Not wishing to get involved with the handbags at dawn issue, I would just say that with video cameras that are a nightmare in high humidity and rain, I have used plastic bags very successfully. However it is essential to blow a dry air canister into the tape transfer system first, then, with the camera in the bag, blow up the bag with the dry air. Then squeeze all of the air out before sealing the bag. As long as the bag is big enough controls can be operated through the plastic. I used this process successfully in the Iguaco Falls area where heat and humidity was very high and spray from the falls like the heaviest rain.

Some years ago an aquaintance wanted to give away an old but servicable lawn mower. He stood it infront of his house with a notice on it to that effect. After a few days when no one had taken it, he put a 'For Sale' sign on it and within an hour it was stolen. Strange, but the word 'Free' seems to have negative connotations

I agree that the agent owns the pictures, but if you take exactly the same pictures again, are you not going to face the same query. If the reshot pictures were cropped in an editing programme they could be made to look identical anyway, the reverse is also of course true if you cropped those from the first shoot so they would look different.

I used to love the isolation of the darkroom with just myself and my music, developing and printing film. It was a World that is now very much in the past. Constructing darkrooms, making lightproof drawers in which to store light sensitive paper,buying bulk film and loading it into cassettes all bring back many happy memories. However I also remember the occasions I got mixtures and temperatures or timings wrong and ruined valuable negatives. I loved those times but guess I'll never go back.

Ah, never thought of that before, I certainly can't take pictures when I'm using the Driver, but it perhaps explains why my putting's so bad.

They have absolutely no problems with fill flash in the posed group shots on their starting tees or shots around the practice ground. Obviously a flash is not an option during play. One tactic I always use with fill flash in these circumstances is to check that everyone actually saw the flash. If someone says they didn't they clearly had their eyes closed and I retake the shot. At a recent event with 170 shots with up to four people in them I managed to avoid having a single shot I eventually had to use when any subject's eyes were closed.

This is a major problem shooting golfers playing in bright sunlight, who always wear baseball style hats with large peaks designed to keep their eyes shaded. Reflectors and off camera flashes are impractical out on the course, so fill in flash with an on camera flash is the only way I know of dealing with this. If the flash automatically sets to the camera setting being used the results always seem good. Of course fill in flash only affects the shadows and will not affect the overall ambient light by adding to it if it is already brighter than the light emitted from the flash.

This does not answer the question Kathy asked. So often these days responses don't get close to dealing with the problem posed which wastes so many people's time.

I recall years ago using a large sheet of white translucent plastic lit from below with a bright tungsten light shining through a fresnel screen from an overhead projector to spread the light evenly. My original intention was to use the device to sort large numbers of 35mm slides, but realised that the slides could be positioned in interesting patterns and then photographed, very much as the requirement is here for stained glass.

If you ever need to print onto DVDs a printer that does this may be an option, however it does limit the choice somewhat

No it was not in England. This took place in 1996 in Scotland. Please note there is a massive difference. The perpetrator had no criminal convictions whatsoever and held his hand guns that he used to carry out the shootings legally. Legistlation quickly followed to seriously restrict the legal possession of hand guns in the whole of the UK, where it virtually became impossible to possess a gun outside of a club where again severe restrictions were imposed. Since that time, 16 years ago, there has been no further incident, proving I guess that gun control actually works.

Hi Danny, that makes a lot of sense. Neither Table View or Robben Island gives quite this view of Table Mountain and its surrounds. Many thanks

Can you tell me where the photo was taken from? Looks like either Table View or Robben Island.

Where else in the World then are there annual school shooting massacres. Some if you guys are do far up yourselves you cannot admit that these annual school slaughters only happen in the good old US of A

Seems to work OK everywhere else in the World. You are the only ones with annual school massacres.