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Work - Good & Bad

Postby Greg B on Sat Dec 04, 2004 5:59 am

Good

- Earning money to buy camera gear, satisfy lustings
- In Sydney for the week, being able to spend a very enjoyable evening with Birddog, the lovely Mrs Birddog, and Gary

Bad

- Get home Friday night, log on and realise that voting for the B&W challenge has opened and closed while I was away

:roll:
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Re: Work - Good & Bad

Postby fozzie on Sat Dec 04, 2004 6:10 am

Greg B,

Greg B wrote:Good

- Earning money to buy camera gear, satisfy lustings
- In Sydney for the week, being able to spend a very enjoyable evening with Birddog, the lovely Mrs Birddog, and Gary

Bad

- Get home Friday night, log on and realise that voting for the B&W challenge has opened and closed while I was away

:roll:


As they say in the classics,'sh.t happens'.

Good to see you had an enjoyable time in Sydney with Mr/Mrs Birddog and Gary. One day I am going to make the journey.

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Postby Matt. K on Sat Dec 04, 2004 6:11 pm

Greg
I heard on the grapevine you may have purchesed an item or 2? Can't control your lustful little self eh?

Oh, and I picked up my SB800 today. The manual is gobbledegook to me. Needs to be rewritten by someone who can communicate with humans.
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Postby Greg B on Sat Dec 04, 2004 9:26 pm

Yes Matt, and Birddog was trying to tempt me further!

I picked up my SB800 on Thursday. Today, it was battery purchase time.

After a cursory look at the manual, I stuck that sucker on the D70 and took some shots. The absence of a link to the results may lead you to certain conclusions about such a cavalier approach to a complex bit of kit - however the fact is, the results were surprisingly good (in terms of the SB800's performance). They were just boring, and I can't blame the SB800 or the manual for that. Unfortunately. :)

It looks like a fantastic thing, can't wait to learn more about it.
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Postby MattC on Sun Dec 05, 2004 4:49 am

Right on about that manual. All that I got out of it was a guide to functions and setup of the SB800. Other than that it was useless. I worked out how to use the thing pretty much on my own. Not really that hard. The rest is technique.

Have a look here for technique - http://www.dg28.com/technique.html

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