It took years of practice...

I was, honest guv. The bird was faster!

Hells bells I paid a bit more than that for mine

I have found that I am a bit lazy when using the K10D. With my LX (or whatever) I think around all the highlights, lowlights, grey scales and such and meter accordingly. With the K10D I check the aperture and shutter speed and ASA (enough DOF, fast enough for camera shake, low as I can get away with), take the photo, check the histogram, tweak the exposure with the exposure comp button, take it again, check again, if necessary take a third. This is all fine if your subject doesn't move (or doesn't get bored easily) but not much use in some situations. One reason I like to keep shooting some film is that it forces me to remember all those exposure skills I learnt the hard way shooting transparencies as a poor school-kid / student!

Alan, one tip. Get in the habit of setting the exp comp back to zero at the end of a shot. Nothing more annoying that grabbing a quick photo then remembering the last shot you took required a +2 compensation and you latest photo is all washed out!

Have fun. Cheers, Kris.

I may well take you up on that when I get back from the US.

Thanks for the info and links all.

Best wishes, Kris.

I am not entirely sure what you are asking! Do you mean: "what do you think about putting borders and captions around photos?"

I have a Bell and Howell K-mount 135mm which essentially came free with a camera body I purchased. I have never used it. Is it junk or not too bad?

K.

That was my take on it. I'm in no rush. Having said that it took them over seven months to find a Pentax remote control by which time I had flown to NYC and bought one over the counter at 17th Street Photo.

Photographing wildlife isn't one of my strong points. My girlfriend suggests I publish a collection of animal behinds...

Anyway, I thought this one might make the serious birdie snappers here smile! Enjoy. No C&C needed, but feel free to take the michael.

Lovely shot, but I think you have overdone the saturation or the sharpening or both. A little too "in your face" perhaps?

Best wishes, Kris.