OUR MONTH
I ALMOST
LEFT A FINGER
IN ICELAND
Going to Iceland on a
landscape photography
trip is only good news. Vast
and beautiful landscapes, waterfalls rushing
down mountains, crystal-like glaciers – point
your camera at things and the rest takes care
of itself, right? Wrong. It’s actually difficult
doing justice to such splendour, especially
when you absent-mindedly remove a glove
and cause your fingers to freeze to the point
that operating the Nikon D780 at all becomes
a challenge. Thankfully I still have all my digits...
and on p82 you can see the results.
Natalya Paul, Online EditorI USED SOME
MARSHALLS
TO SHUT UP
A MARSHALL
At the launch of Marshall’s
excellent Monitor II ANC
headphones (reviewed on p72), there was
a room where you could test the cans’ active
noise-cancelling skills in front of a virtual
Marshall amp. Sadly, it wasn’t working when
I excitedly trotted down the stairs to take my
turn... but that didn’t matter, because I’ve got
a non-virtual Marshall 2061X at home. It’s not
a quiet amplifier but the ’phones did a fine job
of taking the edge off, allowing me to turn my
tinnitus down to ‘bearable’ for a few hours.
Richard Purvis, contributorI REVISITED MY
YOUTH WITH A
BEIGE BREADBIN
I was a C64 kid, and now
I’m definitely a ‘The C64’
grown-up. On plugging
this full-size take on Commodore’s classic
computer into my telly, I was instantly
immersed in the majesty of games like
Paradroid and Wizball, their chunky pixels
jabbing into my very eyeballs. I even made
editor James jealous, firing up his old love,
the spellbinding Flimbo’s Quest, although
he probably didn’t envy my rapidly cramping
hand. Those old-style joysticks are lethal.
Craig Grannell, contributorI WENT
DRAG RACING
IN A CAR PARK
The problem with driving
in London is you don’t really
move anywhere because
of all the traffic. This is especially annoying
when you’re in something new and fast like,
say, the fully electric Ford Mustang Mach-E.
In truth it doesn’t really look like a Mustang,
but the only way to test a vehicle with such
American muscle-car heritage is a drag race.
So, slipping down into an underground car
park below Marble Arch, we gave it the beans.
More in next month’s mag...
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Doug Shields,
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