Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted March 11, 2016 Moderators Share Posted March 11, 2016 (edited) Still stayed with the m4/3 so I can use all my lenses I currently have. Essentially I just got a better version of the one I had before, so I've gone from the Panasonic gf1 to the dmc-G7. Â Huge difference though, really noticeable, and some really handy features. One of the criticisms I read of the camera before getting it was that there were perhaps too many buttons and dials and features. Quite to the contrary, I've found it so much easier to use because once you customise the function buttons to the features you use regularly it's so great having that kind of flexibility so quickly without having to go into the menus. Â Want to have a bit of a play around with video soon,too , which I have never done before. Edited March 11, 2016 by Chest Rockwell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Monkee Posted April 11, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted April 11, 2016 I'm back from my trip to Chernobyl and have uploaded my [hundreds of] photos. Links here: Day 1 and Day 2 Â Some highlights: Â Welcome to Chernobyl Chernobyl kindergarten The Pripyat gym Pripyat amusement park Pripyat amusement park Pripyat swimming pool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Wow, they're really eerie, Monkee. It's like something from a video game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB6937 Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 How did you find it Monkee? Always fascinated me as a place but never had the chance to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Monkee Posted April 11, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted April 11, 2016 (edited) It's been on my bucket list for quite a while and it didn't disappoint. It was amazing and shocking at the same time. Â The amount of cover-up done by the USSR was truly disgusting and cost thousands of lives but the lax approach to health and safety (even back when knowledge about the effects of radiation was limited) was astounding. Â The exclusion zone is like another world. Pripyat was a thriving community of 50,000 people and then they were gone. Never allowed to fully return. There was washing (now rags) hanging in kitchens, plates left on tables, medical records left in the hospital. Â And it's SO quiet. You can hear some birds singing but I hardly saw any. There were a few crows or ravens inside the cooling tower and I maybe saw one or two smaller birds but that was it. There was an article doing the rounds on social media last week about how the wildlife is thriving but I didn't see any of it. I saw domesticated dogs and a friendly fox (named Simeon) but that was it. No squirrels or any other animals you'd normally see in a forest. It was weird. Â Everything really is forgotten there. It's the 30th anniversary in 2 weeks and yet there's still nothing. You get people going to Cambodia to the killing fields, to Auschwitz, to Ground Zero. Yet there's nothing in Chernobyl. A couple of small memorials and that's about it. No-one knows the history of it, the thousands of people who died, the cover-up or the ongoing effects. Â Sorry, I rambled. No idea where I was going with that. Short version: I thought it was amazing and would highly recommend a visit. Edited April 11, 2016 by Monkee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Surf Digby Posted May 3, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted May 3, 2016 Well, this is interesting. Some girl has uploaded a photo of my hometown to a Facebook group that is proving rather popular. She's thanking people for the kind comments, and has even posted the camera settings she used to take it.   You'll notice that I've questioned her camera settings. This is because they're quite clearly bollocks. This suggests that she didn't actually take the photo herself.  I'm not just relying on my technical knowledge though. I'm absolutely certain that she didn't take it because the original was taken in 2009.  By me.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 Oooh I love a good social media slap down. Let us know how it escalates. You called her out on it yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Surf Digby Posted May 3, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted May 3, 2016 Just the subtle one about the settings. That should be enough to let her know that I know. If she's lifted it directly from me, she'll probably recognise my name anyway. Â My sister's dropped a subtle one on there too, asking her how she gets those colours. If she keeps it up that it's hers, I'll let her dig herself a bit bigger a hole before I drop her in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sphinx Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 Great stuff. Like how you've included her name and blurred everyone else's out. Has she taken it down? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members chokeout Posted May 4, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted May 4, 2016 Sneaky wench! How did you find out she had posted it? Did it come up in your feed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Surf Digby Posted May 4, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted May 4, 2016 I'm a member of that group. Â She's got until about 9pm to admit it's not hers and then I'm going to let everyone know in a rather blunt fashion what she's done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Surf Digby Posted May 4, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted May 4, 2016 Great stuff. Like how you've included her name and blurred everyone else's out. Has she taken it down?She's posted it publicly under her name, so I feel no obligation to blur her name out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members chokeout Posted May 4, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted May 4, 2016 I'm coming back on here at 21:01 expecting screenshots! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sphinx Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 I hope it's come down to you letting everyone know in a blunt manner. The suspense is killing me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Surf Digby Posted May 4, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted May 4, 2016 It's a bit disappointing really, as she's not come back. However, the guy who made the post asking the camera settings has deleted that post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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