Clicky.

I think the chap in the black shirt a little way down on the right is asking "what is this thing you have tied around your neck?".

My 16-50 is behaving in a similar manner. I suspect it is the early stage of a autofocus failure. If I turn the focus ring from one end to the other gently, it feels gritty. If I exercise it from one end to the other a few times it will work properly for a while.

I would guess that there is some debris stopping it turning one way and by turning around ant trying to focus you are driving the motor in the other direction, releasing the debris.

I missed this and I don't like colour of the K7.

The Gopherment are going to make it too expensive.

An appeal to wine drinkers - please try to stick to bottles with cork stoppers.

To make these, they have to grow trees which gives birds homes.

Thankyou.

D'Oh - don't you hate when that happens?

I bet you triple checked your post.

Barrie - I did use a slide rule but only at school.

Here's a paradox - if you were taught on a blackboard, you get lots less A levels but you can do harder sums and use the your own language properly.

Thanks for the thoughts. I appreciate I am going to be very lucky to get anything worthwhile at all.

As to the mythbusters thing, they are to rigorous science what Florence Nightingale was to infections. There shows may be spectacular, but are mostly nonsense - a bit like Brainiac expecting to be taken seriously.

I have a Lowepro Flipside 400 AW. Enough room for all your gear, your dog, and a small tribe of Pygmies. Waterproof cover, comfortable and loads of useful pockets. Can be had for seventy odd greenbacks.

Don't mention bins. Arun district council told their contractors one thing and their customers another. I could show their staff that the bin was exactly where they told me to put it, quoting the relevant paragraph in their letter. 50 phonecalls to them and two judgements against them by the Local Government Ombudsman and I still have to compromise to get my rubbish collected and they point blank refused to discuss why, contrary to their "Reduce, re-use recycle" ethos, their policies generated extra rubbish.

Mythbusters?

No sorry, none of them around.

Instead we will have to settle for our Doctors and one Professor.

Poor substitute.

Anyone done any serious engineering photography?