I had a western digital My Book 500 GB external drive which failed. I was gutted as I couldn't get it to even fire up and thought I had lost all the data. I was even thinking about sending it to a specialist recovery place until someone told me that the power supplies for these external housed hard drives are notoriously weak and subject to failure.

I thought I have nothing to lose and opened the case and broke out the actual sata drive and inserted it into my pc with the sata cable as an additional drive and BINGO it works perfectly. The drive is fine, the external power supply was the weak link in this case

I know this isn't what you were asking about, but I was almost tempted by this waterproof holster

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even more compact with a 40mm pancake lens

Thanks but I do want one bag for this. I do not share your concerns and hope I am not tempting fate now by saying this

It looks to me as though some of the Crumpler bags might be hybrids. Does anyone have one they recommend?

it does look like the buttons at least are a different design, although I assumed the body was otherwise identical to the K20 in size and shape


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I want ONE bag which is NOT TOO BIG that will carry ONE BODY with zoom attached and maybe one spare lens and battery, memory cards, chargers, cables etc PLUS ONE laptop (13.3" Sony Vaio) PLUS room for books and bits and pieces AND is suitable for carry-on on a plane.

Everything I have seen is either too big or too small. All the backpacks I have seen are great if you want to carry three bodies, ten lenses, flash, tripod...you know what I mean, yet the backpack design is the type they tend to use for laptop/photo hybrids and the photos of them look great filled to the brim with bodies and lenses, but I don't want to carry everything - just one body and maybe two lenses max plus my laptop and chargers plus some books and clothes etc. Any suggestions for a flexible solution which still has proper camera and laptop compartments and is suitable for onboard carry on on flights?

Alternatively I will do a swap for an equivalent spec Nikon lens such as the Nikon 17-55mm F2.8G ED-IF AF-S DX Nikkor Lens or possibly a good prime such as the 105mm F2.8G AF-S VR Micro Nikkor Lens

DA* 16-50/2.8 ED (IF) SDM


Optically perfect and unblemished, boxed and all papers intact, bought this year from SRS, £600 plus £10 insured delivery.

Today I was in Curry's : K20d plus 18-55mm kit lens for £499 inc VAT on clearance

£847.10 exc. VAT - Pixmania pro's current price for the K7