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We've had a few mega-telephoto threads before, but I thought this was interesting as it actually puts it into perspective with some real life shots you can get your head around... http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/find/newsLetter/Mother-of-All-L-Lenses.jsp Tax free if shipped to the UK!

Stunning, this shot alone makes me want to own a Clio again, love it.

Loving that, I saw a clever take on this yesterday, but it doesn't look easy... Take a dark piece of card with you, and as the car is actually passing in front of yours, quickly put the card in front of your lens then take it away, you then get the streaks either side but they don't dissect...

A 'slow' lens is generally one that has an maximum aperture of around f4.5. A 'fast' lens is usually f1.8, f2.8, f4.0 etc. Fast lens can usually throw the background out of focus quite easily, but it is less common with slow lens.

I'm even more impressed now, then. I didn't realise a lens that 'slow' would throw the backgrounds out that nicely. The first Otter shot is beautiful. Not really a complaint as they are lovely shots, but I would keep an eye on the ISO, the backgrounds are quite noisy so if you can get away...

Plenty of lovely shots there, particularly like the Otters. What lens you using? I'm assuming a pretty high ISO for some of them, as well?

All depends on the magnification, 'true' macro is 1:1, which essentially means the size of the object on the sensor is the same size as the object being photographed. Unless you buy a specialist macro lens you are very unlikely to have that. You are right though, most lens use the term Macro...

On Have I Got News For You tonight. Anyone else see it?!

Blimey, in a strange the way the car seems to have held up quite well considering. The road to my house is almost identical to that and loads of tractors use it, probably a fairly serious crash every couple of weeks here.

Any specific displays you are heading to? We go to the one at the Bath Rec every year, it's absolutely stunning but I've never taken my camera, enjoy it too much.

Pretty much none until earlier this year, but I now sharpen my images slightly and try to correct the colour to the best of my ability, just to give it a bit of 'pop'. I tend to process 500 pictures or so from a day out in just over an hour, I really don't enjoy that side of things so try to...

There are so many variables it's hard to give a definitive answer, but if you get the basics right you will normally get some pretty good shots. This is what I do: - Lowest ISO setting (noise is bad) - Shutter Priority - Manual Focus - Tripod / solid platform for camera - Some way to trigger...

Phoned up today, full refund (no admin charge), result :)

Cheers guys, just realised how much fun I've had this year when I put this together, and it's been great comparing to 2007 as I feel I've improved loads. Obviously still loads to work on, but I feel like I got somewhere this year, which was cool.

Good stuff, I might attempt to get down there on the Saturday, all being well.

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I wasn't aware of this, but Swiftcover automatically renew your cover every year. Off I went and got covered by eSure, but I'm now also covered by Swiftcover again as it renewed (I never received a letter / email) Anyhow, I decided to cancel the eSure cover, and having a look at the T&Cs it...

Thought I would post a few of my Motorsport efforts from 2008, as I don't think I've posted any in the Photography section before, and I'm bored. Called time on the remaining events this year due to taking it easy whilst I wait for my op, and only having a D50 and one charged battery (no...

Not sure how many mm's you would need to get anywhere near filling the frame, I'm guessing around 1200mm on our cropped sensors. Anyone got a long fast lens, and 2x and 1.4x teleconverters that want to give it a go? :)

Me? If so, I don't do tripods, hand-held all the way, just a 3 second shutter delay to compose myself and hold my breath.

I use one of these... Arctic Butterfly http://www.warehouseexpress.com/product/default.aspx?sku=1015216 Actually came free with a magazine subscription that cost less than the price of the brush! Great piece of kit, it won't get rid of stubborn stuff but if you use it as soon as you...

Dust on your sensor, basically.

Here goes... This is uncropped, Nikon D50 + Sigma 1.4x Teleconverter + Sigma 120-300 2.8 420mm, SP @ 1/500 Cropped image:

It was a good choice, lovely camera the D50, I miss mine.

Looks like you used some pretty brave shutter speeds, what did you try in the end? I like 4 and 5, they would have looked really dull taken 'normally' but you've injected plenty of speed into them, love that only the last rider is in focus because of the panning blur. High ISO would have made...

Lovely photo. Really sharp and well composed. Had a little go at this last night inspired by your pic, will post it up later.

Sweet, miss my 80-200 2.8 badly, such a nice range to work with.

Camera sensors simply cannot keep up with the human eye in this respect, the difference between the relatively dark subject and the bright sky is well beyond the range of a digital sensor. The exposure seems pretty much perfect for the foreground, I would suggest the only two options (that I...

Yep, not interested in the kit lens myself.

Price has dropped now :) T4 is £650 and has stock, some places are even creeping down to £599. Sweeeeeeet.