Recent content by Neil H

Paddle HPP a few times and its a nice easily accessable place if you wanna go take a few photos. The best spots for shooting are probably the muncher/plughole, the inlet gate and what was known as the looping pool (now cafe wave iirc). If you look around for course maps you should see the...

Tis a shame thats the way society has gone. And the fact you simply can't afford to face down people like that these days as they have so little respect for people that you'll more than likely get your head kicked it (or stabbed). Tis a sad truth unfortunately.

Ah sorry mate, my bad. And in all fairness nuclear facilitys are becoming safer with increasingly less major incidents occuring as the technology and management improves.

Now where talking radioactive waste which is a completely different kettle of fish. Your original post referenced the steam sent out of the cooling towers. The water that becomes this steam is used as a cooling medium and to drive the turbines which generate the electricity. Any activity in the...

Nope, no it isn't. It wouldn't be allowed to be sent up the stacks if it was radioactive. The activity levels stated in the IRR are highly monitored and also really rather low. So the steam coming out of the cooling stacks of a power plant is of no risk to human life. Also by the way (iirc)...

I swear some of the responses in this thread are exactly what the sun thrives off of. By providing a mildly accurate reporting of affairs they can scare monger to the point where everyone thinks the government are out to get them and that terrorists are gonna kill us all using the interent...

I was gonna write a long spiel about mirrors/shutters being unnecessary but this thread has got me thinking. The main reason imo for shutters and mirrors still being used in SLRs is purely because of the fact it aint broken (so why fix it). Various companies have been using lcd viewfinders in...

I popped into Jessops in Reading today after this exact same lens. The lass i spoke to said there's been a bit of trouble recently with Nikon and there's quite a bag log on orders. That and the 50mm F1.8 seems to be rather popular and is even harder to come by at the moment.

Hi my names Neil, was pointed in this direction by a lad on another forum. I've been playing with cameras for a lil while now, mainly sports and cars using my dads Fuji bridge camera. Then i decided i wanted something that gave me a bit more control, so i got a D80 for my 21st and i'd rather...