Photography Question - Digi Cam

[Barewolf]

Originally Posted by Uncle Peter

Hope you packed your butties and a few tins of Stella, not much in the way of in-flight catering service on those freighters

i wouldnt know. never been on a plane lol.

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by Delta Whiskey

Look forward to seeing your latest pictures.

The Fuji is my third digital camera and probably my twelfth camera altogether. I started with a Kodak Instamatic (127 film type) progressed through the Zenit E to an Olympus OM10 then onto the digital cameras.

It pays to carry your camera with you, I spotted this car this morning.

DW

Loved the OM10 and OM1 that I bought second hand, then those plus the lenses, flash everything stolen. Onto an EOS10 (not a digital one) and been a Canon convert ever since. Sad really Olympus didn't embrace the digital era quick enough.

[Delta Whiskey]

Originally Posted by SMHarman

Loved the OM10 and OM1 that I bought second hand, then those plus the lenses, flash everything stolen. Onto an EOS10 (not a digital one) and been a Canon convert ever since. Sad really Olympus didn't embrace the digital era quick enough.

Loved the OM10, lusted after the OM1 but couldn't afford it at the time. Now I have two OM10 bodies and three lenses (wide, standard and zoom) not to mention two flash units probably worth next to nothing.

DW

[Xaccers]

A few macro shots taken with my 75-300 lens at the weekend. Taken without a tripod.







Sorry for the dull subject matter, I was amazed at just how little wildlife there was there!

[altis]

Okay, I bite. What's the last one?

[andygrif]

My guess is a cigarette lighter

[Xaccers]

Airsoft M203 grenade.
Fires a cloud of bb's (not sure how many are in that one, but mine does 165 in one go).
Fits in those grenade launchers that go under the gun's forgrip.
Great for clearing rooms, not much use at a woodland site.
Powered by propane normally, hence the filling valve at the front.
There's a chamber inside which holds the gas, on the base is valve kept in place by steel ball bearings and a plunger.
When the plunger is pushed from behind, the steel ball bearings retract into it, which allows the valve to open and the propane escapes into the bottom of the bb channels, which then pushes the bb's out.
Makes a nice bang and gives a good cloud, but they're not very accurate due to the bb spread, and take ages to load.
If you don't reset the valve properly, when you go to fill them with gas, it leaks and ends up puffing the bb's out, wasting them and time it took to load.

Just filled with gas they make great fly swats.
Would make an interesting lighter...

[Delta Whiskey]

Originally Posted by Xaccers

Airsoft M203 grenade.
Just filled with gas they make great fly swats.
Would make an interesting lighter...

Tie that onto this thing and you could have some fun.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/23/u...home-security/


DW

[andygrif]

Another example of why Americans should lose the right to bear arms! Cool though!

[Jon T]

I've been to Jessops this morning and got a Fuji Finepix s6500fd.

Now, let the learning curve commence(hope it's not too steep!).

[Delta Whiskey]

Originally Posted by Jon T

I've been to Jessops this morning and got a Fuji Finepix s6500fd.

Now, let the learning curve commence(hope it's not too steep!).

You can leave it on auto until you get the hang of it, I do like the ability to switch between the LCD screen and the viewfinder. You'll have to tell us how good the face recognition is and is it useful.

Spill the beans, how much did you pay?

Good review here:
http://www.trustedreviews.com/digita...Pix-S6500fd/p1

I might have bought one myself if I hadn't gone for the S5700.


DW

[Jon T]

Originally Posted by Delta Whiskey

Spill the beans, how much did you pay?

£200

I liked the idea of manual zoom and a few other things that the s6500 can do.

It was a tough decision between the S6500 and the Panasonic DMC-FZ7.

[altis]

I hope you're not banking on that manual focus - IMHO it's a pile of poo.

At least it is on my S9500 and yours has the same lens (manufactured by Tamron BTW). It's fly-by-wire - nothing inherantly wrong with that but the implementation is simply atrocious. You have to turn the ring so slowly it's virtually unusable. IMO, this is by far the worst part of my camera. The rest is nice though

[Jon T]

I've tried the manual focus, and have to agree that it's rubbish.

[Uncle Peter]

Originally Posted by Jon T

I've been to Jessops this morning and got a Fuji Finepix s6500fd.

Now, let the learning curve commence(hope it's not too steep!).

Nice camera for the price and decent optics