SRS is local for me and they regularly get my custom, for all the positive reasons given by others here - always exemplary service, and also including fair prices, special offers, and good part-ex deals.

However, Chris and his team live in the real world, where both service and prices are considerations. They will realise that many of their customers are likely to shop around at the time they want an item, and that they might buy a bargain from a different source, even though it might be taking a risk regarding service.

E.g. My 10-17 was from SRS and my 55-300 was not, because at the different times I wanted to purchase them, they were each cheaper (by a big margin) from their different sources, i.e. prices it would have been silly to reject.

I presume that SRS would see this as part of the swings and roundabouts of the business.

Cheers.
Philip

Good shots of the horrific results of the power of nature. Number 5 looks particularly terrifying.

Philip

It looks to me as though noise progresses steadily through the ISO settings...



(100% crops)

...but the difference between one and the next would probably not be noticeable in images seen at at typical viewing sizes and distances.

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Philip

I really like the last two.

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Philip

Apologies if the following is common knowledge. After taking two or more shots of the same scene (perhaps with slightly different parameters), and then using the rear control wheel and four-way control pad to view a magnified part of the image, turning the front control wheel goes to exactly the same magnified view of the next (or previous) image.

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Philip

When I started photography as my retirement pastime four years ago, I bought a £100 HP A3 Officejet printer and it has performed faultlessly. Out of curiosity, I have just printed the status report, which shows it has done 1900 pages, most of those being A4 photo prints and a few on A3. (I have another cheap HP duplex A4 inkjet printer that I use for documents.)

The A3 model uses only four cartridges (CMYK), yet the range of colours and the details on photo paper usually impress viewers and sometimes even independent judges - several prints have gained top places in club competitions, so they stand up well against those made by other printers.

It takes high capacity cartridges, each colour about £8 from the Web, and it usually does about 70 A4 photos from each cartridge set. For mono prints without tone or colour pop, it can be set to use the black cartridge only, and again the detail and range of tones from black to white is impressive.

This current model is probably similar: HP Officejet.

If I needed another printer, I wouldn't hesitate to buy another HP, but it probably won't be necessary (at least for as long as the Windows driver software works) - my other HP printer has been used to print documents (often double-sided pages) faultlessly for over 10 years.

Cheers.
Philip

I like these, Nigel. Thank you for the shot of the chain ferry, as It is interesting to see what it actually looks like - previously I have only seen the end view, waiting for it to arrive!

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Philip

Ordered one - good bargain.
Thank you Mac.

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Philip

Interesting images. From the *istD my choice is the 2nd image, and from the K10D the 3rd, although I would level the horizon (not the water).

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Philip

My choice would be number 2 - the Invisible Man sunbathing.

(For extra simplicity, I wonder about rotating it just enough to remove that detailed dark area along the top?)

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Philip