James,

Those articles could have been written for me, not by me, but for me. I have a Canon A640 something or other digital camera. It has (seemingly) 100's of different modes – some I've experimented with, but always end up using the "Auto" mode because I simply cannot obtain the same results as the camera. Ok, it's me, that I readily acknowledge.

I have tried different settings, tried light boards to reflect light, tried flash with & wthout room lighting, additional lighting, whatever, all to get rid of unwanted shadows and to get reasonably correct colours. I've cropped photos thinking it better to just submit the article of interest not realizing that the editors can crop to suit the space available, so I've actually learned something from these articles. And so on and so forth.

I have no real interest in photography, taking snapshots being a better description, which means that I would never pickup a photography magazine. So articles like these, ok, not model engineering perhaps, should go someway towards improving any future photos I take for the magazine. Not that there may be too many now, but if I ever get round to writing up the three unfinished projects then these articles may help.

I wonder, if from Neil's point of view, these articles should be included with contributors notes for future writers.

Cheers, & happy flashing!!!

Peter G. Shaw