Friday 17 August 2012

Camera for sale!

The stats that I’m able to see about this blog are very interesting indeed. If you’re a regular reader, you’ll know that in an earlier post, I mentioned that I hadn’t had any visits from Australia (note - apologies to all the Austrians out there for sending bad thoughts to your country before realising I was on the wrong page of the atlas).

I’m pleased to report that since that post was published, we have now had two whole views from down under, and a further two from down-even-underer in New Zealand. The only continent I’m now lacking any coverage from is South America. And technically also that big white one right at the bottom where the screw goes into my globe, but I think that may be hoping for a bit much.

What did surprise me was to see that I’ve had two visits by way of a link from a dating site. And by ‘dating’ I’m not talking about figuring out how old a piece of wood is like they do on Time Team. This is that special kind of dating that only mummies and daddies who love each other very much do. Except it’s with other people’s mummies and daddies.

Seriously, the profile pictures included parts of potential partners I wouldn’t expect to see until my chaperone had left us alone for at least two years. What struck me was just how craggy many of these bits were. Perhaps this is what happens with over use.

Anyway, I felt extremely sorry for whoever logged on full of lust and horn, only to click on a picture of the arid, cavernous orifice of a potential mate, and then find themselves reading something I’d written about the Para Olympics. Unless they were into some pretty specialist niche activities, I’m pretty sure the mood would have been killed.

Now you’ll have to forgive me for this dreadfully rude post. And it’s about to get even more vulgar as I turn it into some kind of infomercial. That’s right, I’m giving you the chance to own one of my cameras!

I’m selling my back-up camera as I’m just not using it. It’s a lovely bit of kit and seems a waste to be sat there with nothing to do. I only bought it in March this year as my main camera was away for an indefinite time being repaired.

The make and model is a Samsung NX100. Rather than go into a ton of detail, here’s a link to the product description on Amazon which has all the key info here.

What I like about it is that it’s really easy to access all of the main settings you’ll need day-to-day. It has a very clever auto mode if you just want to point and shoot, but the nice design makes it really easy to take more manual control. It’s an ideal model to move on from the basics and learn how take really great pictures.

To see some some examples of pictures I’ve taken with it, check out the first 20 or so pictures in my Salisbury Cathedral flickr album here.

As well as selling the camera, I’m happy to give ongoing technical support with it (so far as I am able!), whether that be with the settings of the camera or how to achieve a certain effect in an image.

It’s in brilliant condition as I only used it for around one month and it comes boxed with the additional flash unit described here.

It also comes with a small book detailing many of the features together with tips and suggestions. It didn’t come with a proper instruction manual (as seems to be the way these days), but you can download a very helpful PDF version from the Samsung website. I actually like to download these even if I have a printed version - you can save it to your smartphone and always have it with you that way!

If you were buying this new from Amazon you’d be paying around £234 for the camera and flash, but I’m selling it for £155 all in (including my technical assistance). Payment can either be made via Paypal or you can send me a cheque.

If you’re interested or have any questions etc, just email me at tkpics@rocketmail.com

For an extra £20, I can also include a memory card full of some experimental pictures I took of myself for my adult dating profile.

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