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Good work Mark, and thanks for the idents - I still haven't ventured out to look at the night sky yet.
Pokemon - nice silhouette, but as ken points out (no pun intended) the ridge tile & the vignetting let the picture down.

Phoned Sussex camera centre up today - my 50 has come back, but as they hadn't actually unpacked it they couldn't say what was the prob. (Or how much - Gulp!!).

Can't wait for Saturday then so I can go get it back - Have missed it so much.

Good luck Andy - hope the news isn't too bad.

Just spent a week in the Cinque Terre region of Italy. Just north are the villages of Camogli and Portofino, the latter being a haunt of the idle rich.

I've got hundreds to sort through but heres a quick sample, Camogli seems to be a little off the tourist trail and is all the better for it, we were told that the more popular of the tiny Cinque Terre villages can get 5000 tourists a day in peak season!

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Very picturesque, Richard. Looks nice.

Pretty scene Richard - looks like that's a busy marina.

Camera's back but none the wiser as to what was actually wrong with it as they didn't put much info on the repair sheet.
It's had a good strip down & service and everything set back to factory default (as I'd already done - just in case) - now to get out somewhere and test it.

Lovely shot Richard.

My word I need a proper holiday (away somewhere), its been about 6 years. Currently off at the moment but wife and I are working our way through a list of house maintenance jobs.

Good luck with the 50 Andy.

Sundown was too nice to ignore this evening & although I didn't get anything spectacular I thought I'd share these couple of pics - just feels so good having the camera back!

I'd like a holiday as well Portofino seems to get painted a lot as well as photographed. I like the beach shot with the fort Andy, but feel the other is a bit dark, needs a bit of a lift I think.

I haven't had a holiday for 8 years.

Cheers for the comments on the pics Ken - I darkened down the fisherman on purpose, but obviously the idea didn't work then.

Tornado is on a run from Victoria to Swanage tomorrow the scheduled times are here.

http://www.uksteam.inf​o/tours/t10/t0929b.htm

Now I wonder what the light is going to be like.

It's alright for you retired folk! I'll be wearing a suit and giving a technical presentation when you're shooting the steam. Actually you probably won't bother, looking at tomorrow's weather forecast!

Yes its a bummer doing the day job when all these shooting ops are passing you by.

Just think though all that money you're earning you can buy some decent kit, us poor folk struggling along on our pensions I agree the weather ain't looking too promising I might make a dash over to Eastleigh if it's not too bad.