Recent content by Al de Man

Thanks. I've got quite a few more albums on my Flickr from all the gigs we've been to.

I'd been taking gig pictures on a compact camera with flash and really thought they were good (They weren't). Then I bought a Canon 350D but only had a 50mm prime for low light work, so it wasn't until I was front row at an intimate gig that I was able to capture this. The performer was my...

Hi and welcome. Another from Southampton here.

If you go to the Lexar and Sandisk websites and look at "Where to buy", both list MyMemory. That's not the sort of association you'd jeopardise by selling counterfeit cards.

My company sold and installed a Bang & Olufsen TV and speaker package which cost about £18000 to someone moving in to an apartment overlooking Hyde Park. Nothing too unusual about that, only whilst we were there, we heard they went shopping to Harrods and spent a grand on a toilet roll holder...

I'm a frequent flyer, currently travelling to Scandinavia and back every week and carry an external battery for my iPhone in my rucksack which gets scanned at security, and have never been questioned about it. If I ever have to take extra batteries for anything else, I tend to stick a bit of...

I've just received an email from Groupon with a bundle of lenses available from Photodirect. The offer that caught my eye was the 24-105 available at £550. Camera price buster have the best as £650 from Wilkinson...

I don't know if their stance has changed, (although it doesn't sound as though it has) but eBay will only take action if they receive a complaint from the original manufacturer. I bought fake Sandisk CF cards and whilst Sandisk confirmed they weren't genuine, they also weren't interested in...

That particular lens is a notorious dust-magnet as it draws in a large volume of air every time you zoom in and out, and Canon haven't installed effective filters to prevent particles from getting inside. Knowing this, you have a choice of either buying a second-hand lens at a discounted...

Definitely, definitely and thrice definitely. I found the indoor focusing speed of the 70-200 is far too slow and adding the additional complication of zoom meant I was at least a second or two behind the action all the time.

Thanks. I noticed that too. Without the net, the composition which made the shot has gone out the window anyway.

Well, I've been chomping at the bit having been given the verbal go ahead and although I've not received written confirmation yet, it had been promised and if the subject does have a problem with being identified, being published on a photography forum is the least of his worries. ;)...

How does that work? Have you sent Tesco £250 of Clubcard vouchers for £500 Jessops vouchers? Edit: Ok, found it. http://www.tesco.com/clubcard/deals/product.aspx?R=1979

A lot of people's advice on here would be fine if you were shooting for a couple paying over a grand for photos of the most important day of their lives to date, but the fact of the matter is you're not. I don't see a problem with this other than perhaps the fact that you should be relaxing and...

Joking aside, prevention is far better than removal. Especially when it doesn't matter if you remove the malware because they're holding your data to ransom by encrypting it. http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/new-gpcode-ransomware-raises-encryption-bar-and-price-key-032811 Where it...