Comments for Jon Bradbury

Comment on Bangernomics – Audi 80 2.0E by Jon Bradbury

Jon Bradbury — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:30:55 +0000

Cheers for the comment. Wheels weren’t my first choice (too many spokes for starters, sod to clean), but still preferred them to the original 15s, and they were cheap.

The steering wheel wasn’t a replacement for the classic ‘sport wheel’ or I’d agree with you, but the huge bus sized 4 spoke looks like the airbag wheel (but wasn’t). Fancied the proper Audi sport 3 spoke wheel, but they were fetching over £100 on eBay (well out of bangeromics prices), and I paid £15 for the Momo.

Comment on Bangernomics – Audi 80 2.0E by ste

ste — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:08:20 +0000

great deal you got there. new wheels are horrid though.changing the steering wheel is tantamount to heresy. each to their own i suppose

Comment on Sixty minutes with the Panasonic Lumix G3 by Jon Bradbury

Jon Bradbury — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:21:41 +0000

Weight wise the 5D/grip & one lens combo is 2KG, so a 500g compact is a dinky featherweight to me. Even if use it as a second camera (on events useful to have something with longer reach which for me equals carrying the 30D & 70-200 (near 1.5kg), it’d still be a lot lighter & smaller, and that ‘big’ sensor should mean it’s a closer match on quality. I’ve tried the G9 vs and it’s not, though to be fair I’d have been mighty peeved if it was…

Focus distance wise, yep, can see where you’re coming from for your style of shooting. For mine, yes I enjoy the silly animal shots, but it’s not where I spend most of my time shooting. I would like to see it with a bit wider lens though. Time will see anyway, to be honest I’m more closely watching news of the next 5D which is the camera I use every time I go out of the house, rather than the compact, which I use for eBay…

Comment on Sixty minutes with the Panasonic Lumix G3 by Dave Wild

Dave Wild — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:52:46 +0000

The things that put me off the G1X were the lens and the fairly hefty size of the thing but the biggest irritation for me was the minimum focus distance being something like 40cm at the 28mm wide end. I’m used to it being around 1cm! (on DSLR/Tokina fisheye as well as the Ricoh’s).

Comment on Sixty minutes with the Panasonic Lumix G3 by Jon Bradbury

Jon Bradbury — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:44:29 +0000

Yeah the Ricoh are a nice camera (biased I grew up on a Ricoh XR-X film SLR), definitely like the fixed bright lens. Whilst still not a perfect solution I’m rather interested by the upcoming Canon G1X, decent zoom, almost DSLR sized sensor in a package not much bigger than the outgoing G12. Only negative on that is that it’s not got the brightest lens, but then neither had the typical zooms with these EVIL camera either. I could see that being a decent backup camera for in the bag & something to finally oust the spare DSLR.

Comment on Sixty minutes with the Panasonic Lumix G3 by Dave Wild

Dave Wild — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:34:12 +0000

I recently got hold of a Ricoh GR Digital IV. I wanted a new “small” camera for using when I wasn’t using my DSLR. I did look at some of the mirrorless interchangeable lens system cameras but once you start having lots of parts to swap you’re back where you are with a bag full of DSLR gear – even if all of it is a bit smaller and the lenses seemingly very expensive at the moment which seems to be a premium for making them smaller.

The Ricoh GRD IV was picked mainly due to my experience with the earlier Ricoh GX100. It’s hard to express why I love those cameras so much – they certainly seem odd to some people if you just look at a spec list or feature set – everything just seems to be in the right place and easy to get at – it’s just so fast to pick and change settings – overall though, there’s just a feeling of joy you get from these things just feeling so nice!

Comment on You Park Like a C*nt by John Glynn

John Glynn — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:51:00 +0000

Love this – have tweeted it. VAG by name, VAG by parking LMAO

Comment on You Park Like a C*nt by Dave Wild

Dave Wild — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:59:28 +0000

Hugely entertaining Nice find.

Comment on 2011 Ford Focus Zetec TDCI Road Test by Tony Sargeant

Tony Sargeant — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:38:32 +0000

Thanks Jon for your words, giving this more thought it came to me. How big is the ‘real world’ as Ford talks about in their fuel figures where they test these cars that are returning the same fuel figures as some cars were ten years ago. Have we really moved on.
How massive is this drain on the public purse. I have done a quick calculation that if in the UK car market sells 250,000 a year and this would equate to an over spend from the public sector over and above their estimated budget, ‘if these car makers figures are all incorrect to the same as Ford, it comes to £125,000,000 yes one hundred and twenty five million pounds extra than we bargain for. Who stops this, Ford says they are just complying with EU derivatives. That EU word again.

Comment on 2011 Ford Focus Zetec TDCI Road Test by Jon Bradbury

Jon Bradbury — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:44:15 +0000

Thanks for the comment, great to hear not only one struggling to match quoted mpg figures. I believe it’s all down to the newer ‘standard’ test route, and cars built to favour those tests. Back out in the real world…