Recent content by LCPete

As said it depends on the lens , in my case I have had my R5 about 5 years and still haven’t bought an RF lens, my EF versions do everything I need

First proper ride out of the year my wife on her Street 750 and me on the Bandit Was nice to get out didn’t go too far as wanted to see how her knee would cope ( has bad knee, osteoarthritis ) but she was fine :)

Thanks for the heads up will check out our local CeX , I wouldn’t have considered them but for a 5 year warranty on second hand stuff thats good Just checked that is for most used electronic equipment

Ahh I see, that explains why I was unable to get Dropbox to work with an external drive on my MacBook Pro, I now use Dropbox on my wife's PC and it syncs and backs up files on an external drive with no problem

It is worth if you can to record some ambient background audio separately and combine in editing if you have unwanted noise in your footage For wildlife video I use a Tascam handheld recorder and record audio as well as video while we are away on a trip

Just for info I wouldn’t use iCloud as a backup plan I do have iCloud and its great for syncing between devices but if you for example accidentally edit an image on your iPad which is very easy to do or delete something it instantly updates and overwrites the original image over all your...

Finding a new 2 tb hard drive , an old desktop one for £20 in local second hand shop Was actually new not used still packaged up Perfect for back up

Yes that’s the problem they do make it easy do try to shop locally but not always possible Didn’t know about the most favoured nation thing will look that up later

What annoyed me today and recently is eBay listings It used to be really handy and cheap for small bits and pieces Now when you do a specific search you get all sorts of unrelated crap come up Also some listings are misleading I was searching for something yesterday and the listing showed a...

I keep my gear in a couple of those big plastic boxes designed to keep bedding in under the bed Use silica gel sachets , 50 or 100g , one in each and a humidity meter inside When the level of moisture gets above 55 % i change the sachets We have had a lot of rain this winter at the moment the...

Oh yes good point, I am also on the oder version of Affinity Shame about your fitbit

I am still using macOS Sequoia on my M1 MacBook Pro, am holding off from updating to Tahoe as there are issues apparently with the audio software I use , Audacity and also use other open source image editing software which I am nervous about wether it will be ok with Tahoe To be honest as long...

The issue I have with my iPad , iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (4th generation) is that copying images from a card reader via a dock to an external drive is very slow I was hoping to use my iPad for working on images while travelling but soon found that wasn’t really suitable for me at least and use a...

Do agree that electric motorbikes would be fun and perfect for commuting but I just couldn’t bring myself to swap any of my petrol bikes for one Probably I’m old fashioned and irrational but a bike has to have an engine an electric bike has no soul Nothing against electric cars or anyone who...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/21/west-carmakers-retreat-electric-vehicle-risks-irrelevance-iran-war-evs-china?CMP=share_btn_url Interesting Guardian article on the electric car market at the moment European and US manufacturers are pulling back from EVs while the Chinese are...