OK Mike - I wasn't being totally honest about my travel bag - that was the Egypt version - for the Greek island annual trip, add DA F 100 & FA31 & 43 Ltds .

If I sacrifice some more cloths this year, then the DA*300 gets to go - been trying to get a decent shot of a Scop's Owl that lives around the road down to Ftginia. B***** thing sees a longish lens on a camera, works out the range of it and fly's off just in time to sit on an inaccessible rock outcrop well out of range and has a good laugh at me . That's if it can be bothered to show up .


Steve

Jules - I suffer from advanced LBS - but when you travel abroad, you have to select the best range of lenses you can get away with - so my current travelling set normally comprises the DA*16-50 & 60-250, DA10-17 & 12-24, FA24-90 and Sigma 135-400 with the K7 and an MZ-S packed in a Lowepro Slingshot 200 with external LCs attached (which detach and fix to my waist if their is any hint of it being weighed at the check in :lol.


Steve

Jules - find it a perfect foil for the DA*16-50 which is the lens that sits on my K7 most of the time.

It's a lovely lens - a definite must have.


Steve

Gareth - silly question maybe - were you working with a .dng or a .jpg file?

Pentax lens profiles not available with .jpg images. In fact, IIRC, lens corrections only supposed to work with RAW files.

Steve

Chris @ SRS - if you pick this up - are you down for an allocation? And if so, price of body & grip (assuming as K10 Grand Prix) expected to be at nsp or nsp+?

Due a cheque about the right time and was planning a lump to go in the direct of a K5. So could be up for it!


Steve

Adrian - you live over the river from me, judging by the info in your location header.

Happy to lend you one of my duplicate bodies MZ50 (fully functional copies) or an MZ5 (flash doesn't pop up - spring's gone) if you want to 'try before you by'.

PM me if your interested - drive by your part of town every night on the way home from the Uni.


Steve

Fuji's Velvia 50 is probably THE best slide film around. Colour saturation is quite brilliant. It ceased production for about 18m then Fuji brought it back after a lot of pressure from Pro users. Velvia 100 is also very good and I've shot a lot of rolls of it with good results all the way (quality of my input hasn't always matched that of the film though :blush.

Velvia's stable mate Provia also worth a try. Supposed to have a good tolerance to being pushed or pulled compared to Velvia.

The only thing you need to remember with slide film is you need to be far more accurate with your exposures than with digital or print films.


Steve

I've used Super A's a lot and v fond of them. The Programme A is the same but for a few added function such as TV and TTL flash.

I'd endorse pretty well all that Matt said in his posting, other than my preference for film would be Fuji Pro 160C. This version has a slight bias towards green, so good for landscapes.

I've used colour process B & W films but haven't found the results that pleasing (Fuji Neopan 400C).

Your SMC A 35-105 isn't quite wide enough - need to go down to 28mm or wider such as a 24mm (if you can find one at an affordable price).

Steve

Think the answer is simpler still.

Image files on a card are no different to files on your hard drive. DELETE doesn't actually do what it says - just changes the file in such away as to allow it to be over written and thus freeing up spare space. Which why you can recover 'deleted' files.


Steve

+1

I print via LR3 (and it's previous versions). Never found any limitations - you can create you own templates if there isn't quite what you want.

Bought CS3E with my Uni staff discount but rarely use it. If I use any thing else, it's normally Faststone's 2 programmes to bulk rename files to my system or to resize (for uploading to Gallery etc).


Steve