PHOTOGRAPHIC THREADS: camera queries, any photo tech stuff!

[ellenndan]

Thanks you all for your help. We will try again tonight.
Sorry Mark if we have hidden our email address we didnt know, and dont know how to unhide it.
Thanks Ellen and Dan

[mark smyth]

It's easy. Go to profile the account settings in the left hand box and untick hide email

Looking forward to you photos. You have plenty of editing options to choose from

[mark smyth]

I have done something to my Photo Shop

The crop tool is OK while I am highlighting the area on the image but when I want to move the selected  area, and the moving dashes are still present, there is a small x on the lower right quandrant of the + that stops me moving the selected area to make a better cropped image. It trys to create another crop.

Any idea what has gone wrong?

[Ian Y]

Mark
I have tried to create your problem but cannot. Try left clicking on your cropping tool box and hold your finger down till you get the selection tool bar giving other options for that button. Move to another cropping option try that then move back to the original position.
If that does not work try shutting the progam down and restart it.
That is all I can think of without being there.

[Diane Clement]

Try this - On the second tool bar down, far left there is a dotted rectangle.  Click on this and it says Reset tool, or Reset all tools.  Try clicking on "Reset all tools".  I have found this works when I get into a mess.  I've put a picture with a red circle to show where as there are two dotted rectangles

[ranunculus]

I can't seem to get rid of that damn red circle now Diane!! 

Enjoy Prague and don't worry TOO much about we poor people back in Britain!

[mark smyth]

excellent work Diane. I must have accidentally click there at some stage recently or more like one of the nieces was playing around

I am very excited now about going to the conference. 

[Lesley Cox]

Have a marvellous trip Mark and no, don't worry about the rest of us who can't be there but DO remember that we want to see and hear about it all.

A bit off topic but would you look out for Otto and have a few words with him please? He'll be right at home as there will be many Germans there I expect as well as English speakers, but he's sometimes quite diffident among strangers. He also needs major encouragement with his own computer efforts, so give him any help you can. Thanks very much.

[mark smyth]

No probs.

I was worning the garden this evening and I thought I want to go but at the same time I dont. I need someone to look after my babies. How will they cope for 11 days without me. My troughs are about to have a great show and I'll miss the peak

[Hans J]

Hi all ,

I'm planning to buy a new camera -a Nikon D 50 -has anybody experience with this typ ?
I use since many years my old Nikon FM 2 - after a inquiery to Nikon they says to me I can use my old objektiv ( Nikkor AF 60 mm / 2,8 ).

All suggestions are welcome -thank you in advance

Greetings
Hans

[Anthony Darby]

No experience with the D50, but I know that the D80 is a good upgrade on the D70, which I have. I know Ian likes his new Olympus because of the swinging screen, but I like to look through an eyepiece.
Anthony.

[Hans J]

Hi Anthony ,

Thank you for your information .
I'm a little surprised that nobody here use this camera .
Yesterday I have found a report that this is the best camera ( for this price ) from last December .

Greetings
Hans

[David Nicholson]

I've been toying with the idea of changing my camera (Samsung Digimax U-CA3  3.2 mega pixels.  5cm macro. 3x optical zoom) for a few weeks now. I had first thought of a Digital SLR but, given my complete lack of photographic knowledge and skill; the fact that almost all the pictures I take are of flowers and gardens, either for my own satisfaction or to post to the Forum; and the cost of Digital SLR's, maybe I am just as well, sticking to Digi Compacts?

Knowing that Ian speaks very highly of his Fuiji FinePix S9600 Zoom that had been amongst the possibles, and it is available now for under £250. I had a bit of play with one this afternoon but found it a little heavy. The shop did have a new (I think?) model Fuiji S5700 with 7 mega pixels and 10x optical zoom and macro down to 1cm. This felt nice and light and I thought might suit my purposes better than the S9600. It was priced at £190 but is available on the Internet for less than £150 and £200 would by the full package including case and memory cards etc.

Is anyone familiar with this model or could suggest alternatives for me to look at with a ceiling of £200 for a full package?

[mark smyth]

if you are buying a new top of the range camera you might have to raised your range by £50. Buy a copy of the magazine What Digital Camera

[David Nicholson]

I did, but only understood every other word. The trouble with these kinds of magazines, I find, is that they are written by 'geeks' for 'geeks' and not for the 'sort of interested man in the street'