Recent content by Mark_R

The Tamron mirror lens is far from worthless. In excellent condition £100 would be typical dealer price (selling). Check out ebay listings and look at dealers like Ffordes Photographic, who still buy and sell film equipment.

Maybe you mean distinguish positive and negative polarities. In the old days, QED 79 used to have a rib down one core to facilitate that. But then that doesn’t look like the QED cable I am used to.

This is a two core cable is it not? So the left and right channels will have physically different cables.

I would suggest an alternative approach. Buy a s/h EOS 7D Mk2, which is an APS-C camera optimised for action photography, Being APS-C, your current 70-200mm lens will have an effective reach of a 320mm lens on the 1Dx. The 7Dii has a single dual cross-type centre AF point that gives faster AF...

A nice step forward but this is for Amazon Unlimited Music subscribers only. It doesn’t work with Amazon Prime Music

There was Concert Artist Recordings and the Joyce Hatto scandal (‘Hattogate’) https://www.futilitycloset.com/2012/09/29/hattogate/

I have a Denon DN700R solid state recorder which I think is excellent. It does exactly what you want. However, it seems to be discontinued. https://www.solidstatesound.co.uk/denon_dn-700r.htm The Tascam suggested as a replacement looks great but is quite pricey...

This should give you an idea on price https://www.mpb.com/en-uk/used-equipment/used-photo-and-video/used-lenses/used-canon-fit-lenses/canon-ef-70-300mm-f-4-5-5-6-do-is-usm/

I’ve no personal experience of this lens. It was pretty expensive when launched, so the low prices it commands now can probably taken as an indication of how it is viewed in general. This is one review which is not very encouraging, though it is by no means a bad lens. How it compares with your...

Yes nimbus were the original label https://www.wyastone.co.uk/prima-voce-series

I think this was Nimbus. I do vaguely remember reading about it.

That's a very interesting product with a lot of features for the money. I have two key questions: 1. Does it support gapless playback? 2. Does the 4Stream app allow searching of a dlna media library (e.g. MinimServer) by Composer field? Both features are essential for classical music. Thanks Mark

When I started to buy CDs in 1986, the standard price for a full price disc was £11.99. As different price ranges were introduced, a mid-price disc was £7.99, a budget price disc £5.99 and a super-budget disc (Naxos) £3.99. The VAT increase of 1991 saw some odd pricing until everything got...

Deep Purple ‘House of Blue Light’, probably Jan 1987. My first player was a Yamaha CDX3 bought in the Jan sales from the Virgin Megastore in Oxford. Bought on 24/1/87 for £177.95. The first CD I have a note of buying was Zappa ‘Does Humour Belong In Music?’. That cost £11.49 on 6 Feb 87.

Just a point, a conventional two-way speaker has a bass / mid-range unit and a tweeter for the high frequencies only. I'm not sure what you mean by 'midrange / tweeter'.