Recent content by CatB

Thanks again folks - switching to a Bridge camera does feel a lot like 'giving up' and I do enjoy playing around with the DSLR, I took some beautiful photos in the Orchid Garden at KK on the way to the wildlife lodge with it but literally everything on the wildlife side is dreadful and I don't...

Thanks everyone, lots of very useful information there! The calculations from rob-nikon are exactly what I needed to understand my options and what I needed to do with the camera on the trip to have got some halfway decent photos. To be honest having trawled through all the photos last...

Thanks folks - I wouldn't say I'm reluctant to raise the ISO above 400 but I guess I think of anything above 800 as poorer quality - this may be because I'm out if date with camera technology and still think of film in shops coming as 100, 200 or 400! While I was away I literally had a complete...

Ah, gotcha! :thumbs: Thanks - that will help with the choice around new bodies - unfortunately the 400D appears to be so old that it's not on there! So I will have to take my own pics to compare newer bodies with what I currently have.

Robin - thanks for your input. I already have a DSLR (EOS 400D) and am looking to take wildlife photos, quite possibly from a boat and in fairly low light conditions - shooting into shade of trees. My issue is really whether to upgrade the body, the lens, both or replace it all with one of...

Hi Folks, Thanks very much for suggestions so far (keep them coming :-) ) - the comparison site is handy, I haven't seen that before. I've had a look at the Sigma 15-500mm lens and it does indeed look like a nice option, Sigma seem harder to find in Asia than Tameron lenses but I'm sure I...

Hi Folks, I currently own a Canon 400D with very basic lenses - canon EF USM (non-IS) lengths 28-55, 55-90 and 90-300mm. I recently went on a rainforest river cruise and was very frustrated and frankly a bit gutted with the photos I could get. In part this was entirely my own fault as I...

Hi Folks, I joined up here back in 2008ish when I bought myself a 2nd hand Canon 400D and got very excited about using it. Since then, work has got in the way of photography and I have lost touch both with the forum and more importantly the camera. However in March I moved to live and...

Rather than keep going through car insurance quote websites to look at what the insurance will cost you, you can look up the insurance group of a car directly here http://www.thatcham.org/abigrouprating/index.jsp?page=343 - that will give you an idea of how they will compare to insure. Fiat...

I'm sure you have already thought of this but just in case, have you checked that if you are working on a layer that has a mask on that you have selected the image and not the mask to heal (spent a while wondering why my heal didn't work when in fact I was working on the mask). Otherwise I think...

I agree, I flooded the Panda more times than I can remember (manual choke!) but I still loved it and was gutted when at the age of 20 it finally had to go to the great scrapyard in the sky. I've got a Toyota Starlet at the moment and although it's fine the next car will more than likely be a 2nd...

In the same vein, my first car was an old style Fiat Panda - group 1 insurance, lasted me 8 years, fantastically cheap to run and it didn't need much in the way of repairs but even they were cheap (£25 for a tyre!). Great budget motoring.

Crisp sandwiches made with ready salted crisps in that awful plasticy white bread. Peanut butter sandwiched between two rich tea biscuits.

I agree with the idea of secondhand - I went with the 400D rather than the 30D because I preferred a smaller lighter body and thought it would do all that I needed to do (which so far, it does) but I saved a decent amount on the new price by buying secondhand which can go towards better glass a...

Laser surgery can't but they corrected mine with conventional surgery - 2 ops a few years apart when I was a child. Mind you, that might be a bit drastic if you can buy an adaptor for the viewfinder instead! :)