What is Santa bringing you ?

[JHFoto]

I have already had my Christmas present, a Manfrotto camera bag.  If I am lucky I may find a few bottles of Ale under the tree..

[Guest]

I got half of a multifuel stove her indoors got the other half lol

 

[Black Pearl]

Money as I'm saving up for the Apple Watch when it launches in the spring.

 

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But I think the wife has bought me a down jacket as I've been after one for a while but was told not to buy one on Black Friday.

[FUJI]

Very soon, I will be setting off to get my long awaited new eyes from Specsavers......if they have followed the Hospital prescription accurately, I should be able to see properly for the first time in four years. It has been a very bumpy ride, but I'm on the home run now......

I couldn't wish for a better present........thank you Specsavers for making an extra effort to get my new specs in for today, I only ordered them late, last Wednesday afternoon.

FUJI

[JohnP]

Nothing!

[Guest]

I'm with RONL on this, HID encouraged me to buy the Fuji X-T1 and several lenses etc. Well chuffed.

A happy few days with my family will do me well...................................................................................

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then I can get out and enjoy myself

[Barbara]

Nothing, we has a wee flush of extra dosh in November so we both got the things we wanted instead of waiting for Christmas.....I did get a new smile from the dentist yesterday LOL!!!, paid for by myself

[ChrisLumix]

My new camera was a present to myself ... I can't see myself laying out that kind of cash for anything else for a while!!

[Graham]

My (much) better half has a tradition where we have presents, the usual Christmas socks, Lynx and fun stuff but after dinner, we have our main present.  Annoyingly, the rest of the family will not be with us until Boxing day and I have been told that that will be the after dinner day so I have to wait 24 hours......

 

Anyway, I have hinted strongly that I would like an Off Camera flash gun (Speedlight) but I wanted a manual not TTL or anything, with a light stand adaptor and radio trigger.  However, I will not know if the hint was strong enough until Boxing Day...... Oh the agony of not knowing........

[Craftysnapper]

Most of my presents to myself were early in the summer this year..just in case.

[JHFoto]

Nothing!

Bah Humbug

[Leon]

3 kids with very big smiles will be my main present.... I'm getting a new watch too...

[colinb]

My wife (Yvonne) has bought me the iMac I posted about a few weeks ago, although I can't have it until tomorrow I have DIY upgraded it to 12GB, installed OS X Yosemite and will be installing Windows 7 via Apple Bootcamp after Christmas. 

 

and I think she might have bought me another present or two too.

[ChrisLumix]

My wife (Yvonne) has bought me the iMac I posted about a few weeks ago, although I can't have it until tomorrow I have DIY upgraded it to 12GB, installed OS X Yosemite and will be installing Windows 7 via Apple Bootcamp after Christmas. 

 

and I think she might have bought me another present or two too.

 

If you really need Windows (WHY?? ) and you still have your install disks for it, you could do a lot worse than pick up a copy of Parallels or VMWare - both of them allow you to install Windows as a virtual machine WITHIN OS X : that means you can run Windows programs in a separate window within OS X without having to reboot from OS X to Windows and back each time, which is what you'd have to do with Bootcamp. Once you've done that, you can delete the Windows partition in Bootcamp and reclaim that space.

[Black Pearl]

Don't bother with windows - you won't need it.

[Caz]

My Merry xmas present to me is a north face mountain 35 tent for when the weather gets truly horrid

[JHFoto]

Had a few things I was not expecting......A shooting stick/Walking stick....+ Enough photo paper to last the year..+ Mrs Browns Boys Da Movie...

[Korky]

Welcome to the Apple side, Colin. Within a few weeks you'll wonder why you ever put up with Windoze!

 

Merry Christmas!

 

Korky

[NannyFerret]

I got a Kobo reader off John as reading helps me too relax and I can see it in the daylight which is hard with my tablet, and various presents from my kids,

Being able to give my children and grandchildren all a present each as it gives me so much pleasure  is first on my list, though.

Also the safe delivery in April of our first great grandchild (I have bought her a first teddy for Christmas even though she is still a bump in her mummy's tummy.  

[Black Pearl]

Angela did get me a fantastic thermal jacket, had the dog out this morning in the cold (-2° with wind) and I was super toasty.

[colinb]

If you really need Windows (WHY??

 

 

Because my portable CS6 is windows based and its cheaper than buying a new version.

 

I'm using Apple Boot camp as it is free and doesn't slow your mac down by running two OS, although I may still 'opt' for Parallels if I find switching a pain in the bum.

Edited December 25, 2014 by colinb

[Denis]

A new water and windproof Berghaus walking jacket,  Lenspen dslr cleaning kit,  a  2 Tb Seagate expansion hard drive, new optical wireless mouse, music CD's so happy as larry

[ChrisLumix]

 

Because my portable CS6 is windows based and its cheaper than buying a new version.

 

I'm using Apple Boot camp as it is free and doesn't slow your mac down by running two OS, although I may still 'opt' for Parallels if I find switching a pain in the bum.

 

 

If you don't mind rebooting to do some work in CS6, that makes sense. Having said that, Parallels releases its memory when you switch to another app so it doesn't actually slow your Mac down. 

 

Pixelmator doesn't do nearly everything that Photoshop does, but it's a graphics editor with full layer/text/filter/adjustments support, and costs around £30 or so, so you might find yourself using that for 75% or more of your image editing work, unless you regularly do complex edits.

[JHFoto]

All the family around today, all the booze I bought we have not even dented it so it will be a very happy next few days.....Hic.....  

[FUJI]

I guess that my new specs were my best Christmas present, I can see clearly wherever I look now and can read the tiniest of fonts....

I have a rich distant cousin in law, who has just treated himself to a top of the range leather jacket, almost a thousand quids worth.....he has passed his old one on to me.

Not quite my thing I thought, the Biker Look isn't my bag, but.......after watching a recorded TV program, I saw that David Bailey wore one.......that's good enough for me.

I will be ready for the threatened snow later today, wearing my soft, shiny, black leather jacket, camera slung casually around my neck .......must dig out that crimson silk scarf ;-)

Seriously though.......I am still making up my mind if it suits me.

My rich distant cousin in law? ........Hes'e over 80 , with more money than sense.

FUJI

Edited December 26, 2014 by FUJI