Recent content by jmc41

Mine spent a day in a snow storm (in and out of a bus) in Iceland and survived despite looking like it had been in the shower. And that was with the 17-85 kit lens. That said, I wouldn't recommend it. My mate (5dmkii) was the same and he wasn't happy about testing it in that way. Just keep it...

That's pretty shocking! Is it old and legit (reputable retailer?). Certainly haven't seen this on any Canon before. I wonder if the humbol paints for airfix models so a similar silver? They're only a couple of quid per pot normally. To chip in on the 17-55 vs 24-105 , I use both. If I'm away...

I'd go somewhere like Wex for spare batteries. I went to amazon and paid £45 instead of £100 at Jessops and the battery is terrible, even in normal british weather conditions it will suddenly drop from 65% to zero with no warning. I made the mistake of going away for a weekend with just the...

Cheers Mike, sounds like a winner to me. Love the sunset pic especially!

Thanks, that's great really helpful. It looks like it's even cheaper there (vs amazon) too, plus I have family near Watford so that's even better.

My father is looking for a good all-about lens; he shoots K-x I believe with a kit 18-55 and 55-250. He wants something that he can leave on most of the time rather than having to try and change in dusty environments like Africa! The Pentax 18-135 seems a good compromise between quality and...

I think, personally, it comes down to does the lens do what you want. Looking at the different pics I would be perfectly happy with the L ones, but would feel the others were a bit lacking mainly in terms of colour saturation and sharpness. Looking especially at the initial flowers this is...

I went with John Lewis, as with a body I want someone local in case it all goes horribly wrong. Okay it costs more, but I got a 2 year warranty and know that it'll be sorted with no fuss if anything breaks. Also picked it up from waitrose the day after ordering.

Yeah I fear you'll be hard pushed to get more than £400 for it. MPB has one in Mint- for £499 so I imagine they'll buy another for £400 and the £100 covers their running costs and warranty etc.. Confirm the shutter count and post it here (in the relevant forums), if it really low you'll get...

Most of the time you'll only benefit from a really fast card if you're shooting continuous shots. I think most cards can deal with point here, click there. But if you're shooting 8fps continuous for say 30 shots an faster card will clear the buffer and you're less likely to have delays. Also, a...

I got these from amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005407VMQ/ref=oh_details_o04_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Be warned though the top LCD part is slightly curved on the 60D and personally I couldn't get it to lay flat which is somewhat irritating. Also don't get anything too thick as they'll...

http://store.lowepro.com/toploading/toploader-pro-75-aw I have the smaller one which is great but won't fit, the 7D w/70-300 looks to push 22cm long so it should fit fine, I think you'll still get the extra part in there so can use it as extra padding or tuck a cloth/card or something below it.

We used our tele zooms more than regular lenses on safari in Africa. That's a 150-500mm sigma FF for my mate and 70-300mm crop for me. Now that's not Mozambique, but Kenya we got mega close to the animals, Tanzania we were struggling at the tele end to get close enough. I don't know Nikons...

I think it was Peru or maybe Ecuador who have a crazy form prohibiting more than 10 memory cards too. I used to backup SD to SD before it went netbook/tablet and had quite a few. On taking photos of people this can be a big no-no in many places. South America they'll want paying, Africa the...

Icelandic air loves weighing hand baggage (and let me on with 9-10kg), never had issues with anyone else but taking out the camera and using pockets can be a good plan - any kind of walking trousers with a ton of pockets that doesn't take a week to dry like jeans is a good bet. Most airlines...