certainly if you look at Cambridge you will notice that it is nearly impossible to park the cursed things.

I have actually taken my car on more than one occasion because it's easier to park a car in this town than a bike, and thats saying a lot because car parking here is hell.

It's the only place I have ever seen a traffic jam composed entirely of push bikes.

I agree here, I hate websites which play sound without my permission and will usually leave as soon as it starts playing.

Hi Pete,

I REALLY like this latest version, no nasty blown out bits on the falls, and some nice foreground interest with good colours. Lovely.

let's put it this way,

I've just sold a Z-50P on ebay for £23 and was happy to get that much for it.

IMO a Z70 is not worth a £60 repair

it should be pointed out that unless they have updated the repositories in the last few weeks the nice easy to install version of UFRAW is too old to read K10D files. You have to install it manually, which is somewhat more complicated. Not difficult at all, as I recall the instructions are pretty "now type this" but does involve that wonderful item which seems to be a subject of irrational fear in all windows users, the Command Line.

ok I think there has been some bid cancelation going on, that KA mount was at £64 before I went out this evening I'm sure it was! now it's back to a much more sensible £16.

it went for over £40, so I left it.

I'm starting to think it might have been a bargain after all however, considering this one still has 3 days to run!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=230125270550&a...

I don't know if it's the same seller, but I saw another one of these for a similar price "buy it now" a few weeks ago.

Suspect it didn't sell and has been relisted. Great lens yes, worth £500, I'd say no.

the prefix "just a" has definite negative connotations, implying that the camera isn't really any good because it's "just a loss leader".

This coupled with the OP's general attitude succeeded in getting peoples backs up. I was sorry to hear that he was suffering from depression and I wish him all the best wherever he has gone, but he did get on my nerves and my nerves are not usually easy to get on.

I agree with this 100%.

As for freebe image processing, I use GIMP 2.2 and UFRAW. UFRAW is a free raw processor which comes as both a plugin to GIMP and a standalone app. I like the standalone version since like George I rarely do much to my images after the RAW-JPEG step, and this way I can set up a huge batch of images and then go have lunch while it processes (also possible with Silkypix).

UFRAW contains no noise reduction at all, so images from it are slightly noisier than the likes of silkypix. For this reason I have also purchased NoiseNinja which handles the noise wonderfully even on full auto mode.


Another option is CaptureOne LE, which can be had for the price of a Sandisk Extreme III memory card since it comes bundled with all such cards. I have never used it, but it is supposed to be very good and Picstop have the cards in question for less than £20.