Caladina

Merry Christmas, Laura, I hope you and Ruth ( I think I got her name right ) have a lovely one.

Merry Christmas, Laura, I hope you and yourpartner have a lovely new year

Laura, don't worry about Tony's rant about his flower . This is not the first time he has had one on this forum , he had a few on the Pentax forum aswell. He denied the last one and Ray Allen copied it and sent it back to him. Personally I think he is showing early signs of dementia.

Laura, the cleaning of the contacts and autofocus sensor seems to have worked the image is not 100% but much greatly improved. using your lens testing image shows no distortion of the image so hopefully all is ok.

Laura, I have looked up on how to clean the contacts on the lens and my 1 D and to clean the sensor for the autofocus, and the lens is now locking on to the test image you put up, hopefully this has fixed the focus issue. I shall re-take the image some time this weekend, the lens should perform much better.

Craig Sherriff

Laura, been thinking of what you have noticed with Tony's images being over saturated, I had a look at A Little Trouble With Red Eye? Visine and the settings were at 1/200s, F/5.6, ISO 10,000. Now look at his last flower image, ISO: 100 Shutter: 1/180s: F11. With these two in mind thinking about the sunny 16 rule, the first image is 2.5 stops too bright thus I think. causing the over saturation.

Laura, (had to cut the message in half as it is more than 420 long)
Deliberate or not he has applied the sunny 16 rule (ISO = shutter at f16) and it has come out ok. What do you think?

Merry Christmas, Caladina, I hope you and yourpartner have a joyous one, this year has been a bit shitty but here's hoping next year is much better. ps. May santa bring you a new camera in your stocking. Ho Ho Ho and merry Christmas

Congrtats on hitting 1000 messages , Laura, it is people like you, Ray and Gary, who are the glue that hold the forum together. keep it up .

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