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The 7d Autofocus is so bad it's awful. I tried taking a couple of shots on Mannerheimintie last night and it simply refused. I'm like.. "what?"... and then I switched to MF and it took the shot. It's atrocious on video, too, saying "i'm focused", I track and -bam- OoF. ARGH! I'd like consistency, pl...
Posted by Dangermouse on 06/11/2010 - 18:04
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Forgot about the fireworks. I hope there'll be some good photos tomorrow, and more importantly everyone keeps safe. Firework hell will begin here soon. the first ones have already been heard but it gets serious after 5 November - people smuggle them back from the UK. An incredible number of...
Posted by Gwyn on 06/11/2010 - 18:15
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Not if you are going to go on strike and cause maximum problems for those who are trying to do their best ( so they tell us ) and those who cannot afford such fripperies. Fun stuff - like charity and indulgence - is fine if you are able to afford it without hurting others.Self control is sometimes ...
Posted by TOZZA27 on 06/11/2010 - 19:01
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One trick I keep meaning to try with my Dad's K7 - fit the K or M 28mm/3.5 for video. Given how close this lens focuses (car-sized objects are in focus at infinity by the time they fill the frame) I suspect it'd be a bit handy for video and it's also incredibly sharp. I think I might well try that. ...
Posted by bretti_kivi on 06/11/2010 - 19:03
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twisties: mix flour and water with a dash of salt to a dough. Roll into thin sausages - we're talking little finger diameter - and then twist around a convenient (green)stick or metal kebab skewer you happen to have with you. Cook over embers. Eat hot with butter / jam / nothing.. I'll be adding car...
Posted by bretti_kivi on 06/11/2010 - 21:23
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Bret might, he's using a hired 7D at the moment. It might have gone back by the time the adaptor arrives though!:wink: I won a Selfix 16-20 last night, for next to nothing!!:shock:
Posted by Hardgravity on 08/11/2010 - 08:59
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I was a bit bemused by the "AF chip" business until I read (while looking for advice on how this 55mm can be expected to behave) that Canons won't give focus confirmation without it. Talk about what happens when you let the marketing department specify the product rather than the engineers...
Posted by Dangermouse on 08/11/2010 - 09:40
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Indeed he has Gwyn, perhaps he'll be back when he realises the K5 is better than any of his Canons:P
Posted by fatspider on 08/11/2010 - 15:30
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well, the 7d overheated. I am *not* impressed. We did find a lot of tricks, though, and I'm a lot wiser about how to fix focus and work it with the talent and also just how much can go wrong....dual batteries were enough, as was the 15-85, working at the 15 end a lot of the time. very inte...
Posted by bretti_kivi on 08/11/2010 - 20:05
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Ok back to ebay, why start an auction at 99p then slap a reserve on the item. An AGFA I'm watching has gone over £8.00 and not reached the reserve! Tight vendor or what?:shock: As for Widiwotsit, well it's a laugh!:D
Posted by Hardgravity on 08/11/2010 - 20:28
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well, the 7d overheated. I am *not* impressed. We did find a lot of tricks, though, and I'm a lot wiser about how to fix focus and work it with the talent and also just how much can go wrong....dual batteries were enough, as was the 15-85, working at the 15 end a lot of the time. very inte...
Posted by Oggy on 08/11/2010 - 21:15
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This thread seems to be getting bogged down with talk of photography.:twisted: I've one my best to get it back to pointlessness. I've got another rotten cold. I must pick them up from the grand-kids I think. Husband drove to Paris again today - that's the third time in four weeks. The other w...
Posted by Gwyn on 08/11/2010 - 22:02
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I have studs, yep. I remember when I was a kid, must have been 86 or so, when it absolutely threw it down with snow. A foot or so in Coventry, motorists trapped on the M6, abandoned cars everywhere. Now? A couple of years back I had to go to Germany. I hoofed it down the motorway on fresh snow. 0...
Posted by bretti_kivi on 09/11/2010 - 10:51
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Now I actively look for the slippery stuff, working the car on the loud pedal, finding the limits of grip, allowing slides and learning all the time. ESP off is even more fun but a lot of work. Should get word back in the next couple of days about my track design for the two day session on a froze...
Posted by Dangermouse on 09/11/2010 - 18:01
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Just been to see RED with Jo at the local fleapit - excellent hokum and a good action romp - Bruce Willis,Brian Cox,Morgan Freeman,John Malkovitch and Helen Mirren - great fun - and I had a large box of popcorn and the seat were free with points collected on my Premier card Tony PS the Fockers...
Posted by TOZZA27 on 09/11/2010 - 18:21
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^^ the little one likes it ;) Damned snow is melting and the 7D goes back tomorrow. Dolly is done and should be pretty effective. Now I just need to find a K5 to rent.... Bret
Posted by bretti_kivi on 10/11/2010 - 20:44
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The way the wind is getting up here I can probably paraglide across to you HG - leave a candle in the back garden for me to navigate to !!!!! I`m off for a bath and a glass of El Bombero before Watchdog and dinner ! Laters Windy of Wirral PS TT - not the supplies I`m worried about - just t...
Posted by TOZZA27 on 11/11/2010 - 19:06
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DOH ! Haven`t you got an old flash unit that you can attach a trip wire to so I can snag it as I swoop over and double back following the wire and the light ? Even I knew you can`t light a Candle in the Wind - ooooh now there`s an idea - ti tum ti ti ti tum tum tum - ooooh almost had it then - la...
Posted by TOZZA27 on 11/11/2010 - 19:58
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It's alternated between very heavy rain and lighter rain and very high winds all day here :(. Thank goodness my nice decorator man got the timber treatment on the front porch and the back fence yesterday when it was actually dry all day.
Posted by techno-terminator on 11/11/2010 - 21:47
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Nice bit of driving from Petrov earlier, not everyone can manage to hold off a former world champion in a faster car for that many laps! I'm back from Top Gear Live, was a bit difficult for photos due to lighting and sheer mass of people. On the plus side when I checked ebay this afternoon I foun...
Posted by Dangermouse on 14/11/2010 - 19:27
