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For full P&O Cruises terms and conditions, please refer www.pocruises.com. Here you will find full descriptions of the cruises, cabin accommodation and itinerary details, as well as important information on passport, visa and health requirements and booking conditions, which you must read before booking. P&O Cruises is a trading name of Carnival plc, a company registered in England and Wales with company number 04039524. The Sony A550 produced images of excellent quality during the review period. The Sony A550's first impressive feature in terms of image quality is the extensive and very usable ISO range of 200-12800. ISO 200-800 is noise-free, whilst ISO 1600 and 3200 produce more than acceptable results, and even ISO 6400 is OK for emergency use (though we'd avoid the headline grabbing ISO 12800 setting). The optical viewfinder (OVF) of the Sony A550 delivers 0.80x magnification and 95% frame coverage. The nine autofocus points are permanently marked on the focusing screen, and are therefore always visible in the viewfinder. The active AF point lights up in red when in use, and if focus is acquired, a green focus confirmation dot appears on the left side of the in-finder LCD; similarly to other manufacturers' models. The Alpha a550 certainly isn’t thin on the features front. At its core there’s a new 14.2 Megapixel CMOS sensor – a notable change over the CCD sensors found in the more entry-level Alpha cameras. As per the top-end Sony a900, the a550’s sensor borrows advanced processing algorithms handled by its BIONZ engine to deliver images up to a staggering ISO 12,800. This is clearly new ground for Sony, with the company pitching themselves as contenders against the best of the low-light performers out there. Mochdre Road in both directions closed due to flooding from B5113 Llanrwst Road (Bryn-y-maen) to Mynydd Lane (Mochdre).
Earlier update: Rivers in parts of Scotland hit by extreme floods during Storm Babet are expected to hit a second peak later, the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) has warned.The stretch between B5463 near Ellesmere Port and A540 at Two Mills is shut due to roadworks that have taken longer than expected due to a burst watermain. The Sony A550's maximum shutter speed is 30 seconds and there's also a Bulb mode for even longer exposures, which is excellent news if you're seriously interested in night photography. The shot below was taken using a shutter speed of 15 seconds at ISO 200. Work was supposed to finish by 5am today. But unexpected problems meant the roadwork took longer.
Rossett Road in both directions impassable due to flooding from Rossett turn off to The Griffin Inn.Tomorrow morning will see a mix of patchy cloud, sunny intervals and a few showers in places. Turning dry with sunshine becoming more widespread later in the afternoon. Milder.
The Sony A550 is the highest model in the A5- series of Sony DSLR cameras, with the cheaper 12 megapixel A500 sitting below it, which offers slower 5fps continuous shooting, a lower-resolution LCD screen but slighty better 1,000 shot battery life. The two cameras are otherwise identical, so most of the comments that we made about the A500 apply equally to the A550. Sony have circumvented this problem by using a secondary imager. While the solution is not new - secondary-sensor Live View debuted in the Olympus E-330 of 2006, where it was called Live View Mode A - Sony took a fresh look at it and came up with their own version. Given that no other manufacturer - not even Olympus - offers this in any of its current models, it was logical of Sony to continue using it in the A550. The benefit of secondary-sensor Live View is that autofocus is just as fast, and shutter lag is just as short as when using the OVF, unlike in the case of competing models that offer main-sensor Live View. The main downside of Sony's solution is a much lower Live View frame coverage (90%). We suspect that the properties of the secondary sensor might also be behind the fact that the Sony A550 does not offer a video mode. Unlike the lower-end Sony models with smaller, sunken grips – such as the a380– the Alpha a550 has a solid, protruding rubberised grip that fits comfortably to the hand. This gives the immediate feel of control and its finish ensures it holds well to the hand. The rest of the camera body, however, feels rather ‘plasticy’ in finish. Furthermore the manual focus element of the kit lens is directly at the front, meaning grabbing fingers are in danger of touching the front lens element or getting in the way of shot should you work in this way.
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I knew she was quite a good swimmer otherwise I wouldn’t have done that, but I was quite surprised that she didn’t have any issues, she just went.
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