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To complete my requirements for home heating this winter I have bought this Goldair convection heater. Of all the Goldair heaters I have owned this one has the roughest finish, with the metalwork actually being bent or misformed in several places. This heater has a fan which can operate on its own or with any…

The Powershot S100, Powershot G1X and Powershot SX260 are all recent releases from Canon while the Powershot G12 is last year’s model remaining in production. As I have stated I am planning to buy a Powershot SX260 shortly so the comparison is worthwhile. Resolutions vary between 12 and 14 megapixels. The SX260 is by far…

Just to round off the discussion about heaters, here are two more of the four I have bought this winter. On the left, the latest acquisition is the very simple, small, cheap and cheerful Goldair GIR300. A three bar radiant heater which just does the basics at a price of about $70. On the right,…

A few posts back I talked about cameras I was planning to buy, and mentioned the EOS as a possible option. Once upon a time back in my misspent youth, I had enough money to buy a Pentax Program A, an SLR Pentax film camera with KA mount lens. Over a relatively short period of…

At last the Powershot SX260 has got its NZ release. Although they have been on Canon’s website for a while the release was delayed because (I presume) Canon wished to sell out of stock of the previous model, the SX230. Some places still have stock of the SX230 and are not yet receiving the 260.…