... but you'll still need to pay VAT, so it's no different unless you're there.

Bret

Wasn't there a red dwarf episode based on that?

Back to topic: 300 over 200 is a *lot* of extra reach for £70.

Bret

Bosanko's work is stunning. I'd also head for flashes used at 1/64 or so and long-ish exposures. Or HDR it.

Bret

the mäc has 24GB of memory and 8 cores. It should be enough for most things. It is, but it also means I have to learn FCP whereas Vegas is available for PC...

We were looking into the grid rendering thing before we bought the bigmac (we would have preferred a stack of minis and an iMac) but hey - that's the way the cookie crumbled. I couldn't find the information when I was looking for it, so it went that way. Still, a single copy of FCPro is approaching €1000.....

Bret

FCPro and Premiere are both available to me at work and TBH, I haven't got into either of them.
Will have to soon, though, for various reasons - but I think for my own use it's going to be Vegas, also because there's a network farm rendering capability availble whereas with FC and Premiere it's "this machine only".

Bret

Some of us have to run two systems for work - I have a 7D behind my desk and run Pentax at home.
At work we run crop because of the ease of focus and additional DoF available, not because the crop makes "better pictures". I'm surprised at the noise on the 7D for certain things and I'm looking forward to seeing how a K5 pans out against this. I can and will compare the two for video purposes. Money was not an object when it came to the body and I am happy with the way the videos have come out. Not happy with the focus on some of them, but hey...

FF would give me better quality at high ISO, true - but the trend is away from big fat ugly dSLRs and towards the NEXs of this world.

Bret

Serial number doesn't mean anything.

Silly question: where do you get the shutter counts from? from teh camera itself or from PhotoMe or so? Even places like SRS make mistakes some time, so it's possible there was a return and someone tested it like it was new stock because it was placed on the wrong pile in the stockroom.

Bret

the average dropped by around €200 on that score over a complete year, so 20%. That's also clean of exchange rate issues.

Drop? It went back up after the end of cashback and didn't reach the same levels as cashback for another three months, dipping below only six months later. Prepared to wait?

Bret

But how fast? The price is only lower in teh UK than everywhere else due to the cashback - other than that it's consistent pretty much across the planet....

Bret

we saw it on the way to lunch, cloudy but definitely visible.

Bret