That's a quality body even 10 years on

Metadata probably stripped out in lightroom before I uploaded.

Using a Canon EOS 7D Mark II and a Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM both of which must be getting on to 10 years old.

The quality on those photos is great, such low noise. What camera/lens combo is it? I thought Flickr would show some of that metadata but they appear to have removed all that or maybe made it a Pro feature.

Dragged my camera bag out of the cupboard this spring, seems to be working still

690803787_10174297173695006_5011005897322410799_n by Adam Woodford, on Flickr

687195574_10174297175215006_8144383167794362127_n by Adam Woodford, on Flickr

689485352_10174297175270006_9154986850729438383_n by Adam Woodford, on Flickr

686895358_10174297171915006_5934931701110912825_n by Adam Woodford, on Flickr

697131195_10174346069440006_5087487307326669093_n by Adam Woodford, on Flickr

695102354_10174346069495006_3076111496503631562_n by Adam Woodford, on Flickr

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on May 19, 2026, 13:36:47 PMI'm still kind of thinking a Boxster will become my modern classic...

ponce

I was thinking 'modern classic', though the window for that must shift constantly.

Side note, I keep seeing old 7 series like the one I had before on FB marketplace and thinking I want one with all the gubbins, phone, fridges, curtains, etc. but then I come back to reality and realise I'd struggle to even park one on my current driveway and I rarely go anywhere as I WFH! So I'm still kind of thinking a Boxster will become my modern classic...

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on April 23, 2026, 16:24:01 PMI'm glad you're keeping it going, I bet there's not that many on the roads in as good a condition actually. Is it now considered a classic?

I dunno if it's a classic, there's weird subsets of the term like "modern classic" So who knows, but it certainly gets quite a few comments like "don't see many of those around now"

awww... I bought 20x 20tb drives right before the prices shot up... you could have nicked some!

It is massive overkill actually, but I wanted to load up on high capacity drives so I don't have to worry about expanding later, all the best drives have been taken off the market and what's left is ridiculously priced, I should have done it years ago but this should serve me for 10+ years now like my HP Microserver has done. I still have that for acting as a midgetmedia server/backup mainly, but I will use the SSD NAS as primary storage for things like photos, music, etc with redundancy and permanently spun up. It's very simple to get Unraid running and benefit from the parity drives vs trying to set up similar in Windows. Then everything on it will be backed up to the HP NAS anyway and my main rig will just need a couple of fast NVMe sticks for Windows, apps and games. Maybe in ten years or so NAND storage will be much larger and cheaper and I can replace all the HDDs, that would be the dream.

ah I was assuming you were using it for a media server etc.

that's a lot of storage for backups/photos etc. :-o


(is it all midget porn?)