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Are these the real McCoy or fakes? I see that the ones on Amazon are not actually sold by Amazon.

London Camera Exchange in Fareham stocks Manfrotto tripods, they may be able to order the part for you. Alternatively, a quick search on Manfrotto's website turned up Manfrotto Distribution Limited (UK) West Sussex RH10 9PE, Kelvin Lane, Crawley Phone number: +44(0)1293583300 Fax number...

Hi David, Welcome tot he fourm, we have quite a few members in the Portsmouth / Southampton area who meetup from time to time, you'd be made most welcome if you came along. Jim

According to Nikon it is compatible with the ML-L3 wireless remote which does not support bulb mode (its basically for taking a picture with you in it) and the MC-DC2 wired remote which allow bulb-mode. If you are looking to eliminate camera shake when using a tripod I would go for the wired...

My 18-70 f3.5-4.5 DX kit lens that came with my D70 is definitely NOT weatherproof - it steamed up inside on a very rainy morning at Exbury Gardens last year.

I definitely want to go, I joined TP too late last year to go to any of taht years visits.

I had a similar problem with my MacBook Pro and it needed a replacement optical drive (which was covered under AppleCare).

Two things spring to mind: 1) have you flattened the image? 2) are you using something other than 8 bit RGB?

Try these from my Flickr stream (click on the image to view higher resolution) 500mm focal length 450mm focal length: You can see all my photos taken with this lens here check the EXIF data (photo properties) to see the focal length of each. Have a look at pixel-peeper.com they index...

:agree: I'm very happy with my Nikon mount version that I use with my D300.

Mine is at http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimnicholson/ - there's loads of photos from Marwell Zoo in there (about 25%). I must try going to other places :-) and trying other subjects.

I've been to a couple of local butterfly houses with my camera. The only trouble I had was with the front element and the viewfinder misting up. As others have said though once the camera has warmed up its ok. I didn't change lenses inside the butterfly house though as I didn't want the extra...

Lovely shot Dave, I've got 3 or 4 of them in my tiny garden, bit difficult to move without bumping into their huge webs.

Thanks for the heads-up, off to WH Smiths for me then.