Recent content by bellebouche

Thanks footman - do you brew at all... or just a consumer?! ;)

A rare opportunity for me talk about photography and beer at the same time! ocb3 by adrianfoden, on Flickr After a dayjob I spend much of my spare time out and about shooting... and after that I make a bit of beer in my downtime. It's another hobby that I'm reasonably serious about and...

As an invitee of an artiste you should have no issue but check if any accreditation is required. At a festival in France a few weeks ago all DSLRs were confiscated at the entrance by site security (left on consignment in a shed!) I made do with a G9

The 'tune' option allows you to use a dropper on a colour wheel to pick a WB point if one doesn't exist in your source image. I've saved a number of 'recipes' that only have WB adjust settings in them... sometimes useful in a creative sense but mostly just finetune using that control above.

Thankyou, everyone, for your feedback and input. I've pondered doing nothing and sticking with manual focus for a week or two now... I still have 50mm capability but know it's limitations. So, I decided that the plastic-fantastic f1.8 was probably the thing to go for again. I had 5 years...

In a minor butter-fingered rush to shoot a hen-harrier having a go at some chicks in my garden my old faithful nifty-fifty f1.8 hit the deck, sprang apart. I put it back together again and the AF now seeks wildly (on an EOS40D) before its locks on so it's effectively consigned to manual focus...

Mine took a little time to arrive, performance has been fine in a Canon G9 I'm pleased at the 32Gb for £20 deal - excellent

I have to say, I'm rather fond of them. I bought a lowepro rucksack last year from my memory (actually via Amazon with them as a marketplace seller as it was cheaper than on their own product pages) Key things - you can pay in pounds (and the pound is very depressed against the Euro) and...

In your case Stewart I'd say Stacking, not tracking! Shooting at the wide end of a 10-22 for the big splash of the milky way you'll be better off with a lot of darks, a lot of medium 15/20 second exposures and letting registax or some such do all the maths and the clever stuff. Star...

The specs on that page quote the maximum resolution as 1680 x 1050 (WSXGA+) Not a big deal for anyone that's just using it for photography but that's not quite full HD resolution is it?

Is that 1600 or 16oo. There's a difference. I suspect you have the Highlight tone Priority custom function set.

The power switch has an effect. There's Off, On, and then On a bit more. More stuff happens if you have it in the 'On-a-bit-more' hockey stick position. After that, there are a ton of configuration options that allow you to confusicate matters a great deal more. First off, are you in a...

Hrm, same item was £98 before xmas. Inflation ahoy! I bought one and have to say I think some of the criticism is over zealous. This shot was @280mm. @135mm, f5.6...

I picked up a new 75-300 from the Argos clearance sale a few weeks ago and shot the moon with it just a few days ago. ISO 160, 1/250th, f9, 280mm Good tips in this thread so far... learning to meter the moon and the amount of light it reflects is the trick.

ahhh.. I'll get back to you there... as I've achieved it at the cost of the ability to select AF point (I'm using that button). I'm sure I've seen a setting that allows the joystick to amend that point somehow. It'll only be a matter of time before I figure out how to make it all behave...