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They hold their value really well, I guess because there aren't too many in circulation. Cheapest I've ever seen a Nikon 10.5mm second hand is about £60 cheaper than the best prices new online, so around £330 (cheapest new is about £390 in the UK).

Thanks for the advice guys, decided I can't do what I really want with just the one lens, so I've opted for two instead, Nikon 10.5mm Fisheye, and the Sigma 20mm f1.8. Got one already nicely under budget, hopefully the other won't be too far behind as my Birthday isn't far off...

Bit of an odd question, but do many of you use the 20mm end of your wide angle (i.e. Sigma 10-20, Canon 10-22) very often? Currently figuring out what to get with my Christmas money, and whilst I loved my Sigma 10-20, I feel like I should try something different, and to be honest never use wide...

From what planetx has said before, there are only a few army togs, so even if they have £20k of photography kit each that's a drop in the ocean really, considering it would cost hundreds of millions to re-equip all the infantry etc. Reading between the lines of the link posted, I'm guessing they...

2.7 V6 Bi-Turbo?! Sounds a bit nippy, what's the 0-60 on these?

Haven't got the patience for landscape photography, that actually involves setting up and waiting for light and all sorts of things. I'm a hit and hope kinda guy!

Running out of 'talent' to be honest now I've done Basics, Motorsport and Lens. I've never used flash and don't really use filters, so those are out. I suppose Night Photography is the only one left, might do that after I've been to New York early next year.

Superb first effort, nailed panning by the looks of things. Can't really fault them to be honest, basics are all there so it's just practice now :)

Absolutely, it's the best bang for buck lens on the planet. It won't autofocus, but there are members on here with D40s and that lens who don't seem to struggle.

Had a few requests for this after the last guide so here goes. I'm just covering the basics for people new to DSLRs, if you're spending a grand on a fast telephoto hopefully you know what you're doing anyway! I'm ignoring crop factors as this is pretty redundant info, and I've only covered Canon...

You will be needing a zoom lens of some sort (I think the cheapest that works with the D40 is the Nikon 55-200, about £150) but yes, no reason why your D40 won't be more than capable. Never been to Snetterton, hoping to visit next season though.

No the "APO" is the difference, essentially better coating on the glass of the expensive one which minimizes purple fringing. Wouldn't worry about it too much, depends on how rich you are feeling :)

Go for the Sigma, cracking piece of kit for the money. I had the cheap version (about £90) and still loved it. Bang for buck I don't think you will find better.

I'm guessing there is a lot of politics involved, our estate was built exactly around the time that Telewest were laying cable in all the local towns, yet they never got anywhere near the new builds cropping up. Seems odd, as you would have assumed it would be far cheaper to put it in while...

I struggled a bit on the normal calendar, apart from motorsport I've not done much this year, all my trips away were in the past couple of weeks and I wanted to get them done before then, so compared to last year I didn't have much content...half of the pics were taken within a mile of my house...

A few piccies of my calendars for 2009, so much better than the designs/layouts they had for last year, look quite professional now with the black backgrounds... A3 Double Page Calendar A3 Poster Calendar

Lose the 16GB and you've lost everything, or if the 16GB breaks you've lost everything. At least with a four 4GBs you are pretty much guaranteed to come home with 3/4s of your photos. If I went to New York, I would rather come home with something rather than nothing, having more cards gives...

pmsl, after loads of Pretty Boy research I'm now looking at Muffin Tops, unfortunately there are virtually no user pics online and the dimensions are different to the old Pretty Boys. Will need to find a real life stockist I think and take my gear along.

Yep XL still seems to be available, I want XXXL though.

Cheers, found a few on Flickr and it seems as though it will probably be ok actually. Think it's discontinued though. only White or Red available most places but I'm really want Black or Olive.

300mm to be on the safe side, if you're buying something fast like a 80-200 2.8 you can add a 1.4x Teleconverter which will take it up to a 120-280mm f4, I used that length for ages and never had any real problems. Expensive set up though!

Got any pics of it open and full of gear? Trying to find a smallest possible bag to take a D90 with 50mm 1.8 attached, and a Sigma 10-20 and Sigma 50-150, but everything I've seen so far has been too small, or absolutely massive.

As others have said, far safer to buy four 4GB cards than one monster 16GB . I still only use 2GB cards (about 200 pics on my D90), might upgrade to 4GB at some point but wouldn't go any bigger than that.

£215! Can't believe it's got to that price now, amazing value.

Love Flickr, can (and do) get lost for hours on there, some truly incredible photographers. Worth spending time looking at some of the macro stuff, the ideas and execution constantly surprise me, amazing. I imagine geotagging (what seb was browsing by the sounds of it) will be pretty much...

I hope dk doesn't see this ;) I don't think there is that much difference in reality, but I agree that 15mp seems overkill, I imagine at 12mp it could have been class leading. Isn't it more of a rival to the D300 though, in terms of price? That would even things up as obviously the D300 is...

Yes I have sadly, loved it but the opportunity to essentially swap it for a £2k bit of glass was too tempting. Did quite well really, the guy who sold it to me couldn't have realised it was the rare AF-S version, I got it for £490, bargain. No issues with build for me, it was built like a...

AF speed or Lens speed? If you're asking about AF speed, not easily. Just need to check out the reviews really. It's the one thing I can actually detect subtle differences in (probably due to shooting 150mph cars all the time), the Nikon 70-200 / 80-200 lens are pretty much as fast as it's...

As you probably know I had the 80-200 2.8 AF-S (which is slightly heavier than the new 70-200 VR iirc, same optics though), seriously epic piece of glass with unbelievable AF speed, but I only really used it for motorsport as it was too big/heavy as a walkaround lens. The 50-150 2.8 isn't...

Going to start on January 1st, not sure if I'm going to do a specific topic yet though. Any suggestions appreciated! Definitely not self portraits though. Tried it for a week not along ago just to see how it would go, it's bloody hard - especially on those days when you get home work from late...