The last colour one, and I like also very much the B & W one.

One thing on the last colour one for me the grass behind is too bright.

Thanks Matt, sounds like Silver is the one I will go for.

Thanks Matt,

followed your search pattern, found some umbrellas that look interesting. For portraits would you use white umbrella more than silver? That is my reading of the product information.

Hi Don,

Thanks for your comments. With umbrellas can I still use wireless mode?

Thanks everyone for this thread. I learnt how to set my camera flash and have taken far better images with my new k10d and AF-360 using wireless mode.

Very good.

Makes me feel that another 360 would be pretty good. Both 360 units on table tripods bounced off white ceiling and triggered from the camera by on board flash. As I do not have a studio, this would be a good set up OR ???

Agreed lovely model.

For me the background is too distracting.

Fill-in flash would help and definitely a different background, even if it was just the wall would improve the image a lot.

Too complex and for some people probably not so easy to read the text and phone number. For me at any rate it is too much image.

I would remove the bottom left mirror image and centre the present bottom right image. Then I would lighten the whole image by a very small amount.

Also you have an orphaned "@mac.com" in white in the middle, and above that the telephone number, I would remove them because this duplicates what you have at the bottom (tel and email) and at the same time make bolder the telephone number and email address at the bottom so it stands out more.

On Linux, Gimp and UFRAW can be used for both PEF and DNG.

You can use Extensis Portfolio on either Windows or Mac to catalogue and archive both above-mentioned formats.

My set-up is a secondhand 450 MhZ Powermac with 1GB ram. This works fine, it always finishes jobs, has never fallen over, but takes it time sometimes i.e. not the fastest but always works.

I use GIMP on Mac, Elements and have recently downloaded Silkypix Studio free version.

Silkypix Studio is amazing software for developing your negatives (pef/dng)
Elements is great for removing distractions, getting rid of red eye and a whole host of other things that probably I will never have a need for ......

Exactly. You always get what you pay for. The Limited refers to production quantities. The lenses are super and images taken with them are excellent.

I have the two dfa macros, 100mm and just acquired second-hand the 50mm macro. I think it is true to say for stamps, coins and other small objects, where wind is not involved then the 50mm is the one to use. Everything else like flowers, insects, butterflies, then the 100mm is your friend.

That's half the story though, because both can be used for portraits or just about anything else. I think these two lenses are marvellous. For the prices, I would prefer production quality to be along the lines of the pancakes which I also have, however one cannot have everything in this life without compromise!