Rob_P

Thats on the lift after super morzine isn't it? The alps is so good! Haven't posted in here for ages! New website went up yesterday - http://www.rob-passmore.co.uk/

Well my Fuji x100 arrived today, went for a refurb model but it looks brand spanking. God it feels so well made, perfect size and weight. Optical view finder with digital overlay is the balls, noise performace looks on par with my D300 if not better and pretty sharp at F2. Mind you it's dark and only used it around the house so far, will post something if I get anything decent this weekend. Konstant - Have you considered the X100? Seems bang on what you're after

X10 also looks good but love the idea of the bigger sensor. Can't wait to see more Bangkok pics, humid and crazy.

Looks good. I've read so much about that bloody camera now. I want one.

Has anyone on here got or tried a fuji X100? Read loads of reviews and seen plenty of photos. Seems like a great everyday camera and fuji refurbs are good prices

It's an old camera now but will still produce a decent photo. So yeah you should buy mr Hayes's

Haven't posted in here for ages! Shot from last night

Thanks. I remember seeing some of your climbing shots, were they from Railay? Aus is really expensive isn't it, couldn't stay there long without working. Have you got any other stuff online?

Just got back from Thailand, more on the blog

Really like your shot of Brighton Pier Mike! Couple of new posts from New Zealand blog

Great video, well edited. Will be a good memory to look back on. Nikon D800 has been officically announced Link Also new blog post from North Island New Zealand

New blog post on Raratonga in the Cook Islands Link

Highly recommend the xilisoft HD software too, I had the same headache recently but this worked a dream. Then import it into whatever software you're using to edit

Yeah nothing will play back smoothly unless you have rendered it. Makes it much easier, maybe leave it doing over night. It takes even longer if you rotate footage or add any kind of effects. Even on really quick machines it takes an age

This is a good piece of converting software - http://www.xilisoft.com/hd-video-converter.html Are you rendering the video to play it back smoothly? Might be a stupid question

Personally I think you should have just made a flickr page, maybe bought a domain name for £8 and forwarded it to that. You've only been doing it for 6 months yet one of your main tabs is "interested in hiring me?" Also why have you got a calendar on there, as if people are lining up to see when you are free to work? Sorry sounds harsh but get just get out there and enjoy your photography, build up your knowledge and kit then make your own website later when you have a stronger set of photos. I think it's far too early to start a website shouting HIRE ME when your clearly just starting out, good luck

Just finished building my commencal 55. Used my brakes, wheels and a few other bits from my marin. If anyones interested in a marin hardtail with Pike 454 coils, new BB, seatpost, stem and bars......

BBC: In Pictures

Christ, a forum where people TRY to get fat and then show their disgusting rolls off to the rest of the world? A one way ticket to a heart attack thats for sure

I'd also go for the Nikon. That or the Olympus, both decent brands and work well. Wouldn't go for the Sony as the memory cards are queer and the battery/connections are all really specific to sony, which makes the leads/chargers harder to get hold of and more expensive. Also look out for warranty, the Nikon and Olympus should have a two year warranty once registered, the fuji, sony and samsung will not. The casio and samsung menus tend to be pretty awful, especially the cheap ones. Lots of gimmicky smiles and stupid sounds. The Fuji JV100 also only has 3x optical zoom with no wide angle, if you click on "features" and look at the focal length (35mm equiv), wide angle should be around 28mm (not 37). The Nikon is the clear choice for good quality, decent menus, zoom and it looks good. If you can avoid it, don't buy it from Jessops, try and find an independent retailer as they often have the same deals as bigger companies around christmas. They'll also be able to give you decent advice and let you try some out, unlike Jessops. I don't know if there are any in your price range but the little canon ixus tend to be very good. However don't expect miracle results from any £80 camera..........however I'm sure it'll be a very well received gift!!

Yeah no joy, says its not compatible

Another problem with girlfriends laptop after fresh install. The sound isn't working which tells me the drivers are missing but on the gateway website the drivers are only listed for windows vista and this is XP, it even came with XP so why they list vista, god knows. Tried going into the device manager and using right click update driver, no luck. Any ideas? It's a gateway MX6926b Also the screen is in full widescreen stretch mode, resolution is completely off and everything looks short and fat. Only res settings are 800 x 600 and 1024 x 768, needs to be more. cheers

Anyone know of anywhere doing any deals on this still? Annoyingly missed the Xbox live and game deal at tescos for £44

Downloaded both of those and that enabled me to connect to the router through a cable. Downloaded the WAP2 patch and updated the network drivers, BOOM! done, thank god for that!!! cheers to anyone who tried to help

Ok slight progress. Now finally managed to install a fresh copy of windows home and installed service pack 2 from disk. Problem was even though it was a genuine copy it kept saying it couldn't detect the hardrive, found out this is because of some sata driver conflicting. Had to download the driver and buy an external floppy drive (whyyyyy) to install it on, then while booting from disk press F6 to install driver, kept freezing. So then used a program called nlite to slipstream the drivers into a copy of windows, created an iso file, burnt to disk, worked! hooray! So now I'm kind of back to where I was, with a version of windows but still with no wireless. It would appear I'm in need of this....... WPA2 wireless patch However it wants a net connection to "validate" your copy of windows to download it. Now my problem is that even when I connect the laptop straight to the wireless router with a LAN cable it dosen't work, annny suggestions?