I have a shoot in Eastern Europe coming up and I want to keep it light
and not check in any gear. At the same time, I will have lots of
flight changes, etc.
I will be taking the following gear:

As next Saturday is the 5th. November.I want to take some photos of
fireworks,and would like to know what settings to use on my camera i have a
Nikon D70,am i right in thinking that i am to use the bulb setting,any
advise most welcome cheers Stephen.

Sony Cybershot DSC-F828.
I like the cut of it's jib!
Available in UK yet?

Pixmantec has released RawShooter Premium, the for-money version of their
freebie RawShooter Essentials.
http://www.pixmantec.com/
They're having a 4-day only introductory price special of US$59.00.

Ok this may be a little off the group here but I need some help please.
If I am out of the group please let me know of another that may be able
to offer the help :-)
I have a SONY HandyCam and all works fine, but I had a PC crash, and had

Anyone used D70 for astronomy pictures?

My charger manual states that it can charge upto 2500Mah--but i'm not sure
if it's only
for AA or if this goes for AAA (which it can also charge). Also is this
brand good?

Yeap its the one i will get, thanks for all your thoughts and help
3" screen would have been nice and higher pixel view screen ie 230,000
but both those require more battery power so i can see why Ricoh
engineering left it off.....for now [R4?].

My son has above camera, it has served him well for the past 12, but when he
now switches it on, both the amber and green lights near the viewfinder
flash constantly and a intermitant beeping sound is heard, does anyone have
any ideas as to what the problem may be?

I formatted a 256 meg CF card under windows xp, and now the ixus says
'memory card error' and will not re-format the card - ant advice please.

Wifes camera is a 3.0 megapixel but need driver as she has lost the original
cd.
Tried googling and not much luck.
Anyone help please???

I have just got back from the Canon Factory Service Center in NJ my D-60 and
one of my lens'.  I have two D-60's a primary and a back up.  My question
is, is anyone out there having Auto Focus problems in low light situations
with their D-60.  Both of mine have had this problem.  ...

Is there any specific application, where you would need 32 bit images?
Or, to put it differently, in what cases do you obtain better results
with 32 bit images ?

I read the other day that the individual pixels in a RAW image only
contain information for 1 color each.  When an image is converted
(either in camera or on the PC) information from nearby pixels is used
to interpolate for the other colors.

I'm getting tired of my rubber bands breaking and I don't want to glue
velcro directly to the flash because I think it will get in the way of
other accessories.
Anybody have any experience with Lumiquest's "cinch strap?"  Is it