Not a group, and not in south Lincs, but I'm not far. Based in Sunny (HAH!) Newark, so about 20 minutes south of Lincoln.

Chris, probably no name badge, but will be identifiable by cowboy hat, shemagh, and over friendly Rottie...

As long as you shoot in RAW, you can process the file at a number of different exposure compensations to get a good series of files for an HDR run.

It's not meant to be as good as actually taking the different exposures, but, it can be a good compromise for those times that taking a series of shots is impractical, for example moving subjects or unstable shooting platform.

Went shooting in London... (now, that's a phrase that's bound to be setting alarms off!) a few months ago with a friend from the States.

Now, I'm fairly familiar with London, having lived there with my wife and in-laws before heading to the Midlands, and I'm well versed on my rights, and I was half expecting to have to discuss my K10d at some point.

As it was, nothing. No drama. Photos of the Houses of Parliment, Bridges, Buses, Trafalgar, etc etc. No problems at all, despite the battery grip, and zoom lens.

Not found a significant loss in quality from using a UV filter and a circular polarising filter on my Sigma lens. On the other hand, I now feel compelled to do some comparison shots!

*laughs*

Well, I'll be there. I may not post much, but I keep an eye on the forum enough!

The email's enough to decloak me *laughs*

Of course, living in Newark makes things a lot easier, makes a good excuse to go the Sherwood and take the dog.

I'll be the guy trying to take pictures while being pulled around by a Rottie...

It does make framing interesting!

Without wanting to seem patronising...

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Hope that helps.

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Well, I have to say, my Milestone cameras are largely influenced by my personal experience.

I don't really remember what they were, but I started getting into photography with 110's.

But my first 'proper' camera was a Zenit 35mm SLR. A lot of great photo's taken with that camera. I took it to Africa with me, when everyone else had fancy automatic SLRs from Canon, Nikon and the like. I'll tell you one thing, having a completely mechanical SLR is great when you're anywhere near Victoria/Livingstone Falls. Everyone else on the truck found their camera's packed up for a couple of days until they dried out. Mine was still snapping away! Ended up with 2 of them, and still have one of them, the other donated for use as a prop.

But, they did influence me, those fancy SLRs, so I got I looked around, compared cameras, and for some reason, the Penta MZ-7 called to me. I've always had a soft spot for Pentax's, so on return to the UK, left over holiday money went on that with a Sigma 28mm-300mm lens that had just won What Camera's Best Lense award.

Loved the camera, but never really had an excuse to use it, as not long after my misus and I got into Digital photography, and taking piccies on film just got hard to justify. The Panasonic Lumix FX-8 is a lovely compact, and goes with me all the time.

But... I've always hankered after a Digital SLR, and I love Pentax. Given that the Pentax Digital SLR's would work with my existing lense added to the appeal, so I hankered some more, and pinned a bit.

Then came this thread. https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/topic/Please-Help--What-camera-6866

And now, I have to say, that I think I have found a Camera that has overtaken from my love of my dear Zenit. The K10d is an amazing camera, and so much more then the Canon's or Nikon's that other folk I know have. While I doubt it's going to have such a great impact in the world as large, to me, the Pentax K10, with weather sealing, backwards lense compatibility, and the amazing features blow me away.I grew up with a completely manual SLR, so having so much control over the camera is like a dream come true.

So thanks to my now Wife, and all of the advice from you on the forum for bringing me to one of my milestone cameras!