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Have you read this? What do you think about what he has to say about Sony?

http://www.bythom.com/2009predictions.htm

Hi Yuri!,

Welcome from me too

Roger

the only issue with the Minolta/Sony Macro lenses (at least the 50mm 2.8 and the 100mm 2.8, I haven't try the 50mm 3.5) is the slow focus. On any camera. But opticaly, they are the best Macro lenses around. The 100mm 2.8 specially: an object of desire... Regards Macro lenses need finer focussing - ...

Not from a Zoo as such but here's one Slimbridge Wildfowl Trust on the River Severn estuary in England.

Thanks for your comment :D Sony Alpha a700 with Sony 100mm f2.8 macro lens and I believe the species is Anthophora furcata They do come in various shades and some are more ginger than others. The lighting is different here (both photos taken a couple of days ago) but the bee was a different colour. ...

Roger

Winston wrote:4, 66 next month, 3MPx Sony bottle calibrated witha G-M (X-Rite) Eye-One.

Same ... except I am already 66 and my monitor is a cheap Xerox 24" wide.

Google does a fair job of translating ... well a few oddities but ....

http://translate.google.com/translate?u ... l=it&tl=en

David Kilpatrick wrote:.... (hey - there's no word for the first decade of a century!).

David

Noughties .... or naughties even

Excellent photos Gustav, well done!

Actually only the last is a Dragon fly, the first is a Hover fly and the others Damsel flies ... but no matter the photos are great!

Winston wrote:80% of the posts generated by 5% of the membership.
Almost half generated by four members.

I would think that's about normal for most forums I visit. Some folk are just naturally more garrulous than others

Sonolta wrote: In theory, white paint on a camera lens does reflect heat on a sunny day better than black does.

Irrelevant .... here in UK

Yours is subtle and I like a lot.. This is seriously modified for artisitc effect. .... seriously indeed :D :D but very good! I'll confess and admit this has been on another forum a few days ago ... but I really did want to know what the folk on here thought! It's originally a colour photo (Sony a7...

Not everyone's taste I know ... but I enjoy doing this sort of thing



Vine leaf - tri-toned

Buttoneer wrote: A portrait should be honest, even with the funny rash down below.

*cough*

... but they never were

Those old master portrait from way back you see hanging in the art galleries they were almost always "idealised".

Otherwise the painter wouldn't have been paid ... or worse