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Just picked up (yesterday) a mint condition Nikkor AF-S 85 1.8G for 280 Swiss francs (approx €250) from Photo Verdaine. All their used equipment is listed (without photos) online at the above link. To cap it all, the salespeople are competent and friendly.

Am thinking of buying a perspective control (or tilt-shift) lens for architectural work but I don't think I'd use the 'tilt' function very often. Exception might be in order to bring more into focus rather than less - which, I understand, is the primary use of the 'tilt function anyway. In fact all I really need is the shift function to correct converging verticals but, to my knowledge, shift-only lenses are no longer produced for DSLRs.

If I was asked this question and HAD to give an answer, I'd say Joseph Nicéphore Niepce. Well he may not be the BEST but he was the FIRST. So we all can say thanks to this man. 1826 takes some beating.

Better? Not sure about that, but they were certainly lighter. Thinking of my beloved Olympus OM-1 and Pentax MX: beautiful engineering and so light.....

A bit late now, but if I was to go back to central Spain, I'd love to spend a day or two wandering around the old town of Toledo (45 miles from Madrid) with my camera.

In France: mpb.com - Buy or Sell Used Photo & Video Equipment (on-line 2nd hand stuff). In Switzerland : eCommerce (Photo Verdaine). Photo Verdaine in Geneva is my favorite and in general prices in Switzerland are surprisingly lower than in other European countries both for new and used equipment.

And some of the filming locations were a stone's throw from where I used to live in South-East London (the park scene).

An admission: this is probably the film that got me interested in photography when I was an kid in London. It's a fantasized view of photography and photographers but I didn't see things that way back in the late 60s. So I went out and bought my first serious camera and tried hard (but unsuccessfully) to look like David Hemmings ;)

I have a small collection of old SLRs and a vintage 1910 folding Kodak but my treasure is the camera I dreamt of owning when I was a kid (back in 1972), the Olympus OM-1. I could never afford it in those days but drooled over it in many a shop window. A few years ago, I saw one in mint condition on Ebay and bought it for about €80. So I now own my dream camera, 47 years late, but who cares.

My very first SLR - a Russian Zenit E - bought back in the early 70s, died a death some years ago (shutter problem). I just didn't have the heart to throw it out. It has been (a small) part of my life for the last 50 years. So, crippled but loved, it's still there.

I try to have my camera with me most of the time, at work and during leisure activities. I only leave it at home if I anticipate problems caused by having a camera with me (meetings, some théatres, etc) or if really inconvenient. It's a FF camera and therefore not discrete but I have missed too many good shots when without a camera. Some people lug around a laptop, I lug around my camera. To each his own.

You may have already found the answer to your question (sorry, I only joined today). LR allows you to save images directly to the computer in the folder of your choice - which is what I do. Don't know how long the Fuji cable is but the Nikon USB cable is far too short and I've had on/off connection problems when using a USB extension. Best bet is to invest in a powered USB cable. Pretty expensive (mine cost €90) but it gives a consistently good connection.

I have read several articles stating that the dynamic range of the D850 has the edge.

As already mentioned, it allows tethered shooting in a studio set-up (or elsewhere). Since the UC-E22 cable alone is too short for this purpose, I attach it to a powered USB cable first.

Thanks for your welcome JDMvW. Look forward to exchanging views with an 'alienated rootless cosmopolitan' ;)