What in your opinion would be the most important parts to spend on a new
computer to manage your photos? (screen,memory,hard drive capacity...)

A personal emergency has forced me to part with a recently acquired 'fun'
camera.
A Nikon D50, 2 lenses, SB600 flash, two 1-gig mem sticks, battery, filters,
etc.

Please have a look at my image of the week.
http://www.thorsen.info/Billedsider%20ugens%20billede/Ugens%20billede.htm
Best regards
Søren Thorsen

Probably no new news to some of you but after reading dpreview I thought I
make a note of it anyway.
Anyhoo, Adobe have a free download of the aforementioned product for Beta
testing, it's due for proper release in early 2007. Might be interesting for

This looks interesting...
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0609/06092604sigmadp1.asp

http://www.profitable-photography.com/?hop=oziii
"However, setting up a profitable photography business is quite simple."

Leica Camera takes over majority of shares of Sinar AG
Leica Camera AG, Solms, takes over 51% of the shares of Sinar AG,
Feuerthalen/Switzerland, from JENOPTIK Laser, Optik, Systeme GmbH,
Jena ("JENOPTIK"). JENOPTIK and Leica Camera AG have signed

Vietnam this week :)
http://www.pbase.com/mkelpie/image/67340653

Just heard a horrible rumour that Kodak metallic is no longer being
produced.
No evidence of this on the Kodak site as far as I can see but if anyone can
shed light here it would be appreciated.

Was in a frantic panick this week to get some quick shots of a Great Egret
and in the rush of changing over CF cards I accidentally popped out my 1 gig
card from the camera before it had finished writing. Now it won't read or
format in the camera. Don't have a port on the PC for ...

With Panasonic releasing the DFC-FZ50 will the FZ30 go to the great
photo kennel in the sky just like FZ20 or will it sit between FZ7 and
FZ50.
Mailman

I came across a helicopter rental site that offered 20 minute scenic
flights for $99, so I thought I'd try asking how much a flight to a
specific location to snap pics would be. The reply kinda floored me...
around $1050 for a 45 minute flight. Does taking off the door really

Can anyone recommend a reasonable scanner suitable for scanning slides?  And
was the effort worth it.
Tom

too damn funny.
http://www.gbcproductions.co.uk/photography/forum/Weddingoftheyear.pdf

Expected delivery mid October says Fletchers in Canberra. That will make me
happy. :-)