If you have Minolta F100 you must have noticed the 'Barrel Distortion' in
pictures taken with it espcially with 'wide lens'.
There is a possibility to get a camera lens calibration file that could be
used with PTlens to easily correct photos:

Hi guys. First time poster long time reader.
Just wanted to say "Hi" ;)
On a side note my Hubby is REAL excited about
this new IPO stock GRDX. They just started trading

opinions plse...many thanks. rgds to all from tbm...loct'd in uk.

I am thinking of buying a D70 but I am wondering if I should wait for the
next model.
Is the ?100 cash back offer to clear the existing stock before a new
release?

What is digital slr?
I ahve looked at the fuji finepix s7000 and the EOS Digital Rebel
I don't know what the difference is
Is one film and other flash card or are they both flash card?

I recently got the above after getting annoyed with the "shutter lag" on mid-priced, mid-range, mid-pixel digitalcameras.
I am so far very happy with it. I have used it only as "point and focus, point and shoot" as I am a real novice on cameras. I have been lurking for  a few ...

A friend is selling his business and moving to Thailand for a year before
moving to Spain. He wants my recommendations of a Laptop. Problems I see are
power and DVD compatibility and getting warranty service. Has anyone here
faced these situations and found solutions?

The Nikon D50 appears to be on the horizon.  Nikon filed for a
trademark for the D50 in the US recently.
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=hsrtn.41.3
- Strath

I have a Sony F707. I have taken some just short of 8000 pictures with
it and I have been pretty reasonable about turning off the camera (and
I don't do much flash work, I don't like the flash). Anyway, the
batter that came with the camera and the after market I bought at the

I'm going to buy a particular item, a zoom lens.  I've pretty much
made up my mind what I want.  I can get it from a walk-in store 60
miles from where I live, or I can buy it from one of a few reputable
internet merchants, with all of whom I've dealt before with no

I just me a Canon 17-40mm f4.0 L lens. Niiiice! :o)
The manual, such as it is, says the lens is dirt- and water-resistant, and
it certainly feels well constructed. The question is, *how* water
resistant? Could I use it, for example, in a torrential downpour?

Hi. I'm looking for a digicam with the following:
Must have
- computer control for taking the shot, eitther cable or wireless
- lens thread, prefer 67 mm but others okay with step ring

Can anyone tell me the relative improvement in autofocusing speed between
the Nikon 80-200 AF-D lens and its AF-S counterpart.
I'm planning on buying one of them and using it for sports photography.
TIA-

http://www.pbase.com/rkircher/florescent
What do you think?

I am a neophyte when it comes to scanners. Please help if you can. I have
organized an engineering project at a military academy. It involves a very
large lens (11" diameter, 160 degree field of view, f/2.8) The diameter of
the image is 4.5". We will be photographing the night sky. ...