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2 hours ago, Stu said:

@whooshbang I’m up in Walton on Thames, and we occasionally use Ranmore Common which is about 40 mins from you, and a site near Bignor which is about an hour and a quarter from you and is mag 21.3 ish on a decent night.

That's brilliant thanks! Plenty of car parks around Ranmore Common according to google maps. Bignor looks okay... bit of a jaunt though.

Thanks again for all your comments. most welcome!

Hi All, 

I have recently moved toward London (Bracknell). I have been scouting out some locations just south of Aldershot and Farnham. Hankley Common car park looks okay and there's a National trust carpark slightly east of it also worth a look. Going to take look on Sunday evening. Also further is Iping Common which is designated a "darksky" site. And another National trust carpark "Woolbeding Countryside"

Hopefully i'll be able to report back if I manage to get out Sunday

Hi Ande,

I have recently purchased one of these and it is actually the same way around as yours. Friends of mine have the opposite orientation (zelinka way). perhaps earlier model is different?. 

I took the 2 grub screws out. locked the RA clutch and unscrewed the Red collet. Since its just a thread and a groove for the grub screws to sit into I wouldn't recommend changing it. Reason being is the red collet screws up nice and tight and the grub screws prevent it from loosening. If you unscrew the red collet to give your 180 degrees it naturally loosens the red collet leaving you just 2 grub screws to hold everything tight. (you could potentially make a shim so it tightens up nice at a 180 degrees from original position)

I am going to continue using mine as intended. (long section at the top with camera mounted to it) Another reason for this is it gives more clearance around the top of the mount when I connect a long dovetail bar. (see photo)

Best regards

15 minutes ago, happy-kat said:

The anticipation of developing that film and finding such a nice capture, nicely done.

Indeed and many thanks.

A little ambitious perhaps... but fairly happy with this photo taken with a Yashica Mat 124g medium format film camera. Exposure was approximately 12 seconds at f3.5 on Lomography 800 colour film. Processed at the lab and scanned on my trusty Plustek Opticfilm 120.

Best regards

W

Rest In Peace Sir Patrick, You will be missed.

yet another happy customer (again)! wasn't expecting my WO diagonal til new year when suddenly an email followed by a fedex parcel..... yeehaa!

thanks FLO