If that's a serious question, either by stopping reading the posts or by unticking the box just below the message pane that says "Receive Notifications".

That would have been irresistable but now it's marked as out of stock. I wish I'd stumbled over that one in time.

You must have the camera set to record images as RAW + JPEG. If it only happens sometimes, then perhaps you are nudging the button that does a one-odd RAW capture. Your RAW setting must be DNG.

I know the feeling of having something glistening and new, but in the end there's no point buying something that we're afraid to use. So I would bite the bullet and take the camera out come what may. Don't forget insurance though!

I find it hard to imagine any commercial sense in an arrangement where a credit card company agrees to refund any price drop over 12 months. The price is nothing to do with the credit card, they deal in money. And they make profit on that, not huge losses.

As regards when to buy, items I can wait for but just want I wait for the first flurry of high prices to pass. Items I actually need are purchased right away, usually from SRS Microsystems. Items not fully needed yet but which appear as short term "offers I can't refuse" get snapped up immediately. He who hesitates loses the bargain!

It's 01:19 hours at the moment Horst. I'm not usually quite this late, but had some work to finish and once I get absorbed in it.........

I think Kodachrome arrived in 1936. A reference colour print from the first film is kept in an archival store by Eastman Kodak, but what the demise of Kodak has meant for that I'm not sure.

Colour photography has actually been around a long time before 1938.

My favourite early colour process is Autochrome, which was flourishing very nicely in the early 1900s. Colour goes back a long way even before that.

I don't know about learn more Nigel, but I'd always encourage us all to look more. Waterstones is a good place to browse the latest photography books, and some of them are breathtaking, far beyond my sense of vision for sure.

Some are monochrome, some are colour, it doesn't matter. What does matter is that some stretch way beyond the photo norm for most of us. Cartier-Bresson doesn't excite my imagination, but there are plenty that do.

Where all this falls down is when we consider the number of pixels. Yes, a FF sensor will have more pixels when the camera position is the same and yes the image remains the same for all formats, but in real life the FF sensor does not have more pixels.

So taking the bike image, the bike fills the frame with the APS-C version. If both cameras, FF and crop sensor, had let's say 20 MP then clearly they both have the same pixel count and dimensions and produce the same size of print. The FF version has a wider view. Hence, for birding, a crop sensor gives more magnification. Hence there is an advantage for this type of photography.

It's very easy to over-think these things.