Love number three

That was disapointing for someone of Steve McCurrys reputation, the shots of robert de niro could have been so much better....

I dont understand this thread at all. Any lens will work fine at f/8 its the middle of the aperture Range which is unchallenging fir most glass. If youare going to take images at f/8 what's the point of getting a DSLR? Usng f/8 might as well do away with auto focus and use zonal methods too you might as well just use a bridge or p & s. primes offer a wider apertures for better creativity and better bokeh than basic zooms. Basic zooms are limited in speed and thin depth of field.

Cable received today, well oackaged and all working correctly.

Thanks for the deal.

Gary

He had just been sleeping and woke up when i went into the kitchen, hence the sleepy eyes.

How you finding the mkii Mike?

Yes its my black labbie Kai, he seems to be my current test model lol...

In my experience most components faults are at delivery causing unnecasary time and effort in diagnosing the fault and then waiting for an RMA from component stores like ebuyer or Aria etc which can take a long period of time to rectify as they test the faulty parts. There is also the time waiting in for couriers to collect and deliver your faulty parts and replacement which all add to the down time. I have been building PC's since 1993 so do have some experience in this area.

When building a system the cost does not just include the initial purchase but also the cost of support and also cost of getting a copy of windows and the cost of down time. I used to regularly build my own systems and found it was a false economy when things do go wrong, which they most likely do. Most computers do last a long time but do become obsolete due to software advancements. I change my laptop every two years now, not to keep up with technology but to keep a good support back up, which is more important to me than saving what will most likely be a couple of hundred pounds tops and the effort involved of building my own system. A laptop also has a better resale value than a desktop, reducing the computer costs further.

I will take the nissin cable, please pm me payment details

Thanks

Gary

In my laptop i have an ssd as the boot drive and a second internal hdd which i use for photoshop and lightroom scratch disks etc.

I dont think its too much of a struggle to put both in a desktop, i think its generally recommended to use a secondary drive formfile storage.