Anyone know if there is Mac native software?
Wow thanks for posting. Looks like an amazing adventure.
Can’t stay on uhh page without a pop up window locking up my iPad. $1000 Walmart gift card offered. Anyone else getting this?
Lynda.com has an excellent tutorial. The first 10 videos are about your exact issues.
Thanks for the info. Made the call. Lens on the way to the Sony service center for warranty repair!
Great phone number. Answered within 30 seconds!
This is a new lens for me. It takes 77mm filters. With a filter installed it is difficult to adjust the zoom.
Thinking that the filter might be inferring with the movement of the lens (internal movement), I carefully and slowly tried to adjust the zoom with a filter installed. Nothing was touching moving from 16 to 35 and back.
A puzzle.
I loosened the filter to see if that would change anything. As I adjusted the zoom the filter loose it jiggled.
Bottom line - the fit and finish of the lens is too good. With the filter installed and tightened air pressure builds up as the lens moves either in or out.
Anyone else have this lens? Are you having the same problem?
There is often haze as you look in the distance. Don't miss the Pisgah Inn. Great view from dining room. Lodging on site.
From the Payson Round up:
The Arizona Legislature seems hell-bent on destroying public schools.
Witness the rush to approve SB1491, which will hand over $5,600 to any parent who wants to take their child out of public schools. The money will go to home schoolers, private and religious schools.
The proposed expansion of “empowerment scholarships” represents a breath-taking attack on public schools – coupled with a stomach-turning dose of hypocrisy.
The legislature has been weeping “parent choice” crocodile tears for years – preparing for this shameless attack on public schools. So let’s review the dismaying history of a program that seems likely to mostly benefit wealthy parents who can afford to pull their children out of badly underfunded public schools and then cover the gap between the $5,600 voucher and the full cost of private school tuition.
Lawmakers piously approved “empowerment scholarships” some years ago, supposedly to help handicapped and learning disabled students who were not getting adequate services in public school. Then lawmakers added parents on active military duty, foster parents, those living on Indian Reservations and anyone with children attending “failing” public schools. The Joint Legislative Budget Committee figures the total of potentially eligible children comes to about 186,000.
In 2015-16, this diverted $20 million from public schools to private schools. An analysis by the Arizona Republic concluded that most of the parents who took advantage of the vouchers lived in high-wealth school districts whose children attended relatively high performing schools. Only $6 million went to parents whose children attended schools rated “D” or “F.”
A bill to offer vouchers to any of the 1.1 million children in public schools statewide was introduced last year. But Gov. Doug Ducey asked the sponsor to drop the bill to avoid undercutting the effort to convince voters to pass Proposition 123, which settled a lawsuit stemming from lawmakers decision to illegally withhold a voter-mandated inflation adjustment for schools.
Now with Prop. 123 safely approved, the senate has voted to expand the voucher program. Sen. Debbie Lasko argued the vouchers would save the state money – since the voucher costs $5,600, but the average cost of a student in K-12 schools comes to $9,400.
However, the non-partisan Joint Legislative Budget Committee this week released an analysis that made a lie of that claim. The $9,400 figure includes state and local money. In fact, if 5 percent of the state’s students use the vouchers, it would cost the state budget $26 million. If the 2,600 kindergartners who currently start out in private school also get vouchers, it will add another $22 million to the net cost.
Mind you, the bill provides no accountability – despite audits that show much of the money handed out has already been misspent. That smacks of hypocrisy – since these same lawmakers have burdened public schools with expensive micromanaging – from tests to audits to restrictions on the length of every class. But the vouchers would come with no strings or oversight for the private schools.
So first lawmakers slash school funding, creating the worst-funded school system in the country. Then they pay wealthy parents to pull their kids out of the schools they cheated and neglected.
Clearly, lawmakers want to destroy public schools.
But for the life of us, we can’t understand why.
Lawmakers seem bent On destroying schools
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The Arizona Legislature seems hell-bent on destroying public schools.
Witness the rush to approve SB1491, which will hand over $5,600 to any parent who wants to take their child out of public schools. The money will go to home schoolers, private and religious schools.
The proposed expansion of “empowerment scholarships” represents a breath-taking attack on public schools – coupled with a stomach-turning dose of hypocrisy.
The legislature has been weeping “parent choice” crocodile tears for years – preparing for this shameless attack on public schools. So let’s review the dismaying history of a program that seems likely to mostly benefit wealthy parents who can afford to pull their children out of badly underfunded public schools and then cover the gap between the $5,600 voucher and the full cost of private school tuition.
Lawmakers piously approved “empowerment scholarships” some years ago, supposedly to help handicapped and learning disabled students who were not getting adequate services in public school. Then lawmakers added parents on active military duty, foster parents, those living on Indian Reservations and anyone with children attending “failing” public schools. The Joint Legislative Budget Committee figures the total of potentially eligible children comes to about 186,000.
In 2015-16, this diverted $20 million from public schools to private schools. An analysis by the Arizona Republic concluded that most of the parents who took advantage of the vouchers lived in high-wealth school districts whose children attended relatively high performing schools. Only $6 million went to parents whose children attended schools rated “D” or “F.”
A bill to offer vouchers to any of the 1.1 million children in public schools statewide was introduced last year. But Gov. Doug Ducey asked the sponsor to drop the bill to avoid undercutting the effort to convince voters to pass Proposition 123, which settled a lawsuit stemming from lawmakers decision to illegally withhold a voter-mandated inflation adjustment for schools.
Now with Prop. 123 safely approved, the senate has voted to expand the voucher program. Sen. Debbie Lasko argued the vouchers would save the state money – since the voucher costs $5,600, but the average cost of a student in K-12 schools comes to $9,400.
However, the non-partisan Joint Legislative Budget Committee this week released an analysis that made a lie of that claim. The $9,400 figure includes state and local money. In fact, if 5 percent of the state’s students use the vouchers, it would cost the state budget $26 million. If the 2,600 kindergartners who currently start out in private school also get vouchers, it will add another $22 million to the net cost.
Mind you, the bill provides no accountability – despite audits that show much of the money handed out has already been misspent. That smacks of hypocrisy – since these same lawmakers have burdened public schools with expensive micromanaging – from tests to audits to restrictions on the length of every class. But the vouchers would come with no strings or oversight for the private schools.
So first lawmakers slash school funding, creating the worst-funded school system in the country. Then they pay wealthy parents to pull their kids out of the schools they cheated and neglected.
Clearly, lawmakers want to destroy public schools.
But for the life of us, we can’t understand why.
I have one. Guess lemons were smaller then!
I would suggest updating Adobe Camera Raw to the latest version. I have the same camera am able to view in Bridge and edit in camera raw and Photoshop.