There is some very odd phraseology in that report: –

“his antique World War I replica airplane”

I’m sure the author meant “his replica of an antique World War 1 airplane”.

I’m sure Lancs didn’t have guns in the wingtips!

I have recently set up a Photobucket account and would appreciate advice on how to post the occasional photo on the forum website. I am not very PC literate or a whizz with photo software so please keep any help at an understandable level.

Many thanks,

Trapper 69
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There are two methods.

1. Hosted by this website: –
When you start a post, look below the [Submit Reply] button, there is a [Manage Attachments] button – click on it and it guides you through the process of searching for the image on your computer, and uploading it. This creates a small thumbnail image, which, when you click on it, expands to full size.

Disadvantage of this is that you have very limited space to store attachments, Key don’t want their servers clogged up with huge numbers of images

2. Hosted by a 3rd Party such as your own webspace, or, as you have done, hosted by a service, “photobucket” is one such service.

You need the URL that displays the image, so the easiest way to get that is to either (a) use a url suggested by the service or (b) open the image and copy the URL from the address bar.

Back on this site, create a new posting, then click on the little mountain & sun. This will give you a popup that allows you to paste the copied URL. The url then appears in your post, and when previewed/submitted it displays the image.

Disadvantage: Images are displayed without a thumbnail, directly in the posting.

Advantage: You can post as many images as you like, both on the site and within the same post and thread. Every time you want a new image, just click on the little mountain/sun with the yellow sky, and put in the popup box the URL allied to the image.

All images should be less than about 745 pixels wide, to ensure that everyone can see them, with room for the borders of the website on even the oldest monitors around today.

Hope this helps, please let us know if you have any further queries.

I have always said that given a chance anyone can turn their hands to anything. I could do brain surgery, I may kill a few people on the way but in the end I think I would get the hang of it. Want to volunteer ? 🙂

According to some on here, a labotomy would be a distinct improvement. But I think I’ll take a rain check on your kind offer on this occasion!

But thanks anyway.

5 year old Canon 10D, 100-400L ISM and no tripod. EOS1d Mk3 should arrive in the next week or so.

For every reasonable one, there are at least 10 crap ones.

With hands as steady as that, have you considered brain surgery as a second hobby?

mmmm – Fuji have admitted in the past that there is a focussing problem on the S9500. You could ask them to take a look at it, if it is still in warranty.

They’ve since replaced it with the S9600 in an effort to resolve the problem.

(Handy tip – Fuji sell refurbished cameras on their website – which seem to be tweaked a smidgeon over standard “off the shelf” items. And if you wanted to upgrade, they also do part-exchange).

http://www.fujifilm.co.uk/shop/refurb/shop.php

Rob, if you think that looks OK then you really do need to pop down to the optician. It’s quite tedious to keep arguing that black is white when the rest of the world doesn’t see it that way.

Then do yourself a favour, and dont.