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Nice one... I'll check the home insurance tomorrow.

Can anyone offer any advise? Am just getting travel insurance quotes for a trip to USA, but struggling to find anything that will cover my camera (£1k) as most seem to have a single item limit around the £200 mark. Thanks.

Your thoughts on a quick question... In real world terms, does it matter much, buying a grey import. I know about the usual warranty difference between lenses and cameras, but I am looking at a compact (Panasonic LX5). I can save about 12% on Kerso's price - and I've always brought from...

Nice location!

Well, after reading this as I was going to bed last night, and a brief moment of panic, I copied the files again... And all was well. Not sure what happened, but looks like it wasn't the camera at fault... phew!

Sandisk Extreme III 4Gb

Just opened some holiday snaps and found two images were buggered! See... Anyone seen this before? Do you think I should dump the memory card, or is it more likely to have occurred during transfer to the Mac?

Cheers for the comments guys. Looks like it is ASA 50 then! I think I'll just pop it in and give it a bash... i'll try some normal and some double/triple exposures. The film is dated 2005. Might be tempted to get the clip test done... I use Peak too. :)

I've only ever put Neopan 400 thru the Holga and the results have always been pretty cool. I have a roll of Velvia that is so old it could be described as vintage, and can't see any ISO/ASA speed so am assuming it's 100? Do I need to do anything different with the Holga when shooting as...

Wow, how 'spoilt' are we with digital! I'd never considered having both AV and TV was a 'modern' feature. :)

Hmm, tbh i was looking sub-£50 for what is a toy that might get little use. I know it goes against my original question... but what is a Canon AE-1 like? There seem to be shed loads about. I know they use different lenses and are MF, but for a toy it looks quite appealing (and very cheap!)...

Thanks for all the replies and advice guys. Not sure I want to stretch 1V as this is really just going to be a 'toy' and might end up getting very little use. I just like the 'feel' of a bit of film in my hand that I get from the Holga, and fancy moving the quality up a notch to try and produce...

Looking on eBay, it seems there are loads of 35mm Canon bodies dead cheap. If I wanted one to use with my existing lenses (70-200 f/2.8 and 50 f/1.4 primarily) shooting purely B&W for fun, and beautiful mono-tones, what body should I be looking for please? And can you change lenses with...

That's the sucker! Cheers Dave :)

Just wanting to pick people's brains... You know how a lot of sites have a fairly standard image zoom thing where you click on the thumbnail and get a popup of the larger image (but without opening a new window). It just adds an opaque layer over the page, with a box showing the image. You...