I think you're probably right. I'll give it a bit longer.

£48 for a Takumar-A teleconverter - worth waiting a little longer for I reckon. I was expecting it to go for only about half that.

Cheers Kim. Yes, I sent an invoice as soon as the auction closed. I'll drop him a line. I was looking at the 'second chance offer' details too, since the next bidder down was only £1 less IIRC.

Hopefully it won't come to all that though.

Thanks.

He's got a feedback of 4 since June last year, all positive, all buying.

Three days ago tonight, an auction of mine closed.

The high bidder either bid at the last moment, or had set up some sniping software ahead of time, since he bid just once. Since then, not a peep.

I was wondering, how long is it reasonable to wait for payment before getting in touch?

What an extraordinary thread.

Normally when people post photos, they're posted for the purpose of critiquing the photos themselves.

This one is sharp, colourful, yet composed poorly since, even in terms of depicting the subject, it doesn't show the whole thing.

But I realise this isn't the point of the shot - obviously it's a "hey take a look at this" kind of photo, not the "please comment on the technique" type.

There's no doubting the artwork took some effort. But if you say "hey, take a look at this", don't be surprised if people's opinions of the subject matter are different from your own.

And if a sailor referred to 'chart data' it would be ambiguous, even though 'chart datum' is not.

'Datum' is a perfectly good word in English now, referring to a zero point, in relation to which, measurements have important meanings. Light aircraft (and FAIK, heavy ones as well) also have a datum, the distance from which the centre of gravity is defined.

Given the way languages evolve over time, 'datums' is probably the most useful form of the plural to avoid ambiguity today, even though 'data' is the Latin plural of 'datum'.

None of this changes the fact that whereas 'data' is the plural of 'datum', 'virii' is not a correct plural of 'virus', even in Latin.

I think the fact that some people say things like 'virii' rather than 'viruses' is based on the same sort of misconception that leads people to say, very commonly, "between you and I'. They've heard somewhere that "me and him went down the pub" is wrong, so they extrapolate, wrongly, and imagine that any use of the word 'me' is wrong in that sort of context.

Whereas, 'between you and me' is perfectly correct.

It probably won't be in twenty years time.

But that's probably not new's (sic) to anyone...

While we're on the subject...

Indeed, sadly too few.

Do you have a manual for your camera?

If not, you can download it here.

See page 191.

Which one to get depends on whether you want a wire or not, and how far away you need to be.

Are CCDs actually charged other than just after the image capture?