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They might do but external flashes can be had super cheap, like £30 which will be fine for that. With cheap wide angles, the barrel distortion isn't corrected, so vertical lines aren't really vertical, they go in towards the center at the top. The expensive Canon wide angle lenses are...

I haven't used it but if he's using a crop body then it should be OK. It'll be wide enough for interior shots but I'm not sure what the distortion will be like but it might not matter to him, and could always be corrected in Lightroom if need be. If you are using a flash, you will need an off...

Yeah apparently as it's a J series, it's not available just yet but will be soon via a system update, might be the same for the catch up apps. Are you using it to record? Do you just stick an external hard drive in the USB? Something I haven't looked at yet. Seems a decent TV for the price...

Tbh, this should be the first thing people see when they come into the photography section. @Geddes went on a course and had some luck with that. I learnt by using the camera and looking on Flickr at images I wanted to replicate so checking exif info etc and trial and error. YouTube is...

Cheers mate. Already have the 550 set aside for him if I don't sell it. He'll have a camera before most things though. More progress made today too. Looks like we might be going to stay at the hospital this week to get him feeding properly overnight before he can come home. I've managed a...

So I went and bought it. Only issue so far is I can't find Red Bull TV app. I have a small Samsung in the bedroom and it has it on there. The UI is different on both, maybe I need to try to update the system somehow. Google search just brings up "redbull TV is now on samsung tv's"

Cheers @Matt_90

This has been pretty much the only thing I have taken photo's of over the past week. Hopefully he won't be in too long now. ThirtyFour/FiftyTwo - Progress by Aaron, on Flickr

You still finding this TV alright? Ready to get one now the lounge has been decorated and don't want to spend a fortune. What are the smart features like? Is the UI ok?Not stupidly slow? They look alright compared to similar TV's in the same price range.

On a crop body the 55-250 is a superb cheap lens.

I haven't got the jpeg but I might export the original again without any changes and then apply the same edits to see how it comes out. I know the white balance will be all over the place but it will be interesting to see the result

I sent a few through via email (it's on their website) and they replied a week or so later asking for more images and info on each one. They sent me a form to fill out for each image, camera details, location etc. I had to send a disk of the images, the paperwork and print a contact sheet...

So this is a screenshot of my Lightroom showing the before and after of my Perseids shot from last week. I wouldn't have been able to do half as much to bring out the Milky way if I had shot in JPEG. Even my timelapse shots are taken in RAW, albeit medium size for space saving/faster editing...

Had some shots published in Amateur Photographer this week. I sent in 12 and they chose these which I'm fairly happy with. They all keep a similar theme being night time/north Wales Excuse the crap photo, the print isn't brilliant and neither was the light.

I only shoot RAW. I'll post a shot later comparing my before and after of a milky way shot last week. You wouldn't be able to get half as much detail if you edited a jpeg. Shooting jpeg is fine for a lot of people though, but if you really want to get the most out of the image then you should...

More from the other night The gate to the galaxy by Aaron, on Flickr On a rock by Aaron, on Flickr

Self2 by Aaron, on Flickr

Nice one mark. I went out last night. My sleep patern is all over the place since she's been in hospital. Managed a small timelapse of the Milky way over Devils Kitchen/ Cwm Idwal in Snowdonia. I have a few shots to edit later.

Anyone using Adobe Lightroom and or Photoshop with this? CC preferably. My Lightroom has been running really bad since the update (from LR6 to LR CC) running on 8.1 - Just want to check it'll be fine on 10 before I upgrade.

If in ever down that way I'm going to give you a shout. Looks awesome. Mark, trial and error. Try clarity up, highlights up, blacks down a bit, contrast up a bit and depending on what your foreground is like, up the shadows. All depends on your software too. I'm not too sure with Elements...

Yeah get them edited Mark and put them up. Ant, that place looks amazing. Be a hell of a foreground for a night scape.

Ah OK. Yeah must be quite a lot of light pollution then. Best just trying a few settings. Maybe a couple of shots in the same spot, then up the iso, reduce shutter speed etc. All depends on the sensor too so might be better with a 15 second exposure and iso of 1000. Trial and error with night...

How come you kept your iso so low? I'd change the iso to 1000+ and reduce the shutter speed to 15-20 seconds. You'd be amazed at the amount of stars you will capture with a higher iso. You shouldn't have any issues with noise if you stick under 3200. What time did you shoot these too? I...

As wide as you can go, as low as you can go f/2.8 or lower ideally, 20-30 second exposures and a relatively high ISO. I shot a few at ISO 10,000 last night. All depends how well the Sony handles the ISO. It's good to try them though. Manual focus set to infinity (bring it back a touch) and...

Hopefully you will get some clear skies. You certainly have the locations! Two more from last night. Wonders by Aaron, on Flickr Perseids by Aaron, on Flickr

Hopefully you will get some clear skies too! Went out last minute to get the Perseids meteor shower. Managed a couple but they weren't that good. This came out OK though. ThirtyThree/FiftyTwo by Aaron, on Flickr

I know a few people that use the Samyang 14mm http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004SH6OSI/?tag=cliospnet01-21 That or the sigma 10-20 which would probably have more use for daytime etc and you can fit filters to it. Or a couple of alternatives...

Yeah just find Lightroom 4 somewhere and then look on YouTube for the serial number. It doesn't phone in to check every time you use it so you don't need to worry about that. As for the other images, it's good to keep some to see how they differ to your other edits. Maybe don't upload them all...

I like it Mark. You should keep the first edit on Flickr too. You can then go back and compare. You can get Lightroom to run on a 32bit os on Windows if you find Lightroom 4, it's what I used to use on my old laptop. I'm still running Windows, just updated to 64bit now.

It's nice. I'd like to see either more detail in the city or a silhouette of it. The sky is superb. Are you using lightroom yet?if so, just up the shadow slider a tad and see why happens. We had a similar sky the other night but I didn't go our for it and I regretted it 10 minutes later. As for...