Recent content by szymon

Excellent, many thanks for the comments folks :-)

That's the point though -- it's *not* against the rules!! See the PDF I linked to where Arsenal (the owners of the stadium) explicitly allow it!!

I don't really have a pocket camera for those sorts of things. I have an iPhone 5S, but it's not much cop inside (e.g. if we decide to go into a museum or the like). I think perhaps the 6D + 40mm f/2.8 STM pancake is small enough that it doesn't look professional enough! I suppose I'll print...

GSX650f for the motorways and twisties, DRZ400SM for the twisties and the lanes (with a switch to 18/21 wheels and knobblies). Love biking :-)

Please don't shoot me for this -- I've read through the sticky and searched, but I can't find an answer on this specific question. I'm going to see a football match in a few weeks time (my first ever, believe it or not). It's part of a family day out with the kids, we're going into town, do a...

I have a redsnapper tripod - a combination RSF-284 with RSH-12 ball head, which I bought for £90 over a year ago. Two days ago I managed to break the ball head while taking some images of the stars; I guess I tightened it too much and it came off. I'm on holiday, with lovely dark skies...

It's a great lens and a superb price. I just sold mine for £330 to mpb, I sold it to part fund a 70-300 f/4-5.6 L IS USM, but if I could have afforded to I would have kept it. With canon tele converters you can turn it into a very sharp 280mm f/4 and a 400mm f/5.6 - and it weighs almost...

It's hard to say. They're both just as good as each other really, the prices new are similar. I think the Nikons are less elegant but more ergonomic and easier to hold: While the canons look prettier but somehow just feel a little harder to handle They both give the same great views of...

It's one of my favourite lenses, have hired it a couple of times over the years. Nothing really you need to know - just go out and use it and enjoy! I almost bought one recently, agonised over it a lot, but ended up going for the smaller 70-300 f/4-5.6 L IS USM simply because it's smaller...

Whoops, that was a typo for 'STM'. But wouldn't it be lovely? By the way, the firmware upgrade has made a difference -- I've not had the lens stick once since it was installed :-)

Of course, it could be that "ER" was just an obvious typo for "EF", but you didn't seem to like that explanation when it occurred to you ;-)

ER stands for Canon's new series of Extended Range lenses. They are EF mount compatible, but include a built-in teleconvertor to enable fast swapping of range. In prime lenses, they are used to achieve the flexibility of a zoom (which is usually used at one of its two extremes anyway) without...

Hi there, Not sure on the Experienced bit, but I've been using a 50D since it came out. Current glass is a 70-300 f/4-5.6L (I usually have two cameras with me, the other is a 6D with 24-105 f/4L, this one is for longer shots). I used to use it with the EF-S 17-55 f/2.8 IS, and it was very...

Actually I'm pretty sure this is legit. These guys are just down the road from me, and they're a very good shop (it's great to have somewhere local that lets you try out various flavours!). In addition, this is a very rare item that some cloud-chasers will pay for. It's supposed to be...