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...i've been to some (badly lit) shows recently and would never like to miss it anymore:

A 50/1.7

manual focusing is a kind of tricky thing to do (it's a manual lens) without a proper split-screen focusing viewfinder and i think i'll have to replace the diffusing screen to get better results.

but at the moment: *thumbs up*

dan.

it's been nearly a month since i discovered ipernity and ever since all of you have been very nice to me. now i even won the first little weekly contest of my life and i'd like to thank all of you for your patience and reception!

dan.

As a i already mentioned before, manual focussing with most new digital SLR's viewfinders is (at least to me) a difficult thing to do in low light situations. My Pentax K10D's viewfinder is said to be comparable bright and big but at certain concerts i just wasn't able to get the focus right. Especially when musicians keep moving all the time and/or your (C-) autofocus does not work fast enough because of the little available light shooting often becomes a trial and error.

I have to mention that I almost never use a flash and so I have to use small apertures (=small DOF) so my chances to hit tend to be very small (as you can see on most of my concert-photographs,hehe).

One and half a week ago i discovered an ebay-dealer from China who sells focussing screens that fit into the K10D (and K100D/Ds) and due to the fact that 25 Euro were not that much money i ordered one. It arrived today and after inserting it and doing some testshots I have to say that it seems to work flawlessly!

The dealer offers screens for other cameras as well. I'm not sure if advertising him here is allowed, so just drop me line or just search for "Mattscheibe" and your camera-type at ebay.de and find out by yourself.

Oh, in case you're wondering what I'm talking about:

www.praktica-collector.de/images/BX_focussing_screen.jpg

Furthermore I just created a new group called "Everyday's Beauty".

Here's the description:

"Are you tired of photographs from far places that you might never ever see in your real life?

Well...I'm not, but I'd like to remind you that there is beauty in everyday day life, too.

This group is for extraordinary pictures of ordinary things everyone of us might see or use everyday.

No cats/pets/skys/whatever...please!"

Look here, if you are interested!

dan.

Hey there,

can anyone of you recommend an affordable (60-80 euros) Wacom-pad to me? Size (as always) doesn't matter, DIN-A6 would be enough to me as I only need it to do some casual photo-retouche from time to time and do not plan to start drawing :)

respects,

dan.

*update*

a couple of days ago my brandnew Wacom Bamboo A6 arrived and after playing around a lot (!) with it, i definitely would recommend it to anyone who is looking for a small, robust and PRECISE widescreen-tablet. the din-a6-size is big enough for my purposes and you can easily program the 4 shortcut-buttons with nearly every function you'll ever need.