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Old 20-01-2011, 19:26   #31
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how could we forget the goat! I mean what else do we pay our tenners for - bugger all to do with cars!!!
if everyone started sticking to talking about cars all the time, i think most of us would get bored and leave
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Old 20-01-2011, 19:44   #32
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yep THAT'S the moon. you dont need an eye test either
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Old 21-01-2011, 15:42   #33
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Yep, it's the moon alright. So is this .........



I took that with a Pentax K200D using a 45 year old Tamron 400mm lens.

Don't get too hung up on makes & models of camera. It really doesn't matter. Just about all DSLRs (and most point & shoots too) are capable of taking superb photos. It's usually the wobbly organic bit behind the viewfinder that lets the camera down rather than the other way round.

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Old 21-01-2011, 15:54   #34
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Yep, it's the moon alright. So is this .........



I took that with a Pentax K200D using a 45 year old Tamron 400mm lens.

Don't get too hung up on makes & models of camera. It really doesn't matter. Just about all DSLRs (and most point & shoots too) are capable of taking superb photos. It's usually the wobbly organic bit behind the viewfinder that lets the camera down rather than the other way round.

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Great pic Andrew.

My only argument on the DSLR front is one specific to digital that only really expensive ones fix....and thats contrast. Even with an expensive Nikon using RAW format and good processing software (and I know other people with much more expensive kit with the same issue) its a PITA getting the maximum from a shot these days....oh for the digital equivalent of Kodachrome 64
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Old 21-01-2011, 16:15   #35
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I may be getting the wrong end of the stick, but that photo of the moon, looks like a fine example of contrast

I want to move up from our digital compacts as they are very limited, the auto settings menu's don't make allowance for things like 'low light' photos and just stick the flash on wether you want it or not. And if you turn it off the pictures aren't too clever. I am hoping moving up will give me more control, and of coure, the slr format a better 'framing' ability.

But to be honest i don't have a lot of money to spend on this hobby, without getting it in the neck fomr 'her indoors' so It will take a while before i buy anything at all.
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any one who has an aquarium and is into photography will understand this

these were the best pics i managed out of my bridge camera with the colors as you see them with the naked eye







was made worse by night light blue lol





this is what was seen with the eye but the rocks weren't so red



this is where a dslr was really handy to have but with the cost of running a tank and only using the camera for the fishy photos i couldn't justify the expense
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I'm not sure that's true.

Here's a few more photos .......... one was taken with a mobile phone; one with a 1.3Mpx Olympus point & shoot; one with a Ricoh KR10 35mm film camera and one with a Pentax K200D DSLR and 18-55mm kit lens.

I'm not sure it's at all obvious which is which. (Promise me you won't look at the EXIF data).

Deer ....


Amaryllis ....


Cuthbertson at Lix Toll garage near Killin .....


Horse & sheep .... Wales


Software for editing (improving?) photos is dead cheap these days - Photoshop Elements will do everything you need for less than 50 squids.

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Yeah but I'm just fussy.....

I'm guessing the sheep is the 1.3 megapixies....and I haven't looked so probably wrong and its the Landy.
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that's somehting else i could do with, decent photo software!
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that's somehting else i could do with, decent photo software!
seriously, Picasa has a lot of the enhancement tools the average snapper needs and their default auto levels are pretty good....oh and its free of course, always a bonus!

Its not something a concerned professional would use necessarily but its easy and very good.
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seriously, Picasa has a lot of the enhancement tools the average snapper needs and their default auto levels are pretty good....oh and its free of course, always a bonus!

Its not something a concerned professional would use necessarily but its easy and very good.
cheers for the tip
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cheers for the tip
and its a Google tool so well produced and supported. just do a search and download, doesn't take long.
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Picasa hangs on some XP boxes (it did on mine). If it does on yours, try Photoscape. It also is free, excellent & doesn't hang - it's possibly more complete than Picasa too.

So still no real idea which photos were taken by which cameras?? If you aren't sure (without cheating and looking at the EXIFs) then maybe it doesn't matter as much as some think. (Clue: the Cuthbertson shot is a scan from a 35mm Fuji Reala negative).

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