We did pay the bar a visit but had to restrain temptation and settle for a Coffee Nice place though, you could have a good night out in there

This weekend took myself and John941 across to Bury for the Winter steam Gala on the East Lancashire Railway, We had arranged to meet up with David for the day to do a spot of photography and some railway chat.

Anyway here are a few of my photos to start the thread, I know David and John had taken a few shots that they were particularly pleased with and I think I can remember which ones they are! so I`ve picked out some of mine that hopefully wont clash.

It was lovely to meet you yesterday David and hopefully we shall meet at future Gala`s.

#1 Tank engine 80080 and ex SR locomotive 850 Lord Nelson prepare to leave Bury Satation
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#2 Black Five
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#3 Photographer, John941 himself
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#4 Photographer #2 David eyeing up the shot
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#5 my favourite engine, The Duke of Glouster
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The problem is in my area there are no good photographic shops. We have Jessops in Warrington and L/pool, neither of the shops have them in stock to look at!.

Had a look at quite a few videos on YouTube and the Fastpack 200 looks ok size wise.

Thanks for the reply Bill.

I thinking of buying one of these backpacks link

They seem to get good reviews on Amazon and the price is about right, but before I hit the button I`m just wondering if any forum members has or has had one and what is your opinion of them?.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Cheers

To be honest Brian if I had the money at the time I would have gone for the Pentax if that helps!!

Had the Sigma 70-300 when I first got my GX10, the IQ was terrible and the Macro (close focus) setting was next to useless, build quality was about the same as the Tamron as was the auto focus, I might have just got a dodgy copy I suppose!.

Dont know about the newer OS version but it looks ok.

So does the Tammy! and knocks spots of the Sigma any day imo.

You do get out John........you just dont take the camera out of the bag

Try it here link its quite easy and the total shutter count is displayed at the top of the page.

Just one thing to remember! the file you upload must be straight of of the camera and not altered in any way, Raw and Jpeg are supported but a raw file will take a couple of minuets or so to upload!!.

Just found out my GX10 has 21,295 shutter counts well at least I`ve had my moneys worth out of it and its still going strong

I`ve bought one of these link reputable and a decent price.