Recent content by Big Rob

I was there for the recent BSB meeting and had mixed feelings about the new "catch fencing". 1st of all I couldn't see the point of the access panels at Pilgrims Drop, unless the cars bottom out and produce sparks or something? I was pleasantly surprised that there is still a large area at the...

Did you go Chris, cos I woke up at 6am,saw the forecast had got even worse than it was on Tuesday,and went back to sleep. :( Typical that the day each side of event was lovely.

I'm thinking of going to the BSB test day at Donington Park tomorrow but weather forecast looks atrocious. Any one else from here attending? Does it usually get very busy on the inside of Redgate with lots of the privileged few (press pass guys) getting in the way of us poor minions? Is it...

My mistake, they are running number 78 if anyone is attending. Just finished 22nd out of 32 in practice,but he says they don't try in practice....it just wastes tyre life!!

Thanks for the replies Chris and John,and thanks for the hi-jacking Gordon ;o). I am 6'5" chris954 so should see ok where you described. Pity sidecars look rubbish head on cos his passenger will be tucked under the fairing out of sight I hope.And the driver isn't very photogenic,unlike his much...

I think that's just a photo of some TV coverage to highlight what they were after Gary.

My brother is racing his sidecar outfit at the BSB season finale' at Brands Hatch on Oct 15th & 16th. Has anyone got any advice on best places to take photos around the circuit. I've never been to Brands before,as its over 3 hours to get there,but have seen lots of coverage on TV over the years...

Short update...... he has managed to recover and "un-encrypt" 360 GB out of the 450GB so far. One 6 day run crashed near the end so he is running that again as we speak. It is all stored on an external hard drive at the moment,then once everything that can be saved is saved he is going to wipe...

Thanks for all the comments. Sorry its been a while since last update,but I have had a few days away and no laptop!:naughty: It turns out my laptop was infected with a "Ransom virus",which I had never even heard of before. But whoever sent it made a hash of it and it killed my laptop before the...

Thanks for the quick and helpful responses everyone. My friend is a professional computer expert,not just a mate from down the pub and he says its a hard drive failure but it powers up but can get no response and cant get any info from it. I am calling to see him tonight to see next stage etc...

As title suggests my 3-4 year old Acer laptop packed up last week so took it to a mate who works in IT installing computers/cables etc. He has informed that it looks like the hard drive has gone down and I will have lost all my contents i.e. thousands of photos. Yes I know I should have backed...

Its also about 4 months too late guys! :naughty:

I don't plan on photographing tiny beetles and flies. Just something to get good detail of my snake, Crested geckos and my Chameleon when I get one. I think 100-105 would probably the size I would go for,or maybe 90mm at a push.:)

Thanks for all the advice and comments,even though Joel seams to have gone off on a bit of a Christmas journey ;),I have decided not to rush into anything til after Xmas and see if I get any cash that I can put towards a dedicated macro lens.There might be 1 or 2 pop up for sale when people get...

Ooops,Sorry. :(