If you want sharper better quality images you need a better lens. Having said that if you are thinking about jumping ship from Pentax to some other brand it might be worth doing that before you start investing in good lenses..
Maybe just buy a 50mm prime - it is a good quality cheap lens - then you'll be able to see how good it can be
Good point.. missed that bit tbh
If you want longer reach maybe on of these options..
500D & 18-135mm: $1,215
500D & 18-200mm IS: $1,495
550D & 18-135mm IS: $1,369
550D & 18-200mm IS: $1,679
One of my flickr contacts (gadl) has HEAPS of them
as for info I just googled it - I used my normal pano software (autopano giga) to make the 360x180 pano and then used hugin for the fancy projection
My first ever little planet - taken at Anzac square in Brisbane
The 360x180 degree pano
The little planet
And a cropped version of the above (processed at a different angle also)
I'd suggest getting one of the starter Canon/Nikons and go from there
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Canon 500D & 18-55mm IS: $891
Canon 550D & 18-55mm IS: $1,079
Nikon D3000 & 18-55mm VR: $605
Nikon D5000 & 18-55mm VR: $782
Yeah LR is awesome - I do 80% of my PP in there
Must say I've done some tests on an 800px photo and even on high LR wont sharpen it as much as Irfanview
(When you have a photo open in irfanview Ctrl+S is sharpen, in batch you can specify a value from 0 to 100 - suspect a normal Ctrl+S does "20")
1st!
another option is doing the background between the two maybe...
like taking half the saturation out of the background in the second one (esp the blue)
so its kinda like the 1st
No screwed in - they use to have boxes that matched the breadboards (I'm pretty sure..)
Unless we cut the breadboard to size and THEN screwed it in..
But yeah box had holes to crew into
Yeah people use all kinds of weird stuff - even heard about a guy on the 300zx forum using wet bread
like WTF
surely random other shit will work but why not just use grease - id heaps rather have grease over the flywheel etc after im done and just give it a quick wipe than some of the other random stuff