DiOz wrote:"The man had only made small finds before, he said, but was a "person that really deserved it."

......You're probably thinking it must have been me.

Strange, but you did spring to mind Dave

I had a fuji bridge prior to my canon Tom, hindsight being what it is and devaluation, I wished I waited the extra and just gone straight to the canon The Fuji filled a gap in time, and emptied my wallet. The 450ds are a nice piece of kit and as they are "old" now (2 models behind current)...

Samsung only guarantee that the camera will address cards up to 8gb, so don't go too mad on an expensive one.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listin ... dition=new from about 3 quid lol.

class 4 or higher for a camera, depending on the camera's video capability it may need a higher class, but for most 12mp stuff, class 4 should be sufficient. Amazon do some good cards for less than ebay, and it's genuine rather than fake. Amazon are also about 1/3rd the cost of pc world/dixons etc. ...

don't et too close, and use the zoom to get a better pic, it worked gret for me with my old fuji, read the manual and find out how close the inimum focus distance is, but its probably about a foot to 18 inches.

55-250 doesn't exactly have a "wide" angle to it though, I do really want the moon, on a stick - I know it won't be the best lens doing everything, none of the above would be superb IQ across the whole range, but I don't want to be changing lenses in and out. If I wen't out with an idea of...

Yes, its a canon 550D, and ideally I don't want to be swapping lenses at all, so I really do want to cover 18-200(+). Being an APS-C sensor, using a full-frame lens will have more odd results than I want to deal with, and I know I'm seriously limiting my choice due to budget but until I can be sure ...

As I don't "do" photography properly, and largely don't plan on doing much other than walking about, taking random shots, I'm after a superzoom lens so I don't have to worry about changing lenses in and out all the time. The options in the running are these: Canon 18-200 Tamron 18-270 Sigm...

I spose it gives Seti something more likely to look at

Of course if they seized his detector for going equipped, then he wouldn't be in quite such a hurry to do it again either.

Well said John.

I have some old iron to revisit ....

What a cracking find, I don't suppose the lucky chap is a member of UKDN?

Un oso hormiguero reflexionar una vez considerada la teoría de la relatividad, se convirtió entonces en el pensamiento acerca de los pasteles en lugar de hambre.

As you have asked, its bloody good!! I am especially delighted how young, handsome, witty, charming, elegant and dashing some of these detectorists are judging by their pics and yes indeed, I can tell all this from just looking at the photo's in this edition, real man about town guys. I must be in ...

Would love to see "Concorde to the skies" as well, what a pair they'd make flying side by side.