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The service/CLA idea is a good one - I'll have a quick tout around and see what it costs 'round here (Cardiff - if anyone has any recommendations?)

I'm looking for advice about picking up a half-frame camera. One mate has got a Diana Mini, which seems fun, if pricey for the ropey build quality. Another mate has picked up an old PEN, which is much better built, but more expensive and a bit of a lottery regarding whether they work...

Handy thread - I was wondering how much a reasonable MF capable film scanner would cost.

I use an Olympus Pen - mostly with the collapsible zoom or 20mm pancake - with these two lenses it's pocketable in a way that a DSLR can never be (the registration distance from the mount to the focal plane will not allow it). If I need more reach or to use my old 50mm film prime, I can swap...

I bought an EPL1 and love it - the canon would be good if you needed the longer zoom in a compact body.

Gursky always seemed more of a documentary photographer (tending as you say, to the abstract) than a conceptual artist to me (I'd always figured that his photoshopping was more used to enable his large mosaics to be constructed from a practical point of view). There's plenty of conceptual...

Tom Hunter's stuff is interesting, to me, because of his use of repetition and the slightly unnerving sense I get when looking at the pictures, knowing that they're staged but that they are ambiguous in their message. There also seem to be quite a few layers of allusion to paintings etc. but I...

I've got an EPL1 and love it, but I couldn't reccomend it for clubbing etc - slightly too big (even with a pancake lens on it) and the lack of AF light would get frustrating if you're just looking to fire and forget. But if you want the functionality and 9/10ths of the capability of your Nikon...

Maciej now runs the Third Floor Gallery in cardiff bay. They've got a John Bulmer exhibition on at the moment: http://www.thirdfloorgallery.com/

I live in Cardiff and never found them (the Camera Centre) very helpful whenever I've been into the shop. Cameraland, in the next arcade along from them is friendlier, more helpful & also really seem to know their stuff (happy to negotiate on price too).