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I was lucky enough to get a tilt shift lens for Christmas. I have a Nikon system and for some reason Nikon supplies the lens with the tilt and shift aligned at 90°. The lens needs to be sent back to Nikon who, for the princely sum of £160 will re-align it so that the tilt and shift are in the same plane. I read that I was supposed to do this in order to get the lens to work properly for landscape photography, although my idea as to why was shaky. Now I have the lens back it makes a little more sense, but I will have to do a lot of work in order to use it correctly. The main problem using the lens with the D800 is that the locking knob for the shift, when the lens has been rotated (the front of the lens can be rotated in relation to the back of the lens), lies directly under the popup flash which makes it difficult to adjust. Fortunately I have fairly small hands. I would strongly advise not to use this lens when out with a non photographer as they will get really, really impatient. ...

Last week we visited Anglesey Abbey, not to go inside the grounds, but to take the dog for a walk along the Lode. It was a lovely day (for a change) and although a weekday the Abbey car park was full of people come to see the snowdrops. Here are several straight pictures and then three with ICM. I got some whacky colours with one of them - presumably due to flare.The windmills were snapped at the end of the day near the A11. I mistakenly took all these pictures as jpegs, not raw, but the Fuji produces some wonderful jpegs