Dangermouse

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I do find yoghurt is a good substitute for cream with most puddings.

Comment by Dangermouse posted on Another pointless thread at 24/11/2010 - 21:57

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In a similar vein, never mix Frosties with yoghurt even if you've just poured a bowl and then found you have no milk. The results are horrific!

Comment by Dangermouse posted on Another pointless thread at 24/11/2010 - 19:54

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Look for the K or M 135mm f3.5, both are decent lenses and the M is relatively plentiful.

There's also an M 100mm f2.8 which has great reviews and unfortunately prices to match - I'd love to get hold of one but £100+ for an old lens is silly money IMO.

Comment by Dangermouse posted on Manual Focus Lenses... at 24/11/2010 - 15:59

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I'm going to be the odd one out here, but I've never really seen the appeal of a 50mm lens on APS-C sensor digital. They do have uses for extremely low light levels, but I just find the field of view too narrow for my uses.

If you want what I consider the ultimate landscape lens then look for the SMC Pentax (or SMC Pentax-M) 28mm f3.5. These two are possibly the finest 28mm lenses Pentax made, very sharp all the way through the aperture range and with very little distortion, which means you can feed images to a photo stitching program and make panoramas with gigantic fields of view if the original images aren't wide enough. The SMC Pentax (sometimes called "K Series") is rarer as they were only made from 1975-77, the M series version is slightly more common. Both are much, much better than the M 28mm f2.8 which is a completely different lens.

Comment by Dangermouse posted on Time to start collecting... at 24/11/2010 - 15:53

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Hardgravity wrote:
let me see...

...dark room or beer..

.....you know where my heart is..

.........homebrew it is then.
No reason you can't do both - doesn't beer like dark conditions to mature?

Comment by Dangermouse posted on Another pointless thread at 24/11/2010 - 12:39

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The only way you'd do it is on a factory tour, and I suspect they frequently have restrictions on photography to avoid industrial espionage. You definitely won't find an active factory willing to allow you to wander around freely!

Comment by Dangermouse posted on possible to get inside factory of similar for photos? at 23/11/2010 - 22:00

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That would be why it also has a mechanical over-ride in the conventional adjustable spanner way...

Not leaving it in the car anyway, adjustable spanners just round nuts off when used on vehicles.

Comment by Dangermouse posted on Amazon at 23/11/2010 - 20:28

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As it's Black and Decker I don't think I can discuss it here!

Comment by Dangermouse posted on Amazon at 23/11/2010 - 14:56

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Here is someone playing with waffle boards. Not doing terribly well though - I can get the front wheel of my Disco higher off the ground than that without the back wheel spinning!

Comment by Dangermouse posted on Another pointless thread at 23/11/2010 - 13:05

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I did have a look, no Pentax gear but bought an electric adjustable spanner (press buttons to move the jaws) for £8 (down from £40 or so).

Comment by Dangermouse posted on Amazon at 23/11/2010 - 11:26

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