I have the Cotton Carrier with the extra side mount for 2 cameras total. It has served me well. I am aware of the reluctance to use the tripod socket for carrying your camera. One way around that is to get a binocular harness from a sporting goods store. Mine has nylon carabiner-type clips that connect to the strap rings on my camera. it works similarly to the Cotton Carrier in that it doesn't put the weight on your neck, and it keeps the camera close to the body and readily available for use as needed.

He won going away by the rules in play-sounds like a mandate to me! If you want confirmation, just look at the map of the US- how much is s RED and how much is blue-it even looks like a MANDATE. It may not be what you wanted to happen, but that's what did happen. I didn't particularly want Obama to be president for 8 years, but he was and I didn't whine and cry about it. I just hung in there until the next election. My vote didn't count anyway, since I live in the 'People's Republic of Puget Sound', where 1 metropolitan area carried the whole region.

Your statement that he wasn't elected by a majority of the voters shows a decided misunderstanding of the electoral college system. The Electoral College is in place to prevent high population locales from rigging elections. Every state has electoral votes based on their population. Once a candidate has won those votes by a plurality of the votes, getting more votes in that state is irrelevant. Thus the popular vote isn't neccesarily the deciding factor. The people in the high-population states got the electoral votes they earned, just the people in the lower population states got the electoral votes that they earned. So much for today's lesson in civics.

Or you can copy your JPEGs and work on the copy, leaving the originals untouched (opening and closing JBEGs doesn't cause any loss of information).

I've always believed that any plant can be considered a weed if it is in a place where it isn't wanted, and any "weed" can be welcome if you want it wherever it is !

Your reference to image stabilization in relation to Konica-Minolta lenses is really invalid, because Konica-Minolta, and subsequent Sony A mount dslrs all have in-body stabilization (IBIS), rendering in-lens stabilization unnecessary.

Yeah, I found that statement a bit fishy myself- for Pollock, a can of housepaint and a wooden floor constituted a 'fine art' masterpiece! I never understood the attraction! Goes to show how unsophisticated I am!

Atually, maturity does remedy that- it's age thst doesn't!

Well, none would have to die if their parents/caregivers wouldn't bring them into the US illeagaly!

Apparantly you don't understand the concept of "customer service". While I have no experience with B & H, I do have experience in customer service at a large photo retailer in Los Angeles many years ago. There was NEVER any excuse to reply gruffly or curtly to someone, either in person or on the phone. It was up to us to take the 'high road' in any conversation, no matter what was going on in our lives at the moment. And yes, what happened in this case IS worthy of complaint and discussion. If we don't speak up when we feel there's a problem, we eliminate any possibility of improvement in the situation.

As usual, blanket statements are misleading: yes, Nikon says that they won't service "grey" Nikon products even if you are willing to pay, but that doesn't hold true with other brands. My experience is with Sony, and I've been pleasantly surprised with their policies: I have an A77 which I bought "grey" when it first came out. In the process of cleaning the mirror, I damaged it. When I contacted Sony, I explained the situation(grey market and my fault for the damage) and got a price quote for the repair. I sent it off to them and a week or so later received notification that the repair was complete and they would be returning my camera shortly. I inquired as to the cost, and was told that there would be no charge! I further inquired as to what had been done, and was informed that the mirror had been replaced and the camera had been checked for any other malfunctions! Needless to say I'm a happy Sony user! You need to be aware that the Nikon repair policy only applies to Nikon USA-anywhere else in the world will have different policies.

Any thoughts that I would ecpress would fall under the 'nit-picking' catagory. However, I do have a couple of thoughts: first, in printing, I would crop differently. Either go full figure(showing the feet, or crop tighter(just below the waist). The current crop is slightly awkward. Second, I would turn the bodies at more of an angle to the camera-especially the wife. Having the body square to the camera is a bit 'snapshot-ish'. These suggestions come from a number of years of shooting family portraits on a volume basis(25-30 sittings per day, 5 days a week 40-45 weeks per year)! I didn't always follow the advise above, but I tried!

I have the Sony 28-75/2.8 that I got to use with my 850 body. It is an outstanding lens, and the one that I leave on the camera as a 'standard/walk around' lens.l'm at this point dithering between the A99xx or one of the 7s.I really enjoy using the multiple-axis screen on the A77s, so the 7s tilting screen is limited. Age and mobility issues came into play here!

As the in-house photographer for World Vision in the '60s, I had use of a Rollei 2.8. I added the eye-level prism and pistol grip and in that configuration, it was a great rapid shooting 2 1/4 camera. It would take 220 film, but the frame counter only went to 12, so you had to reset it after 12 frames. This procedure caused me to make a grevious mistake at a wedding - I shot the first 12, reset the counter, shot 12 more, then forgetting that I had already shot the second 12, I reset the counter again and shot 12 'phantom' images of the posed formal shots! This was particularly bad for 3 reasons: I didn't realize that I had done this until the proofs came back, the bride was a coworker at World Vision, and many of the people in the wedding party had come varying distances to participate, thus were unavailable for a reshoot! It was a hard, humbling experience!

Please-You need to set a price, and snide answers are discourteous. We can easily find the price for a new one, and eBay can give us a price range for used, but that doesn't tell us how much you want.