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In 2017 the hammer price of this model at Vectis was only £110, the same as the Hornby Railroad P2 for some reason!? Listed as professionally built in 1993, painted by Larry Goddard, near mint.

Tony, how do the wheels under the cab work on your DJH City of London. Do they pivot inside the fixed outer frame or move side to side? What would be the minimum radius a large DJH model like that could negotiate?

In the small print it says: 'I understand if I am not completely satisfied I have been had'

He uses a torque meter and extrapolates the number of coaches number.

I watched Dunkirk at the South Bank IMAX. The director had been in and set the sound levels himself but for me it was way to loud. I had to leave before the end with my ears hurting. I think Christoper Nolan may have damaged hearing! I don't have any problems hearing actors mumbling but some of the sound effects were ridiculous. For example, the return fire from the Heinkel was slow thumping canon fire but at that stage of the war the Germans and British had rifle calibre machine guns.

Oppenheimer had a British producer, British director and of course an Irish lead!

Yep, I bought the LP in the mid 70s when I was still in my school shorts....

This is the P2 for you Tony that existed in a parallel universe...

Well, bokeh is how the out of focus area is rendered. If it is smooth it will give the subject in focus a three dimensional look and pop.. If the bokeh is messy the object in focus will look less defined and sharp to the eye. The best lenses for me are also the most expensive for example a Leica Summilux-C 25mm T1.4 cine lens is £24k

A comparison of these Marklin-Trix turnover and profit charts is interesting. I didn't realize Bachmann are such minnows... https://www.marklin-users.net/forum/posts/m669175-A-quick-look-at-Marklin-s-economics

I had enough reward points at Accurascale to get a free pre-programed Deltic Lokpilot decoder. Can I reset it to ESU factory standard via an F no. for use elsewhere or is it locked? Thanks.

When I was focus puller you had to be careful with older Cooke primes. Some project a pronounced curved plane of focus. Focus in the middle and the edges were out and vice versa. Zeiss are flat field. In my time in the industry I can't recall any Sony lenses. It was Zeiss, Panavision Primo, Leica, Cooke zooms, and the odd Angénieux zoom and Canon superspeed primes. Long lens would be converted Canon still lenses.

You mean equivalent field of view. The angle of view is the fixed property of the optic. A focal length of 25mm is the same regardless of the size of the recording medium behind it.

On my screen Tony, the area in focus has more resolution in the image shot at F8. Having spent a lifetime working in the film industry behind the camera I've got a pretty good eye!

You can't escape the laws of physics Tony. Even using a macro lens stopping down to F32 or F40 is degrading image quality significantly by iris diffraction. After f/11 on FF, f/8 APS-C noticeable image softening starts. (BTW. 75033 arrived in good shape thanks to your excellent packaging)