It's the graphics processor which determines the maximum resolution supported. The Geekom website says that the PC supports up to an 8K monitor, which is more than adequate for what geordiegraham is looking at. For gaming, things like latency (delay) are important, but for photo editing... nah!

Steve

Agreed. It's just the right size when sitting at normal desk distance. And it's also OK for sneakily watching catchup TV from a comfortable chair a yard or two from your desk, use headphones and the other occupant(s) of the house will think you're still working on your photographic masterpiece. Oops, the secret's out now... !!

Steve

Thanks folks, I'm glad you like my visitor. With a bit of luck the pond will attract other flying things that will subsequently appear on here.
Clicking on a photo should produce a larger image. ISO, f-stop, shutter speed etc. are below the large image. It's one of the things that have been added recently by Rick.

Steve

Then you'll be in the perfect spot to get an action shot of the rider and bike falling into the canal when they see you too late and have to take avoiding action!

Steve

This little beauty paid a visit to the pond this afternoon. It spent ages perching on a spike of purple loosestrife, flying around, perching on the same spike, flying around, perching on... You get the idea. And I got views from all directions of what I believe to be a male Common Darter. It's good to see wildlife finding the pond after its predecessor was drained and rebuilt (are ponds built??) last year.

K3iii + DA*300mm + 1.4TC. Taken from a couple of positions, hence the different background colour in the last one.

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Steve

+1. They make me want to walk through them.

The brickwork under Bridge 58 in the last photo looks interesting. Perhaps there's a good photo taken from under the bridge that's waiting to happen. When you're next walking down that way...?

Steve

Lovely, nostalgic set. The Chainbridge Hotel in the last one is a good place to stay and an excellent base for photography. Get a room with a balcony overlooking the river and you can see (and hear) the trains pootling along while you're sipping something refreshing on the balcony (Mrs L was impressed, so it must be good!).

Steve

Upgrading memory wasn't difficult for my machine. Just made sure to buy the right type of memory then followed instructions (both written and on YouTube). Turned the PC on and the extra memory was there and raring to go. If you're seriously thinking about adding more memory in the future, make sure you know the PC will be able to take it before pressing the 'buy' button. Every PC has a limit on how much memory it can take and whether it has one slot for memory or two. In my case, I knew there was a spare slot so just slotted in some more memory. If the PC has just one slot, or has two which are both in use, the only way to add more memory is to replace the existing memory with a bigger one and discard the old, which always seems to me to be just adding to the already huge mountain of e-waste.

Another thought: How big a hard drive? Presumably a solid state drive (SSD) like all the others. Will it be enough for your long term needs? Or do you keep photos on an external drive or (my preference) network storage (NAS)?

Steve

Well, I'm typing this on a 7 year old equivalent of what you are proposing to get. Yours seems to have everything that mine has but newer, better and therefore no doubt more capable. Mine does all the photo editing I throw at it without any problems so yours should be even better at it. The only thing that I can't see in the spec you posted is how much memory the PC has. More is better, of course, but I upgraded my PC's memory from 8GB to 16GB and it didn't make a noticeable difference. The main difference between your and mine is the price - the cost of the monitor was similar but for the PC I paid almost 4 times as much as you'll be paying!

Steve

Thanks folks. It's unusual for me to come across cooperative wildlife, but these were presumably well used to having humans around. And the swan was far more interested in another swan which was behind me on the other side of the footpath than it was in that strange human with a camera.

As far as I can find out, Radipole Lake became an RSPB reserve in 1976. Does that tie in with your memories?

Steve