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biggs682 said:
Bright and frosty outside so no early morning ride :sad:
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Sounds ideal conditions for a bike ride, I've got to wait till tomorrow and I'm looking forward to it.
 
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biggs682 said:
Don't like riding on ice
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Just ride round it.
 
fossyant

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Well, that's the cat's happy. Black Friday on Amazon 120 Felix "As good as it looks" for £22 (bought 2 boxes - that's like getting 80 free), Amazon pantry offers added and got another £26 off (dry cat food, box of 40 Whiskas).

Only other deal was £20 for £50 voucher for a restaurant in Northern Quarter (Quarter House - BBQ) that we are going to later for lunch/tea, and £5 for a £25 bar tab for a pub round the corner from that. :rolleyes:
 
raleighnut

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Reynard said:
That too, but it wasn't the main consideration when doing photography on a student budget... :laugh:

When I had the chance at a used Canon D60, I jumped at it. It lasted me a year before the shutter called it quits, but it paid itself back in the mean time. I still have it - and the EOS 5 it replaced - stashed in a cupboard somewhere... :blush:
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I started when Mum gave me Dad's oldish Praktika 3 lens 'Kit' (50mm 135mm and a Zoom) then I bought a Tamron SP 90 f 2.5 (Adaptall mount) then when the Praktika went dodgy took the advice of my local camera shop and bought 2nd hand Pentax bodies and a couple of lenses plus an 'Adaptall' Pentax mount then got a chance of a Tamron SP 300 f 4.Then when that was nicked in a 'burglary' replaced those with new Pentax *Ist and a brand new 'NOS' SP 90 that I knew Young's Cameras had kept back for 10yrs or so (it was superseded by an f 2.8 AF version) The reason for choosing and sticking with Pentax is they're all 'backwards compatible' even the digital bodies, good job really cos I chanced upon an old Program 'A' with a Pentax 50mm f 1.2 in good nick (perfect for 'available light' shots at 'gigs', stick a 1600 ASA film in it and you could photograph a proverbial black cat in a coal-hole.

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I'm quite older. There were no point and shoot cameras, just very basic cameras, and a few folks, mainly skilled amateurs, and professionals, and those between, who had good cameras. They were the ones who got called when someone was having a family reunion, or some other occasion when people didn't see the need for a professional, but wanted something better than their cameras could do. It was still like that well into the 80's-90's, when point and shoots became the rage. By that time, I was working in camera stores, as journalism had given up on me, and many others, and the point and shoot cameras were selling so well I had to sometimes make bank runs in the middle of the day and at the end of the day around Christmas. But that's also when the smaller, narrower group of those photographers who were enthusiasts began to die out, and digital destroyed the remnants of the photographic culture as it were. Now pictures are a dime a dozen, something no farther than your phone, and of no greater rarity than a sneeze or a cough.
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That's what I really miss, the advice of a good shop, I was lucky in that Young's Cameras was staffed by enthusiasts who were prepared to take as much time with customers who were spending a little as those who were spending thousands.
 
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