Digital photography

Where you off to in SE asia? Went there last year, amazing place.

For good food tips my Thai chef friend has a great knowledge.
http://www.andyoliverchef.com/

(might feature a few of my photos).

He's pretty good photographer in his own right mind.

Watch out for customs catching you bringing it back into the country and charging you VAT etc. Hide the box, manuals etc.

This.

Post your boxes manuals, back when you leave, do not carry them in your case/luggage.

HMRC might also blag- telling you they are going away to check the serial number /database. All bollocks let em. MV is spot on.

Thanks for all the advice!

I'll be almost exclusively in Kalimantan Timur. I'm going for my PhD fieldwork so will spend almost all of my time based in a forest camp in a reserve near(ish) Balikpapan. I've not actually visited this field site before so I'm a bit sketchy on the details of the camp but from what I can gather it looks like it'll be 4 months of sleeping in a hammock under a tarpaulin, washing in a river, generator electricity and walking 3 hours to the nearest village to pick up some phone signal and internet. Oh and leeches... don't forget the leeches. If that doesn't break my LFGSS addiction, nothing will.

Looking forward to it but having just said goodbye to my girlfriend puts a slight pall on it.

Battery charger ?

Sounds like an awsum adventure.

Any of those things that crawl up your willy ?

Aye, I should be able to charge batteries since I'll also need enough power to run my laptop. If I had taken the plunge on the D7000 before I left I would have also got a vertical grip (cheapo £30 one... not proper Nikon) which would allow me to use normal AA batteries of which I'll have literally thousands as they are what go in my remote cameras.

I don't think there are any of the things that go up your willy, no. But, there is plenty that could kill me - crocodiles, elephants, lots of snakes, malaria, dengue, but leeches are the worst... if you stand still in the forest for more than a minute the floor turns into a seething mass slowly lolling it's way towards you. It's like something out of Raiders of the Lost Arc! Can't wait! :)

By the way, this:

http://www.andyoliverchef.com/

Lead me to this

http://benbroomfield.carbonmade.com/projects/3224153#3

which is well worth a look.

Cheers man. It was an awesome sight to see.

Yesterday I was struggling to get a good photo of this rainbow in colour so I embraced the black and white! Looks quite strange when you take the colour out of something you always associate with being very colourful

A rare $100,000 Nikon fisheye lens, said to be able to 'see behind itself' and dwarfing any camera it is attached to has gone on sale in London.

http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/Monster_Nikon_6mm_f28_lens_turn_up_in_London_news_312353.html

I'v not posted anything in here for a little while,

Untitled by Ande Murdoch, on Flickr

Untitled by Ande Murdoch, on Flickr

Virginia Street, April 2012 by Ande Murdoch, on Flickr

Just picked up lightroom, any tips or good tutorials to look at?

A rare $100,000 Nikon fisheye lens, said to be able to 'see behind itself' and dwarfing any camera it is attached to has gone on sale in London.

http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/Monster_Nikon_6mm_f28_lens_turn_up_in_London_news_312353.html

I want to see some pictures taken from it!

Just picked up lightroom, any tips or good tutorials to look at?

I've sat through these which were very good

http://mulita.com/blog/?page_id=724

I've sat through these which were very good

http://mulita.com/blog/?page_id=724

Hmm, looks good but don't fancy dropping $25 on it. . .

I thought SLR lounge gave a good (although possibly overly in depth) series. I haven't seen all of them but they were useful to me. Annoyingly they have reformatted their website making the tutorials difficult to pick and chose from.

Think I prefer it as a single shot the right way up TBH.

My latest efforts

Some items for sale.

Hi guys, I'm after a compact digital camera with a viewfinder for my girlfriend, looking at spending about 300 quid. Can be second hand.

Can you recommend anything?

I'm afraid I can do cameras but I'm slr not dslr!

ricoh grd with external vf should do the job.

What about a 2nd hand m4/3 camera? A Panasonic Lumix G1 perhaps?

how good are fujifilm X10's? they look pretty rad, i think thats the sort of thing i'd want to get.

how good are fujifilm X10's? they look pretty rad, i think thats the sort of thing i'd want to get.

I think it depends what you want/need.

I really considered one instead of the X100 and given that I have now bought the R-D1 it's probably what I shoulda gone for.

I was put off by the viewfinder, or rather, the X100's really impressed me. I could live without the EVF and no getting the exposure info didn't really fuss me too much but there's nowhere to tell where the focus point is and that meant that in a lot of situations the viewfinder would be useless.