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Describe your photo storage set up
I use windows File History to an internal second drive plus Western Digital to a second external USB Drive using their back up system. I have many holidays and trips on DVD too. I create albums nowadays on Google Photos, formerly Picasa web albums (slightly reduced size for free unlimited) I've done...
Posted by wvbarnes on 03/06/2016 - 14:25
Describe your photo storage set up
I simply keep mine in folders, originally by camera body with sub folders for where/when, then I changed to folders by year again with sub folders for where/when but combining images from different camera bodies.. For example I have a folder marked "istD" with a sub folder "New England" but I als...
Posted by fatspider on 04/06/2016 - 00:23
Farne Islands photo trip - any tips?
Book an all day trip which covers two islands. The single island trips don't give you long enough. Take a telephoto (300mm is fine), but also something shorter. Have your camera ready on the boat. Not so much for the birds, unless you get close to gannets (who are on fishing trips from Bass Rock), b...
Posted by Blythman on 11/06/2016 - 10:43
Farne Islands photo trip - any tips?
Much more fun to get there is with the Osprey RHIB, it carries up to 12 persons and the skipper really tries his best to get up and close with wildlife and is happy to manoeuvre or stop the boat into positions for the benefits of us photographers. http://www.isleofmayboattrips.co.uk I can second t...
Posted by Casket on 14/06/2016 - 07:48
1st airshow
I found finding the plane as a speck at the short end of the zoom and then zooming in on it a lot easier than searching the sky at long range. An alternative approach that I found worked at my first airshow is to keep both eyes open, not just the one looking throught the viewfinder. The other eye (u...
Posted by kea828 on 13/06/2016 - 21:40
NEC Gardeners World
We went a coupe of times a few years back, good fun but gets very busy.
Posted by AndrewA on 16/06/2016 - 10:33
Copying 8mm movie film?
A few years ago I had a load of 1960s Super 8 films copied onto DVD by a commercial firm. I've just had a look at the DVD and the company was called 'ontodvd.com'. I can't remember how much it cost, but recall that I thought it reasonable at the time. The process worked smoothly and easily - I ju...
Posted by swarf on 22/06/2016 - 12:19
Medium Format Mirrorless
Fuji have in the past had some lovely medium format rangefinder cameras and this is a similar idea. Pentax seem to be going back to their roots as an SLR camera company, apart from the Q which evokes the 110 tradition, but they have come up with some very sound gear that's been long-awaited. W...
Posted by johnriley on 23/06/2016 - 07:43
alternative to pro photobox gallery
got it, thanks! the prices on bayphoto is in US$ and contact info is USA so I think it's probably a different partner doing the prints. will check into it and report back. thanks again
Posted by davidxgreen on 09/08/2016 - 19:49
Looking for my first Pentax camera please help!
Hello! I have been taking photographs daily with different kinds of cameras for about a year now, usually use my phone or a compact camera. Did the job however now I am taking photography seriously and enjoying it and plan to go to uni , I am an older prospective student and would like some advi...
Posted by tee17 on 01/08/2016 - 06:32
Looking for my first Pentax camera please help!
Hello! I have been taking photographs daily with different kinds of cameras for about a year now, usually use my phone or a compact camera. Did the job however now I am taking photography seriously and enjoying it and plan to go to uni , I am an older prospective student and would like some advi...
Posted by tee17 on 05/08/2016 - 05:39
K3ii Astrophotography
As Gwyn says above. It is the viewfinder (where you look through) at the back of the camera that needs to be covered. For some reason most cameras are not light tight here and so any light from near the rear of the camera can find its way in reverse if you like through the pentaprism and (I am gu...
Posted by alfpics on 11/08/2016 - 15:58
Peiades Meteor shower peaks tonight
And some more suggestions from . I specially like the suggestion of skywatching while laying back in a hot tub. Martin
Posted by OldTaffy on 11/08/2016 - 18:36
Bags and Cases and Camera Travel
It's an interesting question, and whilst I don't profess to know the correct answer, I carry my kit with camera and lenses separated, camera with body cap on and camera base down, and lenses with caps on both ends, mount facing down. All this, however, assumes that the kit is in a proper camera ...
Posted by JohnX on 15/08/2016 - 20:18
Bags and Cases and Camera Travel
Re-reading this I see that my response was more to do with transporting kit from A to B, as in on holiday or a trip, rather than a more generic camera bag question. There's only one change for me when it comes to camera bags on a shoot, and that is I leave the 'walk around' lens on the camera bod...
Posted by JohnX on 16/08/2016 - 09:58
Beamish TT
Really good set of golden oldies there Gary. So the road is as popular as ever then. When I was 18 and on night shift I would go home (South Shields) wash and change jump on my Tiger and drive across to the lakes. sleep all day beside Ullswater then back again at night to go to work again. What's th...
Posted by vic cross on 19/09/2016 - 01:34
forum member Grispie....a thank you.
a couple of weeks ago I posted in the classifieds that I was looking to buy a Pentax A28mm 2.8 lens. Christophe (Grispie) got in touch to say he thought he had a spare one and would check when he got home. Sure enough, he got back in touch and said he did have one, and that I could have it, free, ...
Posted by scarr1 on 20/09/2016 - 10:44
Possible Phishing alert - New Type - BT landline!
Good afternoon Not strictly "photographic" but many people connect to the internet via their telephone landlines! You have all probably heard about the telephone calls from “Microsoft Technical Support” saying that there is a problem with your computer and that the person needs to connect to i...
Posted by jeallen01 on 22/09/2016 - 16:23
I'm on a roll ..... for all the wrong reasons :(
Well things come in threes they say 1) Snaps a tarsal bone and tear the ligaments and tendons in my foot resulting in cast and 6 weeks total recovery.. 2) Have a monster cold sore on my lip, I mean huge, now on meds but it's proper got me down. Like a huge solid numb lump that makes drinking i...
Posted by cardiffgareth on 23/09/2016 - 18:51
I'm on a roll ..... for all the wrong reasons :(
Thanks guys, I'm just looking forward to having mobility back. The meds are working a treat, 5 horse pills a day and my lip now looks like a lip and I'm only one day one. Plus the rim and coke makes things seem better! Nigel, did you buy volume one or two as I see there are two books with the la...
Posted by cardiffgareth on 24/09/2016 - 21:35
