I love the idea of this one. I shall spend the next week wandering around my girlfriend's house looking for potential!

Personally I love monochrome photographs, just not too good at taking them.

Cheers, Kris.

Not being that daft I took an old 49mm Pentax filter and bashed that on my knee in a cupped hand wearing a glove. I hurt my knee.

As I say, 25 years and I have never ever seen a broken filter* but I have seen my ignorant staff scrubbing at the front of a lens with any old grubby bit of cloth that comes to hand. I am not using the filter to protect against big thumps, but from dirt and the occasional small sharp object being dropped into the bag (e.g. my handy hotshoe-fitting spirit level). I use the filters to protect my lenses from the sort of abuse they get on a regular basis. In an ideal world I wouldn't be cack-handed, my staff wouldn't be ignorant about all-things photographic, and I'd be 25 again. Courses for horses...

Cheers, Kris.

*I lie. I once saw a tripod-mounted Nikon fall over onto a stone cairn. The filter broke but the lens was also rammed backwards into the camera body and the whole thing was a write-off.

Just a leaf in winter shot whilst out walking.




The depth of field could have been greater but the thing was blowing in the wind a little. C&C welcome as always.

Kris.

Some nice photos there. One suggestion: if you learn to use the histogram feature on the K10 (either when you take the shot, or when you review it) you can avoid having burnt out highlights. This will often mean the shot looks very dark, but it still has data that can be retrieved in software afterwards. Having said that, the dynamic range (i.e. the range of values from darkest to brightest) in the fourth shot is probably too great and using some form of HDR technique might be needed.

I also find that unless done for deliberate effect, wonky horizons and converging verticals can ruin a really good shot.

Having said all that, you have some nice shots there and a good eye. Have fun taking photos with the K10!

If you shoot RAW you can then try the various white balance pre-sets and see which one you like best. If one is close, you can then tweak the balance from there.

HTH. Kris.

No idea, but some of the competition have GPS built in so I guess that is what it will be. My phone, I discovered after I had bought it, has GPS built in!

Cheers, Kris.

Thanks John, useful info on CS2 (or 3 in my case). I hadn't spotted the "bicubic sharper" for reducing images. That is the problem with PS/CS etc., so many functions that one only spots a small fraction of them!

In general, however, I think using transform (as Darkmunk's printer suggests) is unlikely to be as good as "proper" resizing. I don't have a printer here to test, and it is unlikely I'll be able to judge from the screen of a laptop!

Cheers, Kris.

The ideal would be a button like the "RAW" one. One push, and adds the GPS EXIF data to the image. Given how configurable the K10/K20 is I wouldn't be surprised if this was possible. For example, I do not use my one-push RAW button as I shoot in RAW all the time, so perhaps I could assign it to be the GPS button instead. There are times when I would find the GPS setting very useful (in archaeological field survey for example) but as beakynet suggested, I would not want it on for every shot.

Cheers, Kris.

I haven't done tests but this seems an odd way to do this. On the rare occasions I have had to increase a file size I usually do it by a series of small steps in the usual resize menu. I have often read recommendations for "Genuine Fractals" software but that seems a bit pricy for a one off picture. Perhaps someone on here has it and is willing to do a single file....

What I would really like is a piece of software which compares the contents of directories A, B and C on one hard disk with a second disk, and then copies the new files (or newer files) across so that the listed directories are exact mirrors of each other.

I am using a PC, and we are talking about 200 gigs or so, so not a commercial operation.

Any recommendations?

Thanks, Kris.