Recent content by steveb

I believe considetable numbers of potential tourists will think, stuff Trump, there's plenty of other interesting countries to visit. I've visited the USA twice, certainly never will again.

Similar here. I do celebrate my birthday more than I used to, and each morning I wake and put the kettle on at around 5am, and say to myself, plan my day and make the most of it. Come late October I hope to celebrate a total stroke recovery aniversary, and with luck many more. I do take more...

I only use Windscribe VPN on one of my Macs, not on my every day Mac as I'm using now. If I try to access the forum from my Mac running the VPN I immediately get a banned IP error. Then I simply quit the VPN or switch to the other MBP that doesn't run the VPN. Most times I'm used to dealing with...

An early Christmas present was a Sony RX10. I will be returning it to Amazon for a credit once I'm back home and hiring an OM1 with 12-100mm F4 lens before making a decision to buy. buy. Any suggestions re a good source to hire from?

Nikon D7100, was later passed down to my sister along with a D7200. She still uses both.

I have 2 D500's and a selection of zoom lenses, they meet all my requirements when shooting Live news for Alamy, I don't t see any reason to outlay more cash for mirrorless when considering they do their job very well.

The SLR's I used for some time, liking the ergonomics and their performance were an OM1, OM1n and Om2, now long gone, eventually replaced by 2 canon T90's. I still have 1 tucked away and all their lenses starting with the Canon FD 17mm, then a Mamiya C330F, sold, but still have it 's backup the...

Going back to when I shot film, 35mm 6x6, 6x7 and 4x5, earlier film was printed via a lovely Besseler enlarger then later scanned and inkjet printed, If I had a water meter in those days it would have cost me a fortune. Now I delve into my negative files and digitise either with a Nikon ES2...

Interesting. I was taking aspirin while in the stroke ward, and for 3 days after discharge, then a single 75mg Clopidogrel daily since then. Yesterday morning I went walkabout just with a D500 and Nikon 80-400, plus my Sony RX100 in my pocket. I was only a 5 minute walk from home and edited and...

Many thanks for the well wishes. After some additional checks I was discharged Monday afternoon. After waiting hours for some meds to take home I thought I would never escape, but did finally. Yesterday went for a walk to the local Co-op for some milk, was wonderful. After a midday snack will...

I had stroke last Sunday morning, then toppled down the stairs at home . the carpet burn on my arm was raw and sore. My local hospital Stoke Mandeville was next to useless, just before midnight they shipped me via ambulance to the Watford hospital Stroke ward. Stoke Mandeville initially...

I went with my wife to see it. at the local Odeon on the opening night, we both really enjoyed it. Not being a regular cinemas goer I didn't realise how expensive it currently is, was around £40 for both of us. Then 2 weeks later visited Farleys, which was very interesting I left home early in...

I can't speak for the 70-300mm mention above, but I do own the newer afp version which performs well both on my D750's and D500's and is acceptably light. I also use the Tamron 70-200 G2 f2.8 and the Nikon 80-400mm, finding them quite acceptable for my use but heavy to carry around all day.

Before moving from Wood Green in London I remember the horse and cart milk deliveries, the same for knife sharpening, gold top milk (now only skimmed milk), the sickly smell from the Barratts sweet factory, walking into central London following the route of the Piccadilly Line tube. The entrance...

Time to change your garage and possibly your car if it's regularly costing more than expected. I just did that, scrapping my high milage (165000 miles) Citroen C1 that had gearbox issues, front wheel bearings, corroded break pipes and just recently odd noise from the engine. It also has been...