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<p>New Year's Eve Fireworks in Winnipeg</p><div></div>

<p>I do 4 sets of 30 curls (bicep) and several other arm exercises with 8 or 10 pound dumbbells daily. Curls, side lifts, fly lifts, straight up over your head, <br> It seems to work just fine ... I actually did some hand held video with a 200-400 f/4 lens and a lot of hand held video (up to 10 minutes) with a 70-200 f/2.8 lens.<br> The only cost was for the dumbbells (about 35.00 for a set of three pairs, 2 pound, 6 pound and 8 pound). And it takes 30 minutes a day for 3 or 4 months to build up the muscle.<br> </p>

<p>This is Kovo, from the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg<br> He now resides in the Tama Zoo outside of Tokyo</p> <p> </p><div></div>

<p>Magic depth of field that disappears cages ....</p><div></div>

<p>Squirrel and snow</p><div></div>

<p>A bit of lucky timing gave me a decent shot of the moon and a couple of trees</p><div></div>

<p>Just a Nuthatch</p><div></div>

<p>Kovo and Raj</p><div></div>

<p>A scan of a Kodachrome slide I took back in 1981</p> <p>The picture is of my wife Kathy</p><div></div>

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<p>This weekend I went to the Central Canada Comic con (or C4) which happened to coincide with Halloween</p><div></div>

<p>And another</p><div></div>

<p>A fall photo shoot</p><div></div>

<p>Fall Colours</p><div></div>

<p>And it is gone</p><div></div>

<p>Tosses up the berry</p><div></div>

<p>Robin in a tree</p><div></div>

<p>I had purchased the TT1 and some TT5 units to control my Nikon speed lights using the SU-800, and when I had purchased an Einstein flash, I encountered a thread here on Photo.net talking about the use of an AC-3 and a TT1 to control the output of an Einstein that had a PowerMC2 hooked up to it. The Pocket Wizard web site indicates that an AC3 and a SU-800 are interchangeable for control of lights so I decided to try it out. The fact that an SU-800 allows an extra stop over the AC3 is a bonus.<br> The AC3 7 stop limit is probably more in line with the limitations of most studio strobes, Elinchrom are 7 stops maximum. As far as I know only the Einsteins have a 9 stop range.</p>

<p>No, it works fine, the Mini TT1 unit that is mounted in the camera hot shoe captures the commands from the SU-800 that would normally go out over the optical output and puts the commands out over the Pocketwizard radio channel.<br> <br />The same thing happens if you have an SB-800/900/910 mounted on the Mini-TT1 that is in Master mode and controls remote flashes mounted on Fles-TT5 units through the radio channels.<br> The Pocket Wizard TT1 and TT5 units act as the carrier for the CLS commands through radio channels rather than using optical transmissions. The SU-800 does the same thing that the Pocket Wizard AC3 unit does to control the flash units. </p>

<p>I was pleasantly surprised to find that when you control a Paul Buff Einstein flash using a Pocket wizard PowerMC2 unit with a Mini-TT1 using a Nikon SU-800 to control the lighting values, you get control of 8 stops of lighting as opposed to 6 stops with the Pocket Wizard AC3 unit.</p> <p>The Nikon SU-800 will set the power from 1/1 to 1/128 and it works very well. Also, you can manually set the power on the Einstein up (or down) by a stop to use the lowest 8 stops of the 9 stop range, or the highest 8 stops of the 9 stop range of the Einstein unit.</p>

<p>It depends on where you live, different countries have differing laws concerning manufacturer's warranties</p>

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