Before digital we were collectors and manipulators of chemicals which had reacted to light!

I get a feel for anything that's got any mileage in it. That said i usually only delete stuff that just isn't worth keeping for whatever reason.

Like the man said 'If it sounds too good to be true it probably is'. Who could possibly afford to sell genuine gear at such prices? They might as well give it away. You've been had my friend!

Photoshop is a learning curve from cradle to grave. Even experts acknowledge this!

As ever: If it sounds too good to be true it probably is. I sense danger, don't even go there!

Electric Wharf is on the Coventry Canal, opened 1769, built mainly to convey coal into Coventry from various mines to the north of the city. The wharf is the site of the first electricity power station in Coventry, opened c 1896. The plant was coal-fired, fuel being delivered to the wharf by narrow boats on the canal. Close by was the Motor Mills building, Sandy Lane, the first motor car factory in Britain, considered to be the birthplace of the British car industry. A consortium of companies, associated with a rather disreputable character, Harry Lawson, made cars on the site. The first British Daimler car was made here in 1897 and the Motor Mills later became the Daimler Motor Company. Motor Mills was previously a cotton mill known as the Widdrington Cotton Mill, named after the Rev Widdrington who was instrumental in establishing it in order to relieve unemployment amongst former silk weavers, the silk weaving industry having collapsed in Coventry. The nearby Widdrington Road is also named after him. The mill later burnt down and was rebuilt by the insurers but the owners declined to continue the trade and it remained empty before being taken over as a car factory. The mill was also served by a siding from the Coventry - Nuneaton line of the London and North Western Railway. During WW1 Daimler manufactured aircraft on the site; they flew from the nearby Radford Aerodrome. The site was bombed in WW2 and the Daimler Power House and the company offices (now called Harp Place and used by Coventry Council for adult education purposes), both built c 1907, are the only remnants of the Motor Mills.
http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MCT14317&resourceID=1029

My winning projected digital image 'Electric Arch' in the monthly competition at Balsall Common U3A; this one on the theme 'Bridges'. Taken at Electric Wharf, Coventry Canal.

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A few pics from a recent evening photoshoot around Coventry University and the Cathedral

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It doesn't matter how fast the claimed read/write speed of the memory card is. The deciding factor is how fast your camera can write to it. Generally rather slower.

About to be turned into a 50's style boutique hotel. In the meantime leased short-term by Historic Coventry and used as a pop-up gallery.
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Get another Oly that shares the same batteries and will have a very similar menu system, touch screen and controls, eg another Mk1, EM5 or EM10

Very expensive for a bridge camera; however it is undoubtedly good. Have you considered the Panasonic FZ2500? She who must be obeyed should have the final say!

OM to mft converters are very cheap but you will have to set aperture and focus manually as there will be no electronic linkage.

Aye!

Very enriching.