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Hi Bill, firstly welcome back as I understand you have been absent for a short while, I'm obviously flattered to have my name mentioned and I hope I can live up to such high expectations. I'm currently at work at the moment but I understand from Fuji that I should pm you a few examples of my work for you to maybe critique and advise on if that's ok?

If your camera has live view use it, pop it on evaluate metering so it takes an average from the whole frame, you'll want manual focusing and focus approx 1 third in to the frame at f 11 to give you near hyper focal focusing iso as low as you can then pop it in to live view and tweak the shutter speed until your happy then take the shot. Use a cable release so you minimise shake and cover the eye piece to stop ambient light entering the body which can throw the metering off

Great image, well done :)

Hi and welcome,nice pics to start with. Keep them coming :)

Best of luck I have no doubt you will do everything you can to succeed :)

Lol yeah no problem

Your welcome lol welcome to the skint club

Lol I just meant the Egret is a common sight at this location. I was hoping for a shot at one of the kingfishers but no luck unfortunately

Only managed to get out for an hour yesterday to test the lens, fantastic piece of kit, unfortunately the light was awful and there was nothing of any real interest to photograph but I managed a few test shots

It's the IS model only mk1 though, I couldn't afford the mk2

It had better be for the price lol its a one off purchase though, it should never need replacing fingers crossed

Sorry mate I misunderstood, I've always thought of mirror lenses as a zoom type lens

There are times where I see images from "pro's" and people say how wonderful they are and I think "really?" But at the end of the day it's the public that make or break a photographer and if the general consensus is that it's a good image then who am I to argue

Already looking at insurance as I saved £150 On the price so looking to put that towards it

No mate its a prime lens

It's the canon 600mm f4 is prime

It's a super prime mate

It will be my last purchase for a while, I'm very excited but also sweating a bit lol I've just bought a Canon 600mm f4 is prime. It was a lot of money but I'm seeing it as an investment it should last a lifetime fingers crossed. I'm now ready to take wildlife photography seriously

Normally dust in the lens won't cause issues because it's too close to focus on, I would take the lens off and hold the camera up to the light and look through the view finder just in case but if not then a replacement is cheap enough

great image Martyn, well done

Well done great shot :)

Best way is if you enlarge the image on here then scroll down until the left edge of the building is at the edge of the screen you'll see how much to rotate, 2 was just a guess

Personally for me I would do a clockwise rotation of 2 to level the image and get rid of the leaves and the ladies but that's just my opinion. The sky and building are very good

Great news Fuji you'll be back behind a camera in no time

Hi jam, welcome :)

Just thought I'd let you know, the local zoo has emailed me asking if they can use one of my images for their social media page to encourage visitors to share their photos. They want to use one of my Koi pics I done there a while ago they didn't say which one but I reckon it will be this one. Just thought you may be interested :)