2008 China Beijing Olympics has started!
Although the rain, volunteers in Shanghai are still very active!
Everyone wants to participate the World Games, Yeah.
Any updated at

I bought a Pentax M30 a few weeks ago to use mainly as a tool to capture
text from  a newspaper or computer screen, image store products, document
home projects and record voice.
The camera does an very good job at these tasks IMO and the only complaint I

I still have a hard time to figure out on how the major camera
companies place their product in the market. Are their product names
and series designed on purpose to confuse the consumers? Or are they
as confused as we are (in trying to sell products which cover our vast

A great site that has 1000's of high quality pictures from all around
the world, including New Zealand.
also has alot of categories, like wildlife, flowers, landscape...
hope you'll like it =)

I typically shoot on-location portraiture and candid photojournalism.
Does anyone have advice as to lighting equipment recommended for
shooting a commercial indoor remodeling job? The shoot will carry me
throughout the house in different rooms with emphasis on things like

I have a 7 MP Oly SP550UZ and the 8x10 prints I make from it and my
previous camera the C-7070WZ  look very sharp to me. I use a HP 3110
printer set to maximum resolution. I have read that 7 MP should be
just about big enough to print at 8 x 10, but the maximum print from a

This 87 year-old man, Mr. Schneider, showed up at a garage sale my
brother had today.  Didn't want to buy anything, as near as I could
tell; just looking to shoot the breeze.  He is a WWII vet and former
cement worker - worked on and then ran a crew which poured, screeded

Are there any rumors in the mill about a replacement for the 5D? I feel that
I have been snake bit when I buy Canon stuff.I bought the following:-
20D      replaced by the 30D
75-300mm  IS lens   replaced by 70-300  IS

Reading the online description for teh ExpoDisc, it says you point
your camera, with a disc on the lens, at the light source and take a
well exposed shot and then set teh camera to custom.
When I am indoors, do I point it directly at one of the incandescent

just now I downloaded the trial version of Photoshop Lightroom. I was
searching the web for some free tutorials. Indeed I could find a lot
of VIDEO tutorials (which are not bad at all, at least some), but I'm
looking for some written tutorials (I'm kind a newbie in the photoshop

I just bought a canon 50 mm 1.4f for my 400D. I want to protect the
lens with a filter.. but I have no clue what filter to buy. Will a
filter give me poorer images? I've read something about loss in
contrast when using filters.

I was watching one of the Columbo episodes from the boxed set when I
noticed this.  This is a frame capture from the DVD showing the Nikkor-H
used in the TV episode of "Columbo", Titled  "Short Fuse", Release Date: 19
January 1972 (USA):

Is it time for another group split?  That is,
rec.photo.digital.political and rec.photo.digital.non-political.

Unable to load Organizer in Elements 5 anybody got ideas tht my help.
Cheers,
john h

What is the difference in performance between these 2?   The 6300
has more ink colors if I understand correctly and I thought that
this was supposed to give better quality pictures.
-kim