Grrr... As soon as I saw 200mm f4 I was excited. I really want the A version of this lens

I have no idea what it would go for but the A versions are expensive.

9 image composite assembled at full resolution from each crop. The whole image is just over 6000x6000px.




Built a little flash reflector for close up work with my DA 18-55 set at 55mm. It close focuses to get a 3:1 magnification which is not bad.

Elements seems to crash as soon as I am working with more than one 10MP PSD or a PSD larger than 50MB. This is extremely irritation as I'd like to combine a 600MB 22 layered macro image into a flat full detail image with large DoF. Secondly I'm trying to work on a collage image of 260MB and if it has not crashed, it slows down to a frozen snail's pace (inside a glacier).

My PC is a reasonably high specification and does not lack RAM, 2GB, so that is really not the issue.



Does GIMP run any better? Last time I installed it it did lots of weird things and told me I had no hard disks. So I removed it and was put off.

EDIT: Finally got it to do what I wanted without crashing image in next post.

What I really don't understand is how you ended up with it rotated in the first place. All TVs work in one orientation which is landscape.

Do you know how to get to the hue/saturation menu? This would be easier if the background was plain. You could always use the dodge tool on just the red rose. Actually there are so many ways of going about this that I'm not sure which one to recommend.

I've actually seen a strange problem where a UV filter causes the green channel to clip on the S20Pro. It may be coincidence but, it seems to happen only with the filter on. The sensor has a huge dynamic range but that seems to vanish.

The last Metz flash I looked at wad the same. You load the cells into a battery cartridge and are ready to go

Ah, clever...

Or you could post the fix here for everyone to see...

Very lucky with the wind blowing offshore. I've already commented on the whole set of pictures (there are more in case nobody has looked at his gallery).

Wonderful colour and power.