Recent content by realmofconfusion

Sorry to hear of your encounter. At least they "only" took your camera equipment. With knives, it could have been much worse. I don't know if you're aware of the Stolen Camera Finder website (link below), but if you drag one of your saved (digital) photos onto the site, it searches the web...

My order (Tokina 11-16mm) went ok. Delivery a little slow (checking delivery status on the DHL tracking website seemed to show my parcel being sat in Hong Kong for over a week), but otherwise no major problems. I'd ordered before I read reviews suckered in by the great price (foolish, and...

Jessops are selling D7000 body only for £899.95 (online price only, but you can order and reserve it online and collect at store.

Excellent idea. Count me in please. Now... subject matter... It's going to have to be a landscape, and I'm 99% confident that it will involve trees (or possibly a dry stone wall). Here's hoping that the weather will be better than I had for the meets at Kirkby Lonsdale & Ingleton :)

Excellent spoof news article... http://newsarse.com/2010/08/06/terrorists-sick-of-being-treated-like-photographers/

nice little photography freebie: Vint B&W. Creates "vintage" B&W shots. No controls to fiddle with (which is both good and bad), just take a photo and convert it to B&W. For games, I can also recommend Cat Physics and also Doodle God

That's sorted it. Thanks for the assistance. Off to play with it now...

I've got an old A460 and have obtained and installed CHDK. I can access all the new funky menus, but how do you do the "intervalometer" thing? I can't figure it out!

I've heard that Hipstamatic is very good but haven't bought it yet (waiting for pay day!). One that I can recommend is photocalc - has various tools for calculating exposure, DOF and even includes a location based sunrise/sunset calculator. Check out this site for more iphone photography...

Sorry, yes. f22 to f16 is of course a wider aperture, so that would halve the calculated time from 8 seconds to 4. :bonk: Had the original exposure of 1/125 been calculated at f16 (giving a new shutter speed after 10 stop change of 8 seconds) and I changed the aperture to f22, then the new...

I'm trying to get my head around this whole "10 stop" adjustment thingy, and after a great deal of :bang: I think I've finally cracked it, but could you please let me know if my thinking is correct.... 1 stop of adjustment is a doubling (of halving if going the other way) of exposure time -...

I've created a quick Excel spreadsheet that calculates the exposures (although worringly I end up with figures different from those in the tutorial, so that may be right, I haven't experimented with my timings yet, it's all hypothetical). Link to screenshot (linky because it's a bit big for...

The European Court of Human Rights has rejected an appeal from the Home Office on a January ruling that had found to be illegal the stop-and-search powers granted by the Terrorism Act 2000. Link to the BJP story...

Thanks folks for all your kind words and suggestions. I'll be attending the Kirkby Lonsdale meet next Sunday (weather and dog permitting), so it will be good to visit somewhere I've not been before and do some landscape stuff (which is my preferred area). I've driven past a few times on my...