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Max
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I've glued a rubber chair tip on to resemble the pipe.
I'm getting better with the focus - unfortunately it's focused on the material and not the model, but it's improving.
Max
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Is it the famed "suede paint" you've used or acrylic ? It does have a "concrete" look to it.
I clever move with the chair tip. There's a use in model railways for virtually everything. :thumbs
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I just sat in the lounge chair and fired it off.
Anyway, it's just ordinary rattle can grey. The MDF is what gives it a bit of texture, I think.
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Max
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It's a beauty.
It has 39 'reference points' for auto - do they show up as rectangles on your screen?
If it's like my (cheap) Canon, one can 'half press' the shutter button to retain focus and still move the camera to better frame the picture.
Is your lens Nikon?
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Yes. The half press gives coloured lights at the bottom of the view finder as well and a row of numbers indicating what it has selected for f stop, iso and shutter speed; when it's on auto or Scene.
Yes. The lens is a Nikon DX AF-S Nikor 18-105 mm 1:35-5.6 G ED It has Vibration Reduction built in. I'm not sure how good it is, as it's the lens supplied in the starter kit.
The camera was recommended as the replacement for the D 90, which is supposed to be for a first foray into full DSLR. The D 90 is four years old now and out of production.
The other thing which sold me is that it is also a sound and video recorder which has a jack for an external microphone - and an inbuilt speaker. It has two 16 Gb cards which can either be used in series or together. In series, with 32 Gb I'm approaching the 40 Gb capacity of my much hated JVC camcorder.
With 40 Gb I never "ran out of film" when I was making my train movies, so I'm feeling confident.
There is a new gimballed steady cam brace you can get for them as well. I've seen a guy demonstrating it on YouTube and it produces very professional stuff.
All good fun. :thumbs
Max
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The shot from your window shows remarkable clarity even through glass. :thumbs
I wish I had one to play with - the camera that is, not the shot from your window ……………..:roll::roll::roll:
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- because we haven't had much evening sun,
- because we haven't had many butterflies this year,
- the little blighters won't stay still.
- I liked the strong colours.
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Great shot DD and with a camcorder to boot - not best known for their "fine lenses". :thumbs
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The Canon is OK in good light and has a 20x optical zoom.
It also weighs a fraction of my old Sony Camcorder and of the Pentax.
I clip it to my belt and don't have to lug a gadget bag around.
Not trying to take over Max's thread - it's vaguely related - just continuing the photographic subject.
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I've just changed to my newer computer.
Among the 'programmes' I wanted to copy across was some bundled software I got with the Pentax:
Photoshop Elements.
I use this for fast cropping, pixel reduction, etc., of images where necessary.
I have the full Photoshop 'Suite' but Elements is a powerful little tool which gives speedy results for most applications.
For some reason the Installation DVD is blank!
PE is now quite expensive to buy.
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I inherited PS CS2 with my new second hand computer recently. Wendy's got Elements up in her studio, so I might pinch a copy from her disc. I understand that the freeware, Gimp is also very good.
So far I've been working with MS Picture Manager, but it's a bit limited - as am I.
The new laptop is for me to take to camera club. We will be having workshops on Photoshop over the coming months. I'm really keen to see what can be done with RAW images.
I wish I'd started photography earlier in life, while my brain still worked. :shock:
Max
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After years of Photoshop I can do little bits of magic (making gifs move and such) but:
All I really need day to day is:
Cropping, Masking, Colour Correction, Brightness, Contrast and Re-sizing.
Some of the PS effects can sometimes be useful.
The latest is that I need to find (?buy) Mac OSX Tune-Up whatever the heck that might be.
Over the years I've lost many favourite Applications just by changing computer.
Anyone remember HyperCard, PageMaker and the rest?
Simple to use and very stable.
I could make PageMaker sit up and talk.
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