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"Not enough Christians viewpoints in the forums"

Kevin-- That's because "Christianity" belongs in a Christianity forum.

I notice you don't complain about a lack of a Catholic view, or Jewish view, or *gasp* a Budhist view. What is it with the "Christian" egocentricity?

Church has nothing to do with photography as such. That discussion is for church, or your "book" club, not for a bunch of people who want to talk cameras, not philosophy.

Why is it the ritcheous are so obsessed with vice and other peoples "exposure" (he he) to it? Why is it wrong to smile at a pair of boobs? Jeesh. With so much "evil" in the world... go feed a starving child or something and leave this petty crap alone.

And Tim, seriously-- Kant in a photo.net forum, lol? The whole discussion is so beat to death it's insane it carries on here. Change the channel or don't, but nobodys changing their mind.

What's wrong with crop room? Do you also believe 110 film was all I "needed" in a film point and shoot?

I have an 8mp OLY Sp-350 I rarely use, but when I do, I'm very happy with it's performance (shutter lag aside).

I can't remember the last 4x6 I printed...

? If you're shooting at f8... 2.8 is only 1 stop...

It's a little unclear...

I meant if you're not shooting at 2.8 ALL THE TIME.

and seperate issue:

It's only one stop.

"24-105 f4 is just not fast enough"

Not fast enough for what? If you're shooting at f8...

2.8 is only 1 stop. It's not exactly as night and day as some make it seem.

The 24-105 produces "more" background blur at 105/f4 than the 24-70 does at 70/2.8

The lens you're describing for "walk around" would most likely be simialar in size to the 70-200 2.8-- contradiction in terms.

I find the 24-105 to be large as it is (in the walk around sense).

As the 24-105 is realatively new, don't look for it to be "discontinued" anytime soon.

RAM is certainly as important as the other specs. When system resources (RAM) run out, and the swap file begins winding up, it's a severe hit in performance. 2GB is what I would (do)run-- both on my powerbook, and my PCs-- not too much, and not too little. I regularly see 1.92GB used when running Illustrator, Photoshop, Bridge, & acrobat (I layout catalogs, so Indesign may be open as well).

He wasn't asking about a laptop, but a desktop (imac).

The 75-300 is the softest EOS lens I've ever used. True the 70-200f4L is nice, but that's quuite a $ jump...

The 100-300 USM is worlds better than the 75-300... I've had both, and both got sold.

Kelley F.

Everytime a computer question comes up, you pipe in with your 200mhz PPro machine nonsense. Who cares, who hasn't already suffered through it, and how in the hell is it relevant to anything?

When a thread is started comparing a Tandy TRS80 to an Apple IIe to a PPro 100mhz, please school us on your vast knowledge of things that don't matter. Untill then...

I own a MacBook and a A64 3700+ machine. I like both, but wish the AMD would run OSX, I tell you what. It's a kick ass OS especially for the creative professional. Is there anything it will do a my PC won't? Of course not, but it's in the details of HOW it's done that makes OSX a joy.

Actually, after looking again, this example may be a composite.

Since you're asking "in general" though, above answer still applies.

Yes, Neal. And they held VERY still...

It's just a cropped photo taken with a normalish lens.

Again, I'm missing the mystery.

I'm not sure I understand your confusion... use a normal to short tele and back up until the frame is filled edge to edge...

Am I missing part of your question?

Gee Kelly-- thanks for the trip down memory lane. Why you're holding on to "dozens" of old machines is... nevermind.

You spent an awful lot of time typing something pretty irrelevant.

You haven't convinced me to trade down my overclocked 3700+ with 2GB RAM.

I couldn't even imagine editing a shoot on a pII, lol. WTF for???

The correct, responsible, modern answer is MORE RAM. Period. 256 is a joke (remember, it's 2006 now).

And text in 5.5? Don't like crisp vector text, huh?

HA HA-- no offense, but that cropped version is a joke, right? Weird shape, and way too tight... but you're kidding--

right?

Actually, despite the ranting above me, I find that my 15" 1.67ghz G4 w/ 1.5GB Ram is awfully close to my overclocked AMD64 3700+ w/ 2GB Ram.

Yes, the AMD is faster, but in no way by as much as you would expect.

I've pretty much decided the speed hit is minimal enough to edit on the couch most of the time, lol.

My partner has a new Intel MacBook, and it's about dead even w/ my G4 as far as Adobe stuff. When the universal binaries version comes out (CS3?), it'll be time for me to get the Intel version.

The Superdrive is great too. No need for an external Plextor or anything. I'd go with the mac, even as I type this on another A64 system (which I like very much also).

A hair on the trendy internet gimmicky side.

At best, a better mousetrap.

Hi--

I don't use it much, but I have an Olympus SP-350 that shoots RAW, has a flash hot shoe (!), accepts accessory screw in lenses (wide & tele), and there's an underwater housing available for it.

It takes AA batteries, the Oly brand 1GB card is 49$ (enables panos), has a 2.5" LCD, and it's pocket size. Shoots in full manual mode, etc.

Cool little camera in the 300-320$ range.

"Your money is better spent on a rotating flash bracket and a white card."

completely agree. A Lumiquest softbox or mini softbox on bracket is nice too, but mostly useful to about 12-15 feet or so. That other stuff, while I'm sure produces nice images, seems a little over the top gimmicky to me. Kinda like a better mouse trap.

I've used the stophen, and it's unobtrusive and gets the job done. Tucks into any bag, store it on the flash, run it over with a truck, etc.