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bd139:

--- Quote from: Specmaster on June 10, 2018, 10:31:57 pm ---
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--- Quote from: Specmaster on June 10, 2018, 10:05:16 pm ---Shame you forgot about the Philips lab sale in Cambridge, you might have gotten the 200MHz 4 channel combiscope, ideal for your small corner I'd have thought? There was a nice Sony 1080p camcorder system going ut the price on jumped right up at the end, it was cliffhanger watching 2 buyers trying outbit and outwit each other with last second bids. I dropped out when I could see how that was going. Shame because it have been nice to take that some airshows and make my own DVD's up. :popcorn:

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Keep an eye out for half decent DSLRs on eBay. Got me a Nikon D3200 body a while ago for £80. That does full 1080p video. Lens turn up for a reasonable amount as well. Haven’t used the damn thing yet bar a run round Kew Gardens.

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Thanks but if I was going to down that route I'd stick with Canon as I already have Canon cameras and the lenses. I was thinking about getting the next model up from mine which also does 1080p video, but it like I think the Nikon, has a all plastic body which struggles to adequately support a 300mm telephoto lens, especially my sons L series  lens which is so large and heavy. Our existing camera bodies have magnesium bodies to both take the weight of the lenses and protect against accidental knocks etc.

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Cheap end Nikons have magnesium chassis connected to the ring. I used my old d70 with my father’s crazy  telephoto for a bit. Man that hurt carrying that round but it didn’t bend anything other than me :)

Got fed up of smart phone cameras about six months ago. TEA actually did this. You can get better shots with something that actually has glass in it. This reminded me I missed a proper camera. Another form of TEA is PEA, photographic equipment anonymous. But that’s for another forum.

Only Nikon here because once you’ve got some lenses you’re locked in and I inherited a couple of nice Nikkor AF ones. I’d probably go canon myself if I didn’t have them. Still have some praktica stuff and some Zeiss lenses somewhere I got from a house sale in the 90s. Man I have so much shit lying around. Need to sort it.


--- Quote from: Specmaster on June 10, 2018, 10:35:40 pm ---
--- Quote from: med6753 on June 10, 2018, 10:29:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 10, 2018, 09:56:14 pm ---The prize should be being referred to only as “jammy git” for the following month :)

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Never heard that term before. Had to Google it. Must be one of those quaint English terms.  ;D

And what about the 2465 I stole last month for $60 USD? Doesn't that qualify?

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Yes it does, you jammy git, fact is that so many of us are jammy gits at different times because either we are in the right place at the right or we are such good negotiators. I think however the jammiest git of us all has to be Ero-Shan with that massive dumpster diving haul of his last year  |O

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I have to agree with that one.

Kosmic:
I was kind of tempted to start doing dumpster diving, but decided against it. I think I'm not there yet in the evolution of my disease  :)

Kosmic:

--- Quote from: Specmaster on June 10, 2018, 10:35:40 pm ---
--- Quote from: med6753 on June 10, 2018, 10:29:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 10, 2018, 09:56:14 pm ---The prize should be being referred to only as “jammy git” for the following month :)

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Never heard that term before. Had to Google it. Must be one of those quaint English terms.  ;D

And what about the 2465 I stole last month for $60 USD? Doesn't that qualify?

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Yes it does, you jammy git, fact is that so many of us are jammy gits at different times because either we are in the right place at the right or we are such good negotiators. I think however the jammiest git of us all has to be Ero-Shan with that massive dumpster diving haul of his last year  |O

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So what's the story ? What did he found in the dumpster ?

mnementh:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on June 10, 2018, 04:02:48 pm ---
--- Quote from: med6753 on June 10, 2018, 01:59:07 pm ---Are there sections of London that are really that bad? NYC used to have "no go" sections but that's no longer true...although some neighborhoods are "safer" than others. Now the same can't be said for cities like Chicago or Detroit.

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No London isn't that bad!

BTW, it isn't just NYC; my parents experienced that in several forms in Pittsburgh in the "golden era" late 50s. Naturally I  won't be responding to any replies, on the basis this any such conversation will rapidly devolve.

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[SLICE OF LIFE MODE; begin backstory:]

I grew up in MsKeesport area in the early '80s; several years after the mills shut down, but still recent enough that most of the mill hunkies (their word and perversely proud of it, not mine) still believed they'd open again. This was a time and place of silent desperation; suicide and homicide rates were higher per capita than Oakland. The only thing the kept most of them going was Bradshaw and the Steel Curtain; They clung to the "City of Champions" hype and drama like a lifeline. Win, Lose or Suck there's no fan of any kind as fiercely loyal as a Steelers fan.  :-+

My mom was a dyed-in-the-wool hippie RN back when people only got into it to help people, because the hours were brutal and the pay was barely subsistence-level. She moved us to Pittsburgh because of a guy (We'll just call him "Richard") she fell for and thought she could save from his own narcissism. Those were good times mostly; he hadn't revealed his sociopathic selfishness yet, and she was actually happy and in love. Our home on 6th Ave was poor but full of love and hope.

She decided we needed to get "West of the yards" when I told her of my adventure on the way to South Hills Village where my friends and I literally had to walk around a dead body to get on the bus; I was 12 or 13. We moved to Dormont for a little less than a year, then she got a good job at Western Psych and we were able to move upscale to Greentree for a bit then she bought a house in Mt Lebanon.

It was the cheapest house on the street, and all the yuppie families looked down on us because she drove a Chevy Nova when they all had Porsches and Saabs; she told me after we left (she walked away from 20K+ in equity when that dingle Richard decided to get back together with his ex instead of marrying her) that she was lucky it happened when it did. She swore there had to be something in the water that made them all so blindly conservative even as the city crumbled around them, because after a few years living in the middle of them she was trying to figure out a way to swing a second-hand Beemer.  :palm:

[/SLICE OF LIFE MODE; cue swirly sound]


mnem
Pants are highly overrated.

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: bd139 on June 10, 2018, 10:22:33 pm ---
--- Quote from: Specmaster on June 10, 2018, 10:05:16 pm ---Shame you forgot about the Philips lab sale in Cambridge, you might have gotten the 200MHz 4 channel combiscope, ideal for your small corner I'd have thought? There was a nice Sony 1080p camcorder system going ut the price on jumped right up at the end, it was cliffhanger watching 2 buyers trying outbit and outwit each other with last second bids. I dropped out when I could see how that was going. Shame because it have been nice to take that some airshows and make my own DVD's up. :popcorn:

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Keep an eye out for half decent DSLRs on eBay. Got me a Nikon D3200 body a while ago for £80. That does full 1080p video. Lens turn up for a reasonable amount as well. Haven’t used the damn thing yet bar a run round Kew Gardens.

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My local auction house has a "seized stock" section, and that often has high-end cameras in it. They typically go for 75% of the fleabay price, or 50% above the range suggested by the auction house.

The "unclaimed property" (presumably from airport security and/or customs seizures) is much cheaper; bundles of Kindles, knives and perfume seem common.

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