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[quote="Armen Gharib"]Heeeey don't you think that these are raw forms of the butterfly you represented above?? I found them after rain in the grasses on the mountains

... dunno, but I found this too ...

Birma wrote:... Peacock and Red Admiral?

Peacock and Small Tortoiseshell

Haven't any swallowtails around here but we have lots of these ...



and these ...

I'd still want a FF with plenty of pixels. No way could I afford the Nikon D3x and Canon just don't appeal to me. So it would have to be a Sony a900

Warehouse Express http://www.warehouseexpress.com/product ... ku=1011874 have the Tamron version in Sony fit for £59.99

Without insurance, the 2kg plus weight ... As a quite heavy user of Royal Mail international services (eBay sales mainly) the 2kg break point is the problem - costs escalate frightful over 2kg. Where possible I split packages to get below that weight and it's often very much cheaper to send two 1.9...

Metz 15 MS-1 wireless macro ring flash work with Sony a900 or does it need a camera with pop-up flash?

If not any suggestions as to a macro ring flash which will work with Sony a900 and Sony 100mm macro lens?

Hi and welcome ... I shall refrain from further comment.

Thanks David, fascinating, a glimpse into a different world of photography for me

Hi Brad, welcome to the forum

Congratulations Don ... well done!

"Customers who want more than 20 megapixels should look to full-frame cameras" The area of an Olympus 4/3 sensor is very close to a quarter of the area of FF (35mm) sensor. For their 4/3 sensor they are saying 12mp "is enough" so 48mp would be their idea of "enough" for...

Very interesting. I used the trial version some time ago and frankly I wasn't that impressed considering the price they want. The Elite edition, which alone supports the a900, is very expensive. There are other more economical ways of doing much the same thing - try PTLens coupled with Raw Therapee ...

I've put a note on the Amateur Photographer forum Forthcoming Events ... might help

I can use Photoshop fairly competently and have been doing so for a couple of generations of the software. One aspect I’ve never really understood is what is Photoshop trying to do when the Auto levels/contrast/color tabs are used ... what’s going on under the hood? I rarely use them but have tried ...