Another vote for the Lowepro Classified, I have a 200 AW & it travels well on the plane, I get all my gear in my sig & a laptop in it along with a few travel bit & pieces...
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Have shot at Sheffield City Hall a few times & it is always a difficult place to shoot. Because there is no pit & the stage is low you have to kneel on the floor tight up against the stage. Once the photographers have settled in there is very little scope to move. You also end up staring up the performers nose which is always difficult.

Anyhow lighting was superb so got to use ISO 640 an absolute luxury & an aperture of f/4, another luxury.

As always GX20 with Tamron 17-50mm & DA* 50-135mm guess you can tell which lens is which???










More on flickr here

Yes Mike you are correct, I don't ship to Italy as a rule so forget...

within eu airsure, fast & fully tracked service.

point to note about post office compensation. compensation has always been 100 x 1st class stamps. however if your item is worth more than this & you have not bought extra compensation then your item will have no cover for loss or damage.

also when you now file a claim you must provide a proof of purchase a paypal sellers invoice is no longer considered adequate.

the post office are also now actively asking the valur of your item being sent special delivery despite getting 500gbp cover...

its an associated press pic, the beeb have a subscription with them so they would have just searched their library for an image that will do. if they went to a stock library they would have to pay, which the beeb dont like doing....

did an a level in photography & pestered famous pgotographers for advice. the majority where very helpful.

as for joining a club, the few i have visited i found soul destroying. run by people with very antiquated & narrowminded artistic ideas...

i learnt more from studying art books rather than photography books.

tour photos on flickr are very good bu the way, stick at it your going the right way...

Is this a cut down Pentax grip or genuine Samsung grip??

Thanks guys, yes the drummer is great, I first saw them in 2008 supporting White Lies & wrote about them here

Waiting to hear back about a few gigs this week

Up & coming Indy band white Lies. On their second album & have toured relentlessly for the last two years.

As the light had been really bad for previous shows on this tour we where allowed to use flash. The lighting I thought was actually pretty good, there was however some shadows across the lead singers face, so Metz 48 flash set in manual mode 1/128

GX20 with tamron 17-50mm

ISO 800
Aperture f/4
Shutter 1/80

As always processing done in Lightroom 3.3

Sharpened
Noise reduction
Lens profile

but surely its also down to rarity & the exotic. there are a lot of people out there testing the water.