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This - I found the 17-85 to be a worthwhile improvement over the kit lens that came with my 350D Dave

Science of Cambribge MK14 is one you may be thinking of. SoC was one of Sinclair's companies that evolved into Sinclair research - I think the MK14 was designed by Chris Curry (before he left to co-found Acorn) I managed to persuade my parents to buy me one for XMas - either '77 or '78...

I'd like to get hold of one but both of the distributor websites are overwhelmed with the web traffic :( Dave

Swype is downloadable from their website (www.swype.com) and should work on any fairly standard Android 2.x. Worked well on Honeycomb on my Xoom, but less so on ICS. Dave

I went to the velodrome this afternoon with my son. The lighting is pretty bright, and there was a fair number of people were using 70-200 F4 lenses (and plenty using slower than that). Unfortunately didn't take my gear so can't comment on the actual results. We were on row 8 just at the end...

Do you still have one of the old ntl:home 100 / 150 modems? When I upgraded from 10 to 20 Mb/s a few years ago I never saw more than 13-14 Mb/s until I had also swapped out the old modem - solid 20Mb/s since then. The older modems simply don't support the faster speeds Dave

Thanks - I'll head over there one weekend soon. Dave

Out of interest which shop was it in Wokingham (I'm a few miles away and looking to buy some new gear) Dave

The new Archos Android tablets look good - available in variety of screen sizes (2-10 inches), and the larger ones should be able to show photos directly off a micro SD card, assuming they're JPGs. But as others have said wait a few months and the market will be flooded with Android based...

Samsung have two similarly named products - the Galaxy is the phone, the Galaxy Tab is the tablet referred to above. Dave Dave

Recently I had the same experience with a refurb'd 50D body from the Canon Ebay outlet - out of the box it had a fault that basic testing showed up, and IMO should have been caught during the refurb. I went for a refund, which took about three weeks. To be fair to them the condition of the...

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Last xmas I bought one of those for my son. When it works it's fun gadget but: - the image quality isn't that great (v cheap optics, plus only 1.3 megapixels for the one I bought) - the software is buggy, resulting in the scope only working for a few minutes before having to reboot. I've not...

I'm seeing them listed from the camerapricebuster.co.uk website, where they're showing as the cheapest for the 50D body. I see what you mean about the Sony though - doesn't inspire confidence..... Dave

Hi, I'm looking to buy a 50D body, and AJ electronics is showing a very competitive price. Does anyone have experience - good or bad - with them? Thnaks Dave