Filtered to perfection

Advantages: Many advantages, see review.
Disadvantages: None.

...The professional photographers like myself or the high end amateur photographers will probably all have used or tried using some sort of lens filter or another. Lens filters are designed to screw on to the end of lenses (mainly DSLR) to create different effects, you get many types of filters from the simple UV like this one through to polarizer's and star filters. This Hama UV filter is mainly used for cutting out the harmful effects that can be had both on your lens and on your images by UV light but they are handy also for the simple task of protecting your lens glass and that is why I for one have one on all my lenses at all times. If you catch the glass of your lens and scratch it or god forbid break it you are looking at a huge outlay for a new one where as if you have a simple UV filter, it takes the knocks and can be...

thebigc1690 03.04.2009 · Read review
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Hoya UV Filters, A vital accessory for your lenses.

Advantages: Filters out UV haze, Protects your lens front element.
Disadvantages: None

...manufacturers of photographic filters. In 2007 they announced that they were to merge with the well known Japanese camera manufacturer Pentax, in 2008 they announced that they would keep the Pentax name for their camera and lens division. What are they? Quite simply, they are a flat and optically correct glass filter in a metal mount, that can be screwed to the front of your lens, they have a large veriety of uses and come in many colours for use in special effects, gradiations, polarising and colour corrections, including the UV correction filters discussed here, you can also get filters that are etched or deliberately flawed for use in making starbursts, soft focus effects etc. and finally you can also get Close up (magnifying) filters for use in close up pictures, effectively turning a standard lens into a macro lens. What do...

Markh5682 11.03.2009 (15.03.2009) · Read review
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filtered water - an unrealistic dream?

Advantages: easy to use
Disadvantages: hasn't improved the taste of our tea

...We live in a hard water area in Bristol and are always having problems with limescale - we've been through many kettles in the last few years. My husband and I are used to the taste of the water now, so we don't really notice it, but when we have visitors they often complain about the drinks we serve. So, we were thrilled when my parents bought us a Brita Elemaris Cool Water Filter jug for Christmas along with a refill pack of 3 MAXTRA cartridges. Apparently they were fed up of the strange taste of our tea! Brita make the following claims - "You will enjoy cleaner, clearer, great tasting water" and "protects your domestic appliances against limescale build up". "The BRITA MAXTRA cartridge reduces substances like chlorine, limescale..., aluminium, heavy metals... and certain pesticides as well as organic impurities." Excellent...

gef18 26.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Brita Elemaris Cool Water Filter

Filters Ahead Of The Rest

Advantages: Great Tasting Water
Disadvantages: Wants You To Change Filters

...I have had this water filter for about a year now and brought it after I dropped exactly the same model and cracked the jug. I think so much of this product I went and brought a new one without hesitation and have recommended as well as buying it as a present for many friends. In case you haven?t heard of a water filter it comprises of a plastic jug with another ?plastic thingy? that sits in the top with a hole in the bottom into which you screw in your filter. Your tap water (yuk) goes into the top ?plastic thingy? and filters through and then you pour it out and enjoy your water (yum). I missed out a plastic lid that goes on top just to keep water from sploshing out when you pour of dust getting in. I keep mine in the door of the fridge because cold refrigerated water tastes so much better than tap water. Set into the top...

RJW764 09.06.2003 · Read review
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Its time to change your Tefal Quick Cup filter

Advantages: Neat filter cartridge replacement as easy as changing a light bulb
Disadvantages: Maybe you need to change it a little too often

...The Claris Quick Cup Filter Cartridge is the proprietary replacement water cartridge for use with the Tefal Quick Cup. This filtered water kettle-replacement is also capable of dispensing both room temperature and hot water. The Red button with an integral filter-replacement reminder lamp and is used to dispense hot filtered water for your coffee and tea. A black button dispenses filtered water at ambient temperature - for chilled filtered water, instead of having a filter jug for the refrigerator simply fill a regular jug from the Quick Cup using the black ambient button and place it in your refrigerator. You can currently (30th January 2009) purchase the Quick Cup for £48.74 and the replacement Claris filter for £4.80 from Amazon.co.uk. Currently orders over £5 attract no delivery charges for addresses in the UK. The top...

bigdoug 30.01.2009 · Read review
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Test your Metal.

Advantages: Very good on metal.
Disadvantages: Gets your fingers dirty (Big deal)

...Brasso, one of the best known names in the business. The nickname for this in the royal Navy is "Bluebell". This liquid polish was sold in tins with a metal screw cap, which was later changed to a plastic one. Brasso is basically a mild abrasive contained in a mild solvent, forming a cutting compound, this will wear away at most materials, including metals, plastics, paint, and even glass! It is particularly good on glass as it contains ammonia. This more modern version is based on the old "Silvo", which was made by the same company, The liquid is disolved into a wadding, making the process of cleaning a lot less messy. The new stuff is still sold in tins, and the wadding is simply held between the fingers and the surface rubbed until the desired effect is reached. A 75 gramme tin costs just over £3, this sounds expensive, but...

smudgeybabes 11.09.2008 · Read review
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METAL HEADS MAG!!!

Advantages: Good read as it talks about underground bands. aswel as the mainstream
Disadvantages: No posters

...Hmmm well, i'm unsure what there is to say about metal hammer. Do I talk about this month's issue? Or a previous issue which would be useful come next month I suppose. So instead I'm just going to talk about the magazine its self. Metal Hammer's first issue was in 1986, and is still producing more and more magazines. As you can guess from its name, the magazine is mostly about metal music/bands. The magazine always starts if with readers writing about their own opinion and sometimes the magazine its self replying to the reader. It also has at the start a small section called "Ask Jurgen" which is some Finish metal head having his own slot in the magazine. People write in asking him questions and he usually replies in some crazy insane way. Although some people may frown at his answers I find them rather amusing. The bands that...

Red-blood-Black-heart 03.03.2008 · Read review
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Black Metal Meets Funeral Doom

Advantages: Original, hugely atmospheric, emotionally powerful, great riffs
Disadvantages: None

...Just as Venom's boozy, thrashy 1982 album 'Black Metal' influenced many a psychotic Norwegian teenager and helped kickstart the cold, ferocious, stripped-down extreme metal subgenre of the same name, German band Bethlehem's 1994 debut full-length draws together disparate elements of black metal and doom to create the quintessential 'dark metal' album. The inside of the album sleeve displays the nazi eagle with a 'B' for Bethlehem replacing the swastika, and the legend 'F*cking Kill Yourself' written in bold gothic script underneath, indicating the 'Dark Metal' is going to be a less than cheery listen. The majority of the album is given over to utterly miserable and lethargic fuzzy doom riffs, accompanied by starkly prominent, lamenting and drawn out melodies, freezing tremolo riffs, subtle, funereal synths and cavernous, funeral...

Burning_Darkness 19.08.2009 · Read review
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My past experiences with metal detecting.

Advantages: There's always that chance of big bucks !!
Disadvantages: It takes a lot of effort , time, & most of all ... Luck !

...Metal detecting.... well.... another one of those strange experiences most people will laugh at I'm sure. And to be honest , when I see some people on the beach, swinging away around people that are still sat there, makes um look a bit desperate I think ! wouldn't do that my self. Although beach hunting , in the right places can be very profitable. Most people who've never done it tend to regard it in the same vein as, ... train spotting or stamp collecting, a bit sad, weird, or just for the old !. ( No offence at all intended to the only other member that has written on this subject . ) RobinLawrie....... respect !. I recon most blokes, are either obsessed by something they're interested in , or take it with a pinch of salt, I personally go with the flow of a lot of things in life, but occasionally, something will catch my...

cashman44 30.08.2004 · Read review
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Brita Elemaris water filter jug

Advantages: The water tastes better than previous filters, it's much easier to fill and use.
Disadvantages: Still takes quite a bit of cleaning but again, a step up from the original jugs

...Having owned and used a Brita water filter on a regular basis for several years, I couldn't resist purchasing the Elemaris when I saw it on offer at a bargain price on the shelves of our local Asda. My original filter jug was full of water, so the first thing I did on unpacking the Elemaris was to pour a glassful from each jug to compare them. I was pleased to observe that the water in the glass poured from the Elemaris appeared cleaner and much clearer than that from my old faithful. On tasting both samples, the one poured from the Elemaris won hands down - it tasted much fresher than the drink from the other jug. Our tapwater has quite a nasty taste when unfiltered but the Elemaris removed this. The Elemaris is much easier to fill than the earlier models and the filter does it's work much more quickly - my first jug took...

christinepalytte 10.09.2008 · Read review
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