Recent content by Stuart_65

Just over a year ago I had an accident whereupon the rear LCD on my XT2 was smashed and the camera was submerged in estuarine mud. I sent it off to Fuji and it came back cleaned, serviced and with a new rear LCD, top plate (original had been heavily scratched) and rubbers for £180. They turned...

Thanks for all the replies folks, I'll try a real Canon battery in it and see how that goes.

The 2500mAh one, which came with the body, does indeed look like the cheapest of knock-offs, but it is the only one which works. The other two lower mAh ones are copies but they have always worked in a 5D3. I did see the Duracell ones on my web travels, good to have a recommendation for them. It...

I recently bought a used but mint 5DS. It came with a generic LP-E6 2500mAh battery which lasts no time at all, but maybe the battery is shot. However for a short time it does at least work. I've got two other generic LP-E6 batteries and the camera doesn't recognise either of them, all I get is...

I sold all my Fuji kit except the XT2 body which I use with adapted Canon lenses. The XT2 is an absolute steal these days, though if I was in your shoes, with hindsight and all that, I'd probably get a XH1 for the better ergonomics and IBIS, and some f2 primes, which are not only inexpensive but...

I'm looking at options for an online portfolio and only recently heard of Format, which looks good. Have you (or anyone else) used it much now, and if so how have you found it?

It's fantastic, and incredibly good value.

Paul Lister, Alladale estate. The Rights of Way Society, Ramblers, Mountaineering Scotland (then the Mountaineering Council of Scotland) all weighed in on access grounds, rightly so in my view as him fencing off a huge area, irrespective if he meant well, could set a dangerous precedent...

It must be true because it's in a paper. Were you actually there? I've no doubt that some sort of scary interaction went on, it's no secret that bears have killed people, and it is almost certainly a matter of time before it happens again. I can assure you that not everyone who lives there is...

"The internet, it's amazing what's out there." Indeed. And yeah, I think we all get what your view is by now. I googled 'bear attack Lescun" and "ours Lescun," and got nothing about attacks aside from a Times article about an encounter in Val d'Aran (a long way away from Lescun). I was in the...

Where are you getting your information from?

No rudeness perceived. As Cockney said, it certainly differed according to context, especially if one moved to AF or not. I had a F801s alongside the FM2 for a while and I remember being envious of the few people I knew who had a Nikon F4, but it was out of my budget and to be honest not...

I think one of the main reasons is that film bodies didn't go out of date whereas digital cameras are subject to constant and rapid improvement. It was normal to be using a film body that was often a couple of decades old, or more. Digital obsolescence is partly marketing driven but also down to...

My Dad's Rolleiflex TLR with which he taught me photographic parameters. I sadly no longer have my Dad but I will never part with that camera. My first camera, a Miranda SLR. I don't know what happened to it but I learned a lot with it. My third camera, a Nikon FM2, which I still have. We were...

Wonderful.