Recent content by Simes123

As long as I could read it on my ipad, I wasn't too bothered about the format to be honest. Kindle app is free, but the author may get a better revenue if going direct rather than Amazon, so there is that to consider if one is feeling benevolent to a struggling author vs a retail giant. I'm...

I did see that, but liked the Amazon price better!

Perhaps already known about, but I thought I'd mention it: This ebook on the A7RIII is actually pretty darned good. I'm not one for reading manuals/books on cameras usually as I like to think I'm a technically (if not artistically) savvy photographer and I'm an Electronics Systems Engineer by...

I have a GH3382QD. It’s stable, doesn’t creep and is pleasant and smooth to use. The arca base seems very compatible with the plates and L brackets I’ve used it with. I’m not entirely persuaded it’s any better than the Manfrotto head I used previously - certainly not in terms of order of...

Some great feedback - thanks. It's a big club - early in the season, up to 120 people present. Average age about 65... I like the simplicity of a paper based solution as a differentiator for 1st, 2nd, 3rd only style voting. But we often have around 120 images being reviewed by a judge and I...

Hi Thanks Steve - yes those would work for choosing a favourite - the main requirement here is to enable scoring - say out of 20 for each image as they were shown up one by one, with the results revealed at the end. One of the biggest complaints we have is that a single judge can be somewhat...

I've been asked to investigate an Audience based judging system for our Photographic Society. We have over 100 members regularly attending, and as an augmentation to traditional judging, it would be nice to have events where the audience scores images, rather than an inconsistent, single fuddy...

Cracking shot - what AF mode were you using?

Yes, 2 genuine batteries is probably sensible. It really feels a lot like the battery life on a DSLR in that there is very little range anxiety. A lot easier to manage and less weight to carry!

I said it was the best price I'd seen :) I've got 1 spare. Which feels abnormally few, but has so far been totally fine and I've not fully depleted a single battery yet. I'm tempted to get 1 other, but I generally always have too many batteries. I had 5 with my XT-2 and used at most 4 in a...

I had a Dimage 7i - I loved it. Really lovely lens, and it rekindled my love in photography. It was my first proper digital camera after a nasty Kodak 3mp camera I got in an Argos pricing error. I took lots of images with it, and still have one of the images on our wall at home that I took...

I was just going to say - £62 with delivery. Still a good price though - best I've seen, and should be the real deal with Bristol Cameras.

Any chance of sharing - that's a great price if genuine. I've seen others claiming to be genuine for £27....

The Ebay ones are generally fakes. A good clue is that they all have the same serial number on the hologram (it ends in 9E - possibly 59E or 89E). I've not found a genuine one for less than £70.

I don’t know what thread Black rapid uses but there are 2x 3/8 threaded holes available - one on the base, and one on the vertical. There isn’t an Allen key slot that I can see, so in this respect it differs from the RRS version. However, it is tool-less in that the slide fixing screw has a...