Any recommendations? (Have couple of tiny smudges of something within the
"partial" metering area of the standard split prism screen)

       Hi gang,
       Bandicoot is coming back from a trip today and expects to be tired,
irritable, and somewhat pianissimo, so he asked me to post the new mandate
for him, and that is:

Who said the 5D from Canon was a low noise camera?
Certainly when you combine moderately high (for a Canon DSLR) ISO 800
and low light, the camera doesn't like it one Iota. Easy to fool
autofocus too! Pictures, EXIF data and more on the subject at:

This past weekend I stayed at a private game reserve here in Kwa-Zulu
Natal and of course a bag full of Nikons came with.
I have a new respect for nature photographers, because this is a very
difficult field to get good shots in. Unfortunately most of mine suck,

The local one-hour photo labs have very little ability to do special
requests like pushing film.  And surely for good reason.  But what would
happen if they just ran it through the developer machine twice?  As I
recall, at some point it goes through a fixer bath that, well, fixes ...

I went to a Photoshop Seminar yesterday given by Katrin Eismann.
As is the norm for most of these things, she covered a wealth of
information and it all comes at you rather quickly.  She covered her
specialties, Layers, Masking, Compositing, etc., as well as some of the

Today is my last day online until 9 January '06, so to all the good
people of the photogroups, do have a Merry Christmas and a splendid New
Year. May your lenses be filled with orgasmic shooting matter and may
your batteries never die!

I have a few Pentax 35mm bodies my Pentax lenses
are all  K mount  totally manual lenses. I am interested
in purchasing a Pentax Digital body the Pentax ist.
I understand that I will have to manually focus and manually set

I am in two minds about continuing with my film camera.  I have a Canon
EOS66 SLR camera, with very normal 28-80, 80-200 and a 50mm lens
collection.  I wanted to specialize in some area of photography and
finally I choose macro(because I do not travel much and I am a

Dear Father Kodak,
Thank you for your response to my question of the value for a Nikon F2S
Phototomic.
I put some batteries in the flash units and they worked just fine! This

Full-frame CCD, compatible with all AF and manual lenses, lower
current draw, smaller form factor, price point under $2,000?
When will we see it? This time next year?

Recently I purchesed a Kiev 19 camera with 50mm and 105mm F:2.8 lens.
I ran a test roll thru it and my god is that Ukrainian 105mm sharp!  I
put the camera in my collection but the lens is not a collectors item
yet and I'd like to find a cheap Nikon body with AI mount to use it

I have a D70, and need a better lens, I guess with macro capability, to shoot
small electronic appliances...
I need to shoot objects sized from maybe 5 inch's up to 20 inch's on a side.
I plan to set up a light tent on a table...

Subject: How to make quick cash?
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Date:    01-24-04 20:57
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