Boris for President! I love our Royal Family but if we had to have a republic there is only one person who'd get my vote.

Great shots - I will be in Eton Dorney on Monday 6th.....anyone else going then?

Such a chore owning the FA*85 isn't it?

Must use mine

Nice to see no-one couldn't care less about Velvia 100F - probably one of the worst films since the original Sensia 200.....

I still have some EliteChrome 100 in the fridge and astonished to see that films are now £8 a roll and developing again £7-8.....maybe I should have retired the Z-1/Z-1p last year instead of getting them serviced.

Shoddy article though

it's not the FA*200 Macro is it Ryan?

I guess you've seen the scratch for yourself - I guess the most important thing is where in the field of view it is, off-centre I hope, then it should be ok, but if it was central I'd be a little bit wary. Until we can see we can't really judge.

I see you're from Herning - was there for an NSU-Treffen (gathering) last June, went into town - very nice indeed and spent a day in Ribe too.

Errrr no... I would rather mine sat on a shelf gathering dust.

At least it will keep my 45 CL-4, AF540FGZ and SB-900 company

You've just reminded me of an event which made the news in Leiden - 30 miles south of A'dam. Workers of a local pancake house turn up and find two corpses on the track leading to the restaurant....turns out it was a hit connected to the A'dam drug trials and one of them was the hitman...bullets, guns, everywhere... as it was close to the main road between The Hague and A'dam (A4) the police were very vigilant to install screens to protect the view from the road......yet next door was a McDonalds and no screens would have put a few kids off their burgers and strawberry milkshakes I'm sure.


Returning the original point of the topic...the photographers are 'driven' to capture images and most probably can detach themselves psychologically from the events unfolding. Without these people we would not see much of what goes on - this is why I enjoy the International Press Awards - sometimes these traumatic events catch up with the photographers in time but I am in no position to judge the photographer - in most cases they will not be equipped to deal with the unfolding events - only a camera, street sense and an escape route. How many photographers get drawn and sucked in, and die along with their stories?

Anyone here who spotted a tall pot bellied guy in Richmond Park with a black polo-neck with white stripes and a K-5 60-250 combo....

why did you not say hello

I haven't used mine for a while and much as I don't want to part with it I always have something else to turn to......

Hi AdaMarie,

Is that you in the avatar?

If so Well Hello...(in Sir Leslie Philips mode)

The 300 is less than 30 cm

Are the security going to measure everything??? After all it's like Ryanair charging a fat person extra because their case weighs 11kg rather than 10kg.

I'm taking my 60-260 to the Canoe Time Trial in Eton Dorney....