I will master it!! 
BTW, can I just say how fantastic the farewell pics are that are appearing on the other thread too, as Duncan suggested, what a final fanfare to a great thread
It's looking great so far!
I suspect some of the threads legends like LindsayD, Souldeep, EdBray and many others I can't recall off the top of my head may not have spotted its demise. Fingers crossed they do
I'm not going to comment on all the images and it feels wrong to single a couple out - they are all wonderful!
But here's a couple of comments anyway
Spiritflier - that's wasn't any of the images I was visualising!
The two that stuck in my mind are one of the first ones you posted taken with studio flash that absolutely blew us all away, and a white background full length studio shot of your pregnant Mrs.
Pete - your panorama is wonderful!
I think it's the variety of light which almost makes it look like one of those lots of seasons in a single image thing we've been seeing elsewhere on the web.
I'll forgive the halo on the Church; but you are right - it does need sorting
As for myself - I'm away at the moment and don't have my library with me. I'm not going to rush it by choosing something random.
I think a pleasant evening reminiscing with a few glasses of wine is in order!
I have tried manual ones too Terry, and had some success using the stitching software built into Photoshop [although still cant get a good one of lords cricket ground on any stitching software, using pics form X10 or Nikon, something about the stands throws them every time :bonk: ] My frustration is that I should be able to do it using the X10's inbuilt feature but in 10 mths have managed only 1 successful one
However, thanks to Simons post here, and Petes closing post in the other thread, I am not going to give up and try a viewfinder technique with camera clamped to my face, elbows bruising my hip bones
BTW, can I just say how fantastic the farewell pics are that are appearing on the other thread too, as Duncan suggested, what a final fanfare to a great thread
Not quite - but I did try the above technique, sans swivel chair, but with my back braced against an upright of the cat run we have, and bingo, it worked. Crap photo as the sky is completely blown, but not bothered about that, I have at least found soe sort of technique that works. So, this evening my plan is to go and walk the dogs as the sun is getting low and try it somewhere a little more photogenic than that back garden.
I have tried manual ones too Terry, and had some success using the stitching software built into Photoshop [although still cant get a good one of lords cricket ground on any stitching software, using pics form X10 or Nikon, something about the stands throws them every time :bonk: ] My frustration is that I should be able to do it using the X10's inbuilt feature but in 10 mths have managed only 1 successful one
However, thanks to Simons post here, and Petes closing post in the other thread, I am not going to give up and try a viewfinder technique with camera clamped to my face, elbows bruising my hip bones
BTW, can I just say how fantastic the farewell pics are that are appearing on the other thread too, as Duncan suggested, what a final fanfare to a great thread
If all else fails You could try this ... This morning I did an experiment using my modified head on my Brasher walking pole as a monopod but any small ball head would work as easily.
You simply spin the pole slowly and it keeps every thing smooth and level.
every one I tried was a good one.... rubbish shots, but proves the pudding.
I made the pole adapter for taking high shots holding the pole above my head and using the two second delay. A bit hit and miss but it works
anyone noticed a lot of flare coming off their x-10's Ive just started noticing it more with scenes of large contrast. Not sure how to deal with it tbh. This was an overcast day, average metering.
To say I was gobsmacked was an understatement, I just kept looking at it afterwards, twisting it into the light to check and check again they had really gone. I didn't even rub hard at it, just a wipe round. Not sure to this day if it was the hank, or the 'breath' that did the trick
I must actually relate a story about a huff and a rub with a hanky - not X10 related, but still worth the telling in here. Back in my early days with a DSLR, I bought a Sigma 10-20 wide angle lens [pretty sure it was under Nod's encouragement having had a look at his when we were at Silverstone one day] Anyway, a few weeks into ownership I was photographing one of our mutts paying with the hosepipe, as she does, using the 10-20 so I could get some fun wide angles. Of course, it got splashed by water, so I wiped it when finished and didn't think about it. Next time I used it i noticed circular marks on the front element. I tried a lens cloth, lens cleaning fluid, nothing would shift them. They weren't affecting images, but I was a bit gutted, permanently marking a nearly new lens. A few months later, we on a driving holiday around Norway, up a mountain with a boot full of luggage and a fantastic scene that needed to be photographed. Stuck the 10-20 on the camera and managed to put a bloody great finger smear on it in the process.... knowing my lens cloth was in the boot full of luggage and the light was changing rapidly, I asked him for his handkerchief, a quick huff and a rub with a normal pocket handkerchief and not only was the smear gone, but the funny watermark circles too
Now whilst I wouldn't condone doing this everytime you clean, hankies are probably a bit abrasive for ongoing use, but when needs must, they won't do any harm on modern lenses
