About
All Feedback (135)
seaflo-uk (334870)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past 6 months
Verified purchase
Good buyer, prompt payment, valued customer, highly recommended.
avartek (97324)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past 6 months
Verified purchase
Good buyer, prompt payment, valued customer, highly recommended.
avartek (97324)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past 6 months
Verified purchase
Good buyer, prompt payment, valued customer, highly recommended.
robertamber09 (1596)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past 6 months
Verified purchase
Good ebayer fast paynent A+
attamtrading (19752)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past 6 months
Verified purchase
Fast payment, great buyer! Thanks for shopping with ATTAM!
attamtrading (19752)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past 6 months
Verified purchase
Fast payment, great buyer! Thanks for shopping with ATTAM!
Reviews (7)
07 Jul, 2011
A GPS for the rest to copy!
Had my NavMan five years, told me how to get there (choice of male or female) on a simple, small no-frills screen. Time to upgrade, but not silly money, and this one regularly scored 10 out of 10 in reviews. It has a very pretty display, and I love the lane guidance display at junctions. Great range of sexy female voices, and my wife gets positively panty over Sean! Needless to say, we've got Sean! The info available 'Live' is excellent, though what the costs of map upgrades and 'Live' subscriptions will be when my free 12 months runs out, I hate to think! At least I have the option to upgrade, something my NavMan woefully lacked.
The GPS calculates routes very quickly, latches onto sats in seconds and is generally super-efficient in operation. It tells me when I'm breaking the speed limit; it beeps at me regularly, though God knows why; it guides me round traffic jams, I'm told, though I've seen little evidence of that; and it asks me if I want the fastest, shortest or most eco-friendly route! And here's where it's dropped a star!
Some of the routes it's taken me on have been plain bonkers! The fastest route is in the opposite direction, down a single track road barely wide enough for a bike, grass growing in the middle, with hair-pin bends every 10 yards, and farmers' gates to negotiate, is it? Maybe not! It could all be my fault for not telling it the right stuff! Sean could be really sick of this senile idiot whose grasp of of the 21st century resembles that of Charles Dickens trying to programme this unbelievably-super-intelligent-mega-instrument for an unbelievably-simple-please- don't-patronise-me route home. He could be punishing me! I bet Kathy (English, Irish, sexy-or-what) would just take me home by the shortest route, bless her!
It is a complex piece of equipment and I don't pretend to have got to grips with the half of it in the couple of months I've had it. Maybe, another couple of months and I will regret withholding that final star.
27 Mar, 2020
Hardly lightweight, but good value at this price.
Considering the price, little more than £220, it is good value. Not easy to put up and certainly not for touring for a couple of days here and a couple of days there, but, if you are like me and have it in place for months at a time, it's fine. What did disappoint was the promise (?) of delivery on the Saturday - which was one of my main reasons for buying it - and it didn't arrive until the Monday. This entailed an extra round trip of nearly 200 miles to set the awning up. Perhaps I'm too used to Amazon's fantastic delivery!
02 Sep, 2009
500D . . . electable!
16 of 17 found this helpful A replacement for a Canon 20D which I loved but was very heavy and bulky, I wonder at the ability of Canon to squeeze so much into what is a very manageable DSLR. Torn between this and the 50D, I decided that this one offered the handling qualities I wanted - it really is very comfortable and quite light, it's the lenses which seem to add disproportional bulk! However, with fairly standard lenses (I have EF-S 17-85 IS USM and EF-S 55-250 IS) it is still a well balanced piece of kit.
Another real attraction for me was the 3 inch, 920,000 pixel LCD. A massive improvement on the 20D, it really is bright, clear and sharp, with excellent colour rendition, and only in very bright sunlight does it fail to impress. The new Digic4 processor is very impressive offering high definition and very low noise even at high ISO levels. Combined with the more than adequate 15.1 megapixel sensor, the unit delivers remarkable images.
I found the buttons, dials and controls both sturdy and accessible, and, unlike the 20D, much more intuitive. The menu is also much more clearly and systematically laid out. The 50D is slightly faster, has more features and a burst rate of 6.3fps while the 500D gives just 3.4fps. Am I bothered? No! I have rarely used it and when I have 3.4fps has always been quite enough.
The real drawback for me was paying a relatively high price for HD video. It simply did not attract me at all - I am a 'stills man'! Or am I? I've had so much fun recording movies, even in very low light levels, I don't understand how I have managed without it! My neighbour, the worse for wine, singing along to Kathy Kirby at a recent street party had the rest of us in tears! I'm still considering blackmail!
Are there faults? Well, I haven't found any but I'm not a pro. As with all DSLR's, the lenses do make a difference. I've only the two, but I can see the difference in image quality. I only wish I could justify buying (or even afford!) L series lenses. But that's just being picky, toys for the boys! I'm a semi-serious amateur and I think the 500D is great.
All my research pointed me to the 500D, or the Nikon D90. It would have been a real dilemma had I not already had Canon lenses as there really does not seem to be much to choose between the two.
As a footnote, I should mention that I also bought a Lowepro split camera case/ruck sac combination which accommodates the 500D, spare lens, battery, cleaning bits, and so on, whilst giving lots of space for day trip paraphernalia and this has solved lots of transport problems.