The Chill Out Zone

[RPWC]

Originally Posted by Lancpudn

Evening all, We've had a fair few heavy showers rolling through all afternoon, It's got very blowy with horizontal rain at the moment.

Roast chicken dinner for tea.

Either you've got the backlash of the hurricane or, jeff's been at the sprouts, seeing as its Sunday.

[Lancpudn]

Originally Posted by RPWC

Either you've got the backlash of the hurricane or, jeff's been at the sprouts, seeing as its Sunday.

It's proper blustery, one of the neighbours had a bough of a tree fall onto his BMW as he was passing under it, It made a right mess of the roof & broke the windscreen & back window

[RPWC]

Originally Posted by Lancpudn

It's proper blustery, one of the neighbours had a bough of a tree fall onto his BMW as he was passing under it, It made a right mess of the roof & broke the windscreen & back window

That will be destined for the breaker's yard then, unless its just scratched the roof and not dented it. Couldn't have come from Jeff that sort of wind. Although......

[coolcat]

Originally Posted by Gate Keeper

Hi Jeff,

A few years ago, I was out in a boat on Lake Naivasha in Kenya filming the Hippos with a Sony Video camera and it rained. Only a splash but the flip-out LCD screen packed up. Cam not sealed. The next day, I took the camera into a Sony dealer and the camera's LCD screen was replaced for a new one, no fuss. The turn around for the work was 24 hours and £40. It was not a big job. Hopefully drying out the electric components - your way will do the trick and what about doing a reset to factory settings.

Hi Phil,

Problem is if the screen isn't visable how do you access the menu to reset the camera?
It was an electrical shut down of the screen rather than firmware so a reset would probably not have helped anyhow

Hopefully I will have got away with it, prices from CPS Colchester would run to a bit more than £40 if not

I'm going to pick up a pre owned second body (same model) so should I suffer a malfunction on the job I have a back up.
Matters not when shooting for fun, different story when you're charging for a job though !

[coolcat]

Originally Posted by stevestrat

If it gets wet again there it'll need more than drying out Mate of mine showed me pics of the internals of an amplifier that a tom cat had sprayed, absolutely destroyed.

I thought Bang Good was a whole different site, live and learn!

Another good reason for getting cats neutered , tends to stop them spraying

[Gate Keeper]

Originally Posted by Lancpudn

Blimey Rich, You run over a black cat or summert! That's a bummer about the van failing the Motty.

I've been messing around with this 'ere dash cam, the Chinese to English instruction manual is gobbledegook & the onscreen instructions are in Chinese

It would have been nice to know how to change the time/date.

I think I've sorted out which buttons do what for the recording & parked modes, not sure which Movie format I'm in but looks like 720HD as this tiny vid file was 75Mb's Quality isn't too bad albeit a dark dank rainy day here.

Typical! this weekend was a mega sale on that Chinese site 'bang good' and this dash cam was reduced to half the price what I paid

I'd be interested to know how you get on with it Ian. This afternoon, at a roundabout, a female driver was driving through it, going in the opposite direction and I had to swerve to avoid having a head-on collision. I should have had a dash cam to record her terribly bad driving.

[Lancpudn]

Originally Posted by RPWC

That will be destined for the breaker's yard then, unless its just scratched the roof and not dented it. Couldn't have come from Jeff that sort of wind. Although......

Yep, my Missus just showed me the pics on the guys facebook page on her phone, the roof is caved in.

[reworht]

Originally Posted by coolcat

It's not brand new !!!
It's a 2013 plate


I'll pop some photos up tomorrow but so far really pleased with it .......once I worked out the electronic hand brake won't let you move until you put your seat belt on

I can't help it if I'm old and senile

Originally Posted by freddie

Morning all sunny but cold at the moment.
Dont tell Rod but put the heating on last night and this morning.

I heard that - you, you, you heating user you

Originally Posted by Gate Keeper

I was thinking about starting a group for the navel starers, the anal retentives and the constipated members on the forum. That could be the next query on the forum ...my plenum is bunged up?.....

I'm not offering to Rod it

Originally Posted by Gate Keeper

I know what you mean Steve and will be doing the same. I missed Judge Deed tonight, but a mate said a Moonstone tourer came into a shot. Have an enjoyable night

Ah - Judge John Deed - Angela has, on more than one occasion, spent all day watching successive episodes of that on some weird "repeat of repeats of repeats" type channel

Originally Posted by stevestrat

I thought Bang Good was a whole different site, live and learn!

Damn - I was just about to Google that and now my hopes have been dashed

Got my caravan site internet back again - despite some strong winds and torrential rain this afternoon. Had an excellent day out with son, his missus and the grandkids yesterday. Treated 'em to lunch at a really nice country pub (The Black Bull, near Pickering - recommended to anyone in the area), then went into Scarborough and had a good wander round the less commercial end of the place.

Unfortunately, the day ended on a sour note when I had a telephone conversation with a friend back home. I mentioned in a post a while back that he had been diagnosed with a form of leukemia. He had experienced no symptoms at all, and the doctors only discovered the problem in checking his blood prior to a replacement hip operation. On Friday, having had is hip op. and recovered remarkably well, he went to see the specialist over his cancer.
Not a good result - 2 to 3 years with no treatment; possible total cure with a bone marrow transplant, but massive potential complications along the way. They've given him a couple of weeks to decide on which route he wants to go down, whilst they start a search for a suitable donor.
Not what he wanted to hear, with us both having recently been to the funeral of another life-long mate who succumbed to lung cancer.

[Lancpudn]

Originally Posted by Gate Keeper

I'd be interested to know how you get on with it Ian. This afternoon, at a roundabout, a female driver was driving through it, going in the opposite direction and I had to swerve to avoid having a head-on collision. I should have had a dash cam to record her terribly bad driving.

I'm going to give it a go in the Rover tomorrow now that I've sussed....ish the buttons out, Finally managed to set the clock/date after much fiddlin'

I bought it for the same reason plus a bit of fun, It's cheap as chips & the pic / audio quality seems to be OK, everything works as it should. I've ordered a few things from there & P+P is free on everything (from what I've seen), It's a quid extra if you want tracking & insurance was 39 pence for it





It's got a 'parked' mode where it sense's movement & records automatically if someone bumps into it.

[Gate Keeper]

Originally Posted by coolcat

Hi Phil,

Problem is if the screen isn't visable how do you access the menu to reset the camera?
It was an electrical shut down of the screen rather than firmware so a reset would probably not have helped anyhow

Hopefully I will have got away with it, prices from CPS Colchester would run to a bit more than £40 if not

I'm going to pick up a pre owned second body (same model) so should I suffer a malfunction on the job I have a back up.
Matters not when shooting for fun, different story when you're charging for a job though !

All valid points Jeff. The £40 was really cheap, a backstreet Indian electronics workshop Sony contracted, in Nairobi - African prices. But for a £4000 Canon you'd expect repairs to cost more. It's prudent of you Jeff to get yourself a second camera as a back up for those 'just in case' moments. I have a £100 DSLR water proof jacket housing, a gift from Jessops, never used. It's in Nairobi, but I will bring it back in January if you would like to have it.