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I bought a Quantaray tripod at my local Ritz camera for about $45 years ago. It has no fancy stuff, and it take a good 30-45 seconds to get the camera on there good and safe. There's a tiny bit of play, but I can use the handle (is that the right term?) twist to lock its position, and it works fine.

I'm learning to use the nice Manfrotto carbon-fiber monopod I bought for $140 on eBay for almost everything, but if I need a tripod, my Quant does just fine. Upgrading it is loooooow on the list of priorities.

Ha! Love the warning...

Seems like there are plenty of monochromatic felines out there, so I'll add my S'mores. We have a Boston Terrier too, so everyone matches the furniture just fine.<div></div>

Aw, man. Crab's out of the bag now!

Yeah, despite Dad not actually EATING them, it makes him a MUCH better host! It's a messy, high-maintenance party. By not getting messy, he has time to remove the "dead reds" (empty Red Stripe bottles) to make room for more crabs. And more beer ('though both my boys are too young to partake).

Doug: Not to digress too far into culinary detail in a photography forum, but... oh, what the heck! This forum's NOTHING if not a big digression!

What to eat/not eat is fairly personal, but the good meat is in the large claws (darker, somewhat sweet... naturally, the most muscle is here), and the top shelf meat is known as "backfin" which must be accessed via substantial body dissection. Worth every effort. The joke is that eating crabs is so labor intensive that we drink beer to actually have a positive caloric gain.

DANGNABBIT, DAD!

You were supposed to buy the DA* 50-135 *BEFORE* having these doubts! Shoot. NOW what am I going to use for basketball this fall?

Jeff, that's RAD, dude!!! Glad to see those! I'll have to show Lewis, since skateboarding is his absolute favorite sport! And we're in B-more too, so I'll have to look for upcoming events.

Abe

So, team: Let's see some more!!!

Here's my FAVORITE tennis player, BTW...<div></div>

Yay team!!!, let's see some more!

Javier, it's my Sigma 70-300 APO. Frankly, it's about the only thing I ever use outside. I own 2 lovely indoor (i.e., f1.4) primes at 30mm and 50mm, and the kit 18-55, but I use the APO so much.

Just for clarification, only the "last Kendrick" shot is not Kendrick. The others - properly labeled - are Robert Kendrick (in case any tennis fans are watching).

Who says we can't do much sports with Pentax? I don't find the 3fps a limitation. Should I? If I tried a camera

with 5fps, would I lust after it?

Let's see some examples of sports through a Pentax - in fact, let's broaden the term to "sports" (figuring quotes

will allow all

kinds of inclusion that I don't happen to be thinking about right now).

Here are some shots I took at the tennis tournament I went to recently.<div></div>

That's probably a great idea... I was gonna lead her towards Faststone, but everyone who's just starting to use Picasa seems to love it.

I am, however, still interested in a "file fetching" applet. I don't know of that feature in Picasa. Literally, she would love to not have to do the transfer part, from the SD card to the hard drive.

Believe me, I know where I am. I'm in the Pentax forum. And I'm here 'cause I can't find what I need in Digital

Darkroom, or most any other place on the 'net (the internet, that is) so far. So, I'll see if I can get any help in here.

I use PSE, and - despite my control-freakish ways - I *do* in fact, let Adobe use its cute little application that sits in

my (Windows) system tray that automagically offloads everything from my SD cards when I insert them into the

reader. When it's done, one click to confirm the deletion of files, one click on "OK" when it's cleaned my card, and

it's gone. I then do my own thing with file organization, but you don't care about that.

My Mom has entered the digital (p&s) fray, and I'd love to give her a program like this. Free, of course. How hard

could it be to find such an applet? Hard, I'm finding.

Anyone have any ideas? And if there IS a discussion in DD, what the heck are some of the keywords???

Thanks in advance.

I'm going to also recommend the Exposure book that Miserere (my long lost brother) mentioned. I bought it in May, and just opened it this past weekend, and it's already helpful (can't imagine where I'd be now, if I opened the book in May...).

Stephanie, I'm only a "couple chapters" ahead of you in the learning curve - so to speak, so let us know if you find the book helpful too.

Yeah, O Shiva, I haven't been shy about this, but I find your work stunning. I'm generally opposed to too much pp (or, "pp for pp's sake"), there's some quality about your work that clearly conveys the skills you use in framing that makes me pause. You start with some of the most interesting photos, and then make them surreal in uncommon ways.

Like my Dad, it's mostly beyond my ken to understand what tools you're using and how, but it adds to the mystery for me.

I love this post, and I thank you for sharing. That shot of the saddles is AWESOME!!!

Went to my first pro tennis event today, the Legg Mason Classic, in Wash., DC. With the Olympics going on, it's

almost a second-tier event. We waited an hour for Tommy Haas & Marat Safin to show up for practice, but the kids

couldn't make it past an hour, and Haas-Safin were a no-show.

Nonetheless, I caught Donald Young in action, between 2 poles of a gate door. No pp.

(of course, none of this will make any sense, unless you - like me - pray to the house of yellow felt.)<div></div>