OK I took the plunge and have ordered a Pentax 300mm lens. Ordered online from a Dutch company as about £250 less than best UK online price. Just hope it does the business.

Ok, so i'm wanting to offload my Canon Eos 60D, i don't really want to put it on eBay due to their expensive fees as every penny is needed for a full frame upgrade, so i am wondering if there are any other sites that are safe for selling it on, Gumtree is no good as i live on the Cumbrian coast far from civilisation lol, any help would be most welcome, thanks

How much do you want for it? Is it body only?

Nice one.

Just a two foot Wescott Apollo softbox, speedlite and 1/2 CTO gel.



Aside from a Rogue Flashbender kit I really can't think of any light modifier which gives greater bang for the buck.



I do have a three foot version but you really need a half decent strobe to get the best out of it.

I've been lurking on here for a while now. I purchased a Nikon D3200 a few months ago, I'm a complete novice, but learning.



Anyway, we went to Kos last month, and I got up at 6.00 one morning to take some photographs of Syrian refugees landing on the beach from Kos. I absolutely love the last photo, the lighting at that time in the morning is perfect.



I've posted 4 pictures, but the first three are just to put the last one into context. All the images are untouched, taken on 300mm VR lens, hand held.





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I absolutely love the last picture.



Any comments for a novice are welcome.

The Mrs is offering to buy me a camera for xmas as I've been wanting one for a while.



I am a complete novice when it comes to camera's but with a budget of £150 I want to try and get something decent to get me going. I'm not expecting to set the world on fire with that kind of budget but the 2 cameras I've seen so far are a Canon PowerShot SX410 which is currently half price in argos at £129 and I also like the look of the Sony DSCH400 which is around £150 .



Specwise it looks like the sony comes out slightly better with a better zoom and viewfinder but without much knowledge i'm not sure which direction to head.



Any suggestions?

Both are good manufacturers who build excellent sensors. If the Canon really is reduced then I'd be tempted to go for it. If you plan on doing something more than taking the odd snap then I'd definitely be looking for the ability to shoot RAW as opposed to lossy JPEG. Compression is an absolute killer on little cameras so if you can avoid it - great. If neither do and the Canon price is a fiddle then I'd probably think about the better Sony lens.

I have this lens and use it all regularly, I like it. It is very good hand held at 500mm with the Sigma OS settings. Apart from the Canon 'nifty fifty' all my lenses are Sigma, the 105mm Macro and the 10-20mm 3.5 WA often top the ratings on test in the Canon edition of Photo Plus. I use the 70D which is excellent.

I took the plunge on the Adobe monthly subscription (£8.75) for which I get the latest Photoshop and Lightroom 6, these are updated to keep pace with changes. I have began to use PS more and am slowly getting to grips with it, but as said on here it is a professional tool and takes a lot of getting use to. I have used LR to play with RAW images, but tend to use PS more often. The good thing is that you hardly miss the monthly fee and it's yearly equivelant is the same buying Element outright (not including upgrades).

Not sure if this thread is worth resurrecting since the last post was 18 months ago, but here goes.



I need to buy a travel friendly camera, something that takes sharp shots, decent auto focus, not too big/bulky or takes ages to set up but has a good zoom - probably for no more than £300.



Any suggestions?