Cadwell Today

Had a good day, got my time down to 1.58 which I was
well chuffed with, especially for my first time there.

Pics at http://horrible.demon.co.uk/cadwell/

 

Some lovely pics there Ant - glad you had a good time.

Presumably a pro photographer? What was the deal - did DSC hire him for the
day or did he just turn up and sell you prints (and presumably in your case
the original digital images) ?

Do you mind me asking what he charged for the files?
I often get asked for the originals but never know what to charge.
People say "Oh, nah I don't want to buy any prints - just bung the originals
on a CD - and I'll give you a quid for the CD - it'll save you the cost of
printing them." ... the cahnts.
It only costs me about 20p per 7x5" print at Jessops!

 

Oil leak sorted then?

 

Lovely. I'll have to get back there for a second go at Cadwell, and on
something quicker than the SV.

 

Yes - http://www.picman.co.uk/

He had a very sorted outfit. Big van with about 3-4 pcs in
it which his staff would take you through a thumbnail view
of whatever group you were in until you spotted yourself.

They then went through and took out all your pics and plonked
them into a directory for you to pick from. They then did a
slide-show so you could choose which ones you liked.

They did varying sizes of printed pics, which would be sent
later, or you could have them on the day on a CD.

The CD cost £10 plus £2 per pic, but you could have the lot
of the pics for £30. I got 23 pics of me - 2464x1632 on
a Nikon D2H (according to XP!) - plus they bundled in 143
pics taken throughout the day, including some group shots
and random track shots.

Not bad at all really, considering the usual price/delay
of "proper" prints. The CD took less than 5 minutes to
produce as they had blanks pre-printed with the company
label, and it gets stuffed into a DVD case with printed cover.

Quite impressive and the quality, as you say, is excellent.

 

Turned out to be two loose bolts on the inspection plate
behind the cambelts! Just whipped off the battery, tray
and cambelt cover and tightened them up. Didn't miss a
session but went out again and my gear level came off
half way round...

 

Excellent. It's a shame you didn't do at least one session with the
Ventura (?) luggage ;-)

Eek! Or is that *parp*?

 

Going full tilt into Coppice and reaching for a non-
existant gear lever is slightly sphincter tightening!

 

Yes I did, but only when I got back last night.
I'll email you back and we'll sort something...

 

It was £25 two years ago

 

There's inflation for you.

 

Damn photographer waiting until I got the bike upright...

 

Yes I did. I don't have Visio at home, and keep forgetting
to forward the email to work so I can look at it ... but
I checked the JPG and it made **** all sense, so I hope
the Visio is better ;-)

So yes, I'll sort that too.

 

Nice

 

Thank you sir. I mean ma'am.

 

S'aright, I get confused also.