Kiwi - GKPE - New and Improved General Ramblings (5)

Sancho wrote in post #5513315
LOL just as well I value your opinion so highly

Again, obviously yet another uninformed comment ..

Unfortunately, while it is opinion (and thus subjective, and filled with a little sarcasm), it is not uninformed.

Moppie wrote in post #5513350
Unfortunately, while it is opinion (and thus subjective, and filled with a little sarcasm), it is not uninformed.

So you've owned a mark iv GTI golf and didnt like it?!?! LOL

Sancho wrote in post #5513369
So you've owned a mark iv GTI golf and didnt like it?!?! LOL

No, but I have worked on one, among other VW's and Audi's from the same generation.
VAG are very good at their badge engineering, and even better at cutting costs and covering it up with marketing and brand image.

Hmmm I guess your right, If I worked on something once I'd classify myself an expert in the field as well

iKirst wrote in post #5510494
Thanks Peter
The Clendon ones (2nd lost posted) were dusk
The Greenlane ones were sunrise

Call me a littl crazy

At least the sun rise is not so early at the moment there.
Todays sunrise here was 5:38. I saw it.

gary88 wrote in post #5510556
The first digital camera I bought, Sony DSC-P150. When I bought it new, it cost about $470, and the 512mb Memory Stick I bought cost $80.


My 70-200 sitting pretty in the bag.

My< wife likes the white gummybears. (Random quote)

iKirst wrote in post #5510654
Ah, good old Sony

Mine was the Sony Cybershot DCS-F717. Cost $1300, sold for $600 2½ years later

I had the F717.
I didn't like it at all.
Aside from it being the worlds ugliest camera, the menu system was the pits. I sold it for 450 Euro after 2 1/2 years! Couldn't believe anyone would pay so much.

Nzshrimper wrote in post #5511666
phototime - and yep its motorsport again lol....

OMG!! You can't read the numberplate!

Moppie wrote in post #5512910
I'll second that.
They are right up there with MX5s, n/a MR2's and 316/318i BMW's.

They scream:
"Hiya, look at me! I care more about how I look in my car, than how good my car is('nt)."

I have owned a golf (2 actually) since 1992. And I'm not a hairdresser... nor is my wife! Actually she drives them.

Moppie wrote in post #5513393
No, but I have worked on one, among other VW's and Audi's from the same generation.
VAG are very good at their badge engineering, and even better at cutting costs and covering it up with marketing and brand image.

Bla bla bla blaaaaa.
Porsche doesnt?

tommykjensen wrote in post #5510739
Yes it is interesting to see how other people crop your photos for use. Some time ago I took some photos for the homepage of the company I work in and particular the photo used on this page I was surprised how they cropped it. At first I thought they had combined 2 photos but then I realised they just cropped it differently. About 15 of the photos on that homepage was shot by me.


btw great photos.

Had a snoop, Tommy, nice work

I'm interested to see the croppage on mine, too

And thanks!

Nzshrimper wrote in post #5511666
phototime - and yep its motorsport again lol....

That'll buff right out..

dgcorner wrote in post #5511826
Well done Kirst! The GKPE can give you an award for best dressed avatar... then you will be an award winning photographer

Hahaha - you make it sound so easy

Sancho wrote in post #5512110
Yikes, just booked my GTI golf in for a cambelt ... $1k thanks

Yikes! That's a bunch of change!

kaypony wrote in post #5512858
Nice Kirst. Good work!

Thanks Katherine. Look, no bricks! hehe

Don28 wrote in post #5512879
Hi all, am back from my holiday and back to work :P first day back, how dreadfull...

Welcome back, Don! Glad you enjoyed yourself. I quite like the prawn shot. Very Cuisine Mag

Nzshrimper wrote in post #5513091
my brothers - i will avenge your death....

Your cousins never felt a thing, I assure you

akiwi wrote in post #5513428
At least the sun rise is not so early at the moment there.
Todays sunrise here was 5:38. I saw it.

Eep! Did you wet the bed?

Heh - I was amazed I got so much for mine after 2½ years, too. I did like mine, though. I was surgically attached to my hip. My canon doesn't venture out as much

iKirst wrote in post #5513465
Eep! Did you wet the bed?



Heh - I was amazed I got so much for mine after 2½ years, too. I did like mine, though. I was surgically attached to my hip. My canon doesn't venture out as much

It's a waterbed.. so sokay

Nzshrimper wrote in post #5512721

Ok I like that quite a bit. Don't know why, just do.

dgcorner wrote in post #5512041
For those of you with the 20/30/40D + 24-105L - are you happy with the lens, but more importantly with the combo? Just thinking of a good walk around lens... 17-40 is too short, 70-200 too narrow...

I like it very much. Only had it for a few weeks but for a walk about lens it will be excellent. I think it will work well for me and the photographs I mostly take (snaps).

Not as heavy as the 24-70, and not as wide as the 17-55.

I can see I am going to buy a wide angle at some stage to go with the 24-105 and the 70-200.

Don28 wrote in post #5512879
Hi all, am back from my holiday and back to work :P first day back, how dreadfull...

WElcome back Don! I bet you gained a few kgs...:p

somethingsimple wrote in post #5513177
yup very happ with it, gives really nice results on 40D and still pretty wide enough for general use but offers a little extra reach which can be handy. and, for the future, it does a nice job on a 5D too if Rich Legg is any kind of example

THanks SS!

tongmaster wrote in post #5513568
I like it very much. Only had it for a few weeks but for a walk about lens it will be excellent. I think it will work well for me and the photographs I mostly take (snaps).

Not as heavy as the 24-70, and not as wide as the 17-55.

I can see I am going to buy a wide angle at some stage to go with the 24-105 and the 70-200.

Thanks Bruce!

went out with camera this morning, was going to shoot autumn leaves, which i did... but i also found about 30 of these in the same area so i was grovelling around in the lead mould for awhile... (all taken with 17-55 @ f/2.8, no flash)

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(lots more here...)

The second one is my favourite, SS. It's cute!
Kinda reminds me of a tot that's figured out how to escape and run away from home, giggling all the while. Waiting for mamma 'shroom to playfully run after it...

lol u egg
whats the last one then, tot overreached itself and got lost?

Moppie wrote in post #5513393
No, but I have worked on one, among other VW's and Audi's from the same generation.
VAG are very good at their badge engineering, and even better at cutting costs and covering it up with marketing and brand image.

Sancho wrote in post #5513408
Hmmm I guess your right, If I worked on something once I'd classify myself an expert in the field as well

i read both statements and would say that moppie did not say he worked on once, he said that he has worked on one.

there was also no claim of being an expert in the field.... - but he does come from a place of knowledge... main gained around the rally scene... and was also a car mech once. well more than once as in the number - but once in a period of time..

please visit this site

www.barryboys.co.uk - have a look around for what i meant by chav mobiles which unfortunatly the golf gti mk1 , mk2 and now the mk3 have all become.

I only just realised now that I didn't have my Honeypuffs this morning.

I must rectify the situation immediately.