Week Fifty-One CANONICAL CAMERA COOLNESS!
You know how, if you are a tech head, when you find that you can afford and want a new thing, or to upgrade a thing to a better thing (!) that you research it a good bit? Then you make your purchase and ages later, long after you really need to know, you are an expert on second hand market values and which is a good deal versus a silly deal with no service should you need it, from Mars.
And sometimes, you spot some lucky arse who has fallen over and landed in a barrel of boobs because they have happened upon a deal so bonkers, you cannot believe their luck. Now, a colleague on Anglers Mail has recently plopped the above picture on Facebook to sell a slew of Canon and Manfrotto kit in a dustproof Lowepro bag, that he no longer uses as he has a full time cameraman follow him around. I spotted it and leaped at him. He said ‘yes!’ and as we get on, said the kit was mine. Ever since, he has had people try to gazump me by offering more lolly, like it was an auction. But being a man of honour, he stuck to his guns and I have some very serious bodies and glass and a big need to learn how to use it all. I am in fact so chicken that I am not even certain if I dare take it to Las Vegas for the CES, which roars up as fast as Christmas.
So, that is why this is late today. I have made deliveries to Clarion and Talk Audio HQ and sent parcels to Celsus in Poole as well as delivering some goodies (literally, Switchy is about to discover the pure naughtiness of Biscoff Spread. ‘It’s made out of ****ing cookies!’) to deepest Kent so far. I have been racking up the miles. Only a day trip to visit Auto Audio, CAS, Pioneer and JVC now to do!
I have lots of stuff to relate and a SWAG to put up, so shall try to do an evening shift later and plop the items on line here later today. All those on a promise, get an item this time. More later!
Enjoy your last Christmas shopping forays and stay even more patient with the idiot motorists. And bassheads, NOW is the season for:
THE CHRISTMAS CARPARK GAME.
RULES:
1) You must play Roy Wood and Wizard ‘I wish it could be Christmas Every Day.’
2) There is no rule 2.
AIM: To set off as many car alarms as possible while you are gridlocked in, playing the above track.
And that is it.
Adam Rayner On Line Editor