Benoz

Hi Leo, Your rose is beautiful and I am sure your new garden will look as beautiful. Here are some macro/close-ups shot with my new toy the MX-1. Warm regards, Ben

Wow Lloyd, that's unreal! Great capture! I think I would have run...at least to the shelter! ;-)

Hi WJ, I know now what you meant. I never liked that AF setting. I always prefer, as much as possible, mode P and spot focusing and if my main subject is off center do the usual focus, half press...

To set the AF on small square (spot focusing): Starting in P mode press the Info button, select the icon (large square) on the left of the "AF.S", press OK and select spot focus (small square). To...

Would it be correct to assume that K-5 delivers better JPEG, better movie, better performance in metering and focus accuracy according to the compare to...? Regards, Ben

Thanks again for the kind comment and for the technical explanation! Cheers, Ben

Thank you! I guess one can control flaring to a certain extent if the lens permits. I use centre weighted exposure and spot focusing. Sometimes I can see flare in the LCD and by moving the focus...

Thanks Dean, I too prefer #1.

Thanks again Peppy!

This is the bracket I quite like being simple, cheap and also because the flash sits on the side rather than above the camera (personal...

Congratulations Peppy! You will love it more and more every day! :-) Good shooting!  Cheers, Ben

New compact cameras are definitely getting better with new sensors and new technology. For fun shooting in general you do tend to leave the DSLR behind mainly for ease of use, however the compacts...

As Gordon mentioned above, for less than $10 you can buy an optical slave flash trigger (just waiting for delivery of one) you can attach to your flash and solve the problem. With a flash trigger...

That sounds correct. Strange though that the images in the gallery open correctly. Are you having the same problem now? It makes no difference here no matter how I open the image. It's the same...

No difference...still deformed!

Is everyone seeing images distorted when enlarged? I have tried to PC and the problem is the same!

I checked after posting and the images show distorted when enlarged...for some reason, just as has happened in the Compact Forum. Sorry Leo will try again later! Warm regards, Ben BenC&C are...