Steve Boykin
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Overcast and glum. The dogs had a good time though.
X100 W/A Converter Saturday AM
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Pete Askew
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I like the first two very much and the last is a star. And it looks like that extra width makes quite a difference.
Brian Moore
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Really a nice set, Steve. The last one is a real cracker.
How do you get them to stare off into space beyond you? That's what makes your pooch portraits so excellent. (If I tried to get Sadie to sit and pose like that she wouldn't take her eyes off me; she bores holes through me with them sometimes.)
How do you get them to stare off into space beyond you? That's what makes your pooch portraits so excellent. (If I tried to get Sadie to sit and pose like that she wouldn't take her eyes off me; she bores holes through me with them sometimes.)
Steve Boykin
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Well.....I think they are usually trying to figure out how to get away from "Dr. No" (aka "Mr. Don't" aka Steve) and have fun. "NO! Don't roll in that poop!" "No! Don't eat that rancid dead squirrel carcass!" "No! Don't crawl in that hole and get bit by something so I have to spend a small fortune at the Emergency Vet...AGAIN!" et al, ad inifinitum. You know, I'm basically just NO FUN period.
Beth Carter
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i'm really liking your dog shots with the wide angle, it suits you and them very well.
Chris Dodkin
West Coast Correspondent
That wide angle is working a treat - that last one especially is a winner - nice PP as well 
Pat Reehal
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Many thanks Steve for taking the time to post the shots. The WCL looks to be an excellent addition and I am busy working up excuses and plots to get one under the nose of my long suffering COS.
Love the dogs.
Love the dogs.
Rob MacKillop
Edinburgh Correspondent
COS = SWMBO, I presume...
Pete Askew
Admin
Indeed - Chief of Staff. Much, much tougher I've heard! 
Pat Reehal
Well-Known Member
Correct.
I have been a COS and no one, but no one, has ever come close to SWMBO.
Beneath the exterior of kitten and puppy like loveliness lies a nose that can smell a courier driver delivering illicit cameras at 500 paces, eyes that can spot an extra 0 (filled in very quickly with black permenant marker) on a Fuji X100 and an uncanny built-in BS detector which only the brave, or plain dumb, would ever try and take on.
But as she could one day crack the password to this forum, may I say how honoured and delighted I am to have met and been married to the love of my life for 37 years.
I have been a COS and no one, but no one, has ever come close to SWMBO.
Beneath the exterior of kitten and puppy like loveliness lies a nose that can smell a courier driver delivering illicit cameras at 500 paces, eyes that can spot an extra 0 (filled in very quickly with black permenant marker) on a Fuji X100 and an uncanny built-in BS detector which only the brave, or plain dumb, would ever try and take on.
But as she could one day crack the password to this forum, may I say how honoured and delighted I am to have met and been married to the love of my life for 37 years.
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Pete Askew
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Well said sir. And I trust you are using a 127 random-character password changed on a daily basis!
Pat Reehal
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I have an ex-Wehrmacht Enigma machine alongside my trusty IMac
But, when I input 'COS', it breaks out in a cold sweat.
SWMBO is very, very scary.
But, when I input 'COS', it breaks out in a cold sweat.
SWMBO is very, very scary.
Steve Boykin
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I am laughing so hard I choked on my coffee!!!!
This probably doesn't help, but I've found that W/A converter to be really good. Really well built and fits the camera great. Actually considering the price it's very reasonable. A comparable 28mm lens would cost a lot more. Not sure if that argument will carry much weight but you could try it out.
Pat Reehal
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Thanks Steve, the WCL is clearly the way to go.
Sadly the very same argument was written on a post-it and is languishing amongst the pile at the bottom of the floor mounted circular filing cabinet.
I tried to use Enigma to decipher the red capital letters, 'NFW!', scrawled in my beloved's handwriting on the post-it, but it flummoxed even that most efficient (yet endearingly prudish) Germanic code-meister.
I have tried most (reasonable in my view) arguments thus far, and whilst I have swapped fast moving projectiles with the Taliban in hotter climes, I am reluctant to take on the COS when she is in her, 'What part of No! did you not understand?', mode.
Sadly the very same argument was written on a post-it and is languishing amongst the pile at the bottom of the floor mounted circular filing cabinet.
I tried to use Enigma to decipher the red capital letters, 'NFW!', scrawled in my beloved's handwriting on the post-it, but it flummoxed even that most efficient (yet endearingly prudish) Germanic code-meister.
I have tried most (reasonable in my view) arguments thus far, and whilst I have swapped fast moving projectiles with the Taliban in hotter climes, I am reluctant to take on the COS when she is in her, 'What part of No! did you not understand?', mode.
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Steve Boykin
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Did you mention how smart and stylish the X100 looks with the W/A attached?
Pat Reehal
Well-Known Member
Thanks Steve.
I will try that one, once I have adjusted my upper body armour and fitted my cricket box.
I will try that one, once I have adjusted my upper body armour and fitted my cricket box.
Steve Boykin
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Having been married once I would definitely recommend the cricket box..........
You could always try out "but all my friends have one....." That never really worked for me, but it did elicit some level of sympathy.
