I spent some time working in camera stores. It was away to hone down the selection and not waste time. But there were always unrealistic hopes. "I want to shoot action shots of my son playing basketball inside with a camera that fits in my pocket and costs about $150."

I still enjoy "Days The Future Passed" with the London Festival Orchestra. I found a CD of Christmas music by that orchestra and it sounded the same as their instrumental parts.

In Search Of The Lost Chord's "Thinking Is The Best Way To Travel" had some remarkable audio mixing when heard on decent headphones. I always though that album to have a better message than The Amboy Duke's "Journey To The Center Of The Mind."

Sad to lose those folks.

AI is marketing crack. So much like "cyber" and of course "E." Maybe even "turbo."

Frequently sage advice is dispensed by the various photo-gurus without a single person asking "what kind of photos do you want to take?"

Frequently those asked, pause for a moment and reply "general photography."

Nothing is learned on either side.

Remarkable

I was cleaning out a closet and found some CDs with images...jpgs from older digital cameras taken in 2004-2007. The CDs had edges that had delaminated and others had holes where the coating had failed.

Meanwhile black and white snapshots from my Polaroid Swinger from 1966 are intact.

A 1904 photo of my grandfather as a young man at Niagara Falls is pristine.

A roll of properly processed silver based black & white film stands a better chance of surviving 100 years than ANYTHING digital. And please don't give the garbage about serial copying to the new best thing every time the computer industry upgrades or trusting "the cloud." Don't be delusional.

As long as you can see a black & white negative, you can somehow copy it. Do you need to do this for everything? No. But are there things you might want family to see in 50-100 years? Possibly. Will they have the hardware and software to retrieve digital files? You must be joking.

"Made in USA" not China.
Full sized candy bars.

Basically hi-tech "paint by numbers!" LOL

Until they "close" for the day.

I would humbly suggest there are many battery NAMES from China. I base this on tons of microphones, cheap cameras, audio players, small appliances and so much more that are identical with many different names.

I'm always happy to be proved wrong.

I tried to erase and not post that, but failed. I must be grouchy because I won't see the eclipse.

Here I was, criticizing for somebody criticizing.

Makes sense, huh?

Gosh, I Wish I was as perfect as you.
I also wish there was an ignore button.
Too bad, as your ratio of good info to bully talk is quite high.
Do the letters "STFU" come your way often?

Army 66-69. Joined 6 days out of high school so I could make it to the next available class at Intelligence School in Baltimore. Glad I did, as there was a sudden urgent need for 10 guys to work in the Pentagon, and I got one of the slots. I was just 18.

Had hoped to see more of the world, but under the circumstances, being tucked into the A Ring, 5th Floor of the Pentagon handling communications was OK. DC at the time was a thrill, but working shifts at the 24/7 shop severely limited my social life. Probably just as well. Lived in a barracks on the (now gone) SOUTH post of Ft. Myer, VA. That area was torn down to make more room for Arlington graves.

Because I worked for the Chief of Staff [locked up Westmoreland's office & checked trash for accidental classified trash!] I got invited to the big Army Birthday bash. I was very "short" as in weeks to ETS, so hell yes, I went! Probably the only enlisted guy there!

I wonder if she got into real estate?

"Sharon Sherlyke Homes?"

Just watch out for colorful Chinese drives not much bigger than a stick of gum and no name. Faked sizes abound.