Recent content by DoctorJ

Thanks both, I am quite careful so will give it a go myself. Just thinking of trading in and upgrading so this was really unwelcome.

I have really annoyingly managed to crack to plastic the plastic screen over the top LCD screen on my Nikon D300S. Does this need to be sent back to someone for repair or could I do it myself? My concern about doing it myself would be further damaging the area around it trying to get it off. I...

Absolutely. There is a potential contractual issue here if you didn't consent to the work being done. If someone came to clean your gutters and then said I saw a problem and fixed the roof too and you owe me a further £XXX, would you pay it? I know I wouldn't. Ask to see the contract where you...

Haha you have met Mrs J then! The memory of the fallout of my battery going flat the first time my daughter met Santa lives vividly still many years later...

This is kind of my thinking. As I said, when I first started taking photographs (with my Zenit E and OM10) I only had a 50mm prime and never thought about it. Packing today so I will see if I have a little corner for a spare lens just in case, otherwise it will just be the 35mm.

Off to LIsbon on holiday and I only want to take one lens (on Nikon crop). Can’t decide whether to take my 18-105 (not great I know but serviceable) or my 35mm 1.8G and challenge myself a little. I used to manage with a 50mm prime years ago without thinking about it, mainly because it was all I...

Cheap rent? Where? Councils don't own the shops, commercial landlords do. The last charity shop rent I negotiated (in NW Surrey) was £50k per annum for 48sq metres of selling space and a small stockroom. Charities pay 20% of normal business rates, some councils choose not to charge anything but...

Is this based on personal experience of working for a charity, or looking at individual Charity's annual financial returns on the Charity Commission website? (Don't forget Charities are audited in exactly the same way as any other company.) There are 180,000+ charities in England and Wales, how...

just to clear up a few things (I have been head of retail for a hospice charity for a few years) Of course you can take it back, up to you if you would want to. Many charities do sell electrical bits and pieces, they have to be PAT tested and we, and many others, have volunteers who are PAT...

:muted: :schtum: Ahem.....allegedly!

my 6 year old daughter makes fairy dust from things she finds in the garden. I will stop her throwing it all back in the sandpit now and sell it to Gitzo, I would then be able to afford some of their leg extensions and a quick release plate...

I also liked the Quick Release Plate for £84.95 (reduced though to a very reasonable £63.95!!)

I have had both and either would be fine. The D90 is bigger I think and more adaptable (and an all round top camera), the D5000 is smaller and lighter from memory, has loads of pre-set scene modes that might be helpful and the tiltable screen. Mine underexposed compared to my D90 for some reason...

Probably just a rumour started by a fund manager to boost the value of Nikon shares so they can flog theirs off with some value. Both businesses are highly diversified (Fuji more so, most of Nikon is imaging of some sort) but if it was going ahead it is quite normal for companies to have to buy...

I am slightly going back to manual focussing as (for me at least) I think it improves my images. In the olden days (ie pre DSLR/AF) I would spend longer thinking about my shot, (possibly because of the cost of developing film), setting it up right, being more careful with exposure and focus and...