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Sutton Warrior

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  1. Hi Folks, not been around for a while. Personal circumstances and all that, then me' P&S decided to stop working! Second time in three years, major failure both times??? decided it was time to get up to date. Spent many hours, looking on the web, in mags, procrastinating, on the basis that something will come up tomorrow Well, it did, I had been tossing the Canon A640-A630 and one of the (there are so many) Lumix P&S around and around. The Canon had good spec., the appeal of a swivel screen and eye view finder, but it was a Canon that had gone ca-put, twice! The Lumix has a great spec., plus wide angle lens but no eye view or swivel screen? As I say, "something came up". Nearly went for it last week, but just could not get the hand out of the pocket Then, wadding through the web, again, looking at 'all in one printers', came across, by chance, the offer of the year. A Bank Holiday cash back offer by Canon on the 'powereshot' range, £60 on an A640, provided purchased between 24/29th May 2007. Jessops are doing a "match any published price" offer . . . So, a hunt through 'What Digital Camera' came up with a price of £209.99 against Jessops price of £229.99 and £60 cash back from Canon, claim form and receipt in the post already. I recon £149.99 is a pretty fair price to pay for a P&S that has had top reviews and full manual control next only to SLR type camera. Saved another £25 on the HPC5180 'all in one' printer, this afternoon, £105 discount in one day . . . The moral to the tail, if you are in the market for a 'powershot' P&S, can get to the shops this weekend, there is some good money to be had? Now for some light instruction book reading S/Warrior
  2. Gilles, I think your comments put things nicely into perspective, at zero budget!!!??? Therefore a posible redirection of cash Take the misses and camera away for a weekend Shoot a few pics, and improve technique by posting on 'AN Photo' for some constructive advise. Everyone is happy?? I'd check those photo quality setting on the camera menu though 'Sutton W'
  3. Below the reviews on the Nikon D70 and 80, there are some major resolution tests, although I think he uses some good glass to show the camera at its best, = 'what can be achieved'! http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond80/ http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond70/ Shoot in RAW and there ant no differance, between Canon 400 and Nikon D80!
  4. Moonyaker, you seem to be worried about 'sharp' pictures??? If yours are not sharp? are your camera menu setting for image quality and sharpness set right. The other area that may be suspect is the kit lens? Nikon 18-70 kit lens is not bad, although I have heard of the od rouge copy, but as a lens, it seems one of the best? Amateur Photographer gave it a very good comparison write up, it trounced the Canon kit offering big time! Heard a few moans and groans on Canon kit lens quality consistency as well. I'd spend the money on glass, and commit to Nikon I might be just a tad biased on 'Nikon' There is the reworking, and RAW, Photo Shop Elements 4 or 5, either heavily discounted to £30 - £50? 'Sutton W'
  5. Limited experience but I suppose my two peneth my get things going? On the Nikon question, the D80 has set the photographic world chartering, a D200 in all the important bits except name! Labeled as the Nikon committed pros fallback spare? Quality glass will always improve the situation if you are that critical. However, the independents are offering some top lenses, all at the same price in which ever major fit you are committed to. See the review comparisons, very revealing. There appears to be no need these days to pay fancy prices, unless you are into impressing others with a name? So, I would, if I was in your shoes, decide which brand I want to follow, then study the independent glass available? 'Sutton W'
  6. Yea, looks like I did miss the point, loads of small ones, good years to come??? lets hope so. The thing I like is that fishing from the boats is not a matter of drop the 'pick' anywhere and catch fish. They have to be found, grey matter, local knowledge, charts, tide table = good fish. Dont apply these factor and its a lottery? 'Sutton W'
  7. --> QUOTE(Norm B @ Mar 26 2007, 08:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> . . . . a shame that firms like Daiwa, Shakespeare and Shimano didn't come as we need a well supported show to fill the day. It always has been more for the coarse and game anglers but sea fishing has been getting better representation since EMAP took it over. I think this says it all, with the plight of sea angling in the balance as it is, if the 'Conservation' forum is anything to go by??? . . . . . " the angling industry is fiddling while Rome burns" . . . ????? . . . . and the cost to get into these shows . . . ? Na, I'll go on the Internet . . . !!!! much of whats there is to catch anglers anyway? Best put the money towards the next fishing trip 'Sutton W'
  8. Nursejudy, Seahorses? and there was me expecting some nice little creature with an arrrr . . . . . . 'crazy White Horses' great pictures, wow!!! Some Holiday Did you do any sea fishing? did yu!, did yu! 'Sutton W' . . .
  9. So you are all talking about small codling this season again??? So how do we deal with the bigger than usual Spring run cod that is being taken on Thames/East Anglian boats at the moment. 5lb fish is normal, 7lb is not unusual and doubles are seen regularly. These figures are applying to Cod and Thornbacks, doom and gloom???? why. Bass of good size are being taken as well. I see a good 2007 ahead. Am I missing a point 'Sutton W'
  10. --> QUOTE(Norm B @ Mar 21 2007, 07:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> There has always been a market for good quality bait and if the supply is reliable shops will pay a premium, which is passed on to the customer. It is not an option for me to dig or collect my own bait so I have to rely on a shop, usually it's OK but sometimes I'm let down then it's an evening or a day wasted. I'm happy to pay for quality and reliability but sometimes either the bait doesn't turn up or it's of inferior quality, then I don't go fishing. No point in handicapping yourself before you start. Quality bait, could not agree more. Personally I think I am getting things decanted down to winter and spring bait, I can provide my self with sufficient to make it worth my while to go fishing, with out being beholden to a third party. Summer, is different, rag worm is more consistent in the shop, therefore better value. However, with the success we had last year with frozen mackerel, we can almost cut the strings entirely??? We have always been told 'frozen mackerel does not work' . . . ???? The tackle shops cant be doing themselves any favours, I cant be the only one who sees it this way???? 'Sutton W'
  11. Cant remember the last time I went to a pub. A 2ltr., bottle of Blackthorn Cider last me and my partner all week! I'm not trying to be a misery or point the finger, its just that I can find better things to spend my money on that gives me more satisfaction . . . like fishing If I'm getting decent quality worm, (blow lug by the way) I have no complaints, as I say, I pay £4.50 for 10 'King Rag', one worm = one bait, no problem. Its the 2" blow lug offerings so often dished up constituting 30-40% of the 100 that I object to and the rest are rarely more than 3-4". Mention it to the shop, its take it or leave it??? So these days I rarely use worm in the winter, preferring squid, my mates still buy blow lug, and invariably end up using my squid, its a good job I take enough on the boat. I keep a freezer well stoked, and usually take 6 to 7lbs to allow for the other two anglers. Normally I will restock 2lbs, but if we have a red letter day, that can all go! Not unusual to have a few worm left at the end of a trip! Crabs I can manage, we have a good foreshore that has enough. And green hard backs, get enough of them in an hour to keep us all going when we go for the Smoothounds. Just been told the first of the smoothies are showing . . . bit early, and they are small, late April will see things start to get moving. Then its June and Tope, used frozen mackerel last year to good effect, been hard to find the schools to feather fresh in recent years. So thats another stock from the freezer, to go when we like. Its only 'King Rag' I have to be beholden to the tackle shop for, no king rag, ah well, use the ordinary stuff then. Rag in my area is usually tolerably OK, some times its even good to excellent!!! and the farmed stuff, we love it, big lively, tough and it fishes as well as the natural dug stuff. 'Sutton W'
  12. You may be right 'Onenil', about the value of the worms that is???? But £40-£50 for a night out? . . . call me a miserable old git, but to pay £50 for the privilege of giving myself a headache is madness in the extreme. Yea, and I dont smoke either !!!!! . . . . ****** !!!! Decided to keep the rest of this part of the reply to my self, And you have missed the point, age and creaking bones means that worm digging as a serious activity is not an option! 18p for a 2 inch worms half a dozen required for a decent bait???? 'Sutton Warrior'
  13. If I was younger, and fully functioning!!! (dont even think about it!!) . . . but aches, pains and a few years under the belt makes digging impractical . . . you wait . . . you will catch up 'Sutton W'
  14. In this part of the world that would be £13.00's worth. No not a lot??? But unfortunately, that would hardly do half a session with two rods on a boat. One of the ways I keep costs down, by using one rod with worm and the other on squid, squid in the winter often out fishing worm anyway I think I have to face the fact that worm is 'gold dust' and therefore, look at being tight with it, use squid in the winter, and more cut fish in the summer. Had a good summer with cut fish bait last year. Problem is, one objects to paying 18p for a 2" lugworm! One worm that size just dont make a viable bait when cod fishing. Big baits = big fish, so they say??? Roll on summer, do some meaningful bass, hound and tope fishing on and around the banks. Get the 'king rag' out now there is a bait that 'fights back' and says 'I'm value for money'!!! 'Sutton W'
  15. TB, always fancied a 'ferret' I remember 50+ years back my father used to keep them for catching rabbits. Fresh rabbit; meat supply after the war, my mums rabbit pie and rabbit stew were the 'best'!! The ferrets were never pets, but they were surprisingly friendly, even so? Despite dad not seeing them as pets, he used to treat them very well, working animals! Dad used to keep them, usually two, in cages in the back yard, my bedroom over looked the yard, the ferrets used to make quite a din scratching on the wire cage fronts. Things would be different now, caged animals, no way! I have a problem with animal fur, cats especially, so ferrets??? Not prepared to find out, asama and I can go almost blind for up to 3 days!!! Strange, the allergy did not develop until I was 35 years old! Before it was sorted, went through 18 months of hell thinking I was heading for the 'hi jump'? I have a dog, who fortunately, does not cause me a problem, little mongrel, with loads of character. Its tough when we loose pets, Oli' is my 4th dog, say it every time, "no more thats the last one" . . . big softy I am 'Sutton W'
  16. Chester, I leave a folder on my cards, that the camera put there in the fist place. So when I delete the unwanted images from the card, I dont flag that one, in fact if I do get it wrong, the computer reminds me! Clever little piece of kit ain't it! 'Sutton W'
  17. £18 per hundred is a bit steep for something often only a couple of inches long. Although, a friend reported that Breakaway Tackle in Ipswich supplied him with some excellent worms last week. For a decent cod bait on a boat = 6-8, 2" worms, thats more than £1 OK add a couple of fresh worms per cast and strip every 3rd/4th cast? As I say 'Black Gold'. Noticing that squid is being mentioned more in the posts? That costing makes peeler fairly cost effective, especially if you use half + rag, lug, squid or fish tip? By tip I mean put the crab up the trace, bind on and ad the worm or squid to the hook, depends, what your after and where? Anyone got any ideas about reducing the affective cost of bait, digging not a option, ouch!. Certainly one has cut costs by reducing the amount of lugworm I buy. I remember 20 years ago it was normal to have 200-250 worms for a 2 rod session, and they were far better quality then as well, so were the fish of course. 'Sutton W'
  18. Brightlingsea is not a big place? . . . but an address would help? . . . saves the poor guy keep answering the phone, he may be busy serving a customer, counting lugworm??? what a wast of time counting worm!!! When I went to Wales a few years back they weighed black lug. At £18 per hundred, each one rarely bigger than my little finger, I'm not into lugworm baits! 'Sutton W'
  19. "Speedy reader"; http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_in...oducts_id=99237 This is an old thread, one I watched and acted on. I order one, although I had a reader, it is a couple or three years old, cheap at the time when decent readers were £30-£40, technology moves on? For £4 it was worth a try? As I say an old thread, but worth bringing back? The '7dayshop' reader is excellent, picture transfer and initial manipulation, and moving around is notably 'faster'. 'Sutton W'
  20. Mmm? 'the Barrows'???? The chart makes interesting reading Its a good idea to sit and read the chart, we can be like sheep sometimes 'Sutton W'
  21. Its interesting reading Muttley's report. I have been watching, and listening to locals during the past couple of months. There has been a pattern, first, all the cod moved in close, but seemed to prefer the deeper water holes, the 2-3lb average size was maintained. Then the od 4-5lb fish started to show, now all the reports I hear are good numbers of bigger fish by (N/Thames, Anglia standards) and almost all these larger cod from shallow marks. The liners are having a field day by all accounts! Thornbacks are in double figures, the od small smoothie and decent size 'soles' are about, has the world gone mad. Sorry has Essex/Suffolk gone mad??? Any one else noticed the trends, are they new??? 'Sutton W'
  22. Thanks all, some really interesting pics going in to the competition. Simple images that draw the eye, simple, thats me, very simple 'Sutton W'
  23. Thanks mate, I know of the individuals that you speak. The word is, there are some big cod in my patch, best I've heard of is a fish estimated at 12lb . . . came off the hook at the net!!! 5-7lb seems to be the norm Cant see me wetting a line just yet aint life a bitch 'Sutton W'
  24. 'Violet in the hedgerow' by 'Sutton W' File date: 2007:03:16 12:59:43 Camera make: Canon Camera model: Canon PowerShot Date/Time: 2007:03:15 21:32:09 Resolution: 800 x 675 Flash used: No (auto) Focal length: 7.1mm (35mm equivalent: 115mm) CCD width: 2.22mm Exposure time: 0.0010 s (1/1000) Aperture: f/4.0 Exposure bias: -0.33 Whitebalance: Manual Metering Mode: matrix Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing 'Catkins' by 'Sutton W' File date: 2007:03:16 12:59:42 Camera make: Canon Camera model: Canon PowerShot Date/Time: 2007:03:15 22:56:49 Resolution: 800 x 725 Flash used: No Focal length: 21.3mm (35mm equivalent: 346mm) CCD width: 2.22mm Exposure time: 0.0020 s (1/500) Aperture: f/4.9 Exposure bias: -0.33 Whitebalance: Manual Metering Mode: matrix Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing
  25. Hi folks, initially introduced my self to the sea angling section, but, the photos looks interesting. As with a lot of anglers I like to use the camera, only a humble, and now, probably out of dated 'D'P&S. I see you have a comp., running, would it be an imposition to put an entry in? 'Sutton W'
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