Wow one more for the pot

Number one for me. I must give that a go in our own harbour

Pentaxian!!!!!!! Well I be ..., I have just joined the elite. Thanks to all my fans and voters. Signed photoes available

Thanks Martin, I will give the dioptre a go today and see what happens, if this does not work then I will contact Sigma. When this shot was setup the puffins eye was dead centre in my viewfinder (I cropped the image to remove dead space) and is in the centre of the RAW file. However as Stephan pointed

Ken: I'll have a go with the dioptre tomorrow and see if life gets any better.

Stefan: I have looked at the original raw file and I think you are right.

Thanks again for all your help
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Thanks gartmorem, the irony is I took my UV filter off in preferance to my polorizer.
Regarding the tripod, I took a series of experimental shots with my camera mounted. They were all set too manual focus, 250mm, iso 100, shake reduction off and every f stop the lighting conditions allowed. The result was always the same, poor focus. At first I thought it could be a problem with the cameras viewfinder however carrying out the same tests with my 18-55 kit lens rules this out. Any thoughts on how I could confirm where the fault lies, me, the lens, the camera.:

Thanks far all the constructive help, I am constantly impressed as to how helpful everyone is on this site.

Don: I'll fire up Photoshop and give that a go.
Dan: Thanks for the link it was most illuminating if you forgive the pun.

Do you think I should have used a different white balance setting to compensate?

Darkmunk & Martin:


I used my Sigma 70-300 f5.6 for this shot and it is proving the a constant frustration, if I don’t shoot at around f8 the focus gets even worse. Any suggestions on how I could tweak the camera to compensate or do I drop it in a skip and start again.

Thanks Again

I took this image on a very bright day on Inner Farn, Northumberland. I used my Sigma 70-300 f5.6 lens and a HOYA Digital Pro 1 polarizer. The Image was taken at ISO 100, F8 (although the Exif data reports f6.9) 1/100 sec. Although initially please with the image the blue sheen on top of the fish and around the chest area is starting to annoy me. Is this caused by my novice inability to use the polarizer , a common side effect of using a polarizer, or something even more mysterious than that.


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Just had a look at the text, that looks spot on to me. I realy like new layout as well.

Nathan regarding the grey on the mouse rollover, my wife has a visual impairment, so this is a subject close to my heart if you get what I mean. . She would never see the greyed menu options and would sit looking blankly at the screen not knowing where to click.
Nice Images though