If it is any good! No promises... you get what you pay for

We do seem to be having a bird phase but I am sure it'll pass when Scott has a picture of every bird ever to grace the shores of this fair Isle. Well, his back garden anyway.

These things come and go. Post some photos, start a trend!

Only by looking it up. "Watching" means that an ebay member has added it to their watch list. It is the same as if I had bookmarked an item instead of clicking on watch. Ebay just wouldn't know! The sniping tools just keep a list of ebay item numbers.

If you read the whole of Tel's original question --- which I'll admit wasn't very well phrased (sorry Tel) --- you can see that he wanted to know what zoom level on the camera is equivalent to looking at picture at 100% on the computer screen. Most of the rest of the thread has been discussing exactly that question.

Somebody elsewhere has commented that the phrase "100% crop" is not very accurate although it has, through common usage, come to mean "part of an image viewed at 1 pixel = 1 pixel" and, as you are obviously aware, has become a common way of assessing the sharpness of an image.

What we are all trying to get at --- I think! --- is the simple issue of how far to zoom into the preview image to check the focus of a picture.

Best wishes, Kris.

I'm guessing that terje's K200D is about the same screen size as the K10D although that is a guess!

Cheers, Kris

As for overpriced lenses, how about this one? Annoying that she refused to change the inaccurate description (it isn't an M-series lens but a K series) claiming the 'M' just means it is manual focus.

I got my example a few weeks back for 66 quid

About 6 to 7 times approximately.

We're talking about the screen on the back of the camera. The question was: what zoom factor do you need to use on the camera to get a 1 pixel = 1 pixel image. The size of the laptop screen is thus irrelevant, although of course the model of camera is (e.g. the K10D v. the K20D).

Best wishes, Kris.

Are you sure that helicopter can lift that much weight?

Next I'll discover there are fairies at the end of the garden and Father Christmas is real...

Thanks for posting that Reuben, very interesting.

Blimey, I am a nerd (and proud of it).