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| Believe it when I see it Admin. Real name: Rolf Join Date: 01-05-1999 Location: Southern England
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I've always liked popping away with my camera, not to achieve perfection, but to try and shoot something eye catching or interesting, I started off with an Ilford Sporty 4, then went on to an Olympus Trip and then a Pentax Me Super, followed by my first digital camera, a Kodak. That didn't last long, as it didn't have an optical zoom, so I bought a Fuji Finepix S5000 (which I still have). I'm not very good technically, but with a recent investment in some high quality equipment, my results are sometimes accidentally quite good from an amateur's standpoint. My latest kit is an Olympus E500 Digital SLR, with three zoom lenses and a 1.4x teleconterter. My pride and joy is the new Sigma 50-500 telephoto zoom, with whch I am having a lot of fun at the moment. ![]() Tell us what equipment you have, whether it be a small pocket camera, or a high end model, we are interested. ![]() Perhaps include some of your interesting or pride and joy photos. | ||
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| Site administrator Join Date: 26-07-2003 Location: Scottish Borders
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Blog Entries: 1 My System: Sky UK. FTA analogue & digital satellite from 6 fixed dishes (5E/7E/9E/10E/13E/16E/ 19E/23E/28E) Pace MSS100, Echostar IP3000VA, Technomate TM-1000D, Dreambox 7020S ![]() The last noble sat warrior to fly the olden flag of Analogue | We have a pocket Olympus "point and shoot" job - about 3 years old now. On the nature theme heres a pic of Larch flowers my other half took earlier this year. | ||
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| Site administrator Join Date: 26-07-2003 Location: Scottish Borders
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Blog Entries: 1 My System: Sky UK. FTA analogue & digital satellite from 6 fixed dishes (5E/7E/9E/10E/13E/16E/ 19E/23E/28E) Pace MSS100, Echostar IP3000VA, Technomate TM-1000D, Dreambox 7020S ![]() The last noble sat warrior to fly the olden flag of Analogue | And heres something I still have nightmares about - stripping our old computer system out over the summer. We ended up with about 10 tons of redundant equipment on the back of a 40 foot lorry! This is just some of the stuff....... | ||
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| Believe it when I see it Admin. Real name: Rolf Join Date: 01-05-1999 Location: Southern England
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Blog Entries: 5 My System: Pace Sky HD, DM7000s, CubeRevo 3000HDPVR, Transparent 80cm Dish, Moteck SG2100 DiseqC motor, lots of legacy gear. Meters: Satlook Digital NIT, Televes H45 Digital Spectrum analyser. | Never seen those flowers before AS, nice photo. that sure is a lot of old PCs. | ||
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| Site administrator Join Date: 26-07-2003 Location: Scottish Borders
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Blog Entries: 1 My System: Sky UK. FTA analogue & digital satellite from 6 fixed dishes (5E/7E/9E/10E/13E/16E/ 19E/23E/28E) Pace MSS100, Echostar IP3000VA, Technomate TM-1000D, Dreambox 7020S ![]() The last noble sat warrior to fly the olden flag of Analogue | Heres a butterfly orchid taken on a roadside down at the remote Borders town of Newcastleton. Bet you cant see this on the side of the road down Reading way Rolf! Again taken by my other half - she has a better eye for nature than me - I tend to take pictures of little shunting locomotives on preserved railways around the country! | ||
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| Believe it when I see it Admin. Real name: Rolf Join Date: 01-05-1999 Location: Southern England
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Blog Entries: 5 My System: Pace Sky HD, DM7000s, CubeRevo 3000HDPVR, Transparent 80cm Dish, Moteck SG2100 DiseqC motor, lots of legacy gear. Meters: Satlook Digital NIT, Televes H45 Digital Spectrum analyser. | LOL, no, it would be buried under rubbish down here. | ||
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| Administrator Join Date: 01-01-2000 Location: Greater London
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My System: Sky HD, TM6800HD, Manhattan Plaza ST550 and TM1500 CI+. 1.0m dish and 36v motor, Panasonic DVD HDD recorder and Panasonic video/DVD recorder. Sony G800 HD TV stand/surround system + Sony KDL40W2000. Infinity USB, Elvis, CAS1, CAS2. | I have a Fujifilm Finepix S7000 which is 6MP but doubles to 12MP electronically. It has 2 card slots for SD and XD and I have 512MB in each slot so no problem with storage. The macro setting is very useful and produces clear shots. Witness my damsel fly picture which I posted last year. And ......... who knows the name of the flowering plant in my garden? | ||
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| Member Join Date: 26-11-2006 Location: Leeds
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My System: 1m funke, ST350, Dragon/T.REX, Prussian5 Self-built computer. ASUS XP 2600+ 1G ram Hauppauge Nexus+CI |
Many more years ago than I want to remember I was semi-pro and worked in sports photography and any thing natural. My home was broken into and i lost everything. Not just the equipment but all the negatives as well. My soul died a little that day. With a family, you have to take pictures and as the years have gone by I have worked my way back into this enormously rewarding hobby. I now have a Canon 350 D with 'standard' lens + I bought a 70-300 Sigma. If anyone wants pointers, please ask. And bear this in mind, Cameras record images, "You" make pictures. I have seen works of art (yes, really) produced with a 'Box Brownie'! I have also seen photographers with state of the art Nikons, Canons, Hasselblads, even (god forbid) one guy with loads of dosh had a Leica; and none of them could produce a 'picture' to save their lives! The man who I and half the planet consider to be the greatest photographer who has or ever will live, said this when asked why he had dedicated 80 years to taking photographs; "Because you cannot print a memory." Who said it Max | ||
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| Amo Amas Amant Admin Join Date: 18-11-2004 Location: Blackburn NW England (Siberia)
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My System: IDD CI24 ECONO MM Penta 1.20 Galaxy II 1.2Mtr Polar MTG yes it has been on the arc for 21 years and is still driven by a modified wiper motor from a Ford Anglia. It's like me sometimes groans but always performs ![]() Saved us from the black plague of ignoratio elenchi, he awaits a special badge with jugs |
I cannot claim this as mine it was sent by a friend in the Middle East, very cute though | |||
| War does not determine who is right, it determines who is left! Formerly toppervte33h whose six pack has turned into a keg Help support this web site by making a donation Or use other options to help support Sats UK Show Your Support by clicking the button ![]() Thank you. Freddie Flintoff is back Last edited by Topper; 03-12-2006 at 01:38 AM. Reason: add picture | ||||
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| cerca trova... Join Date: 01-01-2000 Location: East Anglia
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Blog Entries: 1 My System: Triple Dragon with HDD/USB stick, Dreambox 8000, Humax HDCI2000, Echostar AD3000ip & SR8700, Aston Simba, RSD ODM300. Swedish Microwave 1.2 Motorised dish / Invacom C120 twin LNB driven by the AD3000. 3 other fixed dishes. ![]() Fighting the evil 3 Dragons under the Don Quixote banner,Sir Llew persevered where others failed |
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| Amo Amas Amant Admin Join Date: 18-11-2004 Location: Blackburn NW England (Siberia)
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My System: IDD CI24 ECONO MM Penta 1.20 Galaxy II 1.2Mtr Polar MTG yes it has been on the arc for 21 years and is still driven by a modified wiper motor from a Ford Anglia. It's like me sometimes groans but always performs ![]() Saved us from the black plague of ignoratio elenchi, he awaits a special badge with jugs | Well you know the sunsets that I find facinating well here was 1/12/2006 from sunny Lancashire. | ||
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| Member Join Date: 26-11-2006 Location: Leeds
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My System: 1m funke, ST350, Dragon/T.REX, Prussian5 Self-built computer. ASUS XP 2600+ 1G ram Hauppauge Nexus+CI | Hi Llew, yes it was and yes he did; I paid £125.00 for the publication "Photographer" in 1990. It was stolen. Life sucks Max | ||
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| Mod and septic resident Join Date: 01-01-2000 Location: London SW
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| Funny thing though, the battery drain was abysmal in 2002, but now she can take 500 'HQ' pictures on a single set of AA's, I must have disabled something not so essential inside the casing when she went for a swim last year. Some piccys left in the memory card that couldn't get transferred into the laptop (beyond help). Some shots of Chimay in the second week of July, and then the cat (adjusted for brilliance), taken from the other side of the patio window. _http://www.ihro.org.uk/2008/11/events/chimay2009/ | |||
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| Mod and septic resident Join Date: 01-01-2000 Location: London SW
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| And some of the personal artefacts of the same venue. Going again this year, same five days just to recover from the beer overload _www.chimay.be | ||
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