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Yesterday I flew down to London for a memorial to celebrate the life of a friend and colleague who died suddenly before Christmas.  Travelling in from Heathrow Airport I arrived in central London 90 minutes before the start of the event at the Royal Automobile Club in Pall Mall so I decided to go for a walk down to the Embankment.  I ended up outside the Ministry of Defence building and standing in front of the Battle of Britain memorial.   I served 14 years in the Royal Air Force from 1982 to 1996 and the Battle of Britain is as important to every past and serving member of the RAF as the Battle of Trafalgar is to anyone who has served in the Royal Navy. The memorial is to the people who took part in the battle in 1940 that stopped the German invasion after the fall of France and ultimately led to the defeat of Germany in 1945 due to the fact that Britain was able to continue the war and become the staging post for the Normandy Invasion in 1944. ...

As an X-Photographer I was invited by Fujifilm to test the brand new X-Pro2 (codename LEO) which is the first of the next generation of CSC X-Series cameras.  Like most X-Photographers I cut my teeth on the X-Pro1 and fell in love with the retro styled camera that boasted 21st century tech inside.  No one will tell you that the X-Pro1 was 100% perfect but it was, and still is, a great camera to shoot with.   X-Pro2 has the same rangefinder style layout with the top plate having the same dial layout, shutter release and flash hotshoe. Last November I picked up my prototype copy of the X-Pro2 on my return from the final round of the World Endurance Championship in Bahrain and set about learning the functions on the new camera.   ERGONOMICS Now while certain things have changed - button layout is now all to the right for one handed operation and a redesigned menu system - this is a camera that is  totally  familiar to anyone who ...