Recent content by richardm

The other side to that coin is that people also shouldn't actively participate in open conversation if they are not receptive to information and guidance offered to them. They also shouldn't expect people to trawl the web and spend valuable time providing lengthy rebuttals just because they...

Fixed that for you! If anyone knows, please fill me in!!

They got an answer - it's just that answer is 'FOFO' as they say in education - 'F off and find out'. I'm not here to spoon-feed information to people.

Just because tons of laypeople misuse technical terms doesn't mean the definition of that term changes. It is what it is. Lots of laypeople absolutely mangle medical terminology yet Doctors don't rip up their textbooks and papers and say 'oh well, looks of people on the web get this anatomical...

You're just being obtuse for the sake of being obtuse, Brain G. The example about a brick is just a make-believe story of how a 'silly' picture of a brick can be perfectly valid and not 'silly' in any way. It's obvious I meant that the example meant a fictitious study on 'tensile strength'...

Good God this subject always generates some pretty bizarre opinions! The scientific and medical community etc are quite clear on the definitions of what constitutes macro photography and photomicroscopy. We tend to be quite specific about things! To suggest that 'there is certainly nothing...

I've had plenty of pics printed from an iPhone 4S and they were pretty good. OK, certainly not 'high quality', but good for snapshots. At 6x4 they're OK. iPhone photos look very good 'on screen'. Perhaps you could splash out on one of those digital photo frames that play images from an sd card...

I've only been visiting these boards a short time and so I've been locked out of the sales part for a while. I wish I'd known how popular they were before I decided to have a big clear-out! I'm definitely moving towards forums etc for selling stuff on as it avoids eBay's horrendous fees and you...

Haha. Yeah, they act like you're being some sort of pantomime villain, don't they?! The Polish guy who bought the dSLR even sent me this gem on an email: HI.I arrange courier myself and pay for it.Im not from Africa or Russia.Im plenty of time on ebay and I got just possitive feedback. Why...

Short answer: NO. Long answer: HELL NO.

I've been having such fun recently.... Just sold a dSLR. Stated clearly that I only post to UK and to confirmed paypal address. Packaged it up and shipped it to the address. Same day I get an email from the buyer saying how he's in Poland now, friends at that address are on holiday, just post...

Lovely. It's hard work even finding/spotting this little things never mind photographing them!

Generally the term macro has been misused a lot and is often used to refer to close focusing. There's a big difference between lenses which will shoot,say, 1:3 and the type of photography involving 1:1 and >1:1 , which is what I refer to as 'proper' macro photography. There is a entirely...

I use a Sigma 105 non-IS on my X-Pro1. I have owned that lens before on a Canon (years back) and rate it very highly. Get a decent one s/h and you can save a lot over the newer ones with IS. I don't see the point in IS for proper macro photography anyway - all it does for me is add unnecessary...

That both are own by the same 'person' and they exercise their right to restrict certain freedoms, such as photography, as they see fit.