lemonade

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• What camera do I buy? / general gear talk

  in Photography • 3 days, 2 hours

  

  Just to add to all this - I just got a Canon EOS 650 for £25 in great condition from West Yorkshire Cameras - for some reason modern-ish autofocus SLRs are the one category of 35mm cameras that are still cheap.

  I bought a 40mm f2.8 pancake lens for about double that and I have an SLR that can be fully manual or fully auto and is a tonne smaller and lighter than my Nikon DSLR with a zoom lens on. It's beautifully simple to use as well.

  Caveat - not got anything developed from it yet but I have high hopes.

• Home DIY

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 weeks

  

  You can get little clear plastic feet on ebay

• Owning your own home

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 month

  

  I don't really get baths full stop

• Owning your own home

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 month

  

  Spending +£20k on a kitchen seems insane to me.

  We need to replace our completely knackered one and we're not going to spend more than £15k all in, including new french doors, windows, appliances, flooring, new electrics and lighting etc.

  Had no idea second hand kitchens were a thing until today though - going so do some research now. Anyone got experience of this?

• Overheard at the LFGSS golf club bar

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 month

  

  I suspect my 15m2 kitchen may eventually touch £40k

  Some hall of fame golf club chat in the owning your own home thread at the moment

• Current Projects chat and miscellany

  in Current Projects • 1 month, 2 weeks

  

  Yeah, I have a full set of much better quality components already. I've asked them if they'd sell a frameset on its own but they don't seem keen.

• Current Projects chat and miscellany

  in Current Projects • 1 month, 2 weeks

  

  Cheers, excellent suggestion. Have asked them if they'd be willing to sell just a frameset...

• Current Projects chat and miscellany

  in Current Projects • 1 month, 2 weeks

  

  Thanks for the offer but I'm not London based. Any idea what name the right kind of ferrule goes by?

• Current Projects chat and miscellany

  in Current Projects • 1 month, 3 weeks

  

  Any step through. I've been pondering the Soma, looks great except the red paintjob on the rim brake one would not be tolerated. The smallest rim brake size says it's made for 26, the disc one I think 27.

  Bob jackson step through looks lovely but seems to be made for 700? My wife is only 5 feet 4 and gets on way better with smaller wheels.

  Think I will continue fixing up this one bit by bit while saving for the Soma + new paintjob.

• Current Projects chat and miscellany

  in Current Projects • 1 month, 3 weeks

  

  In theory none of this is worth doing on an unfeasibly heavy old gas pipe frame that I bought as a complete bike for £45. But my wife loves it and it seems impossible to find new mixte frames for 26" wheels.