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by Peter Boughton
Fri 26 Jul 2019, 14:08
Forum: General
Topic: But It's £1,200!
Replies: 3
Views: 1389

Re: But It's £1,200!

The DPR review has a brief comparison against similar devices (half way down the page): https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sony-cyber-shot-dsc-rx100-vii-review-in-progress/2 It includes the Panasonic ZS200 (TZ200 in UK) which is $400 cheaper than the Sony RX100 VII, but still a significant increase on...
by Peter Boughton
Sat 20 Jul 2019, 22:20
Forum: General
Topic: Replacement lens caps
Replies: 9
Views: 3079

Re: Replacement lens caps

My current best fit theory is that I was abducted by alien beings and it got left on their ship, but they realised too late to do anything about it.
by Peter Boughton
Fri 19 Jul 2019, 15:33
Forum: General
Topic: Replacement lens caps
Replies: 9
Views: 3079

Re: Replacement lens caps

Mine is a 95mm cap, so looks like £4 on ebay for a convenient to use one. There are cheaper ones, but they have small side-pinches which would likely be awkward with the lens hood, and that one still works out at half the total price of the Wex one.
by Peter Boughton
Wed 17 Jul 2019, 22:26
Forum: General
Topic: Replacement lens caps
Replies: 9
Views: 3079

Replacement lens caps

So apparently in between putting my camera in my bag and taking it out again 5 minutes later, my lens cap went AWOL. At the time I thought it'd just dropped off in the bag, but it appears to have done a houdini. Exact replacements are available via various sources for £15-20, but Wex/Calumet do thei...
by Peter Boughton
Thu 11 Jul 2019, 23:10
Forum: General
Topic: Historic motor racing photo
Replies: 10
Views: 3746

Re: Historic motor racing photo

The race programme had most of the calculations already done, for the Handicap section - all I did was check the distance on a map and line up the numbers after subtracting 1.5 miles worth of time for each car. It does assume they'd be going flat out for that distance, but since it's the last bend o...
by Peter Boughton
Thu 11 Jul 2019, 13:56
Forum: General
Topic: Historic motor racing photo
Replies: 10
Views: 3746

Re: Historic motor racing photo

Knowing that it was the 1932 race, we can narrow down the time the photo was taken even further... The corner looks to be ~1.5 miles before the end of the lap, so taking into account car speeds and handicaps from the programme, and knowing that #31 retired after 13 laps, the most likely encounter of...
by Peter Boughton
Fri 05 Jul 2019, 23:38
Forum: Outings & Events
Topic: Master of Photography 2019
Replies: 34
Views: 10041

Re: Master of Photography 2019

Sidar's second image confused me, until I realised it's probably a garden/allotment. I still don't think the image works, nor his first one - a busy shot that looks more like supervision than the demonstration it presumably is. Jan picked five images - I don't think the first or last ones add to the...
by Peter Boughton
Tue 02 Jul 2019, 23:00
Forum: General
Topic: CCC PHOTO 2019 in Croydon Advertiser
Replies: 29
Views: 9844

Re: CCC PHOTO 2019 in Croydon Advertiser

The URL needs to be the full thing: http://forums.croydoncameraclub.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3114 Frank's post only displays the last part because the forum's default behaviour is to convert URLs to links and hide the first part for local URLs - when that happens the full URL can be obtained b...
by Peter Boughton
Tue 25 Jun 2019, 23:50
Forum: Outings & Events
Topic: Master of Photography 2019
Replies: 34
Views: 10041

Re: Master of Photography 2019

Not sure if any of them particularly appeal to me, but I'd agree with that.

Perhaps a bit unfair in that a horse is a more difficult animal to photograph, whilst the donkeys seem far more docile and charismatic.

I don't get Maria's first two images with the hands though?
by Peter Boughton
Thu 20 Jun 2019, 19:17
Forum: General
Topic: Historic motor racing photo
Replies: 10
Views: 3746

Re: Historic motor racing photo

Not as much work as you might think - the heritage section of Shell's website gave the release of AeroShell as 1928, and another website showed The Autocar was 4d until 1940. Looking at races between those dates, a description of the Ards circuit just happened to mention the "Central Bar" ...

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