That Time Of Year Again....

Not for a September that is. The hottest September since records begin? Or "never known a September like it" as Peter Kay might put it. The sun was out big time, as were my infrared filters.....

Spent much of today playing with my new Pentax. Notably with all my lenses, making sure they all work ok on the body and focus correctly etc. All good so far. The obvious difference is the tilt screen and larger pixel count on the sensor (16 Mega pixel to 24 Mega Pixels). Lots of extra functions: most of which I will never use, particularly the Video, HDR and the pointless Scene Modes, but one clever function is the Pixel Shift Resolution. A function handy for those tripod shots giving your images increased resolution, albeit, extra data sucking from your hard drive. And not to mention the extra time required to take a shot. Like in this case where our garden was shot using an IR850 infrared filter was taken at 30sec. With the pixel shifting applied (left, right, up & down), the camera cleverly layers four 30s exposures on top of each other. It is hard to tell the difference unless one zooms right into the images (see the "normal" single exposure shot in the extra).

All fun.