I’ve never spiked anyone’s shopping bag with a security tag, oh no. I’ve never accidentally rested anyone’s credit card on the tag removal magnet either, despite how unpleasant they’ve been…..

Top thread – Pistonheads version of the Picolax episode…

Hold the pin as if you are trying to pull it out and bang the plastic side against a hard service repeatedly – the pin should come out it you get it right.

Best of luck

Winona

Second the Meta 5, mine (2007) is brilliant.

Civic Aerodeck ?

The Felice Brothers
Godspeed You ! Black Emperor
Okkerville River

GF1’s are very highly rated, a number of people on talkphotography ditched their DSLR’s and bought them for the convenience. They come up for sale second hand from time to time on there too, and with the GF2 being released they can only get cheaper.

Quite a few people where I work got bikes through Halfords on the ride to work scheme. Every one I looked at had (only four or five admittedly) had basic faults with the build, either badly adjusted brakes, poor shifting or one one occasion a wheel qr that was bent and very loose. Personally I would always buy a bike in a box if it came from Halfords and build it myself.

If you live near me you’re welcome to listen to my Cyrus kit. Email in profile.

Carried my brother a few years ago, cancer. Coffins are heavy in every way.

This is what happens Larry

Thanks fivespot, I may well be in touch

But none of my friends seem to “get” it

Yeah, I know that one….

I’m guessing you’ve heard Hughie playing a few tracks on 6 ? Tom’s career pretty much has two periods – the 1970’s, when he was a barfly doing pretty straight, mostly piano based songs and then the 1980 – present period which started when he met his wife, Kathleen Brennan. She encouraged him to explore his more “creative” side starting with the trilogy of Raindogs, Swordfishtromones and Frank’s Wild Years. Try “Raindogs” first. If you don’t like that, you’re unlikely to love anything else – but then I would say that :-)

I’d like to love Huey’s show but I’m with MussEd – he’s plastic cool I’m afraid. I’m a fan of Cerys and Lauren too, but the sooner Bacon effs off the better. He is utter, utter rubbish, and seems to run completely against the 6Music grain.

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Basically anything an employer chooses to regard as likely to bring them into disrepute is Gross Misconduct. He might as well have nicked the safe.

Totems seem to be about £800….

Thought so. Recommendations please !

Do Boarder terriers pay rent ?

Camp near Llangollen or Betws-y-Coed and drive to Llandegla if you run out of biking round there. Loads more for non bikey types to do, and loads more cycling round Betws than there is at Llandegla (I used to run a B&B in Betws and now live 5 miles from Llandegla).

I'm using the snow forecast for next week as an excuse to hold off for a bit :-)

wrong post.

Carry on.

Second hand lenses hold their value well, but you should find what you need on http://www.talkphotography.co.uk

Many fakes on Ebay, try 7 day shop or mymemory instead

That presenter is a complete arse though, seems to think he's still on Blue Peter

You beat me to it by 5 mins PeterPoddy.

I'm genuinely gutted about 6 music's apparent demise. Radio 1's target audience is 14 – 25 year olds, Radio 2 have been told to concentrate on the over 50's – WTF are music fans who don't fit either of these profiles supposed to do for radio ? I thought the whole point of the BBC is that they are a Public Service broadcaster ? Surely there are plenty of "Hits" type stations around to cater for the yoof audience ? Shut down R1 instead, and keep "minority" stations like 6 music (and Asian network ? can't comment, as I don't listen to it).

I'm no fan of that braying horse racing commentator or the whiny Canadian ex-skier either. What with the commentary team and the insistence on really fast cutting for all the highlights I've been disappointed with the coverage from start to finish.

Depends what you want – I'd say if you're just going so you can spend a weekend getting stoned in a cafe you might as well stay at home. Amsterdam is a great city, with loads of venues, parks, museums and if it's warm enough it has loads of cafes and bars with outside seating for people watching. If you're into photography there's plenty there, but as with any city, be careful. RLD is worth a look, but is just what you'd expect – seedy, overpriced (the hotels and cafes, can't speak for the girls) and full of tourists.

There are some really good tutorials on talkphotography that can explain much better than I can – I would link directly, but you have to log in to the site to view them, and I got shouted at last night for linking to pages that required that much effort :-(

If you're interested it's worth a look.

F stops work like shutter speeds – they double up every time – 1/30th, 1/60th, 1/125th, 1/250th etc.

F numbers tell you how much light the lens allows through to the sensor or film to make an image. They work like a 2 times table, so every "stop" (or move from one F number to the next) will allow twice as much light through as the one next to it when making the aperture (light hole) bigger, and half as much light when making the aperture smaller. The tricky thing is that instead of having sensible numbers like 1,2,3,4, etc F stops have silly designations that generally run from, say, F1.4, F2, F2.8 and so on up to somewhere around F16 or F22 (depending on the type of lens). In short, the smaller the number, the more light gets in, and the bigger the number, the less light gets in.

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Why do people post links that you have to log in to view

To piss you off, obviously.

I can precis the threads shown if you like ?

Don't go near them, and if you do, don't expect stuff to turn up quickly. And keep an eye on your card statement as some people have reported coincidental fraud after using them.

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Why is it that people after some photography/design/illustration always assume that doing there job for free will lead to more paid work? I assume a plumber wouldn't fit my shower for free on the back of me telling my friends how good he was or in return for letting him sign it.

It's only photography though, anyone can do it, can't they ?

;-)

Loads of posts on TP, not all good by any means. camerabox

It was me. I'm just waiting for the confirmation email.

http://www.summitsport.com/summer/%5B/url%5D

DSLR – check
200mm lens – check
tripod – check
cable release – check

It's cloudy :-(

…but it's a nice watch. I guess only you can say if it's worth it to you. I have one of these , which I bought in Hong Kong on my 40th, and I wouldn't be without it.

too clever for me..