Importing:

From the EU..no extra charges of any sort.

From anywhere else in the world, add the p+p cost to the item price, then add approx 22-25% and you will be very close to the total price you will pay. Beware UPS though, they charge very high fees.

cheers Steve.M.

Hi,

I have been a shoulder bag man for 30 yrs and tried them all. Suggestions:

Check out Billingham (English, from the West Mids, great but expensive new..try a used one), Artisan & Artist (my current bag, cult bags made in Japan and get from ebay or US dealers), Domke (fantastic simple USA photojournalists bags), Think Tank (USA discreet bags), Fogg, Tamrac. Try googling them, try used ones on ebay, try Ffordes website, who sell used bags.

cheers Steve.M.

Digital Camera Exchange....I am fairly certain they are a business, rather than a charity...

"There's another way of looking at this. Maybe BJP and PP have the biased reviewers and the others are objective?"

...oh yeah I forgot, and I am a brain surgeon...

I will again say, the ONLY two UK mags which usually appear to have UNBIASED and objective reviews are the 'BJP' and 'Professional photographer' magazine, the rest all seem to have biased so-called reviewers..

cheers Steve.M.

Hi all,

Please could you tell me, exactly what is Photobucket?, what is it's purpose, and what are it's pro's and con's?

cheers Steve.M.

Quote:
"Pentax's first DSLR camera to enter the highly competitive 'pro-sumer' market".

Really?

I totally agree with what your comment implies George, and it's one of the things that does irritate me. That is, when the headlines don't really reflect what the main text is saying. They are just there to grab attention and they aren't well thought out. I suspect it may be a sub-editor somewhere who does that and they just go for the catchy line.

....This is a typical example of what I meant by sloppy or non existant research. AP are guilty of this all the time.

eg: Pentax K20D... AP utterly ignore its spec and lump it in with the £500ish low to middle market cameras, when it should have been compared to the D300/40D. It never got it's justified plaudits as a bargain price D300. (BJP and Prof photographer magazines DID compare it very favourably to the D300 crowd)

Pentax now release an even better and more obvious D300/50D competitor and yet the numpties at most magazines still see even the K-7 as a lower/middle market camera...hence one mag bizzarely comparing it to the new Nikon D5000.

It does seem clear that most magazine writers have engraved in their mind PENTAX = AMATEUR (lower end cameras) and this belief is impossible to shake and AP are just as guilty of this as others.

cheers Steve.M.

"Anyone can be a "pro", just buy a camera"

...not so. A professional photographer is someone who earns 100% of his/her income from photography. By your definition we are all 'pro's', which is quite clearly nonsense.

One tip...do not take a dog. We got on a boat with our border collie, the boat owner said nothing, then when we landed we only then found out that dogs can go no further than the jetty, so we had to take turns holding the dog on a lead on this sloping 20ft jetty whilst the other went off around the Isle...the tiny church was lovely though.

I would suggest the two UK mags that do seem to still have good objective looks at gear are: British Journal Of Photography (BJP) and 'Professional Photography' magazine..