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1  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: blonde Camera Club on: February 13, 2012, 11:19:44 PM
Some really lovely pictures on here, i love the country pictures as dont get to see much of it down this way!
2  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: blonde Camera Club on: February 13, 2012, 11:04:44 PM
I took up photography 20 years ago, loads has changed and unfortunely i never kept up with the times! Now i have got back into it im trying to take everything in, always be learning, and yes totally agree with buying new lenses, and other equipment, i only have the standard 18 55mm at the moment but saving for 24/70mm mainly for wedding photography!
RAW is something im just getting to grips with, not up to date with all programs but my daughter is helping me with that, but any info would be great!


I'm sure there are better people than me to explain it, but RAW is literally a record of exactly what the sensor detects. Turning that into a picture is a job for something else. If you do jpeg in camera, the camera (DIGIC chip in Canon, for instance) will do it, applying white balance correction, colour calibration, noise reduction, etc etc. If you get the RAW into a computer then get another program to do it, you can make choices with these things later. The massive benefit of RAW is that the sensor on a camera will record levels that are not visible at the very dark and very bright ends and the jpeg conversion in-camera effectively throws these differences away. However, if you find you want to make exposure corrections for the whole shot or just bits of it after the event, the extra information that the RAW holds is a lot more conducive to this. You don't realise the benefit until you try it.

What camera have you got? I may be teaching you to suck eggs here, but remember that a crop sensor camera (Canons 1100 all the way up to 7D) will have a multiplier of 1.6 to get the "old" 35mm focal lengths you may be used to. 18mm lens on a crop sensor is equivalent to 28mm lens on a 35mm film camera. 24mm on a crop is 38mm on a 35mm - which may be a bit restrictive at the wide end. I don't know - you've probably considered all this already.

My current portrait lens of a choice is a Tamron 17-50 f2.8 (constant). Equivalent to 27-80 on a 35mm camera. Lovely quality lens and nice and fast for a zoom. I've also got a Canon 50mm f1.8 "nifty fifty". Dirt cheap prime lens (£60), but very nice. Can be a bit restrictive, but if you've got room to zoom with your feet, it produces some lovely results.
Thanks for that, it does help to get info from other photographer esp if they dont mind sharing it, i have been reading up more about the Raw, and i have a few programs that come with my camera, im a bit old fashioned haha, but will get there, so thankyou for that.
I have canon EOS 550 at the moment and looking to get a few more lenses, as trying to cover a lot of differant photography, and see what im best at!
3  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: blonde Camera Club on: February 08, 2012, 11:07:03 PM
I took up photography 20 years ago, loads has changed and unfortunely i never kept up with the times! Now i have got back into it im trying to take everything in, always be learning, and yes totally agree with buying new lenses, and other equipment, i only have the standard 18 55mm at the moment but saving for 24/70mm mainly for wedding photography!
RAW is something im just getting to grips with, not up to date with all programs but my daughter is helping me with that, but any info would be great!

4  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: blonde Camera Club on: February 08, 2012, 11:05:54 PM
Popped into curry's today and saw this deal, would be pretty good for someone starting out or wanting to upgrade from an older cam. couple of semi decent lenses included too.

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/canon-eos-1100d-digital-slr-camera-with-18-55mm-f-3-5-5-6-and-75-300-mm-f4-5-6-iii-lenses-11099693-pdt.html?intcmp=currys_seg_s2_DigitalSLRCameras_Canon1100DSave%C2%A3100_369613_03_24-12-11
Nice camera esp for someone wanting to start out, i have one up the ESO 550, just started out a little more expensive and comes with standard lense to start with, but 18 mp is worth the extra pennies also you can record on the 550 but not sure on the 1100D.
I took up photography 20 years ago, loads has changed and unfortunely i never kept up with the times! Now i have got back into it im trying to take everything in, always be learning, and yes totally agree with buying new lenses, and other equipment, i only have the standard 18 55mm at the moment but saving for 24/70mm mainly for wedding photography!
RAW is something im just getting to grips with, not up to date with all programs but my daughter is helping me with that, but any info would be great!

I'd agree 100% with this, I've got 550D as well. Problem with buying kits like that is that although they are perfectly usable lenses, you'll soon realise that you can do better (for a more money, obv!). I got the upgraditis bug very soon after buying mine. I now own 5 lenses, none of which are the original ones I got! If you are that type (and I should have known better, frankly, it's standard for me), then I'd look at simpler kit and buy/upgrade the lens after a while once you've sussed things out a bit.
5  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: blonde Camera Club on: February 08, 2012, 10:46:52 PM
Popped into curry's today and saw this deal, would be pretty good for someone starting out or wanting to upgrade from an older cam. couple of semi decent lenses included too.

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/canon-eos-1100d-digital-slr-camera-with-18-55mm-f-3-5-5-6-and-75-300-mm-f4-5-6-iii-lenses-11099693-pdt.html?intcmp=currys_seg_s2_DigitalSLRCameras_Canon1100DSave%C2%A3100_369613_03_24-12-11
Nice camera esp for someone wanting to start out, i have one up the ESO 550, just started out a little more expensive and comes with standard lense to start with, but 18 mp is worth the extra pennies also you can record on the 550 but not sure on the 1100D.
6  Poker Forums / Live Tournament Updates / Re: Dusk Til Dawn £100k Gtd on: August 01, 2009, 04:06:46 PM
good luck for the updates esp that amount of runners, i fancy jamie brown making final table, will just have to see a?
7  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: martina cole's - the take on: June 19, 2009, 11:46:34 AM
Ive got this saved on planner, i couldnt watch it because i was on the last half off the book, but really enjoyed reading the book just have to compare the series to see which was best.
8  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: JP Kelly Chip Leader $1500 PLH final table on: June 13, 2009, 01:41:53 AM
a very big well done x
9  Poker Forums / past blonde Bashes / Re: blonde bash 8: Acceptances thread on: May 28, 2009, 02:38:49 PM
Dingdell is last man on the list, rest go on reserve list and anyone signing up henceforth too

Please let us know if at any point you can't make it, so we casn free a place up
so am i on first on reserved list?
10  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: dillemma on: May 27, 2009, 05:11:23 PM
This is a hard one, and being brought up on estates i understand about the grassing its something you dont do, they need to know that they cant carry on  the distressing you and others that live in area, the main concern i would have is about his driving up and down the street like twat, i would have to get that stopped otherwise i couldnt live with myself if something nasty was going to happen to an innocent person or kiddie
I live in a quite cull de sac and know and again we have a neighbours son racing up to the end and i have 4 daughters that play out the front, the girls dad went up to him and just lifted him off the ground and a few words this cleared the matter up, but violence is not the answer.
hopefully what goes around comes around and this guy gets what he deserves, there is always someone bigger and nastier around the corner, lets just hope this idiot gets to see what the otherside is like.
11  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: FML ... Just F M L !!! on: May 27, 2009, 04:48:01 PM
i can so relate to hating the dentist, its not so much the injections its the sounds off the drills they use that make me feel sick. Last year i was on holiday out in turkey and had a really bad tooth ache at the back, now there is no trouble with my front teeth and like to think i look after mine well apart from being a smoker which dis colours my teeth i can cope with having them cleaned every six months, but what im trying to get to is while i was out in turkey i notice how differant they worked and how cheap there treatment was, i had to have a back tooth taken out, but will be having a bridge done when i go out there in september.
My friend also had 13 caps replaced over 5 days and a bit off swollen gums, she only paid 950 for all them teeth which look so nice, if i get to the point where i want to have verners excuse my spelling i will be be having them done in turkey and still save loads off dosh!
Good luck kev with your new nashers x
12  Poker Forums / past blonde Bashes / Re: blonde bash 8: Acceptances thread on: May 27, 2009, 02:42:40 AM
can you add me to plz x
13  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: Happy Birthday Yogi-Bear!!! on: April 15, 2009, 02:24:04 PM
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14  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: Happy Birthday cod meharly on: April 04, 2009, 06:39:56 PM
Happy birthday have a good one xx
15  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: Congrats to.... on: April 04, 2009, 06:35:57 PM
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