Recent content by custodian

That looks like exactly what I need. I’ll try and get hold of one and I’ll report back on how useful it is

I know, I’m just being lazy. For the quick eBay ads, it’s nice to take the pics with iPad, process with a Essentials and post the ad. I’ll have a play round with a diffuser and some reflectors with a simple LED source. It’s definitely the other end of the scale to taking the Linhof 617 up the...

Thanks, I’ll have a play with that to see if I can get flash synch to the iPad camera.

I use the Nikon macro r1c1 flash setup with my D3x and I’m very happy with it. I also sell a lot of small items on eBay and for speed and simplicity I generally just take pictures with the iPad and clean them up with Elements. Simple lighting just using a small LED array gives plenty of rather...

Hardly an unbiased interviewee!!

Sorry, that does not follow. Leica is, comparatively, a small company that does not have the benefits of scale that Nikon or canon do. They can only be competitive in producing speciality items for a niche market. Their scale of production dictates manual assembly and so a labour intensive...

Not sure there is any evidence to support your hypothesis on QC. My own experiences having been a Leica user for 50 years is that the Leica manufacturing quality is hardly any better than that of Nikon. The Leica lens performance is normally excellent but there again, so is the performance of...

Cardiff shop was ok when father ran it. Sons are useless and I wouldn't touch it. Aftersales service is non existant. Use Walthers chain of stores: really good experirnce dealing with them.

British Gas Homecare - what a scam. My boiler broke, engineer said need a new boiler and a system pressure wash, none of it covered by the peace of mind homecare agreement! So I paid an independent repair company to come out and fix it and then I sued British Gas who argued and argued and...

Andy, you're right. My first post was rude and I apologise. Hopefully in subsequent posts I've gone some way to explain where I'm coming from. Good luck with the rest of the course! david

Agree with your crit. Well described and accurate (apart from the bits about me!!) I really welcome that kind of in depth crit because the OP will benefit from it. Too often on this forum we get a kind of mutual admiration society where people post snapshots (word used deliberately) and...

Sorry, I thought my critique was primarily of the pictures. I explored further into the presentation and use of the pics whilst trying to find out what the purpose of the pictures was. Without knowing the objective of the photographer, its very difficult to get anything from that set of images...

I see the art of debate is not dead then. Let me explain my thoughts. You post a set of prints with little or no artistic merit. I follow up your link to look at the whole project report and see little in it that could not be accomplished by an 11 year old and a computer. I have every...

Go to a solicitor. Get them to write a formal rejection letter to Mercedes Finance and to the Mercedes Dealership. In addition write to Mercedes Benz customer service which for the UK market is located in Holland! Explain that you are formally rejecting the car as unfit for purpose; that...

Nice natural captures but looking very soft. Focus or camera shake?