bob_doroh

I found a lens for an AV-1 a Quantaray - 70-210mm f/4.0-5.6 Manual

Focus Zoom w/Macro for Canon FD for 100 bucks on cameraworld.com

whats your thoughts on the specs since im relatively new to lenses,

should 210 have good zoom

the lens I have is 50 mm, if I put a 135 mm telephoto lens on it how

much zoom would that give me approx 2.5? im not clear on this.

Im going to australia and am gonna bring my SLR camera but also want

to get a new Digital, Ive been noticing that most have only 3X

optical and like 3-5X digital, I know digital zoom is terrible I was

just wondering what you think of 3X optical, does it really zoom in

on distant objects and still look good? I know it depends on MP the

quality, but the displays in stores never have any batteries in them

so I cant try them out

Im not clear on something, im flying to australia and have changeovers at chicago and lax, do I have to go thru another security checkpoint at each airport? there is only about an hour layover beetween flights so im thinking that you dont but if anyone who is a frequent flyer could let me know id appreciate it

I think the easiest way to solve the film at the airport problem

will be to send the film to my home via UPS or whoever ships

internationally, but does anyone know if they xray packages shiped

internationally? O rdo they treat it like anyother piece of mail

Im trying to decide on a New Digital camera to bring with me to

australia, I saw some Sony Cybershots at Bestbuy.com in my price

range just wondering what your experience has benn with it, any

model 5mp to 3.1 they all seem to share same features

The Major problem with Digital is this, You are severely limited in the amount of pictures you can take, I mean On my 2 Megapixel I bought a couple years ago I have a 128mb card and can only get 125 pictures on the best quality, And these cards cost 60 bucks a piece. Then you only have them on disk or HD then you can either print them out yourself on a home PC which between photo paper and ink will cost a fortune or bring them to a photo shop and have them printed which costs any where from a quarter to 90 cents depending on where you go and if its on sale. But the problem with film on vacation is getting it back unscathed as talked about in numerous posts

I'm just worried that the attendants wont hand check the film, ill be going thru 3 busy airports, JFK, Chicago and LAX and the Sydney airport also on return trip

OK being to the fact that I have never flown before this may be a

dumb question, but instead of all this film bags handchecking etc to

save film can I just fill my coat pockets with all the exposed film?

would that save it, do we just pass thru metal detectors and does

anyone know if the magnetic field screws up film

Im traveling to australia next month and plan on taking alot of

pictures, after reading some posts on this site I really dont want

to bring my film back thru the airport so im trying to find out if

the cost of developing film in australia is about the same as it is

here in the US or more or less