RP McMurphy

Nice shots Winnie : re Horizons, you may already have a Nikon that has built in level detail but in case not you can have the bottom of the 2 buttons to the right of the lens display the levelling...

Placed 6^th in the challenge.

Placed 19^th in the challenge. The Palais of Chaillot

Beware with AFD that screwdriver focus isn't as accurate consistently as AFS unless you focus away and then reaquire focus. If you focus on the subject and then refocus without defocussing with AFD...

Wow!Truly inspirational work, really great stuff

My second ever competition entered so very surprised
No problem for the low votes; quite surprised to have so many high ones!
Thanks all

I ahv e no idea of what you actually want. You seems to be flogging a dead horse here. Pretty much everybody has disagreed with you You say there's 'no good reason to have it lower bounded(but...

Well if you need terabytes of space then I wouldn't give your that for free either
Quit your moaning

Mirror slap? Commonly known as the Nikon recoil

The latest lightroom IS worth the upgrade anyway, I skipped LR3 but was happy to move for LR4 independent of the D800 NEFs

Why, I have the latest convertor and I haven't seen enough new features I'd use to make me spend anything. If I can't upgrade after CS6 without paying the full price then so be it I have updated...

The difference is that I could afford every 2nd or 3rd incremental cost update but not a new full system I know I am not alone in that so I do consider it silly And yes they are money hungry but...

Silly move by Adobe - there's so many that need more than elements but cannot pay for a full photoshop regularly I'm staying with CS4 and wont dream of paying a full price later.  They really...

Oh, and when you say that you are ready to move beyond f5.6.. you may be interested to know it's more difficult to get correctly focussed pictures at less than F5.6

No they wont pay for shipping No they wont pay to clean it Clean it yourself Some people say the D600 has problems needing a lot of early cleaning so choose to buy one and clean it or buy a...

Nice disgrams on here show the cause http://photographylife.com/why-sensor-dust-is-more-visible-at-small-apertures

Same issue for me on Color Efex only when loading many filters Select the option not to use the GPU and the problem goes away I decided against updating video driver and all was fine apart form...

I have the sigma 150 and it's really sharp but not cheap The Tamron 90 is cheap and really good The nikon 60 and 105 are both good For flowers I doubt you need 1:1 (otherwise you will just get...

be sure that the aperture is set to the smallest value (it should be otherwise your camera will show F/EE) The small lever at the back of the lens will open and close the aperture, try moving this...