This is one of the pagaent ones I just finished. It stopped raining about 10 minutes before this, heavily overcast and we couldn't get any closer so I'm handholding these with the lens at about 180mm trying to get my flash to put a little light onto the subject with shutter speeds fast enough to freeze the action. If there was a recipe book for grain, that'd be in it Dunno how long I'll keep at these before scanning in the parade ones. I am so tired of scanning at this point. It's great for a few shots, but when you have over 100 frames it becomes tedious. I simply can't wait for my new digital camera. -=>Donald