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Roycropper
Baiting Guru
Joined: 14 Nov 2005
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Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:46 am |
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It cost about �5 to go on the East Lancs Railway.
Heres Duke of Gloucester, Christmas Eve 2006, at York station, about to return to Kings Cross, London. Taken on my Olympus C5050, no flash.
Here's the same view with the flash. It shows what a shitty day it was. Vive la difference!
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_________________ the European Union has bounced on our freckles
COULD YOU IMAGINE WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I WENT TO THE BANK
our Agent is Completely broke, pocketless and stranded
I WLL SEND AN AFRICA WITCH TO ATTACH YOU BASTARD
You go die like bird
i started shouting HALLELUJAGOBBLE but none of them notice me immediately police arrested me due to the shouting
f*ck u asshole ur damn mother will loose ur fcuking skull brain ur brain is nothing to compare with rat f*ck ur u
MY FRIEND ALEX WAS DETAINED IN POLICE STATION
I am not happy due to the question i answered at money office. Let me tell you do not play with me ok.
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harrya
Elite Baiter
Joined: 23 Jul 2006
Posts: 1489
Location: Not Happy
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Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:09 am |
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^^^^
The top is really great. What a great example of bad flashing |
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Mr Fishe
Baiting Guru
Joined: 22 Nov 2003
Posts: 2242
Location: PL_Goldrush
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Charlie Muggins
Master Baiter
Joined: 21 Jan 2007
Posts: 118
Location: A place where happiness reigns, and music plays ever so loudly.
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Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:33 pm |
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worth having a chat to your powers that be and getting and electric system |
What!! and destroy are mining industry |
_________________ I promise to stop requoting the previous post in full when I post myself. I really do know that is totally unnecessary because I've read the Forum Guidelines.
How long do I have to stand in this corner?
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Mike
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 30 Nov 2003
Posts: 721
Location: Dublin, Ireland
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Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:35 pm |
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Pity about the rain/sleet/snow in the flash pic; it would've been great! |
_________________ With your behavior I don't think that I will work with you. We are talking of money and with your altitude if I transfer this fund in your personal account you will seat on top of this money.
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Gnasher
Baiting Guru
Joined: 29 May 2006
Posts: 2849
Location: Centre Stage in the Theatre of Cruelty
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Wed Feb 07, 2007 9:30 pm |
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That first Duke of Gloucester pic would make a fab poster - very atmospheric and 'Brief Encounter'. |
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"you have to pay because he need to submit this form to the Federal Ministry Of Fancies" Barrister John/Mike/Richard Okeke
"they are in deed the swinders rotating about in the net and searching for whom they will stylishly defraud your belongings" A. Moron
"Please pray harder for God to guide and protect us during our travelling because flight airplane i observe is a very big risky" Abdul Karibu
"WE DOESN'T LIKE HOW DISOBIDIENT YOU ARE!" Coco Law Chambers
"BE INFORMED THAT YOU WILL INCUR DUMMERAGE AFTER 9 DAYS FROM TODAY" Burkina Faso Air Secure Air Service.\ |
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Roycropper
Baiting Guru
Joined: 14 Nov 2005
Posts: 7992
Location: Luxury Coffin
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Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:00 am |
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Yeah, cheers, it's my desktop at the moment. If only there weren't the overhead electric wires it would be pretty much timeless.
Note the polite gaggle by the cab, who didn't want to feel the wrath of the bunch of snappers at the front, of which I was one. A member of the station staff was trying to move us back, but we had all developed a case of communal mass deafness.
The Duke is one of my favourites, it was rescued after years in a Welsh scrapyard, with it unique cylinders cut off (it was built as a one off experiment), and considered an impossible task to restore.
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_________________ the European Union has bounced on our freckles
COULD YOU IMAGINE WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I WENT TO THE BANK
our Agent is Completely broke, pocketless and stranded
I WLL SEND AN AFRICA WITCH TO ATTACH YOU BASTARD
You go die like bird
i started shouting HALLELUJAGOBBLE but none of them notice me immediately police arrested me due to the shouting
f*ck u asshole ur damn mother will loose ur fcuking skull brain ur brain is nothing to compare with rat f*ck ur u
MY FRIEND ALEX WAS DETAINED IN POLICE STATION
I am not happy due to the question i answered at money office. Let me tell you do not play with me ok.
x4 6Yrs x6 |
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Roycropper
Baiting Guru
Joined: 14 Nov 2005
Posts: 7992
Location: Luxury Coffin
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Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:26 pm |
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Just to totally cock things up and put this thread back on track before it sinks into the deep, for those of you with patience and a good connection, here is a Canon website, with movies showing the processes involved in making their lenses.
http://web1.canon.jp/camera-museum/tech/l_plant/index.html
Click on 'Virtual Lens Plant'. It goes some way in explaining why they are so damned expensive. I was surprised how much hand assembly there is. |
_________________ the European Union has bounced on our freckles
COULD YOU IMAGINE WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I WENT TO THE BANK
our Agent is Completely broke, pocketless and stranded
I WLL SEND AN AFRICA WITCH TO ATTACH YOU BASTARD
You go die like bird
i started shouting HALLELUJAGOBBLE but none of them notice me immediately police arrested me due to the shouting
f*ck u asshole ur damn mother will loose ur fcuking skull brain ur brain is nothing to compare with rat f*ck ur u
MY FRIEND ALEX WAS DETAINED IN POLICE STATION
I am not happy due to the question i answered at money office. Let me tell you do not play with me ok.
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Roycropper
Baiting Guru
Joined: 14 Nov 2005
Posts: 7992
Location: Luxury Coffin
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Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:30 pm |
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Scuse me for necroing my own thread, but now I've gone and done it.
I liked the telephoto IS lens so much, I just bought this on Ebay:
Canon EF-S 17-85mm 17-85 f/4.0-5.6 USM IS lens
Here,s the rub, I bought it from Hong Kong, but they have guaranteed that if I have to pay any tax at all, they will refund it to me. To quote the listing:
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Customs Handling
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We warrant NO UK DUTY/VAT, or full reimbursement.
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In fact, we may handle all customs issues, if any, directly. Customers please don't answer any queries without our advice. |
They just sent me a Fedex tracking number, they reckon it will be here in 2 days.
Wish me luck!
I swear that's it, I will use this one as a replacement for the cheapo kit lens that came with the camera, as a 'regular' lens, along with the 70-300mm for distance work.
I really like the Image Stabiliser thingy, as I like taking pictures in natural light rather than using a flash. See the 2 pics at the top of this page for an example of why. |
_________________ the European Union has bounced on our freckles
COULD YOU IMAGINE WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I WENT TO THE BANK
our Agent is Completely broke, pocketless and stranded
I WLL SEND AN AFRICA WITCH TO ATTACH YOU BASTARD
You go die like bird
i started shouting HALLELUJAGOBBLE but none of them notice me immediately police arrested me due to the shouting
f*ck u asshole ur damn mother will loose ur fcuking skull brain ur brain is nothing to compare with rat f*ck ur u
MY FRIEND ALEX WAS DETAINED IN POLICE STATION
I am not happy due to the question i answered at money office. Let me tell you do not play with me ok.
x4 6Yrs x6 |
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Agi Hammerthief
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 12 Mar 2006
Posts: 671
Location: .de
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Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:49 pm |
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^^^
guess I'm too late then, but maybe some interesting info for fellow baiters:
german customs have an auction for confiscated goods (clickey)
maybe others do so as well? |
_________________ in gods we trust - all others pay cash
hug the trolls - maybe it will help them to stop being a worthless piece of trash
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Mike
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 30 Nov 2003
Posts: 721
Location: Dublin, Ireland
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Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:49 pm |
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I swear that's it, |
Yeah right That's your story, Roy, and you stick to it
You got da fever! |
_________________ With your behavior I don't think that I will work with you. We are talking of money and with your altitude if I transfer this fund in your personal account you will seat on top of this money.
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themob
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 11 Feb 2007
Posts: 68
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Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:55 pm |
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Roy, does this place do Nikon lenses? If they do can you say where you got youre lens? I'm after a good Nikon lens that does manual f-stops. I was brought up on a Yashica FX-D so I like setting the f-stop myself and lettting the camera work out the exposure (f8 is great!)
I have a D50 if that's any help. |
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Roycropper
Baiting Guru
Joined: 14 Nov 2005
Posts: 7992
Location: Luxury Coffin
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Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:29 am |
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/\/\ Here's a Nikon lens from the same seller, dunno if its the one you want, but I'm sure he has more:
CLICKY
Note the 'NO TAX' bit in the listing heading. He doesn't put this in all his listings, and its clear from his reply to someone who paid tax and left a negative feedback, that if it ain't in the listing, he DOESN'T guarantee it, so beware.
@ Mike. No that's it absolutely. Though I don't have a macro lens for closeups.
My mate, Mad Max, is a subscriber to the 'He who dies with the most toys, wins' philosophy. I went round to see his latest collection of motorbikes, jetski's etc (all from Ebay), and happened to mention photography. Next I'm holding a Canon EOS30D, looking through a 100-400mm 'L' IS Lens, which he said cost 'only two- eight' (�2,800! ) I didn't ask his wife if she knew how much it cost. |
_________________ the European Union has bounced on our freckles
COULD YOU IMAGINE WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I WENT TO THE BANK
our Agent is Completely broke, pocketless and stranded
I WLL SEND AN AFRICA WITCH TO ATTACH YOU BASTARD
You go die like bird
i started shouting HALLELUJAGOBBLE but none of them notice me immediately police arrested me due to the shouting
f*ck u asshole ur damn mother will loose ur fcuking skull brain ur brain is nothing to compare with rat f*ck ur u
MY FRIEND ALEX WAS DETAINED IN POLICE STATION
I am not happy due to the question i answered at money office. Let me tell you do not play with me ok.
x4 6Yrs x6 |
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Roycropper
Baiting Guru
Joined: 14 Nov 2005
Posts: 7992
Location: Luxury Coffin
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Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:45 am |
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Woot! 2 days later it's turned up, must go and play. Work, Eater and the Kitchen are suspended for the time being.
The way they got round the Customs is very clever, and pretty uncheckable. It is sleight of hand, though, and I won't say how they did it in case it buggers it up for others.
EDIT: Here ya go, taken with the 'Old' Olympus.
Its a chunky little monkey, like the Olympus before it, it now 'nearly' fits its case. Hopefully, Hayley will never notice the difference.
Here's one of my long suffering models. 1/8 sec, F5.6, no flash.
It does have a macro mode, so hopefully I dont need another lens for that.
This model doesn't suffer, it was me who suffered making it. 1/60 sec, F5.6
Compare the pic with the one I posted in the motorbike thread, with the kit lens. |
_________________ the European Union has bounced on our freckles
COULD YOU IMAGINE WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I WENT TO THE BANK
our Agent is Completely broke, pocketless and stranded
I WLL SEND AN AFRICA WITCH TO ATTACH YOU BASTARD
You go die like bird
i started shouting HALLELUJAGOBBLE but none of them notice me immediately police arrested me due to the shouting
f*ck u asshole ur damn mother will loose ur fcuking skull brain ur brain is nothing to compare with rat f*ck ur u
MY FRIEND ALEX WAS DETAINED IN POLICE STATION
I am not happy due to the question i answered at money office. Let me tell you do not play with me ok.
x4 6Yrs x6 |
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Shiver Metimbers
419Eater Admin
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
Posts: 7469
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Sat Feb 24, 2007 3:47 pm |
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A picture of Roy in about 6 months time:
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_________________ Roland Koffi: "Please my name is not Ahoy Matey. thakyou..."
Wilson Madu: "I will condom you to a painful death..."
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