Harry Harrison

Thanks, I'm not looking to get a big new phone, I'd need deep pockets to buy it, and then to carry it around. Quite fond of an Ipad mini though.

Nothing like first hand information, thanks. I'm not planning on ditching my camera any time soon but it would be nice to have the capability to upload the odd image, I see it has this 'deep fusion' stuff and it's good to know that (carefully selected) images will get through normal Alamy QC. I don't like using screens on a camera or a phone really, I much prefer a viewfinder, and the wide view isn't natural for me either. Still, there will be situations where a phone will be handier than a camera.

Thanks Allan, as you say I see that it isn't much bigger than the 12 mini at 5.78" x 2.81" x 0.29", as opposed to 5.45" x 2.53" x 0.29", but then my SE is only 4.87" x 2.31" x 0.30" so it's almost an inch longer and half an inch wider than that which will feel like a lot. However I'll go into the Apple Store and have a look at similarly sized offerings, the SE3 I suppose as all the other ones are much larger these days I think. Last time I saw that in my local store all the SE3s look like a bit unloved with a lead sticking up from the back whereas all the others have handsome little plinths. Using inches out of respect to Apple, how anyone manages to work in inches these days I can't imagine, still Apple seem to do OK.

Thank you, that's all great to know! Like you I have got so used to my SE and its small size and I think the 12 mini is a step up from the newer SE 2020 and it's a bit smaller than that anyway

Thinking of getting one of those myself (the phone not the bicycle). Is that by the normal route or the new smartphone offering?

Part of it featured Laurie Anderson being photographed by Robert Mapplethorpe (clip here), I love his picture of her looking down with her eyes shut. I found myself wondering what happened to her, later switched on the radio to BBC 6 Music and there she was. She will apparently be featuring quite heavily over Christmas on the BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0025lnj

Yes, I think this Canon R100 camera exists to attract people into the Canon fold, it's a very competitive price for a new camera. I didn't mention Fuji either because they don't have anything new at this price point, and used prices are staying high thanks to their reputation on Social Media.

Perhaps a Canon user can comment but my impression is that there is not a very large choice of Canon 'R' (mirrorless) lenses designed for APS-C, I don't know (!) but that's probably true for Nikon as well. I think Sony are better but mirrorless Micro 4/3 cameras (Panasonic & Olympus) have a much larger range to choose from. There are quite a few wildlife and nature photographers using Micro 4/3 mirrorless, particularly Olympus or OM System as it is called now, 'ambassadors' if you like, but these cameras can be very good for the type of nature that is small, far away, and moves quickly.

Very glitchy, though once I'd got around the runtime error page I did find that I was logged in.

..and this was using the Smartphone route rather than the normal route? If it was by the Smartphone route then maybe they are slowly modifying their 'Stop' list.

Actually, from Wiki, "The Farina name was not used in Sweden, where the car received the name "Futura" because a mix-up with a common type of brown sugar with a similar name was believed to be unavoidable. I'm unfair on the A40, it was pretty revolutionary in 1959, the first hatchback.

Well here's the weirdness, for me there is a small lower case 'j', though I hadn't noticed it before. Similarly at the top of the gallery by "Page 1 of 5" there is another 'j' and at very top right an '8' above an 'm'. This is on Firefox in case it matters. I do mean to try and fix it on my site, for me it just happened at some point over the last few years.

Another fascinating view of a bygone era, I have come across an error so hopefully you won't mind me pointing it out. There is an evocative picture of an Austin A40 camping setup, 5047IDM.jpg, that'll be an Austin A40 Farina, not Futura. Farina was after the Italian designer house Pininfarina, probably not their best work, though they designed many versions of Austin, Morris, Riley & Wolseley at the time. Your Photoshelter gallery seems to suffer from the same problem as mine, I haven't looked into it myself but in particular the cursor symbol has been replaced by ordinary lower case characters so at first I had trouble seeing how to move to page 2. You'll also see them at the very top right of your page.

That was one for Wim!

Good point, it could be some other kind of permit I suppose. When sold the prime candidate had the registration number PG51KUN. Online the DVLA say this is still a 'Grey BMW', currently off the road with a 'SORN'. MOT expires 19th June 2025.