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I learned a lot but still a lot to learn

That was Saturday, and I've been down there for my lunch every day this week to see how people are using the space. It's heaving every single day. If anyone asks how it can possibly recoup its costs now...

With a good summer it might yet be worth the money.

Just a random selection of piccies using fujiS602 except for the chamonix one which is a Fuji S1850, I prefer the old S602 tbh, fantastic macro on it

Ticks going for goal against saints in the '08 CC final, even with the x2 teleconvertor it was a long way away..lol

cycling holiday in France, this is the beach at Fort Mahon plage

looking back down the road after cycling into Switzerland from Chamonix, only 1500m up



Looking up to Brown tongue at the foot of Scafell Pike, annoyingly we'd climbed up it the day before and it was misty/ & grey as anything

Mums dog mid catch, the eyes always crack me up

great pics knockers.

Referee!!!!! My lad cops a high shot. I don't know what the ref was doing, he must be blind!

Surely the arm comes off the ball first

, caution with warning regarding technique..lmao

Is it Westwoods lad

Can't be, not furking ugly enough

The lad was off his feet swinging the arm every time he tackled, he reminded me of Andy Gregory. He nearly took one of our lads heads off later in the game. Closest I've come to sending someone off (yes, I was the referee), but they were a touring side and it was supposed to be all friendly and welcoming for them. He just got a bollocking.

Nice. Seems like you're doing just fine.

Anyone heard of a [url=http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=777_1&products_id=111805&PHPSESSID=d4mur1orfeqv3g0vc27r406lq1 Steadepod?[/url

Was looking through 7dayshops tripod sale (some decent bargains to be had) and came across this, at £13.49 delivered I have ordered one as it seems in principle like a bloody good idea for various uses where use of a tripod is just too boring

I'm after a decent HD camcorder which also takes good stills, anyone know of any?

cheers

Portrait of a Herring Gull:



Red-legged partridge (taken from driver's seat of car!):

Fuji cameras take reasonable video footage, the S1850 I used for a basic video shot in the mountains and the sound was excellent and even though I had a crummy low speed card the video footage was more than acceptable, not grainy/jerky at all. They take pretty decent stills as well


I'm sure many other companies pro-sumer type cameras do the same thing, many well under £200, even under £150 in some cases.

Sigma or Tamron 70-300mm as a first telephoto lens for a beginner to DSLR?

Quote ="OoOGazOoO"Sigma or Tamron 70-300mm as a first telephoto lens for a beginner to DSLR?'" I'm 100% Sigma at the moment, really good value lenses when you step up to F2.8, for a beginner though I like the Canon 55-250mm IS, plenty of reach, good image stabilization, holds its resale value really well too. At around £100 it is a steal bit.ly/Ic5kXA

Quote ="OoOGazOoO"Sigma or Tamron 70-300mm as a first telephoto lens for a beginner to DSLR?'" I'm 100% Sigma at the moment, really good value lenses when you step up to F2.8, for a beginner though I like the Canon 55-250mm IS, plenty of reach, good image stabilization, holds its resale value really well too. At around £100 it is a steal bit.ly/Ic5kXA

Quote ="Big Graeme"I'm 100% Sigma at the moment, really good value lenses when you step up to F2.8, for a beginner though I like the Canon 55-250mm IS, plenty of reach, good image stabilization, holds its resale value really well too. At around £100 it is a steal bit.ly/Ic5kXA'" Thanks Graeme, needs to be Nikon fit though, should have said in my original post. I have just got a D3100, but looking for a 'first' telephoto lens, for beginner purposes, etc... Was looking at the Sigma or the Tamron. Thanks again!

Quote ="Big Graeme"I'm 100% Sigma at the moment, really good value lenses when you step up to F2.8, for a beginner though I like the Canon 55-250mm IS, plenty of reach, good image stabilization, holds its resale value really well too. At around £100 it is a steal bit.ly/Ic5kXA'" Thanks Graeme, needs to be Nikon fit though, should have said in my original post. I have just got a D3100, but looking for a 'first' telephoto lens, for beginner purposes, etc... Was looking at the Sigma or the Tamron. Thanks again!

Ah, Sigma all the way then.

Thanks mate!

In terms of what the Yanks call "bang per buck' then I absolutely agree.

The Nikon lenses sometimes have the edge with image quality but it's not necessarily a given.

The only problem I've ever had with a Sigma lens is with my 150-500. This a great vfm lens and fast enough to shoot rugby in good light at ISO400-800, but although it worked perfectly with my late, lamented D200, I'm told it needs to be "re-engineered" (WTF that means) in order to work with my D300s.

No experience with Nikon lenses so I was unable to offer advice. I upgraded all my lenses to f2.8 in the last two years, to buy Canon lenses it would have cost me a fortune, to do it with second user Sigmas it was fairly painless, apart from the 70-200mm.

That 150-500mm just needs a chip swapped out, Canon later model cameras have the same issue, if you have an old fashioned camera shop close by they should be able to help, I think it costs around £90 if you get Sigma to do it.

any good for anyone??? www.lidl.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/lidl ... _30731.htm

any good for anyone??? www.lidl.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/lidl ... _30731.htm

Cheap enough to be sure, but it looks very flimsy.

The top section looks to be about the circumference that the bottom section would be on a half-decent tripod.

The clue is in the price.

Saying that, I once bought a wetsuit for a tenner and a diving bag for £30 from there about 6 years ago and they are still in good nick.

i dont use or need one mate, so not an expert on its quality. someone may find a use for it or not LOL.