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Hi Rainer, some of my favourite spots in Cornwall are: Bottallack Mines, Chun Quoit, Mên-an-Tol, Bedruthen Steps, Tintagel, Kynance Cove, St Michael's Mount, Chysauster Iron Age Village and food in the Turks Head in Penzanze. Have a great trip

Canon 85mm f/1.8 on 5DII Canon 85mm f/1.8 on 5DIII

I love the 85mm f/1.8 for portraiture, it was easily my most used lens. I have mine for sale only because I can no longer use a 5DIII after a car accident

I favour the Banjo Paterson by Akubra

I've been using Buy a Battery for my latest Duracell StayCharged. The Eneloop prices don't look too bad: http://www.buyabattery.co.uk/brands/sanyo.html

SimLab are excellent quality and good value. Loxley apply too much sharpening by default for my taste and I have to ask for no sharpening. There is no gain in quality over Sim for the extra money. For black and white however I would only use Ilford. I've tested all the top labs and because...

I have raw saved to both cards simultaneously and never had a problem with the buffer filling at weddings, but I only shoot on single shot anyway. It's been suggested you won't gain anything by using an SD card faster than 45Mb/s. I have a 32Gb Sandisk 95Mb/s SD card and use 8Gb 60Mb/s CF cards

You've done a good job of balancing the ambient and flash exposures. Firing a flash upwards though creates 'horror lighting' and isn't very flattering because we are used to seeing light come from above, the sun. If you can rope someone in to hold the flash above their heads or use a light...

My cottage in Devon was hit by lightning a few years ago. Actually it was a tree further up the hill that was hit, it travelled down the thick layer of hailstones covering the lane and entered the house through the BT socket. It then blew the router to pieces and travelled down the ethernet...

Yes Stuart, I have half a dozen genuine batteries, I was just curious about the life after death, so to speak. It will be interesting Ken.

A couple of my spare Canon LP-E6 batteries have Recharge Performance indicated as 1 red bar suggesting the battery is at the end of it's life. I'm going to retire them but just curious if anyone has any experience of how long they last once they've reached this stage. Is it a 'how long is a...

Hi, yes I'm on the Fylde Coast.

I haven't cycled for many years but used to do a lot of long distance cycling. In my experience narrow saddles are actually the most comfortable but you have to get used to any saddle and the first few times out will be painful. A wide saddle will be agony on a long ride. Gel cycling shorts...

It may sound silly, but have you flicked the AF/MF switch to MF?

It may well need a clean/lube or it could be something more terminal.