Hi Marcia,welcome it's about time we had some female type common sense around here.
The 300mm a joke? Well certainly for me. The GF1 is a fantastic camera which is screaming out for " normal " fast lenses, not the equivalent of a 600mm in 35mm terms. You mention wildlife, yes this is about the only subject that the combination of GF1 and 600mm makes sense..........with a huge heavy tripod. Think 'ont, at present do you use a 400mm full format lens on your Nikon? Because that is what you would need to have the same reach. Mind you if you do have a 400mm Nikon, adapter, 800 mm ? Now we are cooking on gas.
But you are right, maybe for your wildlife.............or landscapes of Mars ( that's the planet thing not Marianne Faithful's plaything,) it's not a joke but for me .....no it's not either, it's just frustrating. But yes wildlife which is something I don't get involved in, unless an angry doggie counts. Now somebody is going to mention sport but here I think there are far better cameras.
To me all the 'fiddling around' is part of the fun/creativity of digital photography. I used photoshop quite a bit already before I got this camera, and I am a compulsive tweaker.
We are all thankfully different, I'd rather do the fiddling in the camera and get it right. Apart from as I have said before I treat the whole thing the same as in the good old days of slide film and projectors*.
And yes re your darkroom remark but at least in that enviroment I knew what I was doing.
Graham, thanks for that link, I shall not bother to order any inks until I have tried them.
Woof the few times I have looked at a raw file in Silkypix I note that there are already values put in, as if by magic.
Brian
*PS. That's quite funny in more than 50 years I have only ever shot one roll of colour slide film and now I keep going on about it, must be an age thing.
