Was anyone else doing the Welsh Board for Literature?

Fortunately I don’t have Maths to worry about after I did it last year. But I got 6 Science exams coming up, Geography, and the other 2 English. :rolleyes: Atleast I gotta week to recover..

Been a relatively busy week here. Spanish reading on Monday….quite difficult but it’s such a relief not to have to think about Spanish again. RE Judaism paper on Tuesday was ok-ish. The compulsary question couldn’t have been worse though, that caught me off guard a bit.

Then English Literature yesterday. God that was hard! 9 sides of A4 (and my writing is small) in 2 and a half hours. Took me about an hour to get stuck in though, and I was constantly crossing things out and starting again. Ah well, it’s all over now. Got RE Christian Perspectives paper to look forward to tomorrow.

Nice ones there Grey, particularly good for the wx. Can never beat close-ups obtained from the AVP.

Are there issues with dust when you change lenses?. Not a big deal with my film SLR but I gather it can cause problems with digi’s.

The main problem that people can get is dust on the sensor. Personally, I haven’t had any problems with this myself so I’m not sure what the answer is if it does happen. Someone else may know the ways around it?

Given the choice, would the seasoned experts on this thread always advise an SLR? Apart from interchangeability of lenses, what are the advantages? I’d welcome advice.

I’d say one main thing about DSLR’s, is that there is hardly a limit to how much zoom you can get. It’s fairly standard to get 500mm lenses, which with the DSLR sensor actually equates to 800mm (500 x 1.6)! Other digital cameras do not come anywhere near this, even 12x optical zoom is only about 435mm.

DSLR’s also give you much more control. Other digital cameras often process the photos to some degree themselves (contrasting, sharpenign etc) whereas the DSLR pretty much leaves the image exactly how it looked through the lense. This also makes it a bit easier in challenging conditions, such a low lighting. I was taking photos at STN the other day, and at one point we had quite a thick cloud cover. If you raised the ISO on a normal camera, the grain would increase quite dramatically. Whereas with the 350D, I could raise the ISO and still get virtually no grain, producing a sharp image like the one attatched.

Despite this, there are still a number of digital cameras out there that do meet very high standards, and these should not be overlooked (especially if you have a relatively small budget). 12x optical zoom is enough zoom for most situations, and most new cameras on the market have things such a noise reduction built into them, which can still produce very fine shots.

The Z3 looks ok, but is it any good in foul weather? and for an extra £200 I could have the DSLR with lense. Oh this is confusing!!

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Click on my jetphotos.net link below. For a large majority of those photos, I was using the Z10 which is a cheaper version of the Z3. Only 8x zoom vs 12x, and only 3MP vs 4MP. That gives you an idea of what it might be capable of.

If you can find a DSLR body for an apropriate price, then I’d recommend this lense here http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=&products_id=98415 Although do a search around, you might find it somewhere else.