Recent content by vaizki

Bad form indeed. It should cost £800 and come with free plastic hood and flimsy faux leather pouch. That's how Canon does it ;)

I went with the 30s exposure because a) it was there and easy to use (just dial it in) b) I wanted a shot with no star trails but exposed for the clouds & sea as well. I was using the Samyang 14mm f/2.8 so didn't want to have exposure times beyond 30s anyway. The best thing about this shot is...

Thanks everyone, somehow I missed your comments earlier, sorry! I'll definitely try to capture clearer skies during the autumn as well, don't mind a few clouds but I'd like a good go at the milky way also.

Toshi aka Rich is great guy and makes fabulous straps. However they do need a beefy watch to look good.. And there might be a bit of a queue :)

24-105/4 here too, complemented by fast primes. With good ISO 6400 the f/4 will go a long way and the 24-70 can't touch the primes anyway.

Yes the new 70-200 is worth every penny. Get the 135L later for head shots? :)

Andy, just a quick note on the in-camera JPEG settings.. they DO affect how the image looks on the camera screen and MAY affect the historgram displayed. So you might want to google up on the best settings to evaluate pics on the field from the rear screen.. I just leave my cameras on a Neutral...

Give a NATO strap a try? Best ones from Eddie here: http://www.timefactors.com/nato.htm He also has other strap styles and quite a variety of watches he designs and sells. I have a few and they are top notch. With impeccable customer service.

Nobody asked him if he wants to be a part of the royal family. I don't think anyone really asked him whether he wants to be a soldier. Hey maybe somebody finally asked him if he wants to go to Vegas and have a good time.

Lightroom does read the WB setting from the image file and applies it automatically. It shows As Shot in LR. What it doesn't apply are the picture styles etc that you can set in camera to influence the JPEG look.

If you want to test the FPS "scientifically" just record the burst sound on your laptop mic and look at the sound waveform in Audacity or another audio processing application.

iPad... You'll "save" with apps because you can buy them once and use on all your iDevices. If you get a Nexus7 then you're buying a whole new set of apps - if you can find them.

I don't need an iPad to watch tv in the living room... :) seriously I have no need to keep the TV open if it spews crap I'm not watching. But I do use my iPads a lot, just don't get the tv&couch use case at all.

Inspired by some of the recent shots here, I had a go... Some clouds rolling in from the left ruined my subsequent shots so I had just this one usable.. But I'll be sure to get out there again when the nights are even darker :)

But on the subject of extended ISOs.. I don't really find them usable. Oh I'm sure I'll run into some emergency any day now where I'll just go "all out" on ISO to get something.. but I would first go all-out on just about everything else before doing that. ISO 25600 - the last "normal" ISO - is...