Recent content by markp

I don't feel quite so bad now! However, I know that there are far worse ones lurking on a hard drive in Edinburgh somewhere...

I LOL'd at #4. At least if I'd been drunk I'd have had an excuse...!

Argh! No!

EdinburghGary or EdinburghGay? :)

Blimey, you didn't hang about! Congratulations.

Looks like your aperture is set far too small. What effect are you trying to achieve?

Yeh holding the shutter button keeps it open. It's a 3rd party remote, but otherwise seems to work fine. Just very odd that exposures are all 1 second.

Whilst out in the dark this morning waiting for the sunrise, I tried taking some long exposure images in the moonlight. I set the camera to Manual, set the aperture, and set shutter speed to Bulb on my 40D. However, the camera would only take 1 second exposures using the remote. I slid the...

Sadly we don't have permission to view the bigger images on your flickr. NW Scotland is the most amazing place, I fell in love with it when we visited earlier this year. Looks like you had some superb weather while you were there!

Ah, I see. Well, was more a suggestion for dougiem, as I don't know what else to suggest if he doesn't want to drive to a store that has it further away.

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Hard to specify something that's within the budget you want but that you don't think will need upgrading. I think the EXD200's would be a good compromise between good spec and price, but suspect you're the only one that can decide that. If you can push your budget a bit more then why not take a...

I have heard that as a budget starter kit the Interfit's are good. http://www.warehouseexpress.com/buy-interfit-int119-exd200-home-studio-kit/p1015681 is a good price for some good kit!

Erm, what are we supposed to critique on these? The lack of sun cream? They're holiday photos - there's no thought gone in to composition, lighting, camera settings etc. They'll only really mean something to you and those pictured.