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Amazon are advertising this great lens for Astro-/landscape photography for £634.54. This is the f2.4 XPert version which gets rave reviews. It's usually sold for anything between £750-900, most often the latter. Also finding any in stock is quite tricky. There's one left at the moment (although...

Coz I have to convince the wife it's not a passing fad and the money spent is all worth it! (12 years now so I should be in the clear)

You're in good company. I experience exactly the same when I first got my D850. I'm just about now getting some shots with it I am happy with. It's a hoofin' great megapixel camera that's unforgiving where lens quality and technique is concerned, but rewarding when it all clicks. Here's a shot...

Flash and I have an understanding. We hate each other! It’s consequently my biggest weakness.

Hmm...yes. 'Max rate' would imply it's peak performance, as opposed to sustained performance when transferring a large data payload (5GB in my test) I would assume the R/W of the destination, when compliant with USB 3.1, would be 650MB/s (as per the spec)? Anyway, it seems like there are too...

I looked up the USB 3 bus speed and it's 650MB/s, so I think we're good there. Fake cards! Yikes. I know that's a problem with SDXCs but wasn't aware that the Sony XQD's were being faked. I wonder how one can tell?

I connected my XQD reader (https://biSPAM/2Q3nAPb) to my i7 iMac's USB 3 port (at the rear), inserted the Sony G XQD card and then ran Xbench and Blackmagic Disk Speed Test. I see a read speed of around 300 MB/s and a write speed (the important one!) of only 150 MB/s. While I don't expect to get...

Oh just my wife in her local town's team which is in some rinkity dink backwater league :D (and it's in the UK)

Some fabulous images in this thread!! :clap: Got mine yesterday (from KCSGear) but I've been working ever since it arrived :mad:. Having said that I'll be shooting women's field hockey on Saturday with it so I'll get a good feel for it then. Quite a step up from my D300 which I still absolutely...

*ba da boom tish* :lol:

Totally agree! I've removed the film and sealed it and have sent a mail to processc2.co.uk recommended by s162216. Let's see what I get.

Thanks everyone. Actually it's a clone of a Brownie and is in fact a Rex Camera. I've found info that I needed and for the most part it's virtually the same as the Brownie. Thanks again!!!

A visit to my mother's house recently resulted in her casually mentioning that she had a 'Box Brownie' camera which used to belong to my grandmother when she was 14. Today I actually got my hands on it. Upon looking at the camera the first thing I noticed is that it has a half-used film in it...

Thanks for the replies everyone! Chivas and Musicman - that's clarified it nicely for me. Thanks! ujjwaldey8165 - very kind offer! I'll PM you.

Definitely an option but if a £69 meter can do the job 'well' then I'd happily plump for that and carry less when going out and about with the Bronica.