Recent content by Dan76

DOn't know if anyone's posted it, but if you want to search, just put this into your Google search: site:talkphotography.co.uk and then type whatever you're looking for after it, e.g. site:talkphotography.co.uk vivitar 35mm :)

I also use a Siggy 12-24mm and it's a fun lens, although I'm starting to view the UWA as a bit gimmicky as time goes on. Mind you, I think it's got more to do with me going through a 50mm 'serious' phase at the moment ;)

Age old argument which'll never resolve itself! In my view, nothing beats good composure, whether analogue or digital. No amount of studio work or Photoshopping is going to make a duff picture look good. Where you have got something good, then, in all honesty, Photoshop pretty much enables you...

Same here - I use the 24-70 for events and the 24-105 as my travel lens on a 5d Mk2. With a CP on the end, I'm hard pressed to tell the difference between either with outdoor shots from 4.0 upwards to be honest. Indoors there's a slight difference where lighting is limited. Obviously IS counters...

Scott, I use Faststone as my quick RAW preview programme and DPP (comes with the camera) to do the actual processing, once I've chosen which ones I want to use. I really would get into the habit of using RAW as, like has been said above, it's essentially the digital equivalent to a negative...

Funnily enough I was wondering the same thing not so long ago! Then I was at FOI in Brum, and was taking some shots at the modelling 'set ups'. Unfortunately, being a shortarse and stuck behind a throng of happy snappers, I couldn't get a shot normally, so I switched into live view, face...

Unfortunately I'm not that good with hand-held. It's not that I've got shaky hands or a loose posture, quite the opposite in fact. But God help me if I can't get a crisp shot below 1/125. Therefore, I tend to shoot in bursts of three if I'm not using a tripod. I know some people will consider...

I'm with the others - err on the side of caution and fit as much as you can into your hand luggage and pockets. Your 50mm will fit in your jacket or shorts pockets, as will the flashgun. Broken 28-300 in the big case - everything else in hand luggage - you should be ok ;)

Just got mine this morning, so thanks me! ;) Glad to have helped all; I think Freddy is going to like using these :)

An excellent post, and I concur!

Just got home from a looooooooong day and woohoo, mine are en route too! Patience always pays off in the end ;) Glad to be of service all! :thumbs::thumbs::thumbs::nuts:

Ohh nice one. I've not had an email from them yet, but fingers are perpetually crossed!

Yeah, it looks nice enough to me :)

Hi all, I just spotted this link on one of my friend's facebook pages: http://www.damninteresting.com/color-photos-from-the-world-war-i-era It's the history of a series of pictures by a Russian photographer, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, taken in 1909. Although he only had black &...

Well, if you're shooting into water, get yourself a circular polarizer to get rid of the surface reflection; it makes a huge difference! Not sure about the lenses - you can't got wrong with a nifty-fifty, but with a polarizer on and using in low light, I'd imagine there'd be quite a lot of...