Pugwash

I find I can wear an Asian 7750 watch for a couple of hours and it'll last the night no problem. I'd get yours checked out if I were you.

This old one. I need to get some AR on it and I need some new pics.

Anyone using the chrono, that's who.

You must be new here.

Um ... ew?

Some dreams are easier than others.

Why would they? This is Bangkok. There are a huge amount of stalls around the city selling contraband goods and they're all known to the authorities.

The camera just treats it like any other lens so the file is exactly the same size as any other photo you'd take.

Not cheap enough. Here's the proper way of reversing the lens:

The photo above was taken with the ring. This photo was taken with just holding the lens to the body:

Try it. Just hold the lens to the camera the wrong way round. I think you'll find it's not as good as the shorter lenses. Wider angle, closer macro. Remember, if a short lens reduces the image more than a long lens, when you reverse it, a shorter lens will enlarge more than a long lens.

It's Mrs Pugwash's bottle; it's diet. I drink full-fat Irn Bru.

He turned a lot of people's gazes in our direction, by the sound of things.

Here's the first Pugwash photo tutorial in a very long time. Unfortunately, it's my first DSLR one, so I'm sorry if you're still on a non-SLR camera. Normally, when you buy a camera, you get a fairly bog-standard average quality lens. This lens has one job and that's to take in big and make it small enough to fit on the bit of the camera that captures the light. What macro lenses do is pretty much the opposite of that. So, what would happen if you turn the bog-standard lens round and held it to the camera? This is what would happen: Click for 1280px wide version However, there must be a way to do better than manually holding the lens to the body, right? That's where a quick trip to eBay, armed with

Hopefully you won't get too bored with the new eyecandy I'm posting, but I've got to take lots and lots of pictures to get used to my new camera. Click for 1280px wide version.

Yes, hence the Planet Ocean's less-than-usual 25,200vph beat-rate.

Take the lens off, turn it round, hold it to the camera. McGyver-rigging your DSLR. Tutorial coming soon.

Best I can do at short notice is FFHAUSEN, I'm afraid.

Taken using the stock 18-55mm lens reversed. Click for 1280px wide version.

Certain charm? It has personality, but no charm. Here's mine.

Explorer or Datejust if he's of-the-age.

Best keep up positively contributing then. Was it about one of his guides in which he said "Don't PM Me"? I used to get a lot of PMs that should in all honesty have been asked in the forum, but since I changed my signature text, I've got a lot less.

It's a bandwidth issue. 320x240x120 is the same bandwidth as 640x480x30. Much like 1080i (1920x1080x30) uses roughly the same bandwidth as 720p (1280x720x60), which is why we have those two formats. They both approach the absolute bandwidth limit of the technology available at time the standards were created.

Only at first. Once we get used to stupidly high-resolution images at high frame rates, our brains will adjust. The battle scenes in Gladiator, for instance, were filmed with a video camera, the immediacy it brought changed the ways our brains worked.

Seeing as my new camera arrived, I'm just trying to learn its foibles. The first shot is just taken using all the usual techniques, but the second was taken using a little-known reverse-lens macro technique I'll be going into once I've properly got the hang of it. Both pics are available at 1280px wide by clicking them.