wow, beautiful love them, and the tree trunk just adds more to the beauty of the image, love them a lot

These talk about bigma reminds me again that I will be lurking around for someone who wants to get rid of a bigma. Just as Mike mentioned above, for the convenience of the zoom and also mainly because it will be great with a sigma TC for the longer reach. My trip to Africa is taking shape and am eager to get my gear in place and having had a good test on the lenses to get the feel of them

good idea, Would hate to go all the way there and be dumped with a lousy weather. I will definitely want to attend a show now that I am geared up and my little one loves these things so want to encourage him more towards these kind of outdoor activities. He is too much attached to his PC , and will easily be sitting there for hours if I don't drag him out.

Lynton, you might be able to find someone who is willing to part. We really are all joking because this is an incredibly sought after TC. But once in a while there is always someone who parts with it. I got it from a kind fellow member who wasn't using it. I know what you mean about being a bit weary in getting something from China and paying that price. Last time I checked one went for £240 on ebay.
You are doing the right thing, checking on forums, I did the same and I know at least one more member who did the same posting on forums and got lucky.

Just keep on the lookout. Oh by the way, Ask Mike-P also where he got one from. He just recently got one boxed and new I think. He might guide you to the right place

Piotro, I have never been to an airshow and have been looking forward to attend to one. Southend looks reasonably closer to where I am. Quite tempting, will check the calendar. If I decide to go then perhaps we might even get together for a coffee and snap a few images together.

LOL, he did stress in the reply to the question asked that he will start using his own images for auction, just dont understand why he just didn't replace it straightaway when he was queried. I think you are still able to do that during an auction, how difficult is it to take a picture of the object you are selling and just put it up there? Unless of course you want to hide something, ridiculous and strange tha someone went for it. Who knows, the person knows something that we dont, or might have spotted something lol

What a strange thing, saw the description and someone has already asked him about the image.
And someone already bought it. What is it really worth?

Which one Shim? you forgot to put up the link

Great set of pics Rob, how are you getting along with the monopod? I have ordered one too, I am hoping to make good use of it, its much easier to carry than the tripod

They are like gold dust, only rare. And the ones who have it will swear by their feet that they can sing and dance too . Mine fell from the sky actually , when I looked around and couldn't find one and just when I had lost all hope of getting it someone here came to my rescue when least expected , thanks Shim, you are a star .

Good luck, keep looking because it was by persisting that we managed to get hold of one .

Mine was practically new.