john Clinch

A scanner designed for transaperent material will us IR to detect on slides and remove the dark spots from the images This referred to as ICE and is well worth having

Well balanced   well done

That's the problem here. You could just get a refund but you'll never find another D40 so you want a free sensor clean. Live with it, clean it yourself or pay for a clean

I apologise for my comment. All the best the X100 has a much better single focal length IMHO

Do post again when it's achieved focus.....--http://www.flickr.com/photos/john_clinch/

The wider one. Every day and twice on Sunday. I use to have a compact that only went as wide as that 24 will be. Found it very constraining. The other is a fx lens that might have a dx role if you...

In reality not much At base iso my D70 produced 12 by 18 inch prints of landscapes with plenty of contrast in the scene. The odd scene beat it but not many. That's shooting RAW of course. Many were...

My wife has made the excellent point that composing on a screen is not so great once you need reading glasses. A simple tunnel is way better than screen that too blurred to see

True random data will often produce clusters

Shoot a shorter focal length as that will reduce the affect of any camera movement.I think that you have to chimp the exposure. Check it carefully after each exposure. I think you have shot manual...

Looks like a game i might have to try

I'm quite jealous of you being their We could have dome with Americans being a bit more competitive, but its been a great spectacle

I think the issue here is the nature of independent travel. Now we know that he has access to a car then it's much less relevant. But for most people these sort of independent trips means carrying...

It would be quite handy if the OP would tell us how he plans to travel. I would estimate that 95% of independent travelers in NZ have no car. But it was a while ago that I went. 3 months car rental...

That's a fair point. You could just take the 18-105. It cover the range I had for 3 months in New Zealand. I had 28mm 50mm and 105mm lenses on a film camera Having looked at you wok on Shanti511...

It sounds like a brilliant trip I'm not great on lenses so I'll leave that bit for the moment I think how you are travelling will have a big impact here. If you are carrying all your stuff  for...

Beautiful engineered. But are you sure that you won't be blocking light that should be getting to the lens.  though that the cut aways in the hood were to prevent corner darkening   I hope I'm wrong

How annoying no exif.... I'm not sure why Any way the 2 colour ones are lots (12) 30 second exposures stacked in photo shop. So that with a 10 stop nd even at dusk. The B&W is either .5 seconds...

I just us manual an aperture priority. manual only really for panos and on a tripod. I vary the iso when I need too I think these forums have a culture of people making it all very complicated. As...