Hm, this tells me that you are well aware that someone has been fiddling the colour in Photoshop....

We had our tripods set up and we were photographing flowers when along came an interested peacock. I obviously said hello to it, as you do, and it responded by parading up and down and around in front of our cameras. Very civil indeed.
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I use about 12 cards, maybe more, because I like to use smaller cards (2GB max now) and so that cards don't get formatted before backups have been made from the computer copy.

Card Safe holders are marked "Empty" and "Full" to ensure no nasty mistakes...

In terms of additional function for those who want it maybe, but in terms of extra cost for those who don't maybe not.

Is it a popular idea that would sell cameras, or extra cost that would make them less competitive? I guess we'll find out over the next few months and years.

Actually, it is.....we were in both National Trust and EH properties with tripods and nobody bothered at all.

Moseley Old Hall was great because a peacock came and posed in front of us and gave us a nice display from all sides, right in front of our tripods. Very considerate of it and I'll post that one later. All I did was "miaow" to it, goodness knows what I was saying....

Most things in life have pros and cons and one advantage in a designed product will usually have a downside, although sometimes only cost is the negative aspect.

When we have very fast cards, apart from cost is there any disadvantage? For example, is the service life shorter or is the error rate higher?

Matt has outlined a sensible and reasonable technique that will avoid the pitfalls mentioned.

Manufacturers can't be expected to make everything totally fooloproof as it's impossible to think of everything that someone somewhere might forget.

Before any trip with a camera checking that you have everything is pretty basic.

Canary Wharf seems to potentially be a problem, but I'm not familiar with the situation there.

As a general thought, being discrete and non-confrontational there would seem sensible. For example, don't erect a tripod just to make a statement if you don't need to.

I was also thinking about how we look and that could have an impact on how we are perceived. So smart casual may be better received than hoodie. People make assumptions and the security people are no exception to this.

They regularly appear on eBay.

They are superb lenses and any of the versions will give good service. The A version will be more useful with DSLRs.

5 different exposures using the exposure compensation on the camera, all 1 stop apart.

You need a sturdy tripod and there should be no problem.