Recent content by Mqta

Isn't it because they make money out of finance deals, less for cash sales. I think we're all savvy to the power and the smell of money brings which leads to low margins. A few years age I bought from a Toyota garage and having phoned round, I came up with the lowest price for a 3 door Yaris...

LR and PS are complimentary so there's a place for both, surely.

No, I haven't, I let Boots do mine, lol

Thanks for the offer, but its not practical this weekend. One major advantage of film (as far as i can tell) is its near immunity to dust compared to digital. Ok dust gets on the mirror, but is easily dealt with. Film also makes you stop, think and reconsider before pressing the shutter...

Twas a serious question by the way, and thanks for the replies. Apart from the Pentax I mentioned, i also have a Rollie 35 (twist out lens) which should be a good camera for 'street' photography, given it looks like a toy camera. Set the hyper focal distance / aperature, point and shoot.

Can I ask why you use film when digital is so more convenient? No chemicals, and you can do so much more in digital PP. I have a Pentax mx with wide angle, standard 50mm and a 70-210 zoom, I've not used these for years, 25 at a guess.

SSDs have a finite number of read/write cycles, but the mean time to failure is of the order 10^-6 hours, so don't worry needlessly.

What do you plan to do with it, run LR and or photoshop? It will work that's for sure, but the graphics card is not one of the best as the GPU memory is shared with the CPU. Have you looked on DELL's website? it's worth having a look to see what you can get for your money. They have a refurb...

My faves are the feeding frenzy, the pier and the sheep trail. Good to see that someone here actually enterd.

John Craven reveals the 12 finalist photographs tonight (it's on now). Anyone on the forum entered?

Got you, yeah, party balloons, add helium and it's high pitched giggles all round.

Yeah 'flying' IMC without experience is getting to me, as you say, I'm going round in circles. It's probably akin to walking in the desert without a compass; walking in circles is inevitable. I've ordered Victoria Bampton's book 'real answers to real questions asked by Lightroom users'. I hope...

Cheers guys, sounds useful.

Thanks Anthony. I'm not sure how you get LR to make virtual copies, but I'll have a route around. Cheers Steve.

Thanks, I suppose to say there may be a systematic method is inappropriate to what basically is Art. Top to bottom seems reasonable, but I find I'm spending an inordinate amount of time going backwards and forwards, resetting, starting again looking for the perfect picture.