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Message: <blockquote data-quote="charliek" data-source="post: 129261" data-attributes="member: 13465">Hi folks <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />I'm an expat Englishman living in the Pyrénées Orientales, which is in the bottom right-hand corner of France, a stones-throw from the Spanish border.Some time back, I started fiddling with some of the features of my Panasonic DMC-TZ8 point-and-shoot, outside my 'muppet mode' comfort zone (by 'muppet mode', I mean the little green or red [A] icon that exists on most modern camera mode dials in which, I thought, Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong).That's when I realised that photography can be quite fun, quite frustrating, and ... well I opened myself up to a whole new world of expense.For my birthday last year, I got a Nikon DX5100 with a kit lens (18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6) - and have gone quite lunatic with it, shooting everything from hoar-frost on leaves to deliciously mediocre panoramas of the stunning countryside hereabouts.   I even spent a chilly night out in a field with a tripod, giggling to myself and taking long-exposure shots, in freezing pitch darkness, of the star field behind the mountains.For christmas I was given an AF/S Nikkor 35mm 1:1.8G, and have delighted myself (and almost nobody else) taking wide-aperture shots smugly flash-free in low light, with artistically blurry backgrounds.  Sometimes, there were crisply focussed noses, and artistically blurry eyes.Anyway, that's me.  For the time being, I'm browsing... later, when I have more confidence, I'll be starting on my list of TWELVETY-MILLION questions.Actually, I might go and look to see if you have a suitable forum for answering a tangential question I have about monitoring live video with a green screen...CheersCharlie</blockquote>

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