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Yes, as Dan says the first rule of landscapes is to get the horizon straight :p

Surely you have to judge picture by picture as sometimes straightening the horizon will cause something else to be wonky and in this case there's a chance of knocking the walkway and fence posts out. Sometimes you just have to ignore a "rule" and instead strike a balance and go with what looks best and not obsess over some element in the picture being 1 degree out.

Just MHO :D
 
Surely you have to judge picture by picture as sometimes straightening the horizon will cause something else to be wonky and in this case there's a chance of knocking the walkway and fence posts out. Sometimes you just have to ignore a "rule" and instead strike a balance and go with what looks best and not obsess over some element in the picture being 1 degree out.

Just MHO :D
Well said. I wanted the path to be straight.
 
Surely you have to judge picture by picture as sometimes straightening the horizon will cause something else to be wonky and in this case there's a chance of knocking the walkway and fence posts out. Sometimes you just have to ignore a "rule" and instead strike a balance and go with what looks best and not obsess over some element in the picture being 1 degree out.

Just MHO :D
Rules sometimes can be ignored, but not with horizons in landscapes, especially when there's a large body of water in the scene (unless you've done it deliberately such as 45 degrees to look 'arty' ;)) In any case, in Jonney's pic nothing's straight, the fence posts and bench are leaning to the right too ;)
 
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Rules sometimes can be ignored, but not with horizons in landscapes, especially when there's a large body of water in the scene (unless you've done it deliberately such as 45 degrees to look 'arty' ;)) In any case, in Jonney's pic nothing's straight, the fence posts and bench are leaning to the right too ;)
I'm on a tablet and the picture is quite dark but from what I can see the pathway would be sloping more with the horizon corrected, fence posts don't look too bad and would imo suffer should the horizon be straight. It's all opinion and maybe straightening the horizon is the majority opinion but photography is a personal thing and knocking the fence posts and path out to get the horizon straight is just a different trade off. The shot could be taken from a different location and / or a different angle but it'd then be a different pucture.

I have hundreds if not thousands of pictures with the horizon knowingly a bit off and guess what, no one has ever commented on that, including here :D Imo it's about making a picture to look at not complying with rules. ymmv.
 
Has anyone experience of the Canon 17-40 with MC11 on A7III? Does it work OK and is fast to focus, eye detect etc?
 
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I'm on a tablet and the picture is quite dark but from what I can see the pathway would be sloping more with the horizon corrected, fence posts don't look too bad and would imo suffer should the horizon be straight. It's all opinion and maybe straightening the horizon is the majority opinion but photography is a personal thing and knocking the fence posts and path out to get the horizon straight is just a different trade off. The shot could be taken from a different location and / or a different angle but it'd then be a different pucture.

I have hundreds if not thousands of pictures with the horizon knowingly a bit off and guess what, no one has ever commented on that, including here :D Imo it's about making a picture to look at not complying with rules. ymmv.
It looks fine straightened imo ;)
 
Just got a voucher in the post from Wex, £20 off a £150 order with CAL20

Might as well preorder some batteries! Makes them £65 each

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Check when Bristol are getting them in - they’re £55 odd there

I was going to switch my order, but then they added £10 delivery charge, still a little better - but lost my momentum
 
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Just got a voucher in the post from Wex, £20 off a £150 order with CAL20

Might as well preorder some batteries! Makes them £65 each

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I just got a battery and charger delivered today and got the very same voucher in the post!!!

I don’t need anymore, I have 3 now.

That’s like £200 in chargers and batteries I’ve spent, people have cameras costing less...
 
Nikon is about to prepare its investors that they are going to see a potential $94 million wiped off their value! :eek:
 
Same code as Dan posted.
Ahhh I think these codes are linked to user accounts, tried Dan's and it didn't work.
They must activate it on their end for certain people who spend x amount of money at WEX etc.
 
I just got a battery and charger delivered today and got the very same voucher in the post!!!

I don’t need anymore, I have 3 now.

That’s like £200 in chargers and batteries I’ve spent, people have cameras costing less...

i'm going to do something called 'shakefest' where school kids put on back to back performances of Shakespeare plays over the course of about 8+ hours

should be ok with four as long as I can charge two, just in case.

Not sure how it will compare to a wedding, four will do a wedding.
 
Don’t only FE lens I want is £1300 and I’m wiped out this month, putting it on the credit card is not wise when the interest for that amount will be more than £20.
 
i'm going to do something called 'shakefest' where school kids put on back to back performances of Shakespeare plays over the course of about 8+ hours

should be ok with four as long as I can charge two, just in case.

Get a usb powered charger and power it via a power bank, charge it anywhere then.
 
I'm going to buy a new SSD - having the LR catalog and images on an external USB hdd is killing me..
 
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