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And I remember when the Allegro was mocked for its square (“quartic”) steering wheel.
My Karoq is a former Bentley company car.
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My Karoq is a former Bentley company car.
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We have a Karoq now too. Build and design fall short of the Mini Countryman, but it's been a comfy relaxing drive so far.
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And I remember when the Allegro was mocked for its square (“quartic”) steering wheel.
My very first ever car was an Allegro. It was absolutely rotten with rust and there was a huge hole in the passenger footwell, was almost like the car from the flintstones. I swapped a guy at the caravan site for my skateboard. I didn't have it for long though about 3/4 weeks. I pulled up at the lights and the Police pulled up beside me and lifted me straight away. My dad was absolutely raging, I was only 15.
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I went out to buy a new daily driver yesterday. Went out with the intention of getting a used bog standard BMW 320d. Have had loads of them before and they will eat up the miles.
Came home with a Skoda Octavia VRS instead. A Skoda
Thing shifts pretty good. Love it
I don't know if it's still true today or when that car was made but a few years back Skoda were consistently the best quality and ownership experience of the Audi/VW group.
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A family friend of ours had an Allegro and a wheel fell off when we turned a corner one day. I never blamed the car though as he was a fiddler and a bodger. I nearly bought one once but bought a Mini instead. I always thought the estate version was better looking than the car.
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It's a bit late in the year but we went bramble picking today. We got a jar full so I may make crumbles tomorrow.
A7 and 28mm f2 and sometimes plus a No.4 close up filter.
I quite like this one. Despite the thin DoF it's f8.
f5.6.
f8 and 100% crop. I hope it stays sharp.
f8. Heading home by road this time, bin day. We live all the way right down there...
I quite like this Sony 28mm f2. It's small and light, it's fast to focus and the performance seems good. The only thing extra I could wish for would be a closer close focus distance but that can be mitigated to an extent with a close up filter.
A7 and 28mm f2 and sometimes plus a No.4 close up filter.
I quite like this one. Despite the thin DoF it's f8.
f5.6.
f8 and 100% crop. I hope it stays sharp.
f8. Heading home by road this time, bin day. We live all the way right down there...
I quite like this Sony 28mm f2. It's small and light, it's fast to focus and the performance seems good. The only thing extra I could wish for would be a closer close focus distance but that can be mitigated to an extent with a close up filter.
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As it's quiet, more A7 and Sony 20mm f2 pictures, just in case people haven't use this lens.
On the way to pick brambles. f5.6. Mrs WW is in the distance wearing the red coat.
66% crop at f8.
I had to crop this portrait shot as I was carrying a jar in a plastic bag and it blew up and got into the frame. As I was cropping I went for 3:4. f2.
PS.
I've got a Nikon 50mm f1.4 ai-s coming tomorrow. I'm so excited!
Actually, just got a message to say that despite the previous message saying he'd sent it and I'd get it on Wednesday he hasn't sent it yet. Grrrr I can see me leaving neutral feedback.
On the way to pick brambles. f5.6. Mrs WW is in the distance wearing the red coat.
66% crop at f8.
I had to crop this portrait shot as I was carrying a jar in a plastic bag and it blew up and got into the frame. As I was cropping I went for 3:4. f2.
PS.
I've got a Nikon 50mm f1.4 ai-s coming tomorrow. I'm so excited!
Actually, just got a message to say that despite the previous message saying he'd sent it and I'd get it on Wednesday he hasn't sent it yet. Grrrr
I can see me leaving neutral feedback.
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As it's quiet, more A7 and Sony 20mm f2 pictures, just in case people haven't use this lens.
On the way to pick brambles. f5.6. Mrs WW is in the distance wearing the red coat.
66% crop at f8.
I had to crop this portrait shot as I was carrying a jar in a plastic bag and it blew up and got into the frame. As I was cropping I went for 3:4. f2.
PS.
I've got a Nikon 50mm f1.4 ai-s coming tomorrow. I'm so excited!
Actually, just got a message to say that despite the previous message saying he'd sent it and I'd get it on Wednesday he hasn't sent it yet. Grrrr
How many 35s and 50s do you own now?
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Probably quicker to list the ones he doesn't have
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The Skoda Estelle, Rapide130 etc all had a reputation for 'losing a wheel' at unfortunate moments.
In a slightly similar fashion, we had a Triumph Spitfire MkIII that had a trunion fracture, allowing the front nearside wheel to disappear up into the wheel arch while the bottom of the strut dragged along the floor. The Trunion was a cast brass device designed to connect the bottom wishbone on the front suspension with the stub axle assembly, and had a section with a steeply ramped thread rather like the rising butts of a door hinge - in this case the threaded section and the lower pivot attached to the wishbone parted company. At least fixing was easy.
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Let's have a think, 35's maybe 8 and 50's maybe 13 (14 if and when the latest one comes) but I may have missed a couple here and there and five of that lot are modern lenses including the MF Voigtlander 35mm f1.4 and 50mm f2 and the AF Sony 35mm f1.8 and f2.8 and 55mm f1.8.
I don't have any Russian or Pentax ones and I don't have any of the crop of Chinese ones that have come out so don't tempt me.
Of the ones I have I can't really pick a favourite as they're all slightly different.
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I fancied a Spitfire but I never had one. I had a Midget and an MGB Roadster. I went all over in the Midget including two trips to London and back each in a day and ditto for Bristol and back twice too. I hadn't had it long when the engine blew up and scattered shrapnell all over the road as the previous owners were bodgers. Once I'd had the engine rebuilt it was no trouble,
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As you may know a lot of the time I'm tied to the house as I look after someone and it's an almost 24/7 thing. So, reading about old lenses, finding a nice one at a nice price, seeing how it performs and comparing it to others and taking pictures about the house and garden and within a few miles of home when I can get out is pretty much all I can manage but this does keep me more or less involved in photography as a hobby. I could try them and then sell them on but they're cheap enough and I don't need the money so I hang on to them and they do all get used sooner or later.
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Whatever makes you happy mate.
My missus is now looking after her father with cognitive impairment & it's only going to get worse.
You need a release.
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Not Sony but interesting...
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Video: The impact of hand-colorized photos on photography in 19th century Japan
After a forced opening of Japanese ports to foreigners in the mid-19th century, foreign-owned photo studios began hiring local artisans to hand-color black and white images, leading to a boom in an industry that served to both inform and mislead outsiders about Japanese culture in the mid to...
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Very true.
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Many of us are in that age range where our children have grown up & left home, and now we're looking after our parents instead.
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With hindsight I wish I'd stopped down to get star effect lights
A6000/Sigma 30mm f/1.4 DC DN
With hindsight I wish I'd stopped down to get star effect lights
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Shameless plug, just put my 85mm f1.8 up for sale
I tried selling one on here and had no interest. I then put an ad on Facebook market place and was inundated with messages within a few minutes. A guy came round and collected it about an hour later.
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Thanks for the info. I've never tried Facebook MP but I'll certainly look into it if I get no joy on here or AVF
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A7 and Nippon Kogaku 35mm f2.8 plus No.4 close up filter.
I'm not sure these will ripen before the weather gets colder.
But did you know you can ripen green tomatoes by putting them in the fruit bowl with apples and bananas? I didn't until I Googled it. It's working quickly on this one that fell off the vine on a windy day.
I'm not sure these will ripen before the weather gets colder.
But did you know you can ripen green tomatoes by putting them in the fruit bowl with apples and bananas? I didn't until I Googled it. It's working quickly on this one that fell off the vine on a windy day.
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Finally sending my 16-35 f4 to MRP to sell it, looked on here but the last few seem to have sold for less or the same as MRP are offering, so lets hope it goes smoothly and they don't suddenly want to class it as used and abused, only mark on it is the annoying mark on the knurled zoom ring which has happened to all my Sony lenses.
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Good price mate, too steep for me.
Take it.
Take it.
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What condition is it in? The reason I'm asking is that they've gone up in price quite a bit recently. MBP are selling "like new" for £944 now whereas I bought an as new one from then a couple of months ago for £749. If yours is excellent they're making over £200 on it, and if like new £270
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My Nikon 50mm f1.4 ai-s arrived. It's in very good condition and I can't see a mark on it. As with most of the Nikon lenses I have it's hard to believe this one has ever been used in its decades of life. It's very well made and smaller and lighter than the Nippon Kogaku 50mm f1.4 H auto I have and maybe a bit sharper and maybe with less nervous bokeh too. It's sharp enough in the central area from f1.4 and its only real issue is IMO the old lens nervous bokeh with a messy scene.
100%. I was focusing on her right eye.
Damn. This looks a lot less good than on my pc. Oh well. Take it from me that it's sharp enough in the central area.
It seems to perform quite well with a close up filter too but there isn't too much range between minimum and maximum focus distance with one fitted and without one the close focus distance isn't outstanding.
Ken Rockwell is good for info on these...
100%. I was focusing on her right eye.
Damn. This looks a lot less good than on my pc. Oh well. Take it from me that it's sharp enough in the central area.
It seems to perform quite well with a close up filter too but there isn't too much range between minimum and maximum focus distance with one fitted and without one the close focus distance isn't outstanding.
Ken Rockwell is good for info on these...
Nikon NIKKOR 50mm f/1.4 AI-s Review & Sample Images by Ken Rockwell
Nikon NIKKOR 50mm f/1.4 AI-s Review & Sample Images by Ken Rockwell
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Not as simple as that, they have collection, delivery and vat on margin to pay to start with, they probably also allocate a % from each sale to a warranty claim fund, each sale / purchase has also cost something in marketing and staffing costs, so what can appear to be £200 is probably closer to £100-110.What condition is it in? The reason I'm asking is that they've gone up in price quite a bit recently. MBP are selling "like new" for £944 now whereas I bought an as new one from then a couple of months ago for £749. If yours is excellent they're making over £200 on it, and if like new £270
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I know they're going to make profit.What condition is it in? The reason I'm asking is that they've gone up in price quite a bit recently. MBP are selling "like new" for £944 now whereas I bought an as new one from then a couple of months ago for £749. If yours is excellent they're making over £200 on it, and if like new £270
On here they're going for around £600 at most with the hassle of people trying to bring the price down and then posting it.
So if I can get around the same I'm happy.
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Good point. I’m amazed how much they’ve gone up though.
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Be interesting to see how the pound fairs against the Yen when we leave the EU on 31st December, if it goes the wrong way those who've bought gear this year will be laughing.
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These things happen. Years ago I sold a couple of Canon DSLR fit lenses for more than I paid for them new.
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The rumor site links to a review of the Sony A7sIII. Here's a direct link to the review...
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"The new Sony a7S III shows a mixed bag in the lab test. It shows by far the best rolling shutter result that we ever tested for a full frame camera – 8.7ms. Amazing.
In the dynamic range test at ISO 640 it has a solid 12.4 stops at SNR = 2, but not much more is there – maybe half a stop. It looks like Sony has a lot of internal noise reduction processing going on to squeeze out this result. Which for most users is fine – a great out of the box result! At ISO 16000 the results are really impressive: 11.9 stops (SNR = 2) are measured."
Sony a7S III Lab Test – Does it Live Up to the Hype?
A production version of the long anticipated new Sony a7S III has finally arrived at the CineD headquarter for our lab test. How does it fare in comparison to i
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"The new Sony a7S III shows a mixed bag in the lab test. It shows by far the best rolling shutter result that we ever tested for a full frame camera – 8.7ms. Amazing.
In the dynamic range test at ISO 640 it has a solid 12.4 stops at SNR = 2, but not much more is there – maybe half a stop. It looks like Sony has a lot of internal noise reduction processing going on to squeeze out this result. Which for most users is fine – a great out of the box result! At ISO 16000 the results are really impressive: 11.9 stops (SNR = 2) are measured."
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A9II followed by A9 as a close second.
The other bodies work pretty well too, those two are just best of the best Sony has to offer.
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Yeah, might have to think about a 70-180mm closer to the time