Keith S in Arizona USA

<p>WOW those photos are really nice!</p>

<p>Yes --- What Louis and James said.<br /> <br />Or possibly his nine cats ate him . . . . ;-) "Hey Gus"</p>

<p>Hey Chris, "WELCOME!"<br> You have received really good advice here from the responders. No overload of info, but important points.<br> Since you are relatively new ---<br> Regarding fungus --- a lens with fungus will usually exhibit a whitish fluffy looking bunch of 'spider veins.' Hopefully you won't run across any fungus. Look at / through the lens with a penlight flashlight for other defects too. Which hopefully you won't see any. A bit of light haze is normal; it is due to out-gassing of lubricants from the aperture mechanism over the decades and is rarely bad enough to affect photos. Some bad-looking lenses make photos you could not tell from a clear lens. I know this from my own experience.<br> Fungus mostly occurs from an item being stored in a very hot humid environment. Fungus is fortunately rare. If not too bad and not too established it can be cleaned up with a lens CLA by the better technicians. Fungus can etch the lens over time. Although you may never encounter it, it is good to know about for reference when you evaluate future items.<br> Old RF cameras are really cool items. Many are being collected and restored for use. We know this due to the increasing workload of restoration technicians. Anyone who states that film is dead is uninformed.<br> Film RULES!</p>

<p>Thank you for the quick response. With more research, I found I was having TWO problems. The first was the ads popping up when clicking the scrolling photo's on the main page. The was "apparently" due to not being signed in (I could have SWORN I had successfully logged in.) This issue did disappear when verified ACTUALLY signed in.<br> The second issue fix was found in doing searches for pop-up problems concerning the colored, underlined text. A user advised to make a change at the settings page, and when I disabled the Intellitext feature this issue, too, disappeared.<br> Thank you Glenn for the response and the hint as to what was wrong. Now I am a happy camper . . er, happy photographer.</p>

<p>What is this angering annoyance when clicking on a photo and an AD pops up each time this is done? I cannot tell you how maddening and intrusive this is. Makes me wonder if I really want to abandon Photo.net altogether. Ads are ads, but there comes a time and place where they do not belong. As a new user / new member to Photo.net this is a really bad experience for me to discover concerning the site and it does not impart a good impression at all. As it is, I already get more than enough "in my face" unwanted ads from email, telephone solicitations and door to door salespeople. And now here too? And I am paying a yearly fee to have this shoved in my face? Ugh!</p>