Fun story, Cotty, and very nice pics. Send congrats to the winner! Cheers, Christine
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cotty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "pentax list" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 5:12 AM Subject: All Good Things Update > Thought you might like the irony in this. > > I've now sold all my Canon gear - the 1DmII, the 70-200 2.8, the 24-70 > 2.8, 2X extender, 580EX flash, Angle Finder C, Quantum Turbo battery. > The Pentax K50 and A20 auctions end this weekend. My eBay fees were 80 > GBP! But I put them up as B.I.N.s and they all went swiftly (most within > ten minutes) and they've all shipped and settled, and I'm not scraping > along the overdraft limit anymore. > > Anyway. This week in the UK, ITV ran a Teacher of the Year Awards > region by region and we had 4 finalists. I shot items about 2 of them, > one works at a special boarding school for abused kids and by chance is > a neighbour in my village. The winner was decided by panel of 6 judges > worthy and true, and happily it was my neighbour who won, and we filmed > the surprise presentation on Friday. > > On my brief it said 'cameraman to bring good quality digital camera to > snap winner for co-sponsor Daily Mirror newspaper'. > > My Epson R-D1 had 2 flat batteries, so I grabbed the *ist Ds+18-55 and > headed out (I carry several dozen AA and 9v batteries on board with me > daily). > > After filming the surprise presentation (teacher was suitably amazed and > grateful, clapped on by a phalanx of colleagues), I gathered them around > for a quick shot for the newspaper. The *ist Ds buffer is slow!! > compared to the 1DmII but on a sunny day with the flash up, did the > trick - even though it was set to large fine jpeg (I would have set it > to RAW if I had the time/brain cells). > > I've had odd things in papers before but nothing for years. > > I sent the paper the first, third and fifth pics. > > <http://www.cottysnaps.com/snaps/spare7.html> > > > > -- > > > Cheers, > Cotty > > > ___/\__ > || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche > ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com > _____________________________ > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
