I would like to show you the picture of the week
http://www.monochromatique.com/photosemaine/
Regards,
Daniel

Nice to see a little more participation, this round.
Before cutting into it, a comment about what a "Still Life" is:  A still
life is composed, and limited to, a composition of inanimate objects.
Flowers, fruit, bolts of cloth, table settings and so on being a very

What was the range of serial numbers for the OM4 and OM4T
Was the upgraded board (4T) done to later model OM4s automatically ....
as a fix/upgrade in production? What would be the approx serial numbers
affected on the early models with the heavy battery drain problems. Or

Tom - the lighting on the snow is very dramatic.  i think you could have
emphasized this even more by pointing the camera down and to the right.
also, given all the time in the world to sit around and wait for the sun,
another hour or so would have yielded even more dramatic results ...

       Hi gang!
       First off, if the words "Shoot-In" aren't particularly familiar to
you, check it out at http://www.pbase.com/shootin (safe for work and
children, as long as you don't click on Rogue's Gallery...)

With all the fuss over Konica-Minolta getting out of the camera
business, I haven't seen much about the fact that they're also going to
stop making film and photo paper after March of next year. I never used
Konica film myself, but I know people who are fans of it.

Just heard the news today about Konica Minolta dropping out of the
camera business. Reputedly they will sell that division of their
operations to Sony.
Does anybody out there know if Sony will then continue with

I just saw this item on the digital film about Fuji's continuing
committment to film. Check out this link,
http://home.fujifilm.com/news/n060119_2.html.

I am thinking of buying a cheap modern film body to take some m42 lenses.
What I am concerned about is this:
If I was to buy, say, a low-end EOS body such as a Rebel XS/EOS 500
could the camera be used in aperture priority mode?

http://www.zeiss.com/photo
50mm f1.4 and 85mm f1.4 in Nikon AIS, with suggestions of M42 as well. That
should mean open aperture metering with Canon and Pentax bodies via an
adapter. JPEGS indicate a f2.0 Distagon and an f2.0 Makro Planar in the

My Om 10 Type II  Will not work in Manual or B position but works fine
in auto? Light meter self timer everything else seems fine. It all
changes with using different F-stops / lighting like it should. But
when in manual mode with adapter there is no difference in speeds at

I'm using two studio flashes with a declared temperature of 5600-6000k,
now I need another light but vendor has discontinued the production of
this particular product, the new ones have a declared temperature of
5300-5600k. Will I have any bad effect when mixing light of different

I'm finally taking some time to comment and I'm sorry I've taken so long to
do so.
Bandicoot - very nice use of light.  it reminds me of a Rembrant painting.
IMO this is the best image in the set - tied with Doug's duck head.

Tom - the lighting on the snow is very dramatic.  i think you could have
emphasized this even more by pointing the camera down and to the right.
also, given all the time in the world to sit around and wait for the sun,
another hour or so would have yielded even more dramatic results ...

Does anyone know anything about these cameras. are they any good ?  . I have
tried googling but very little information  bar 45mm lens F2.8 and  two
attchement aux lenes