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Guest · Post by **Guest** » 17 Aug 2004, 18:14

Hey Wangi, better get your waders on and your camera out. I think there could be some photo opportunities out there and we need some on the spot reportage!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 17 Aug 2004, 18:18

I dunno, why do people always ask Wangi to do these things. Just cause he's got a digicam and I still use film. (Mump, mump, mump.)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 17 Aug 2004, 18:25

Now that's a good photo opportunity.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 17 Aug 2004, 18:31

Alex - you still use film? And you prefer listening to records than CDs? Wouldn't you like to join the rest of us in the 21st century?

I'm not a photographer but I love my digital camera, a Minolta Dimage S414, for the instant results and the ease with which I can transfer the photos to my hard drive, manipulate the images and within minutes publish them to the website.

Anyway, it's brilliant sunshine now. This weather is completely bonkers. I'm heading to the gym soon and I'm not sure whether to wear t-shirt and shorts or a raincoat and wellies!

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 17 Aug 2004, 18:45

Stay inside and have a nap. I can recommend it. That way, there's the weather before and after your nap, but you didn't get wet, with the added bonus that you might have slept through some bad weather. I'm off for my nap now.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 17 Aug 2004, 18:48

Well, I'm sure there's some logic in there somewhere, but I can't see Froglette buying it. Uh-oh, here she comes, gotta go!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 17 Aug 2004, 18:51

Put that way, it does make me sound a bit of a Luddite.

But I've been shooting using an SLR camera for a quarter of a century, and I'd be loathe to give up the level of control an SLR gives me over the finished results. Unfortunately, the digital version of my camera is still around Ã‚Â£600 http://www.pricerunner.co.uk/photograph ... 27/details and I can't afford it! But look on the bright side. It was over Ã‚Â£1000 this time last year, so maybe in another year or so...

As for the records. Don't misunderstand, I love CD. But my musical tatstes have always been somewhat - er - eclectic, and a lot of my records are simply irreplaceable.

When new technology is better than old - eg, the way DVD is better than VHS - I swap to the new. But film cameras, and vinyl LPs, still have a lot to offer.[/url]

Post by **wangi** » 17 Aug 2004, 20:14

A digital camera that i'm dying to replace... Urgh. You wouldn't beleive the spec of my camera!

Anyway I was busy getting wet on the Innocent Railway and down the Fort. But lets just pretend (again) this was this evening:

http://pbase.com/image/32375397

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 17 Aug 2004, 20:37

wangi wrote:A digital camera that i'm dying to replace... Urgh. You wouldn't beleive the spec of my camera!

Go on -- try me.

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 17 Aug 2004, 20:55

Bob wrote: I'm heading to the gym soon and I'm not sure whether to wear t-shirt and shorts or a raincoat and wellies!

Now that's something I've never seen before - someone on the treadmill wearing a raincoat and wellies!

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 17 Aug 2004, 21:25

Rereading it, makes him sound like a flasher.

Post by **wangi** » 17 Aug 2004, 21:48

Alex wrote:
wangi wrote:A digital camera that i'm dying to replace... Urgh. You wouldn't beleive the spec of my camera!

Go on -- try me.

Well, lets start with no zoom... And Marya, it's 3MP... Hmm. Never mind it has actually served its purpose of gettign me hooked! And I know exactly what camera i'm buying next month when it's released.

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 17 Aug 2004, 22:23

3 megapixels !!!

Posh, thats all I'm saying. My SLR has been on the shelf ever since I got my Kodak (CX4230). Such a lovely camera and if you take your laptop away with you then you can just relax and take as many photos each day as you like.

Mmm digicams.

Post by **wangi** » 18 Aug 2004, 20:59

Happy? Brrr...

http://www.pbase.com/image/32739718

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 21 Aug 2004, 17:25

Marya wrote:I'm sad I know, however, I was really excited tonight when I realised that it was raining in my back garden but it was dry in my front garden! A pretty surreal experience.

I must be sad and surreal too then! When I looked out the window the other night I realised that our guttering is full of grass and weeds, yet the guttering on either side of us is as clear as a bell. How's that?