At least with apple you get to talk to someone if you have problems, tried dealing with problems with Samsung gear? A £329 iPad will outlive three Samsung tablets. Its when you take all that into account you realise the total cost of ownership of apple products is not as expensive as the initial purchase price suggests.

Ive recently backed up an archive of my images on a private Flickr account. I bought a Seagate backup plus hard drive which you can now buy ob amazon £67. The best thing about the Seagate is it has a very easy to use software that will backup all your images ti Flickr in the background.

ive used many tablets over the years and last year finally settled for the iPad. The main reason is in the two years since the iPad came out i have git through three android tablets, each one failed to get an android update from google leaving three devices totally useless. Two of them wouldn't update to the google store or the new google play store. Meaning the tablets would no longer download new app versions and if you do a hard reset wont be able to download older apps either.

i think i can safely say my iPad will be working with updates for at least another two years before becoming obsolete and tablets have a terrible short lifespan due to software and hardware upgrades.

oh and I still own a galaxy tab which hasn't seen any daylight for at least three months now the iPad is that good.

Above 135mm I only use the Tamron 400mm f/4



















Although the Tokina 100-300mm f/4 gets to play sometimes...

I cant take a review seriously from someone who hasn't even used any of the mkii k-5 bodies...

not how many oof but how many that don't work or don't convey anything that get dumped. I'm privvy to a lot of sports agency work and from a typical football match there will be around 50 to 100 shots that make the cut. Off these over half are of the managers gestures, players celebrating or complaining and a tually very little in the way of action buy key action shots, the foul the shoot, the save etc . Look in the sports pages and see how many action shots get used and you wont see many...

As an ex manufacturer dealership technician I can tell you that petrol in a diesel car will not harm it all that much as long as you don't travel many miles, which wouldn't be likely as the noise the engine made would make you stop any how and the car will most likely not run on a high percentage of petrol to diesel ratio. As David said above the fuel just needs removing from the tank, many garages will try and tell you the tank needs to be taken off, cleaned out and all the fuel lines lines blown out, don't believe them unless your car is a highly tuned ferrari or lambourghini this is bunkum.

Truck drivers regularly put a gallon of petrol in the tank to stop the diesel from freezing up on cold days.

There is actually very very little mark up in dslr cameras, the markup is in the accessories. As for selling your gear on eBay that's fine but when SRS sell used gear they have to also include 20% vat and they throw in a 12 month warranty all these make a difference to the final selling price and eventual profit. SRS also have to keep prices competitive against other online sellers which they consistently do despite their small size compared to amazon etc.

ah I always use view latest posts on the forum so when someone posted under Chris's comment I wouldnt have bothered looking...

Even though I changed it important updates still nag and updates, I dont see why MS set up windows like this, why a pop up cant just pop like it does in IOS and say hey there's an update how do you want to handle this. For MS to just let updates take control of your computer as a default setting is just so unnecessary.

I think the biggest problem with windows 8 is the way various manufacturers implement their own features over the top of it, for example on my last Toshiba a certain swipe would open the mail program, regardless of what program I was using and the mail program in win 8 does not allow pop mail boxes so I could no longer use my own mail box and had to go through googlemail to get mail through the mail program, which I have to admit is a truly dreadful piece of software. Samsungs own software update program is very buggy and very often fails to install the updates it suggests needs updating.

I still have my samsung machine and every time I go to use it it needs an update through the Samsung or Windows update, admittedly I only use it maybe once a fortnight but this is very annoying.

What amazes me with the whole microsoft thing is the windows phone is absolutely superb and if the desktop OS had been as good as windows phone 8 I would have stayed, however the learning curve required for windows 8 and the constant getting in the way of my computing experience just proved to much for me in the end.

Due to windows 8 obstacles I have now use the following gear,

Samsung windows 7 laptop
Macbook pro Retina
Nokia 820 winphone 8
Iphone 4S

A stupid way to go on I know but each has features or can only use apps the other cannot. My eyefi card and Sky Go for example has no app on the windows phone so got an iphone for that purpose and the iphone is no where near as good as the win phone....

One day everything will be perfect with IT and comms, I dont think that will happen in my lifetime though....