Advantages: Great Price, Great Components, Super Reliability Disadvantages: None whatsoever
After 3yrs and 9000 miles of loyal service my original Trek1500 road bike gave up the ghost after coming off second best with a battered old Nissan Micra!! I guess that proves that steel is stronger than Aluminium!!
My insurance company were great and sorted me out with a replacement within 2 weeks. I was delighted to find that the actual replacement was going to be the new 2006 model which features several improvements from the bike that I had previously. The price of the bike is £1300 fully delivered and set up, but upgrades to components such as saddle / wheels and pedals can bring the cost up if you want.
I booked a day off work to receive delivery of my bike, which arrived as planned and only required adjustment to the handlebars, seat-post and saddle. Berkshire Cycle Company who were the approved insurance dealers set ...
DomRam1973 05.07.2005
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Advantages: Huge zoom, Focus Tracking, Easy to use Disadvantages: Bulky, A little slow, AA batteries are a bit inconvenient
The Fuji FinePix S1500 is the latest incarnation of the very successful FinePix S1000fd. It is very SLR-like in appearance and the added bulk of the battery-holder/grip does give it an assured feeling in your hands. Of course, this can be a disadvantage, and if you want a camera that you can just slip in-and-out of your pocket, then maybe a slimmer compact should be considered.
The 12x optical zoom is excellent and it equates to 33-396mm in 35mm terms - and if this isn't enough, there is a 5.7x digital zoom feature too.
The menus are friendly and easy to navigate, and there are helpful explanatory prompts that appear on thew LCD screen when the mode-dial setting is changed.
There are 14 preset scenes to choose from, each setting the camera to its optimum settings for the given scenario, but on top of this, the camera can be used ...
Advantages: Lots of channels Disadvantages: No scart cable!
The Channels:
When I first received the Grundig 1500 I was looking forward to watching the same variety of channels in my room as I can downstairs, (we have the basic Virgin Media package) however, when I set it up (I'll go through the set-up process later) I found out that I had probably even more channels than I did downstairs. Just counting them all up now I have found that I can view around 90 television and radio channels/stations, including some like BBC 3 + 4, ITV 2,3,+ 4, Film 4, and of course those shopping channels!
Setting it up:
When I first got it out of the box the immediate thing I noticed was that I had no scart cable, so I looked in the instructions and sure enough it informed me that a scart cable did not come with the box, thankfully my brother had a broken freeview box (not this model) so I was able to use ...
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