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Thanks for your reply. I think I must be a little tired tonight and ranting. I guess I just need to try to play around with a few cameras and make a decision on what feels best in my hands. Like you say, you can then make it as simple or complicated as you want. cheers

Hello Hope this is the right place for this topic. I migrated from a 35 ml minolta slr to a fujifilm s7000 a few years ago. With the minolta, I could play with the aperture and shutter speeds almost intuitively. I had a handle on depth of field and focussing issues and could get what I...

thankyou for this, my browser is now managing colours :)

thanks Marcel I couldn't see anywhere in Firefox to manage colour profiles, but that makes good sense, that it is a browser issue. Will try safari to see if it looks different. regards

Hello I have been having trouble working on images in photoshop, deciding on appropriate contrasts etc, and then uploading into a gallery and finding that the contrast is much less once uploaded. :help: Is this a common problem people have or something to do with how my laptop displays...

Hi and welcome.

gday. this is a cool place. Hi and welcome.

Just logged in again so thanks for the comments. I have become interested in purchasing a second hand Nikon d200. I can spend around 480 pounds. The d200 would be weather proof and durable I think over the d80. I may have given the impression that I live in the middle of nowhere surrounded by...

Hi and thanks for your thoughts. I did consider a samsung which I believe has the same mount for the lenses. I realize that I am at the cross roads here with regard to lenses. I shall look at the Pentax k200d. Power requirements are important as I have had a Fuji s7000 which seems power hungry...

Hello Deadly Yes I had overlooked the 1000D, guess I assumed that more expensive model is better. Will look at this model also. thanks.

Thanks for this. Yes I have considered second hand equipment and just looked at graysofwestminster site and that is fine. Not sure of how to interpret the number of shots taken by a camera. I guess I'm more comfortable with a new body and second hand glass. regards Matthew

hello folks not wishing to start a war between canon people and nikon people I thougth I'd chance yet another question on entry level dslr's. I have read the work in progress thread on choosing dslr's. and searched the archives. So I am looking to get something like the canon 450d or nikon...

Thanks for all this info folks. Especially the settings you have tried successfully Barry. Personally I like the idea of making stuff out of recycled materials. Great stuff.