Recent content by PistolPeteUK

Have you got the settings on the monitors themselves (via the OSD) set to the same?

Yes, thank you. Apologies for not pre-warning you of their arrival. Work is getting the better of my at present.

It did take a while and a very sharp knife!

DVDs received today & PM sent to bythesea asking to confirm T&Cs and give me their address

No, I believe the 1Dsomething does meter on the focus point, but the 5D3 doesn't which is a pain.

PM replied to and T&Cs read and accepted

It got won by someone else with a 0 feedback - it is is legit the chances are he's going to get screwed over or the sale falls through.

Same here. I'm awaiting the YN-622C-TX as that'll save me having to navigate into the camera OCF menus to adjust zooms and power.

I either stick to 3:2 or go 1:1 for squares unless I can't so I'll keep as close to these as I possibly can.

For me I have a bad habit of shooting wide open. Although I'm lucky in that both my main lenses are sharp, its the lack of DOF that catches me out a fair bit. Also, shooting with flash as primary light source. I still struggle getting this right in most cases.

Completely off topic, but when did Balloon Bar re-open. It's been a while since the fire next door.

Do it. I was blown away by mine my on 7D and on my 5D MKIII it's just wow. My mother in law has a 350D with kit lens and always comments that my camera is better and that's why I get better pics - so I put the 70-200 on hers and took some shots and her jaw dropped.

I shot my sisters wedding and I copied each memory card to my laptop, then out to 2 external HDD whilst syncing my laptop with Dropbox (which in turn syncs with my RAID6, dual backup NAS at home) Maybe I'm paranoid, maybe it's because I'm an IT geek for my day job but storage is cheap -...

Can I order 10 of those???

Green is preferred over blue these days for 2 main reasons: 1) Green is easier to light evenly compared to blue 2) Digital sensors usually employ a Bayer pattern in the sensor construction meaning a 25/50/25% split on red, green and blue elements - twice as sensitive on the green channel then...