Digital camera for sale

[Inspector Frost]

Looking to sell a digital camera cheap- I don't need
it any longer as I'm in the hospital. I'm including the last photo
that I took so that you have some idea about the picture quality.

http://www.geocities.com/freeservechat/lastpicture

[Mad Bob]

Ah, so you've met my little boy, Inspector.

No thanks to the camera, though; I'm already quite well catered for there.

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[Inspector Frost]

Yes I do have some better pictures as well. The uplink off the laptop
provides excellent stuff.

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[chrissie]

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> That's the biggest load of bull I have ever known. ;-))

[Mad Bob]

Stop trying to make me jealous, Inspector. I'm still getting my head around
Dad's Pentax. I might be able to paint, but I'm a complete waste of space
with ANY sort of camera.

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[Inspector Frost]

Canon A1 for serious work. Two digital cameras.

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[Mad Bob]

My God! Look out, everyone - it's Inspector "Three Cameras" Frost!

Actually, I also have an Ilford Sportsman which Dad bought new for £24 in
1963 and my great-aunt's box brownie.

My ex brother-in-law spent five hundred quid on a Canon SLR. He knocked it
off a coffee table and all its guts came out. I love the Pentax, myself; it
has a nice solid feel to it and I can zoom in as close as I need when
photographing paintings. It's just so bloody complicated; I usually end up
taking at least four pictures just to make sure that one came out right.
That painting that Lemon so kindly put on the system for me? I shot off
nearly an entire film of that one, and still didn't get it right.

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[Inspector Frost]

Yes I got my daughter a Pentax MV, lovely camera. First visit to Eden
between me and the daughter 9 rolls on film. By the way, 3 camera's and
heavily armed frostie

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[Inspector Frost]

Heavily armed with clipboards, including a wethershield clipboard and a RED
pen and enough assessment paperwork to destroy a forest...

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[Mad Bob]

Yes, it's easy to go ape with film when you just happen to 'gel' with a new
camera. Mine's an MZ-50 (YES, I know it sounds like an iron curtain bike).
I'd originally bought Dad an MX c.1979, and in 2001 he traded it in for the
MZ which he got brand new for twenty-five quid. I told him he was a fool -
if the MX was worth that much, he should have hung onto it. What's more to
the point, it wasn't bung-full of automatic functions that a technophobe
like me can't fathom. However, I consider myself a lucky lad; I can now
prop a painting up in front of a sheet, and get in as close as I want and it
comes out all sparkly clear - well, as clear as my eyesight allows, if
you've seen the example that Lemon posted (sheepish snigger).

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[Mad Bob]

A weathershield clipboard? Won't the tightwads give you an umbrella? You
catch pneumonia, you can have them for an industrial injury!

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[Inspector Frost]

I got a Pentax MV for my daughter. Set her up a treat, showed her it and
made out it was mine, then got the Canon A1 out, and said "the MV yours".
'Hankie' quick...
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[Mad Bob]

Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh! Surprised you can get your heart in through the door!
You can't beat a wind-up merchant for a Dad.

Actually, the MX was a surprise for my Daddy. He wanted to get a Praktica
(sp?) but the head gasket on his Humber let him down, so he had to spend
the money on that. Shortly afterwards, they went on their hols and I
slipped the camera to my bro, with instructions to give it to him at dinner
when they got to the hotel. Dad phoned up and called me all the silly
buggers under the sun.

I knew next to nothing about cameras, but I did read up first and found that
Pentax lenses had the least distortion at the edge out of all the lenses
reviewed, and Dad had been on at me about how important it is to remember
your distortion.

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[Inspector Frost]

A Humber now there's a car for you. Friend of mine had one of those 1971
ish. Had it stolen and the police found it up on the Epsom racecourse,
undamaged, but minus the engine block. :-(

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[Mad Bob]

Sounds like it was nicked by a Humber owner. Dad's engine was aluminium
alloy, which had to be skimmed before they could fit a new head gasket -
that's why he didn't change it himself, and why it cost him so much to have
put right. You are of course referring to the Humber Sceptre which had a
Hunter body but a super duper drive train? 1725 cc with twin Weber carbs
and overdrive on third as well as fourth. The overdrive stalk was on the
same side as the indicator one - you only ever make that mistake once.
"Turn left here, Bob - AAAAAAARGH!" as the car lurches and hiccups.

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