LOL .. great story. And quite passable newspaper snaps! Amazing what you can do with a Pentax, eh? ]'-) :-)
Congratulations on moving that Canon gear so quickly. Keep those Epson RD-1 batteries charged, or get another couple of them, eh? !! BTW: my Cotty portrait from the trip ... http://homepage.mac.com/godders/cotty-portrait.jpg best Godfrey On Sep 20, 2008, at 3:12 AM, Cotty wrote: > 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> -- 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.
