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Now resident near the banks of the Tweed, I’ve been taking photos in an amateurish fashion for over 50 years.

For much of that time I needed a pocket camera for overseas work and, as I never seem to get rid of any old equipment, still possess a half-frame Canon Demi and a Yashica Microtec Zoom 70. More recently I have been using a Ricoh R6 and a Panasonic DMC-TZ3.

I do still have a Pentax MEF with its standard 50mm f1.7 and a couple of Tokina zooms (28-70 and 80-200), but have not used them in the last 10 years.

Now it is time to buy a half-decent DSLR, reasonably tough and tolerant of dust and moist weather, so I shall be trawling through this forum to learn from other folks’ experience.
 
Many thanks for the welcome. I have only ever seen the term “teg” used for a sheep in its second year. My thinking is often woolly, but I am almost certain that I am now more than two years old.

A Google search for “TEG” offered over 27 MILLION results, beginning with “The Environmental Group” (a company that specialises in manufacture of compost); “Touring Exhibitions Group”; “TEG is an Argentine Risk-based board wargame”; “Chwarae Teg is the leading professional agency for the economic development of women in Wales”….

After that I gave up. Does the word have some special meaning for photographers, or is it just a Lancastrian term of friendly abuse? I do hope you can enlighten me.
 
Heh heh! , Simply a typing error Sir, The word I was meant to type was phot(TOG)rapher, Tog. sorry about that,but it passed 10 mins on't net.:naughty:

On't = Lancastrian shortened version for " on the" also used in Yorkshire.:D
 
Eh up, this forum is a reet good eddy-cation for me. There was I thinking that TOG was a rating system for sleeping bags.

And now a Lancastrian admits using the same words as a Yorkshireman. Having been born darn sarf, I imagined the only things you had in common were that you all wore flat caps, kept whippets and racing pigeons, and lived in places with names such as Trubblatt Mill.

Anyway, thanks again for the welcome, and also for clearing up the mystery. I shall now have another look at your photos – I got as far as the ones showing the lion at Blackpool Zoo, and all I could think about was how Wallace ate Albert.
 
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