The first and last are my favourites, Andrew. Interesting PP in the first one, what did you do?

K.

Thank you Peter. "Hertfordshire trees" is one I have printed A3 and will go on the wall when I have had it framed.

K.

Good film but the tag line: "pix your life"? Puh-leeaze!

K.

I think Algi was meaning the 2x aspect rather than the right-angled aspect. Obviously, one of the straight magnifiers (or the appropriate viewfinder on my LX) would do just as well.

K.

Fascinating how the background impacts on these shots. Only one of them has the infamous doughnut bokeh.

As to comparative technique it is, again, courses for horses. Ken needed dead sharp shots and had the time and equipment to make sure every one was bang on. Jon couldn't use that technique and I'll bet that a proportion of his shots ended up in the bin (almost certainly a smaller proportion of shots than if I had been trying, I am hopeless with long lenses!).

I keep looking at the Tamron 500mm on ebay, but there are so many lenses on my wish list that I haven't yet succumbed. I remember ogling that lens when it first came out in 1983!

K.

No problem.

I don't get nearly as much use out of my 43mm Ltd as I was expecting I would. I use the SMC-M 100mm f/2.8 and the SMC "K" 135mm f/2.5 much more. I do like the Ltd on my KX/LX/MX though.

K.

and multiply...




(sorry, couldn't resist! )

I know all about focusing on the screen as I do it with all the tilts and swings available on the view camera but the screen on the K20D is just too small to do that all the time. If the thing I want in focus isn't in the centre of the picture I focus on it with the split screen, reframe, then tweak the focus again. The DOF on my K 50mm f/1.2 isn't exactly huge but at least the image is nice and bright.

BTW, not many of my pictures have any text in them! I'm usually in the middle of a field...

I am glad that (a) you got it back and (b) that there is someone else like me who leaves stuff in the wrong place!

K.

The fun thing about the triforium shot is that it is almost 25 years old!

I blow hot and cold about the PPG and my submissions tend to be in widely spaced spurts.

K.