Recent content by boliston

really looking forward to using the lumix ecosystem as it's so compact compared with my canon, although i was toying with a used r6ii at £1,299 from my local lce, but the deal on the s9 with lens was too good to pass over at £999

that looks pretty impressive with the lumix kit lens! i just got this lens bundled 'free' with the s9 so i'm hoping it will work well - some people are saying the 24-60/2.8 is worth getting as it would be nice to have constant f/2.8 so perhaps a future upgrade

I have a samsung hw-f450 soundbar https://www.samsung.com/uk/audio-devices/soundbar/2-1-ch-soundbar-black-hw-f450-xu/ which i got about 10 years ago (about £400 i think) and i think they sell for about £70 now - cannot fault the sound and runs off a bluetooth dongle on my pc - it has a large...

I find with craft beers most seem to be canned rather than bottled - have not noticed any degradation in taste

I notice they also do this one for a bit more punch

don't think i have ever actually used a hotel for food - half the fun of travelling is finding a nice local pavement cafe for food and usually far nicer and cheaper than the hotel

I think I have just found it! It's called Duration Snapshot at 4.5% ABV - picked it up at my local M&S

i have got outlook and thunderbird both configured to connect to the same exchange server and my main reason for connecting with thunderbird is that i can save all my emails to a 'local' file on my hard drive for backup purposes - i seem to remember i had to do a few tweaks to get thunderbird to...

i went through a phase a couple of years ago of using my pixel 6 as my main camera and the pictures looked superb on the phone screen, but not so good once downloaded and viewed on a monitor - also the ergonomics of composing at arms length without a viewfinder were less than ideal

the 20:20 line is the 4th from the bottom

presumably if you had laser surgery to set your focal distance to reading distance you would then need to wear glasses for distance vision? i'm short sighted (about -2.5d) which is great for reading but i need 2 sets of glasses, one for computer distance of about a metre and a further set for...

looks quite good - not used any nikon software for about a decade as mainly used rawtherapee on linux, but now also have w11 on virtualbox so I can use windows only packages such as this

recently started using an old lowepro micro trekker 200 bag i had stashed away but not used for years - nicely fits my 1ds & 24-70/2.8 with some spare room for some snacks, clothing etc

it's pretty much the industry standard lens for a lot of working pros so a pretty safe choice - i was actually originally planning on the 28-70 f/2.8 from 1993 and saw what I thought was a 28-70 on Park Cameras (MPB had a couple that looked in poor condition) but then noticed I had purchased the...