Hi - and welcome

Yes John - I did indeed and believe you me the technoidiot failed at the task

Since I'm concentrating on catching up with these other Class attendees [ who are supposed to have covered this part of the course last term ] I'm letting putting pics [ or rather solving how to put on pics ] rest till I'm more confident in what I'm doing - I want to be understanding what I'm doing and using full manual control by the end of the 10 week course.

OK - just realised something - the technoidiot seems incapable of putting a pic on here so I've updated my website - and it's there on the page for my evening classes

That's a great offer from DAE0707 - perhaps it would be worth contacting other places too .

Devastating

I do hope you get some good news about your gear

My camera is marked with an iTrak chip/sticker as are most of my valuable gear [ laptops , iPodTouch , passport etc ] I'm optimistic that this would help get it back - but I'm not totally confident .

Please let us know any serial numbers that you can remember - perhaps for security they could be passed to the Mods , so they aren't on public display

Was there a good presence ?

OH - any problems with the errr law ?

Yes Bret , but these incidents are, I understand, still happening .

The information does seem to have filtered down to Police Officers , but it's the ones who are not Police who seem to be the ones causing the problems - security personnel etc .

And I have to say that if I were approached by a Police Community Support Officer , who was chewing all the while on his Chewing gum I would not be thrilled at his less than courteous attitude .

OK - I've not yet had my Pentax with me in London - BUT I've felt uncomfortable enough at times when on foot , pulling out the now defunct Kodak and finding people looking hard at me.

I can wander round Glasgow happily, complete with camera - and I see many tourists doing the same , and in Edinburgh too .

OK there are 'sensitive' sites in London - but they have got to allow tourists , and other people, a chance to get pictures too . It's part of the fun / attraction of being away from your normal habitat.

I've a lovely pic of the Police HQ in a town in Luxembourg - try that in London ?? - betcha the inhabitants would be out in seconds flat .

OK I'll chip in

The first ad - I ~think~ I can make out on the 'cops' right side of their chest a series of letters that look like white lines .

To me the first 'letter' looks as if it could be an S

or of course being the technoidiot I could be wrong

would you prefer something along the lines of the Video that Stefan linked to earlier ?

link

That had slightly more obvious humour in it - more to my taste