kitmonster

It's got nothing to do with North / South, London won - the great capital of this great nation. Well done to Seb and Coe!

Pharisee - thanks for the list. I worked out my own and it definitely had some holes in it. I'm amazed so many are bang on 500.

Thanks again and glad you enjoyed the logs. So when's the itching going to stop . . .

Thank you all :mad: . . . what a great day to hit 100. And as for lead . . . well, I'd read most of the logs, guess I just missed / forgot yours

Becoming a bit of a habit for me, caching in thunderstorms . . . at least there's no muggles about.

Can you get replacement screens for etrexs? I had a yellow one for 5 years and never used any protection and it never got scratched. Upgraded last year to a Vista C and scratched it on day one

GCMPZR - Go Batty in Greywell is an excellent multi, in north Hampshire and includes a castle.

I'm on my 4th mountain bike, 5th MP3 player, 9th PC, 3rd GPS unit, 8th PDA, 3rd digital camera and enough goretex to clothe a 15 man team to the top of Everest . . . I'm sure you can figure out the link.

How long is it going to take me to learn . . . 1) Not to wear shorts caching - my shins are a network of lacerations, mozzy bites and stinging nettle rashes. 2) Remember to mark where I set off from - found the cache, now where's the bloody car! 3) Take water either with me or leave a bottle in the car - got home last night so parched I could hardly speak. 4) Take a map even when I think I know the area - sometimes my gps tracks look like I spent the afternoon in Hampton court maze. 5) Not blindly follow the arrow - half a mile through hawthorn thicket or half a mile stroll along the bridle way 50 yards to the right. 6) That it's only a hobby and not to get upset about dnf's. 7) To cope with the fact I shouldn't cache at lunchtime - arriving back at the office half an hour late with bleeding shines, twigs in hair and a cuddly toy with a chain round it's neck isn't going to do my career much good. 8) To deal with my closest cache which has 4 1/2 stars and a fiendish puzzle I've half cracked but has been sitting on my desk for a month now! 9) To remember that this is supposed to be about pleasant walks through beautiful countryside - nor a dash and cache in the dark and/or wet. 10) To coping with the fact, I'm running out of week day caches already! Oh and I got into this because I love photography and thought it would help me find new and beautiful locations. I now leave the camera at home because a rucksack full of lenses with a tripod strapped to it tends to slow you down when crawling through a hole in a hedge . . . cause I'd forgotten a map and was following the arrow . . . and it's getting dark anyway . . .

Thanks - common sense really. The co-ords they use are for a carpark half a mile away anyway . . . just wondered if there was a check against final location. Guess not. Cheers.

I would like to start a multi cache close to the end of someone else's multi cache. Can I do this? The other cache in question takes you to a church yard and then uses some of the inscriptions to solve the puzzle. The church location isn't disguised and directions to get there from the parking are given. I would like my cache to start in the rough area also using the church as the first part of a multi cache. The final location will be about a mile away on foot or half a mile as the crow flies. As my cache is part of a bigger series, it's going to be quite tricky to find an alternative. So, can I do this? Thanks - Edward

Priceless . . . tears running down my face!

Well done mate B) Now the race is on to 200 . . . Do you think we could do it before Bizarre hits 100? Easy!

You got it! Phew. Now, back to my photography forum to talk about caching . . .

ISO is a legacy from film and a standard to how sensitive the film / sensor is to light. The lower the number, the finer the detail and the longer the exposure. You will find that high higher ISO films will be grainy - like the tabloid paparazzi images from half a mile away, where as the low ISO films will have a much finer grain that should be invisible to the human eye. On digital you get a similar effect although it is referred to as noise. High ISO digital images will not be as sharp and have a lot of random blue and red pixels. The advantage of high ISO is you can shoot in lower light. Here's some examples: You take a shot at ISO 100 with a fixed aperture. The exposure is 1/20 of a second. This is quite slow and without a tripod, you are likely to get some camera shake. At ISO 200 and the same fixed aperture you will get the same shot at 1/40 of a second, 400 at 1/80 second and 800 at 1/160 second. So as you can see from the maths, it's a balance. With a film camera, once the film is loaded you have two variables, exposure and aperture. With digital variable ISO is a third variable! I always try and shoot with as low an ISO setting as I can. But if a shot is hand held in low light, I will shoot at a higher ISO. I then use Noise Ninja software to reduce the noise. It's a very good piece of software. Here are two examples: This is a full crop of a photo of a heron taken at ISO 400. Each pixel you see here is straight from the camera. You will notice the background is a bit speckled. This is the same image after being cleaned by noise ninja. The background speckling has gone. This isn't a perfect example but hopefully demonstrates what noise is and how it relates to ISO. The 10d I use has very low noise up to ISO 400. I'm not sure how your camera behaves. It's digital, so go play! If you want more, then go to Luminous Landscape and read more about ISO and noise!

Well, actually, I can see the difference! You see, I write my files back to film with a film recorder. At about 2890 DPI. And then I view them under magnification. A 5 megapixel image still looks grainy after that process - rather like the older 400 ASA films... But, if all you want are prints that are viewed at an appropriate distance then the digital cameras are just fine... Bob Aldridge Sure you can see a difference under magnification but put a 6MP image from a modern DSLR against an image produced from a film and at A3 under normal viewing conditions 99% of people won't notice the difference. You get more tonal range from a good digital so, most people will prefer the digital image. Anyway, I spend way too much time debating this in photography forums to carry on here!

Thanks! My actions were purely governed by instinct with out any involvement from my brain! I use a Canon 10d DSLR, Canon 100-400L, 17-35L, 28-135, 100 Macro, 50 f1.8 and Sigma 180 Macro! Kitmonster - me?

Thats correct if you want decimal degrees. But it is N43 25.424 E06 45.997 If you want it in WGS84 (i.e. the format the site uses!) T Consider myself ticked off . . . I'll go and be helpful else where . . .

Had to laugh, looking through the logs for these caches. Don't the French take part? All the logs are by Brits on holiday!

I make it approximately N43.42 E6.76. Looks like there are half a dozen in and around the town. Have a good trip!

Thanks SP. Might be dark by the time I get there! If I can, I'll drop by.

Blimey! Going to be a long trip! . . Thanks so much - at least it will break up the monotony of our lovely motorway system .

I'm heading up to Manchester for the weekend from London Via M40 / M6. Are there any service station caches or ones very near junctions? I've tried searching and haven't had much luck. Thanks.

Wow - what a great site! I love stats and this is amazing! Great work.

We travel in pairs!