The Great Courses is offering its "Fundamentals of Photography" course on sale...priced at $35 for download and $40 for DVD. 24 half-hour lectures taught by Joel Sartore National Geographic Fellow and regular contributor. I have the course and think it's great value (and I paid a lot more than this offer). Here is the link to the offer.


http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/courses/course_detail.aspx?cid=7901&ai=91670&cm_mmc=email-_-DD5Active%20Control20131207-_-body-_-MainCourse&cm_mmca1=91670

I watched an interesting show from Nova last night about Spitfires that took millions of pictures over Germany during WW II. They would take two pictures of the area with a 60° overlap using five cameras mounted in the plane. When they were developed, they were viewed on a stereoscope, so the Photographic Interpreters could see a 3-D image. This gave them a much better idea of what was on the ground. It gave a view similar to Google Earth 3-D, with views from different angles possible.

If you have Netflix, or something similar, you can watch it, "3D Spies of WW II."

A Nikon D40X w/ 18-55 & a 55-200mm lense. Have only used it for one month now. My girlfriend & I went to Key West & Ft. Lauderdale for a few weeks.

I've been shooting photos since 1964 When I got my first SLR camera ... a ZEISS w/18/55 & 55-200 mm lenses. Joined them 4-H Club then & began my adventure then.

Now.... I'm baffled by all the settings & only used it in AUTO mode while I was down there ... got 5 GB worth of really great shots!

Have bought several books on compostion, use of my D40X, & a really nice one on Starting.


I'm disabled, an accident with anti-freeze in my Mt. Dew. Someone at work wanted my job. Lefty me with only the use of my left hand. Limited use of my right hand.

Questions;

1.) can I use my Sigma flash w/ my new camera ?
2.) how do you use the other settings
3.) what is the best way to get up to speed with this thing...I'm no novice at SLR cameras...just am confused by all the settings on my new find.