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Hello Everyone,
New Orleans is toast.  It's the biggest natural disaster in an urban area in

I bought a Canon A95 digicam about 2 months ago and just realised that when
zooming all the way to the long end a dark circle come to focus. See the two
examples here:
http://www.pbase.com/melissakos/a95_problem

I want to buy a combination scanner/inkjet printer that uses refillable
cartridges?
I believe HP inkjet cartridges have chips on them  that prevent refilling,
ie after being refilled the printer still senses the cartridge is empty.

I've been playing with my new G5.  I find that I can play around with the
piccies after I've taken them such as zoom in to a particular person in a
group.  Please, can anyone tell me how to save the zoomed in image to my
flash card so that I can get a print of the original shot and ...

More often than not, I would say 90% of the time, I am using the
"Indoor Normal" appearance setting in RSE.  Do you have a "go to"
appearance setting?  It sort of seems to me that some of the other
settings are a little over-saturated, or that they make the picture

I am looking at getting the Nikkor 60mm Micro lens, but I want to be
sure I won't have issues with sensor reflection and this lens.  Any
experience out there with this combination?  60mm seems sufficiently
long to avoid this problem, but I thought I should check before making

I have been narrowing down the cameras I'm looking at but most of the
cheaper cameras use standard AA NiMH batteries.  Are these good to go
with or should I go with the more proprietary lithium batteries? I
know they cost more but though they may last much longer.

I'm shopping for a low end P&S digital camera. Am pretty close to going
with a Canon A520, but just ran across the new Pentax Optio 60 and it
looks pretty good from the specs. But I'd like to see pics before I
make a decision, since picture quality is my number one priority.

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/5d-samples.shtml
A lot of Reichmann's past reports have been just plain wrong. So
never talk everything he writes as gospel. William L Castleman
can generally be relied upon for Canon lens reports.

Having just got this camera about 2 days ago and taking some real
shots around 8 pm or so this evening of a bunch of 1930's cars with
just the built in flash, I must say I was impressed.  The sun was in
decline but you can't see that in the pics.

Does anyone know the maximum write speed of that camera?
I don't want to buy some expensive high-speed card if
the camera can't make use of it.
Lots of Greetings!

I just bought a Velbon El Carmagne 540 tripod from Wolf/Ritz Camera.
The salesman, who was sympathetic but obviously not very experienced
with this store or this tripod (and had a British accent that I did not
always understand), suggested that I could buy all sorts of things for

I've just gotten a used minalota elite film scanner. It works fine,
but..
I can see the light source and the sensor. Which way should the
emulsion go?  I assume it makes a difference.

I'm on the verge of buying a p&s camera and am torn between the Nikon
Coolpix 7900 and the Fuji F10. I'd appreciate any and all opinions and
advice please.