I owe a Canon 10D camera and want to buy me a lens that is truly worth
buying. I want something that is really good!
I think of 2 Canon lenses:
EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM

I'm looking for a telephoto lens for a Nikon D100.  Any suggestions?
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Suki Brown
Holderness, NH

Howdy all...kinda a noob question but here goes:
When I view properties of a jpg right out of my 8 meg camera, I see
3264x2448 image size and file size is 6.12 meg...but Photoshop tells me it's
at 72 ppi?

I've been reading  'The Making of Landscape Photographs' by Charlie
Waite.  He often uses 1 or 2 second shutter speeds with an f.22 or f.32
or f.22/f.32 aperture.  I wondered what good did that do.  Why not use
1 second @ f.8 or f.16.  Why all the way up to f.22 and f.32?

Most people know that they can steal an image from the web by
right-clicking on it and selecting "save image as."  Be forewarned
though - You may be downloading an image that contains a watermark and
might be confronted if you use it on your site.  If you would like to

Here's a test image I made today using the new "Merge to HDR" function
of Photoshop CS2.
http://www.pbase.com/image/53626197

I'm not sure if this will help anyone but I found some free Photoshop
CS2 video training at:
http://www.eyeballistic.com
click the link and then click "free training"

Everytime I try and retrieve my pics/video from my camera the pc crashes.I
am using the software I got with the camera(picture package ver 1.6 &
imagemixer VCD2.I have tried uninstalling/reinstalling.It doesn't matter if
I am retrieving from Sony 1 gb memory stick or internal ...

I remember a while back that someone mentioned using a macro lens and a
Canon 20D to 'scan' there old 35mm negatives.  Has anyone else tried this?

What should one look for in a monitor for viewing photos in the under
500$ range. I see Viewsonic has a  21" CRT  with 2048x 1536 or 3.145m
resolution and  LCDs are much much lower.  Best Buy told me LCD are the
best for photos. I use a Sony W5.  Isnt the highest resolution the ...

I thought I've narrowed down my choice of lenses for my new 350D.  First
lens is the 17-85 IS.  Second choice was the 70-300 IS, but I'm hearing a
lot of good things about the 70-200 F4L.  The longer telephoto will be used
primarily for sports/nature and I'm wondering if I should ...

Flash became wonky last night, and although fully charged, wouldn't fire
the 580. Turning it off, and finally removing it from the shoe finally
worked for a while,  then couldn't get it to power the flash.

I was using my desktop computer the other day.  I had my digital memory
card reader connected to my PC via its USB port.
First I downloaded some digital camera pictures through the reader.
Then I just went on to do other stuff with PC without turning the

 In the next couple of weeks, I may have chances to take pictures of
local "Cavalcade of Lights" at a couple of places.
 Question 1) Should I even bother... Panasonic FZ5, ISO 80/100/200/400,
and a mini-tripod, assuming I can find a place to rest the tripod.  Max