Recent content by Barryboy

Many thanks, all. No doubt I will get used to it. I'll have to... I couldn't bear to have to get rid of this and learn a whole new set of menus!! :LOL::LOL:

Recently bought the XT3 to accompany mky X100S and not quite there yet with the menus. I have set the camera up to record RAW images in colour on Card 1 and B&W Acros JPEG images on Card 2 but the . I find that when set up this way the viewfinder and rear view screen show only BW. I cannot...

Hi Gareth. Have been having the same thought myself.. Please let us know how you rate the lens when you get it,. Rob

I have seen very similar results in the 1960s done with a Rollei or Mamiya TLR. The taking lens would have a thin smear of white Germolene (or some such product) around the rim of the lens to fashion a vignette. I tried to duplicate this in the 1970s on an SLR with Vaseline on a filter but with...

I can bloody well guarantee it does if you're talking Rolex watches. Ask me how I know but suspect with cameras you might get a small premium when selling with a box, buyers would always choose a boxed item over an unboxed item all other things being equal, and if you are posting it off the...

For me the next purchase of any real expense will be a long(ish) lens for the Fuji XT3. Rob

It was 1962 for me. A pal's father had a darkroom and when I first saw the picture emerge in the developer I was hooked. At the age of eight I started plaguing my parents for a camera of my own and got a hand-me-down Kodak Brownie 127. I think I must have had just about every popular make...

Just a word to the wise... I have just sold my motorbike, 11 months into a 12 month policy so there's no refund for the unused cover which is fair enough. However the cancellation charge from One-Call insurance is £55.99 ... which I find excessive given that the cost of the policy was only...

As a Fuji user I always carry a couple of ready-charged spare batteries. :):)

Agree totally. I found the same back in the 1980s (was it really 40 years ago?) when I moved up from 35mm, got a Mamiya 645 kit and later went 6x6. My plan is to eventually move on my current Nikon and Sony gear and go to digital MF but the obvious issue will be cost. One for the back burner...

As a long time (but only occasional) user of the site I would like to echo the sentiments expressed by others and register my thanks to all concerned for providing such a brilliant facility. I hope that it will morph into a new albeit similar site and continue to provide help and support to the...

I have an elderly but VGC micro-Nikkor 55mm lens and some cheap Chinese extension tubes so don't want to buy the Tamron which even used is not a cheap lens. Just looking to experiment a little being a total newby to this discipline. I might even invest in a budget bellows attachment..... Rob

Hi... In these lockdown days I have developed an interest in tabletop/macro work. I know that it is quite common to use an enlarging lens such as my EL-Nikkor and I've ordered an adapter to connect it to the FX body and extension tubes. I already have a FX body to 52mm screw thread adapter to...

That's a great little project at my kind of cost! Just a pity that I've got nowhere i could store it. :(:(:(

Thanks, JGP. Some good ideas there. I have ordered a flash trigger and receivers. Have 3 flashes already which will give me some grief in balancing them, no doubt [emoji1] Dunno if there will be any local art shops left after the lockdown ends, though.. [emoji849] so will scour through eBay and...