Vango Predator 450

Advantages: Warm, Extreme
Disadvantages: Size

...The Vango Predator 450 is a flagship synthetic bag packed with features to make this one of the best bags proving plenty of bang, for your buck. "The Predator range of sleeping bags is designed for use at the extreme limit. Available in mummy or square. Predators will be used by experienced campers, mountaineers and expedition members who will only use the highest performance sleeping bag suitable for the most hostile environments. Highly compressible Dupont Thermolite Extra is used in conjunction with Thermolite Micro for the ultimate warmth to weight ratio." As stated this bag is for use in slightly more 'wild' conditions, where some down bags would provide to much heat and most synthetic bags wouldnt provide enough. Although this bag has the disadvantage with most synthetic bags, the size, it does hold most of the properties...

chriscookson 04.06.2003 · Read review
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Vango Venture 500

Advantages: Good Size, Brilliant Value, High Quality, Sturdy, Easy to Erect
Disadvantages: None that I can think of!

...I purchased my Vango Venture 500 towards the end of 2006. For the bargain price of £85.00 and I haven't looked back since! Numourus camping trips have bee happily spent in this tent and it will see many more! The frame consists of 2 large poles crossing over to make the main dome, and a 3rd smaller pole creating a loop for the porch area. Once erect, with all pegs and guide ropes in place the tent is extremely strong and stable. We have camped in strong winds and strong rain and it has stood strong throughout. As long as there are two of you, erecting the tent is a swift and easy process. Funnily enough you tend to erect it faster when its raining! And packing it back into the bag is an art the first time but you tend to remember how to do it from then onwards and it's easy enough. When packaged, the tent is relatively heavy...

PaulineLees 20.07.2007 (03.05.2008) · Read review
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Hardest Erection Ive ever Had !!

Advantages: Compact/ Lightweight/ Portable/ Smart/ Spacey for a 4 berth
Disadvantages: Erection time!/ Instructions/ Not suitable for young children

...My family had a weekend camping in Skegness two weekends back. Luckily enough, the week before I had recieved a free tent from my company so it saved me a few bob. The tent in question was this one. A Vango Alpha 400 4 berth dome tent. I am a very occasional camper, in fact I havn't been for over ten years and I found tents had changed a whole lot in that prevailing time. The tent comes in a lightweight holdall. Very compact and easy to carry around. It took up hardly any space in our Citroen Picasso boot at all. We arrived at the campsite in Ingoldmells just outside Skegness and placed ourselves in our desired location. Two of my sisters were also there with their families and we all proceeded to pitch the tents. I had already made sure prior to leaving, we had instructions, so was fairly confident we wouldn't have much...

WormThatTurned 09.07.2009 · Read review
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Vango's Erections

Advantages: Lightweight, spacious, well made
Disadvantages: fiddly to put up

...the tent up flysheet first or fasten the ?bedroom? in before adding the poles. We found it easiest to do the flysheet first. Likewise the groundsheet also ?snapped? to the base of the poles. Vango assert that you can move the whole tent to face the prevailing wind ? not on your nelly! Not unless you fancy a bit of paragliding! With more than 2 adults maybe this would be possible but it seems unlikely. We were also a bit concerned about the thinness of the ?bedroom? groundsheet, this lies directly on the earth so would be susceptible to any sharp stones or twigs. Only time will tell. You can buy a Vango TBS Equinox for about 400GBP from any good tent stockist or outdoor shop. It looks good enough so that you can use it in the mountains without feeling like a complete anorak, and it?s small enough that it doesn?t take up all...

sdwill 28.06.2002 · Read review
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Fargo DTC400 is a super card printer

Advantages: High Quality, Profession Prints, Reliable and Durable
Disadvantages: High Cost for printer and ribbons

... Fargo DTC 400 Card Printer We have several card printers at work that we use for printing business passes and seasonal access cards. All of our printers are DTC 400's and they really are very good. Granted, we do have the occasional problem but in general, they are reliable, print to a high quality and are very fast. Not only does this enhance productivity, but it also allows to portray a professional image to the general public when they visit our site and allows us to encode our cards to monitor peoples movements around the site. About the Manufacturer Fargo Electronics were acquired by HID Global in 2006, the combined company now trade as HID Global and they also merged with ASSA ABLOY Identification Technology (ITG) in 2008. HID Global, manufacture, provide and support a variety of access control readers...

TheHairyGodmother 31.07.2009 · Read review
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Travels with my 400D

Advantages: Cheap, good image quality, leading brand, good entry level camera
Disadvantages: Perhaps slightly small

...Travels with my 400D I’ve been putting off writing this review for months and months. I’ve been waiting until I know just about as much about the camera as I possibly can, but I’ve come to the conclusion that this will never happen, so I’m just going to do it. It may also have to do with the fact that term ended on Tuesday, I have a massive amount of revision to do, and I’m procrastinating. It’s an unanswerable question. **This is a very long review as I’m going to assume that anyone reading this knows absolutely nothing about photography, so apologies if you do and I come across as patronising. Also, as I write this, I find it’s turning into as much of a digital camera tutorial as well as a review of the 400D itself. This is the only way I can find to review the camera properly...

HungryHungarian 21.03.2008 (26.03.2008) · Read review
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Epiphone G-400

Advantages: Great attack and sustain for a good metal/rock style of play.
Disadvantages: Not particularly well balanced.

...The epiphone g400 is a stunning guitar. Its looks is what attracted me to it first and formost in the shop. After having a go in the shop i was completely blown away! The sound that this thing can make is unbelievable in respect to the price tag. It is exceptional value! The alnico humbuckers pruduce a great crunchy sound for distorted rock/metal style of playing. It has plenty of attack and great sustain. It has quite a wide neck which makes it easier (for me inparticular) to finger some chords (like an A) where on other guitars my fingers would be squashed up and would make playing the chord uncomfortable. But this is not the case on the g400. The action is very good too. And if it is not to your preference then changing and tweaking this guitar to your liking is almost too easy! I have had this guitar for over a year now...

Wayne1987 15.10.2008 · Read review
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CDJ 400 AMAZING

Advantages: Everything You Need
Disadvantages: LCD Blurs

...There can be no doubt when I say that Pioneer own the DJ CD deck market. Like the Technics, the mighty CDJ range has become the standard install for many clubs and an essential buy for many DJs wishing to make the jump from analog to digital. When Pioneer released the original CDJ-1000 and subsequent 800, they ruled the roost, led the pack plus many other euphemisms meaning they pwned the scene. But the competition soon caught up and even surpassed the functionality and feature set of the CDJs, leaving Pioneer in the enviable but slightly uncomfortable position of being the standard, but not necessarily the cutting edge anymore. If you're an existing Pioneer user, you'll be right at home, as the Pioneer layout rule book has been read and adhered to. Controls are where you'd expect them to be and the CDJ-400 also has an LCD screen that...

theman1965 17.12.2008 · Read review
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Canon EOS 400D

Advantages: Low cost entry to Digital SLR photography. Compatible with all Canon Ef and Ef-s lenses
Disadvantages: Manual exposure fiddly, Kit lens good for cost, but not high-quality

...Review EOS 400d The canon 400D is a good camera - for the price it's a great camera. It's relatively compact; lightweight; comes with an adequate lens; has programmed settings for novices - like portrait and landscape modes; but also offers manual control of apertures, shutter speeds, white balance, ISO? so that the more experienced photographers can have fun and be a little more creative. One item to note if you are upgrading from a digital compact is that you have to use the viewfinder. The screen on the back of the camera only shows exposure information, and allows you to view photographs you have already taken. It does not let you view the scene you are about to photograph. In my opinion this is a good thing because it forces you to hold the camera properly - up against your face where it can be held steadily, instead of at arms...

montmorillonite 16.07.2008 · Read review
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  IXUS 400 - Quality At A Price

Advantages: Top-notch build quality and design. First rate results
Disadvantages: No case! Quite pricey for specification level. Shortish battery life with no clear indicator

...this year?s entry-level, when it comes to mega pixels, and although some top-end cameras are flirting with ratings beyond 10.0 mega pixels, somewhere between 3.0 and 4.0 is capable of giving excellent results, especially as hardly anyone prints beyond A4 size. This is where the new Canon IXUS 400 comes in. It is no bigger than previous models, and yet packs a very creditable 4.0 mega pixel maximum definition, stored on Compact Flash cards, which gives it the added advantage that it can share cards with my Nikon. The latest ?entry-level? digital IXUS, the Digital IXUS II now uses the newer SD cards, but frankly, it?s not an awful lot cheaper, despite sporting a ?mere? 3.2 mega pixels and I?d have to buy a new card reader for the new format. FIRST IMPRESSIONS The first thing you notice is that this camera is a slight deviation...

BNibbles 22.08.2003 (24.08.2003) · Read review
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