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[The Blue Boy]

Chelseablue. A Chelsea fan in Manc??? Do they know

Yes, hence the nickname. I'll explain. I worked a few shifts in a pub here for a friend. I got on really well with the City (Manchester City) fans. Now up here you're either red or blue. When I told them I was a different shade of blue, Chelseablue was born.

Mark

[crisscross]

Hi Guys, have had broadband restored for a few days and sorted chaos resulting from using antique computer for dial-up, so can start looking at what is going on here again soon.

The broadband line went when some cable diversions were done for a bridge rebuild and am satisfied that the 16 days and 3 attempts by BT Openreach to fix it were genuine incompetence rather than ill-will

[Colin Southern]

Hello All,

I guess I'm introducing myself here First, I wan to say that the information on this site is fantastic. I've visited many times and it has become a trusted source for me. THANK YOU.

I'm a professional photographer, all digital at this point, and yet I have so much to learn.
Please feel free to visit my two sites for an introduction to my commercial and personal work:

http://www.acjohnsonphoto.com commercial
http://blog.acjohnsonphoto.com personal

Ok, now I need to go post a question.

Cheers,
Alec

Hi Alec,

Welcome to the forums - great to have you with us

I've just been taking a quick look at your site - I'm not normally an architecture fan, but you've done a great job. Not sure if you shoot any landscape at all, but I reckon you'd be a dab-hand at it.

[Dave Humphries]

The broadband line went when some cable diversions were done for a bridge rebuild and am satisfied that the 16 days and 3 attempts by BT Openreach to fix it were genuine incompetence rather than ill-will

Glad to have you back Chris, thanks to BT Over-reach

[Colin Southern]

I'm itching to upgrade to proper a DSLR, I took some low light hand held shots today and although pleasantly surprised that most are sharp (even without IS) at between 1/5 and 1/30 second, the noise at 800ISO is attrocious.

Hi Dave,

Just wondering when you might upgrade, and what you're planning on upgrading to?

PS: Have you ever thought of trying the old "combine multiple high-ISO images" trick? (my shot in this weeks challenge was 16 images taken at 3200 ISO) - I reckon if you divide the ISO by 100 then that's about the number of shots you need to take to get close to what it would look like at 100 ISO (don't know how mathematically sound that is, but it seems close in practice).

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Colin,

What I'd really like is the Olympus E-30, it offers significant improvement in all the areas that bug me most with the Fuji, noise will be better, although I accept not as good as an APS-C sensor camera and it ticks most of the other boxes for improved usage, the primary (almost uncompromisable) one being a tilt and swivel LCD.

Trouble is I reckon I'm looking at £2k to give give similar zoom and macro range to what I have now.
MoF might, it she gets wind of it, insist on the Sony A300 or A350, as I can do that probably under a grand.

Have you ever thought of trying the old "combine multiple high-ISO images" trick?

It would have to be done manually and each RAW takes about 2-3 seconds to write to memory (seems longer), there's no remote and each 2 second self timer snap is 3 or 4 clicks into a menu, so I think pragmatically it's not going to 'work' for most of what I take because I tend to shoot in sometimes quite crowded or small public places, so carrying and using a tripod would significantly get in everyone's way.

What I might do soon is have a "tripod day", to get me past the initial reluctance to get it out and use it, I'll choose the subject carefully, probably a landscapes from somewhere spacious and/or secluded
So while I'm there I could give your suggestion a go.

Cheers,

[crisscross]

the primary (almost uncompromisable) one being a tilt and swivel LCD.

I wonder if you really need tilt & swivel any more as software is very good at correcting. If you are going Olympus or Sony, it is well worth looking at DxO optics for the RAW conversion (see thread in PP section) - being based on actual measured camera+lens characteristics it auto corrects distortions and will then go on to 'keystoning' - tho for that I prefer mac GraphicConverter as I like the draggable & fine tunable 4 edge lines.

BTW you should not compare lens ranges from even a very good zoom to a specialised DSLR set, unless you are going for market place lenses rather than the better ones.

[Colin Southern]

I wonder if you really need tilt & swivel any more as software is very good at correcting.

Hi Chris,

I think Dave is referring to a tilt and swivel LCD screen on the camera, not a lens.

Also - when you do big corrctions in software you end up with a trapeziod shaped image which then has to be cropped, whereas with a tilt & shift lens you retain the rectangular format.

[crisscross]

Hi Chris,

I think Dave is referring to a tilt and swivel LCD screen on the camera, not a lens.

Also - when you do big corrctions in software you end up with a trapeziod shaped image which then has to be cropped, whereas with a tilt & shift lens you retain the rectangular format.

Sorry Dave & Colin, it does say LCD...and yes trapezoid cropping-correction does lose quality, though with curent pixel densities it seems acceptable.

[Bill44]

Dave I am having trouble understanding why a tilt and swivel LCD is of such importance to you. Would you be so kind as to enlighten me.

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Bill,

It's so I can see the LCD from odd angles, e.g. if held down at ground level, or above the head, at a sideways angle, etc. I struggle with my current camera, and the E-30 is the most versatile, but the Sony only does up and down.

My creaking limbs don't like getting into contortions to see the rear screen, or look through the viewfinder, even if I do achieve it, I can't stay like it for long, or I'll be stuck for good!

If I'm going to spend a significant percentage of my annual salary on a camera and photography is for fun, I figure I might as well have it with less of the pain!

[wallyir]

Hello All,I joined over a year ago for the tutorials and am pleased to see the forums, I`m 47 yo Male,own a Canon 40D with some average lenes,tripods etc, I`m a very keen (understatement!) Photographer and hope to contribute.Wally

[graynomad]

Hi everyone,

I just joined the forum and Sean suggested I say g'day so...g'day.

I've been a photographer on and off since 1972 although I spent many years working as a computer nerd. These days my wife and I travel full time around Australia in a 6x6 ex-army truck, she reads and I take nature photos.

Being on the move all the time we don't always have a connection so I'm not normally very active on the web, but I may be able to help out if I see a subject I have knowledge about.

Meanwhile you can see some of my pics and info about our truck at http://www.robgray.com

Regards
Rob

[wallyir]

G`Day Rob,I like your site,I`ve traveled Australia widely working and living in every in every State,Townsville is home till I go G`Nomading ,Have Fun!. Wally

[ajith.rajeswari]

Hi Rob,
Nice to have you here.
Welcome to CiC. You have a good nature collection .

~Ajith

[Colin Southern]

Hi Wally & Rob - great to have you both here

[Bill44]

My apologies to the many members that I have failed to welcome, there are so many newcomers that it is hard to keep up.
So, a belated but heartfelt welcome to you all.

[crisscross]

Hi everyone,

I just joined the forum... although I spent many years working as a computer nerd. These days my wife and I travel full time around Australia in a 6x6 ex-army truck, she reads and I take nature photos.

Being on the move all the time we don't always have a connection so I'm not normally very active on the web, but I may be able to help out if I see a subject I have knowledge about.

Meanwhile you can see some of my pics and info about our truck at http://www.robgray.com

Regards
Rob

Welcome to the forum Rob; have had a look at some of your very individual landscapes and will be studying some more - especially also being a moon+ addict.

[wallyir]

Hi Wally & Rob - great to have you both here

Thank You for the welcome Colin.

[shreds]

Hi Wally Hi Rob,

Good to have you with us. Welcome from GB!

Ian