Excellent effort Rob.

She has a furrow in her brow from looking at her bank balance, but on the brighter side she excelled herself this year and made a lot of friends. Good luck with your endeavour.

Given the lack of a definition within the act, it is impossible no mater how emphatic people get, to to say whether this could be uesd against a photographer.

Fact - your digital camera contains an application specific processor (probably a complex programmable logic device) with peripherals and embedded firmware. Does that constitute a computer? I would have said yes, but I cannot speak with authority on the legal definition. Having read the act, it does not strike me as being aimed at photographers.

One thought - I suspect American tax law was not put in place with the primary intent of bringing gangsters down.

Worked on Al Capone though.

Surely the issue here is not what constitutes a computer, rather is it going to be possible to use this legislation against us. With it's vagueries, I suspect it could.

Lens ordered, but their website is painfully bad. Had to log on at least fifteen times, got so fed up with the customer survey pop-up that I agreed to do it. Question 1 was "you are currently shopping - do you intend to continue?", and when I answered yes, it said I didn't need to take the survey. Back to the original site and you guessed it - would I like to take the survey. I tried to enter a delivery address at work, but it is utterly incapable of handling any other form of address than number/postcode. Nearly needed a new monitor. There is no excuse for a website to be this bad. Still even more to look forward to on Friday.

Sorry for the rant.

You should meet some of the people I work with John

I would beg to differ John.

From the OED -

I have worked on many computers which definitely do not have internet access or emailing facility. I have also worked with computers which take pictures, or generate pictures from data.

TBH, I am surprised OED specify electronic, as I would have included mechanical calculators.

As for your Elephants, you'll be needing a Venn diagram.

Folks - you need to tell us what you are using to read the exif data - it can make a difference.

Hi again.

The latest version of Photome is 0.79R17 Build 856. You can either update or download it here.

This recognises the 150-500.

I would guess that the 70-210 is the default if it does not see a recognised lens id string.

Hi ForthJohn - welcome to the forum.

What are you using to read the exif data? if it is an older version of Photome, it will not have the 150-500 in it's library. I used to get this problem, but after an update to Photome (sorry - I am at work so cannot give you the current version number) the lens was reported correctly even on old photos.

The fault therefore was not with the lens.

Twitch! that is the next lens on my list and that price is blistering - thanks for the "heads up" GTIS

Only thing is that I have this thing that "if it looks too good to be true, it probably is".

I wonder if it's another Jessops type stunt.