Recent content by Timothy Powell

Is that in terms of looking out over Windermere from the boat moorings at bowness?

Had a look and looks stunning. Close to so will be able to stay in bed a little longer

Thank you for the pointer. Especially about the pubs.

I'm going to the lakes tomorrow for 2 nights staying in ambleside youth hostel. What would be the best places to go for sunrise shots that wouldn't take too long to get to from ambleside?

Does anyone know good spots within a short distance of Gateshead/Newcastle to get some nice sunset landscapes?

She is a canny egg. I will make it up to her don't worry. Will have a look at Capture One for noise reduction. will have a look at my wife's work rota. I am off every weekend, but she works a lot of them so I would have to take the bairn. Not easy mixing photography and looking after a 3 year old

Not disappointed so far :)

This is one of my first shots with my new toy. Loving the WiFi transfer to smartphone

Thank you. Will have a look at those settings and that book. I was given adobe cc subscription for a year for Christmas (my wife is very supportive) so am not looking to spend on software. How is adobe's noise reduction by comparison? Will give the Sony capture one a crack though. Would still...

Well that decision was taken out my hands, as my wife bought me an A77ii for my birthday. Lovely camera and definitely a massive improvement on the A700. Disappointed to miss out on the low light noise performance of a good full frame camera, but I don't think the A99 was ever going to do that...

Wow. 3280000 ISO. That's not a camera its night vision.

You have open a whole can of worms @sduk . Did you get the answer you were looking for? What are you going to stick with?

にっぽん 日本光学 - Nippon (or Nihon but post war was probably Nippon) kougaku literally translates as japanese study of light. Canon was apparently originally called 精機光学工業 seukikougakuKougyo. don't know where they got canon from.

You are right they definitely don't say Nyppon. The founding company was a Nippon Kougaku. which they made into Nikon. (apparently my son seems to think that was because the name Nihon and Nippon had a bad rep after the war)

The Japanese pronounce it Nikon, not Neekon. The Japanese for Japan can be Nihon or Nippon (Nihon is more common recently) Nihon is pronounced Nehon (not as long as Neehon),Nippon is pronounced Nip-on. I speak fluent Japanese, my son is Japanese and lives in Japan and is also a photographer...