hi Rob still trying to get my head round it some pros and cons at the moment but will keep at it.

Sunderland glass ctr taken with pentax k100D and sigma 10/20.

Always a hard pill to swallow loosing a much loved pet.It took me months to get over the loss when I lost my dog some years ago. However thats a lovely photo of him sorry for your loss.