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Sigma big zooms are well worth a look. X-500mm but taking them to the full 500mm distorts best image I have of the moon was out of one.

Yes and no (again). The scheme was greed driven no doubt but the rewards would have been a great bounty could it have succeeded with longevity. Paterson aka Bank of England founder was the driver with a view to making the Panama Canal back then. How long before the Frenchman did the...

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Have to wait on someone putting it on you tube

I am very nationalistic and very proud to be from Scotland but my head and unfortunately my heart also tells me we are forty years too late in this debacle. It screams Darien project to my deepest concerns and heavier than we can bear taxes if it succeeds. I truly think we lose either way. Yes...

Any good photography/photographer films out there? Just watched "finding Vivian Maier" and "Tims Vermeer" both of which I found entertaining

Fuji X10 gets my vote too. It is a point and shoot that allows folk to learn the intricacies of the exposure triangle while having reasonably fast lens and is compact enough to carry everywhere, well almost everywhere ;-)

Please share might be an addition if you feel it is worthy

Emotion, emotion, emotion and did I say emotion. Most sports will show the full gamut. Fear, elation, desperation, concentration, anger, amusement, cockiness, uncertainty, support, ridicule etc etc etc. Get the right emotion from the right person at the right time and those you will find are...

Should be a must read for anyone wanting to do sports of any kind even solo sports togs have learning is these great and simple critiques ( camera clubs the world over would be better populated if the critiques where as matter of fact :-) )

Love the where to shoot guides. They are great. Also some great interviews with many professionals which are so varied I look forward to each one. Only dislike I'd the mad pricing of some of the advertised holidays so the can't be the worst complaint ever.

Thanks for that best thread I have read since the one that told me how to fit a decent stereo in my car :-)

True enough. But I do love dabbling :-)

Just joined the Royal Photographic Society. Question being is it worth going for a distinction? Have others got experience of doing so?