Birmingham Comicon

You will practice your saxophone

We went to Birmingham Comicon today. It was great fun. The only thing I bought at the show was a year’s supply of saxophone lessons, and they weren’t actually on sale there, that was just a subscription I’d forgot to cancel that automatically renewed itself while I was in Birmingham. I hate it when they do that with no warning. But some good will come of this. I’m going to start practicing the saxophone again…

I took the big heavy camera too with a huge lens too. This proved very bad at getting focus, but I did get a few shots.

Huge Camera Fun at Comicon 2025

I feel terrible about this shot.

It was up at 5:00am today to catch the early train to London and head to Comicon. Everything worked fine, although I could have done without the walk in the rain to the station. Anyhoo, we arrived in good time and got our badges. I took the big camera, with a plan to use the built-in flash. I gave that up after the first few shots. The flash seemed to go off like a supernova. After nearly blinding a wizard I switched to using available light. Of which there was a surprisingly small amount. This meant turning up the sensitivity and using slow shutter speeds, so all the shots came with a extra noise and blur. But I did manage a few pictures which I’m happy with. Especially if you look at small versions…

Daleks on Parade

Mr. Saypuffed

I’ve no idea who this chap is, but he came out very well.

I need to work on my framing. But the picture isn’t too bad.

Now I do know who this chap is, and he even has a sabre of the correct colour

Nice Car

Another view

I don’t think you can buy this as a kit

If I could have held the camera steadythis would have been a great shot

Great fun was had. The stalls were full of interesting stuff. The place was mad busy after lunch though.