Very cool entry! :)

I was thinking the same about the EXIF as Randy - where the Serial Number of your camera is embedded in the image. Then I remembered that as I use RAW mode in my 20d, and I convert these RAWs to TIFs for editing in Photoshop...all the EXIF info is lost as TIFs dont store EXIF! You wouldnt therefore be able use a serial number in an image produced this way, and would likely have to supply a secondary conversion in JPG of the original RAW...which is bound to cause more confusion for the average sales person.

Adobe RGB here - convert to sRGB before saving for web.

One in Newbury too which isn't that far from me :) Cheers

Cheers for those. I'm aware of B & H - I'm also aware of the ludicrous custom charges "Her Majesties Customs and Excise" will charge me daring to import something from outside the UK (though I'd definately use them for buying things I couldn't find anywhere else :) ).

Awesome :) :)

I'd love one...though would be better if the sun was out! Blasted english summers :P

Cool info :) I guess cameras with large sensors will drop in price like everything else and we can all get canon 1D quality images (we'll just be jealous over the next next-gen tech instead :P ).

oh thats funny :)

Bad rich amateurs think fuzzy B/W images of poor people are art. hehehehe

I'm not totally convinced that you cannot get good compositions with an LCD on the back of a Digital Camera (well, non SLR ones ;) ). I used both the LCD and the viewfinder on my Sony 717 and got some good compo's with both methods (well, IMHO anyway :D ). I'd agree that using the viewfinder is definately better most of the time though - but I do find my DSLR more restrictive at times because I cant angle up or down the LCD, and take images easily at floor level or at arms length over my head. I knew that when I changed from the 717 (a prosumer) to the 20d (a DSLR) I'd actually suffer a DROP in quality! The 717 is alot easier to use, even in manual mode, than a DSLR. I beleive SLR's require different technical skills than digital compacts, but the composition skills required are the same. So yes, take heart if you cant afford a DSLR. You can still achieve really really good images and compete with SLR owners using the most basic of camera. Anyone thats been watching the BBC series "A digital picture of britain" will have seen this. 3 professional photographers are given 3 different cameras. One a top of the range DSLR, another a mid range compact digital and the last a 2 megpixels camera phone. All of them get good results, and even those using the camera phone get images comparable to the those of the DSLR - from a composition point of view at least.

Maybe that was a typo... Tedz must mean Dog. Or Cat for that matter...people likes cats. And Pidgeons.

Wow, that looks unreal! Amazing :)

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Good shots help :D - but obviously that doesn't help if your looking for help on improving and your not yet the ninja photographer you want to be. I do my best to comment on photos and post here in the forums, but photography isn't the only thing I do in my spare time, and the time I have to get my name noticed is limited. The sad fact is that you may have to get used to being dissapointed about the number of views and comments you get on your images, at least in the short term. If you have the time (unlike me), keep posting and commenting and hopefully you'll make some friends here and you'll get more and more feedback. I've even started posting on other sites to get a more feedback than I know I'll get in any one place. It's something you have to work on of course. Just posting photographs isn't enough. I've seen tons of awesome images here from photographers that get so little recognition its almost criminal. But people can not check everyone elses work all the time, there's just not enough hours in the day to keep on top of it. Heck, I have only 10 or so artists on my watch list, and I cant even comment on everything they post! Most people will only religously check the work of the people they like (be that personally or artisticly :oP ), and browse the rest randomly, its very easy to have your work buried by the other hundreds of posts. I find it dissapointing myself, especially when I put images up I'm realy proud of, or want feedback on, and then get little or no feedback. But I'm used to it by now, and I'll keep plugging away and posting regardless :O). Philosophically, one comments better than none. This may have been a bit of a ramble, but I've been thinking on this myself for some time and thought I would share my thoughts ;) Luv ya'all :P

Grats again! (I cast a few votes ;O) )