going back to my olympus tough 8000 (yes i'm 99% certain i charmed my mum into it), i've seen some reviews saying the picture quality isn't as good as they were expecting. how can this be when it's 12 megapixels? isn't a pixel the same as a pixel or a pixel?

both just want to get an idea of the price range really for future reference (when i'm earning my own money)

by the way - just out of interest more than anything else - how much would a low end SLR camera cost? obviously i'm not thinking of getting one as i'm already going to get a digital camera for my birthday but just wondering

right i think it's time to get my "point and shoot" artwork criticized, so here goes!

so, worryingly i can't find some of my best stuff, but luckily i did a slideshow of it ages ago, although its not the best quality, you can see where i'm coming from - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qah6kS9eLAc

also these, in Norfolk, Egypt and Norfolk, respectively.

wow, where was that taken?

press 4. red is brake, yellow is nothing and green is accelerate

yes but you are arguing about something that happened like 2 pages ago, get with it...

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lol, dyu mean two and a half men?

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Thank God You're Here (Aussie show about throwing actors into random situations to adlib)

we had that over here for a while last year, i really enjoyed it, but it was only on for one series. it was celebrities ad libbing as i recall.

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yay, first time i've been thanked

look in the finished skins section...

i think so, although i'm probably not the best person to ask

clutch maybe? although i'm not using my wheel yet, i believe it might have something to do with the axes, try fiddling around with those?

wow. what does infrared do exactly though?

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can u post a video of it? preferably youtube or fbm on blackwood so i can see it

right i'm off to do some last minute physics revision - exam's at 1:30, wish me luck! (after this, only one to go!!!)

lol @ ship simulator i got flight simulator as well thats good

what u mean? have you done that, because that's the best way to compare your lap and see where you're going wrong.

replay the lap u want analysed, and the lap before your fastest lap, press Esc and then Output data (or something similar), then watch that lap all the way through, and when its done, go to lfs->data>raf, and there will be your hotlap thing. upload that to hotlap analyser and compare it with any others already uploaded. ok?

practise then i'd say. press 4 to get the racing line, and just push it. also, F9 shows tire temps, try to get them green all the way through for best grip. also, use hotlap analyser - http://www.lfsworld.net/rafa/ and compare it to the WR to see where you're going wrong.

hope this helps and good luck

using a wheel?

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It looks like the 6000 should be good enough, honestly. It has a 10mpix sensor compared with the 8000's 12mpix, but unless you're going to be blowing images up to wall poster size you won't notice any difference - certainly not if you're only going to facebook or flickr your pics to share with others. The 6000 has some extra goodies in face detection over the 8000. So it really comes down to the ability to swim to 10ft, which is as deep as I would usually go, or 25ft which is definitely beyond swimming pool depths and will make your ears hurt a LOT. And you can drop the 8000 from 2 metres compared with 1.5 metres with the 6000. My recommendation is to avoid dropping your camera at all

Go with the 6000. It's not going to let you down, and probably will surprise you

thanks it's nice to finally be part of a thread that hasn't caught fire yet! as i always find whenever doing research for anything (usually for a birthday/christmas present), you end up getting put off really easily, e.g. from bad reviews on amazon. it happened when i was looking for a wheel (got DFP in the end), console (got PS3 in the end) and now this. i think you just have to say screw the reviews, as long as they're mostly good, they'll be fine.

anyway, i put both on my birthday list, which i've emailed to my mum and at the bottom it says "bear in mind that i love you xxx", so we'll see how it goes, maybe i'll post a short review on here if anyone's interested.