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Comparing the shots of the two flowers, both were taken with manual focus. The Tamron was at 200mm and 1/350th sec. at F8, iso 200 while the Pentax was at 270mm and 1/350th sec. at F8, iso 400. It...

I have been using the Tamron 28-200mm lens from my film camera with a Pentax K100D. However I haven't been quite happy with the combination. The Tamron seems a little soft and doesn't do macro.
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Bob, I intend to do a similar thing. I now have a Pentax 100D Super and a Pentax Z-80 fim camera. Prior to that, I used a Spotmatic for about 30 years.

When the Spotmatic was stolen, I sold...

Exactly. All this is doing is increasing the cost of housing when affordability is already at its lowest.

A workaround for D.I.Y. people in the case of kitchen renovations might be to make all...

I'll second that. Just bought a K100D Super last week for $700 including 18-50mm lens, rechargeable AA batteries and charger. The "Super" model has a dust reduction feature but is otherwise the...

After the forum upgrade, I could not make new posts. My browser has now been upgraded to IE6 SP1, so if this post appears, that was the reason. (I was on IE5.5 before).

Edit:
Bewdy, that HAS...

Well said Midge, you expressed it far better than I could.

OK. I am now logged in from my second computer. It is on Windows 2000 with IE6.0 SP1.

Edit: Yes, it all seems to work Ok from this machine.

I am on Windows 98 with IE5.5 SP1 and there's a good reason why I can't upgrade this particular machine. I will try from my other machine in a moment. It is on Windows 2000.

I don't really know...

I think a serious bug has been introduced. I just tried several times to post a reply to a thread.

Each time, my post was rejected with an error message as follows: "The message you have entered...

My strategy in such cases is to not leave feedback at all.

This gives the seller the benefit of the doubt by not ruining their reputation. It also does not enhance their reputation yet avoids...

Well, Wild Dingo seems to be happy with his.

Some basic specs here: http://www.justtools.com.au/prod1312.htm

I saw them in Bunnings at Granville the other day for $690 which I thought was a...

Well, Gaza, the good thing about a free market economy is that if you think you can do better than someone else, there is nothing to stop you from trying.

Assuming you buy some from Bunnings at...

I don't have a compressor, so I used the rope trick and it worked well. It took me about 4 hours but I was being ultra careful.

It is the valve stem seals. Relatively easy to fix and low cost if done yourself. Say $30 for seals, $20 for rocker cover gasket/s and $30 for a valve spring compressor.

The seals harden over...

Thanks for the hints, Blocklayer. I guess I've become hooked on frames because they simplify making changes to the site. i.e when adding or substituting a page, the menu only has to be changed in...

Thanks for the replies. Perhaps I'm just too impatient.

After reading http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion-user.html and http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion-admin.html i thought Bigpond...

A few months ago, I set up a web site for my sister to sell her craft items at www.estherscrafts.com

I registered the domain name for her with NetRegistry. As she doesn't have an ABN, it had to...

If you look at his profile on eBay now, you'll see he is "no longer a registered user". I doubt whether your complaint alone was enough to cause that.

With a welder you are likely to blow holes in it. It would be better to solder it. The heat will be conducted away quite quickly, so you'll need a soldering iron with plenty of thermal mass (i.e....

There is some relevant information here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_read_out

The following is a list of mattress sizes from a major mattress manufacturer.

King: 6' x 6'8" = 183cm x 204cm
Queen: 5' x 6'8" = 153cm x 204cm
Long Double: 4'6" x 6'8" =...

I took this from my front porch on 27th May. It was mid afternoon at the time. Not very exciting but considering the camera was hand held at 30 zoom (10 optical x 3 digital), for a spur of the...

I agree with Iain. Forget anything British - not that I've got anything against the Pommies but they don't make reliable cars.

What style of vehicle do you want? By the sounds of it you're after...

Muddy baskets! I hope they sink without trace.

The reply was beautifully worded and well deserved.

What's broccoli? Rabbit Food?

Thanks for the answers. I apologise for taking so long get back. Now that you mention it, I took a better look at the spam and it is not addressed specifically to me but to random names at the same...

Thanks Cliff and Andrew. That is going to be difficult to combat. It seems that passive spam filtering is not enough. I will have to give some thought to a more active system.

regards
Coldamus

In the last couple of days, I've started to receive a new type of spam email. There don't appear to be any attachments but the text is made up of a huge list of keywords in alphabetic order. The...

I can't answer specifically in relation to Makita but I bought a Bosch 10.8 volt lithium screwdriver and feel that lithium batteries are significantly better than Ni-Cad or NiMH.

They keep their...

The whole point is that many eBay sellers have adopted the tactic of artificially inflating the postage and lowering the minimum price of their item because there is no eBay selling fee on the...

I'm almost with JMK89 except that I didn't vote because there was no option of "I don't give a toss."

What does it matter? The purpose of hair is to keep the sun off and I can wear a hat for...

The timber may not be in the same class, but this one near Tamworth has a registered factory that is obviously woodwork-related. For a house with 160 acres and a very big shed, It looks like a...

Last week, Bunnings rang to say that the part had arrived, so I picked it up on Friday and was relieved to find that it was the right one.

Full marks to Bunnings' special orders lady for her...

Jake,

Rather than have to upgrade the motor on the Carbatec 14" model, you could consider the Jet 14" deluxe which already has 1.25hp. Price is $775 from Gary Pye at Currumbin plus $95 for the...

Sorry to come in late but it may be worth considering another option. DVDs and tapes will still be around for a few years yet but with the advances being made in flash memory technology, it is only a...

Thanks, Joe. I thought it was probably something like that. I will go back to my old tactic of monitoring all calls through my answering machine.

Recently I have been getting phone calls which proceed as follows:

Phone: "Ring, Ring"

Me: "Hello"

Automated voice with slight American accent: "Thank you for calling. One of our...

Well, it is now 6 weeks after my initial order for the part and 4 weeks after having paid for it and there is still no sign of it. Just as well I'm not using the router for business.

Thanks for the reply. Once the site starts to bring in some income, the running costs should not be an issue. However I don't expect that to happen overnight, so I need to keep the costs down...

Agreed. As always, I am skint, so am working on a different approach:

My current Bigpond plan is $69.95 per month for unlmited usage, throttled after 12gb. A static IP address will add $10 per...

I have just been informed by Bunnings that part TRA136 is out of stock in Australia but is expected to be available again in another 2 weeks.

regards
Coldamus

I only had mine for a short time as I bought it to see whether wood turning was for me. It wasn't.

However I turned a bowl with it and, being a newby, that took me several hours continuous. I...

If that question was addressed to me, Bunnings did eventually ring back 10 days later. The lady from their special orders department was very helpful and got back to me with a price, $7.94, which...

Well, I just tried ringing Triton/GMC as I need a replacement plunge spring cap - otherwise known as the TRA136 - rack post guide assembly.

The nice lady from GMC told me that I would have to...

Just saw this article in the news. We've often joked here about the dangers and near misses but clearly this was no joking matter:

Iain,

Thanks for the info.

That seems like an excellent focusing arrangement.

regards
Coldamus

Iain,

On your Fuji, is manual focus achieved by twisting a focusing ring on the lens as in film SLR cameras?

When I bought my Olympus, one feature that swung the decision was that manual...

The law should be changed to make parents financially responsible for any damage caused by their kids up to the age of 18. Over that age, the perpetrators themselves should be responsible. By this I...

There's an excellent html reference here:
http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/index.html

It can also be downloaded so that you can refer to it when offline. Arachnophilia is quite good but...