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Welcome from west wales!

It wouldn't surprise me in the least, judging by all the lies we are fed on a daily basis.

Welcome to the forum Whereabouts in Wales are you?

Welcome to the forum Had my HR nearly 4 yrs now and am very happy with it. Try to exercise a bit of patience if poss and take your time with your search. The right one will show up. Took me about 4 months. Best of luck....you'll love it!

Welcome and enjoy!

Its the humidity here thats the killer. It was 90'F here today but the humidity must be up around 85% surrounded by all this forestry. We have a chiller unit in the workshop, and all its doing is using its energy to extract buckets & buckets of water and hardly bringing the temp down at all!

I'd go for the Tein springs as well, and don't forget to notify her insurance company.

Welcome There's a few around the Cardiff area

Welcome along! If you thought the Manta was scary, then you're gonna need plenty of fresh underpants with your new purchase! Good luck with your search and...... enjoy!

All the best BBK! Wishing you a long and happy marriage!

My God!!! why don't they just disconnect the fence at source if its supplied by a battery. Needs to get a proper bike as well.

Never noticed it around these parts, especially with high end photo equipment. Its mostly kids taking selfies with their phones and old guys like myself with the big cameras. I agree, its refreshing just to savour the atmosphere and mooch about, without having a camera stuck to your face all day.

Heading over to the LlÅ·n are you Pete, to that squeaky beach?I was over at Aberdaron myself a few weeks ago in the zed. You should have some great weather there this week.

You've done well to hang on to it for as long as you have! Shouldn't you be polishing it, rather than rootling through the garage?

Welcome along I'm near Lampeter, not many around this area.

We have 2 zeds, both with Ark systems, been on a couple of years now. No issues whatsoever. Both lowered on Teins. Mine has standard cats which I'm very happy with. My son's is decatted and sounds superbly mental! Living out in the sticks here, you can hear him approaching miles away. Bloody brilliant exhaust!!

You can't beat the smell of newly mown polypropylene!

Its a short circuit

Rollers are less than 30 quid on ebay. Very easy to do. Just keep the paint warm and take your time.

Sounds nice and relaxed! We had no option to move into our new build when it was 90% complete. The council were threatening to forcibly remove the caravans we were living in on site!

All the shots I got ar F 5.6 was on the absolute limit of focus/shutter speed Ok... you're telling me now you were on the absolute limit, so I agree, an f6.3 lens would be a step too far, without introducing unacceptable noise. I appreciate all that you are saying about the need for quality glass to get the job done, I agree with you and have a couple of f2.8 lenses myself. Superzooms don't aspire to be professional, and are designed for novices and amateurs and give amateur results. You wouldn't buy one, I wouldn't buy one, but people do, and are happy with them, otherwise there wouldn't be a market for them. People have different expectations and need to judge for themselves.

Photography style might be subjective but lens performance isn't. What everyone wants is a lens that's quick to focus, large aperture for good low light performance, and good sharpness all round to enable you to deliver good image quality. Realistically what kinds of subjects are you going to shoot with a 300mm Zoom lens?? Unless your into spying on people it's probably going be either sports/air craft where your shooting from the audience areas or wild life. Your both sports/wild life fast AF is absolutely key, along with not too high f-number otherwise your end up not been able to 'freeze' the image. The zoom lens OP is/was looking at is actually very good value for the money, I had the 70-300mm version and it was good enough to let me get shots like below. https://www.amazon.c...ords=B00EP71ETU However with a super zoom lens like some of the ones suggested with a f stop down to 6.3, you haven't got a chance in hell of catching anything moving quickly in focus......If you got some shots show me that proves otherwise I'll be gladly to change my mind on the subject (Not 'demo shots' but shots done by normal people) http://www.wexphotog...553135/#1553135 I agree with most of what you have said there. Lens performance might not be subjective but some people seem to be quite happy with mediocre lenses. What you might judge to be an average quality pic might be very good to someone else. I see pics entered into competitions that are "soft" and not focused correctly yet deemed good enough to enter a competition. As I said, what suits one, doesn't suit another. You say the Canon 55-250 mm f/4-5.6 lens is very good value for money and that you had the 70-300mm version with which you took the motorsport shots. I'm assuming it had the same f5.6 aperture at the long end. Then you say "However with a super zoom lens like some of the ones suggested with a f stop down to 6.3, you haven't got a chance in hell of catching anything moving quickly in focus" Errrm.....f6.3 is only 1/3 of a stop smaller than f5.6 ...a slight rise in ISO to compensate, surely not a deal breaker!!

That's why I'll say what I said earlier, it doesn't really matter what someone else thinks, try it by used or rental then you'll know for yourself if it suits you You might have a user that just shoots and uploads/prints or others that spend several hours in photoshop perfecting the image. Highly subjective! I'd always try to stick with a 'fast' lens (or low F stop) unless it's a big ass zoom. Exactly....highly subjective! what suits one, doesn't suit another.

DO NOT get any of these cheap superzoom lens, not unless you like wasting money. They are cheap for a reason and virtually everyone I know who bought one don't use them. Heavy, slow, poor image quality, if you even remotely care about image quality stay clear. Am pretty sure we are all familiar with the term 'buy it right or buy it twice' for cheap car mods/parts that look attractive for price but turns out tobe junk.... Same with lens, the kit lens are the best value lense around. But to get the next step up in image quality to have to step up your budget. If you have not got the budget yet for a better lens stick with your kit lens and practice taking more shots, that experience will get you better photos than any lens. All these shots below were taken with the kit lens that came with my mirrorless camera, the lens is worth about £50 on ebay. Again like cars, a pro driver who knows that they are doing well get around a track in a Golf GTI than a neeb in a £200k Ferrari, its not really about the equipment, it's the human factor that makes the difference. Are these latest generation of superzooms really as bad as you make out? I've quickly read a few reviews and they seem to contradict what you say.I'm not a big fan of them myself and understand there are many compromises made with such a huge range of focal length, and a budget price of 300 quid. However, I'm sure there are many people who can't afford a bag of prime lenses, and are happy with one zoom which suits their budget and expertise.

Best of luck .....I bought all my expensive lenses from ebay used. Its a nightmare...camera gear is like zeditus with me... doh!!