If you want to open a small Leeds branch I know of a photography enthusiast who'd love to work there (I spend half my time trying to sell technology to friends and family)...



Morley is quite a nice place but but I'm not too sure how much custom a camera shop there would get. Leeds centre is better for business but not anywhere near as pleasant as Morley.

Anyway, had no idea you were originally from up north, why move down to London? I'm not fond because it is so busy and crowded.


By the way impotentspider, were you aware that there is a specialist Samsung camera shop in York?

I want to play but can't really make it down to London tomorrow. I guess I'll have to wait until I can afford the *200 and *300 lenses to play with them

On a MacBook Air or a (newish) 15" MacBook Pro you should be able to see the full image fairly clearly thanks to the LED backlights.

I really would like an LED backlit screen for photo work but they are not available in 1920x1200 or higher resolutions.

I can see black from 2+ and White from 2+ so I'm only missing a little bit which is not too bad for a laptop.

Brightness and contrast are not the only things you need to adjust. You need to use the advanced colour features of your graphics card to asjust output brightness, contrast and gamma for each individual channel or use a calibration tool.

If this lens comes in DA* variety I'd be much happier with it than with the 12-24 as I want as little overlap as possible.

11-16
16-50
50-135
200
300

Sounds perfect...

I just got a 54x36cm (A2) print of one of my other half's landscape shots on matt fuji photographic paper. Absolutely amazing quality for £10 + P&P (£2.99 I think) with next day delivery from Photobox.

AFAIK You'd end up with a 100mm F5.6 Macro lens with greater than 1:1 magnification because of the closer focusing distance.

I did go for the K10D over the GX-10 so £100 was ok to me at the time. Still thought it was rather silly though.

£250

I just went into town to look around and found a slightly dusty but otherwise perfect M400 F5.6 lens in a second hand shop (they also have a website). I know there were a few people on here looking for a 300mm or longer manual lens a while back.

I was really tempted to get it but can't really afford it at the moment