Recent content by paulmck

One bit of kit you may want to consider is your driving licence. The cruises are great but once docked you may be limited to either walking around the village you are in, or going on one of the organised excursions. All of the villages we docked in had a small car hire kiosk on the quay side...

Thanks Dan. I had some of that in the garage (but it is a bit old) and have tried it just now, but it still seems to be the same. Might try again tomorrow but I'll also keep hunting for a solution.

I've used the isopropyl alcohol trick to remove the stickiness from the back of my F100 and the body of my D70S. Works fine but now the grips are completely "dry" and feel like hard plastic almost. Does anyone know any way of restoring a bit of the original factory feel to the grips? i.e. a...

We went through the scanning process when landing at Milan Malpensa a few weeks ago. There were about 20 machines in a side room and we were in and out in about 5 minutes. Then on to the e-passport gates where frustratingly, only 3 were working so that took about 30 minutes or more I think...

I'm on the annual annual LR + PS 20GB plan and it expires in December. As I understand it, I then have the option to switching to annual billing for £120/yr. However, Amazon now have the 1 year LR + PS 1TB deal at £99/yr. So is there any reason for continuing on the 20GB version? Maybe I'm...

I've used some from Oakwook Optix (are we allowed to post links?). They sell the swabs separately. They were recommended but I can't remember where from now. I suspect it would have been from one of the YouTube landscape photographers I follow. Anyway, I think I've done 2 sensor cleans with...

Yes, I've updated. Only one issue so far. You may wonder why you can no longer mount any external drives. Finder just doesn't see them. Turns out that anyone running ESET virus protection will find that ESET has enabled device protection which will stop any external drives being mounted. You...

Spot on advice from TheFiend. Take £50 notes to exchange and you will get a slightly better rate than £10's or £20's. Also for anyone travelling from Scotland, take English £50's if you can. You will get a poorer rate for Scottish notes (10% worse if I remember correctly). Been to Thailand...

I thought that the red LEDS help with focus but the pre-flashes set the exposure. I seem to remember reading somewhere that mirrorless cameras can't use the red matrix light (or at least it doesn't work as well), but the pre-flashes to set the exposure still work fine. All my old flashes...

Spot on. No need for a super fast card on these older cameras. I've just tested a Sandisk 32Gb 120MB/s card and a Lexar 1Gb 80x speed card (80x is 12MB/s !!) in my D70s and there's no difference in write speed to the card in the camera or buffer clearing. Copying from the card to your...

You're guess is right, Krakow is great, plenty to see and lot's of different photo opportunities. It has the advantage that the russians and germans between them left a lot of it still standing after 1945. Warsaw was the exact opposite, there are some older looking buildings but they're nearly...

Your assumption should be correct as far as I know John, but there are a couple of scenarios that spring to mind. I'm assuming you're not in the "No Flash" mode that's on the program dial of the camera? Also, is the SB-600 in slave mode i.e. waiting for a flash from the command flash before it...

Completely agree with this Adam. Had a Z7II that I mostly used for photographing two things - mountains/alpine scenes that stayed still and two labradors that ran around at speed. It was great for the mountains, small and created some superb images. But point it at anything that moved even...

Not used the silver cards but I mostly buy mine from cex.co.uk or mpb now. Never had any problems and you can always return them if you want (just be aware that cex will refund in vouchers!). They're usually half the price of brand new ones.

If you are doing action/fast moving sports then probably Z8 or Z9 might be needed. I haven't tried the Z6III, but the Z7II I had struggled to keep up with fast moving subjects and the blackout at the higher frame rates was a pain. I've read the Z6III still has some blackout. I used a variety...