I hope you have a good day and any fog has burned off and you can see well. When we were up there a few years back, I found that my 200mm, longest I had at the time, was marginal but got the most use. I'd use the 18-300 mm Tele. and make sure you are using a high enough ISO 600+ to compensate for the high shutter speed (1/1000 min) you will need. The flight may not be smooth, and there will be vibrations so hand hold the camera; a tripod or mono-pod will just add to the problem.

AJ, I use PSE14 too. Somewhere in the early part of the installation a question pops up asking how much of the available RAM you want to let PSE use. I think mine is set at 75%, but unless you are very close to using all the RAM to run the computer, the amount you choose shouldn't interfere. I'm not a computer guru, but I think it only uses the bulk of the Ram it is looking for during the startup.

The real answer, not this workaround may be toadd top the computer's ram or move PSE on to a external hard drive that has more than enough unused RAM.

Good Luck.

Pat, Thanks for posting the link, I've "always" been interested in trains from the early post WW II period when I could see the Penn and Jersey Central steam engines on the main line from Penn Station, NY to Bay Head, NJ from my grandmother's front porch. Interestingly, 29 years later I commuted to NYC on those trains, except by then the engines were diesels. When I worked as a Purch. Agent for Domino Sugar, one of my responsibilities was arranging for maintenance repairs on our rail cars, owned and leased; I think the total was about 70 cars. This photo was taken in Baltimore in 2011. I don't know who owned the car at that time, but I can assure you that when I was with Domino someone would have had a very stressful day if any of the top management saw one of our cars painted up with the graffiti; they took pride on how well the cars always looked, and they were exterior washed every time they left a refinery with a load.

Interesting story of the 'Domino Oval', when we started using large adhesive oval stickers they worked great on the tank cars, but with the corrugated surfaces of the gondola boxes the stickers just wouldn't hold. I posed the "what can we do?" question to several of the maintenance companies, and one manager said he could get a local artist to paint the the ovals. I shuddered at what I thought the cost would be, but asked how much? I was shocked at the answer: $20.00 plus a bottle of not very expensive wine. Turns out that he had a long time employee that often hit a local bar after work and thought that if he had this painting project, after work and off the payroll, it might just keep him sober. This photo was taken in 2011 (well after I retired), isn't one of the best, and was taken at some distance through a train car window with a Canon P-500. About the time I left Domino, the management decided to stop decorating the cars because almost every time there was a wreck that included one of our cars, the press photographers used the off the track car as a focus point, and it could generate negative comments. I suspect a lot of companies have come to the same conclusion as I see less 'decorated' cars as I did years ago.

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Your experience is very similar to mine about four years ago, except that I went with a Canon camera. When I bought the 70-300 the cost difference between the time between a Canon lens decided me to go with the (new and just introduced) Tamron. I like the lens but think it is a bit limited reach for wildlife photography. At near the full 300 mm extension, even back yard song birds have to be in perfect focus at over +/- 70 feet when trying to make a 11" x 14" print. At the time my main interest was getting better prints of sailboat & hydroplane boat races. Most of those come out fine, but the shutter speed really has to be pushed to the 1/1500 and higher.

You might want to try using continuous shots in the faster mode, you may get better results with several shots to chose with a one second or so burst.

After having a knock-off ink cartridge leak in a HP printer/copier some years back and had to replace the reasonably expensive printer, I decided never to use non-OEM ink again; the risk outweighs the savings!

If you sit down with a calculator and compute the price of printing inks, they are horrendously expensive, but at a cartridge or two at a time (four if using B&H) the cost doesn't break the budget and I sleep much better!

The sarcasm is unbecoming and unnecessary!!

Since the filter is "toast" why worry about it? Can you get a grip on the edge of the filter with a small pair of wire cutters and just cut through the front part of the filter's threaded circumference. if your hand is very steady, you may be able to carefully use a Dremel tool with a small cutting wheel? If the filter glass breaks, even better; you should be able to distort the ring and twist it off.

Some of the above is probably true, but if we are going to promote our photography as our ART, and have it accepted in shows or contests as art, the PP work should be managed by the photographer! The fact that some (most) of the PP software has been developed by commercial interests doesn't matter, but it's use by the owner to obtain the final print does. Maybe we need a new subcategory for computer enhanced photos; here on UHH it could have a new forum, perhaps titled FAKE PHOTO ART - NO HUMAN INPUT so that those of us who enjoy taking and PP our photos don't waste our time looking at it. Call me 'old school' if you wish and I am, but make no apologies for my likes and dislikes.

No, I'm not still using stick transmission in our cars, although I'll admit to preferring a standard shift in any truck over about 12,00 lbs GVW.

If our photography is going to be considered "ART" do we want to put our names on something generated by a computer without any personal input? I'd bet that if someone sent a picture that needed 'fixing' to 100 people on this list, there would be 100 replies, all different! It's called personal preferences; a one size fits all will not satisfy everyone. That's why Canon and Nikon make so many different cameras!

You will, the sights and scenery are spectacular! I think I shot about 100 frames with the AE-1, having those processed was a $$ shock, because the other pictures were taken on a pocket Canon digital. I knew I needed a more modern camera, and the processing cost was a strong influence. Bought a Canon 60D shortly before the D70's were released, but no regrets; it's a great camera. A Tamron 70-300 came about a year later.

OldTxun,

We took a similar cruise in 2010--best one we've ever experienced--you will love it. From my experience you will mostly use the 24-500 lens; it is more than adequate for the long shots from ship to glaciers, and if you plan to take any off ship excursions (quite expensive because most involve helicopter trips) to the glaciers, it will cover them too. For closer up shots on the ship or around town you'll probably be using the 24-120 at about 50mm so why take the 16-35. I found no use for a tripod, it's just one more piece to lug around and there will be no room to set up at the rail for off ship shots as every one else aboard is jostling for space at the rail too. Both and the mono-pod or tripod conduct the ship vibrations up to the camera. Most of your longer shots will probably be hand held.

This is for the next time, but can you set the camera to default to a larger size while keeping a natural ratio? If the camera makes an 8"x 10", you can probably crop to any size you want without too much pixelation. I set my camera for a large/fine picture @ 72" x 48" (3 X 2) which lets me print almost any size I need.

IR Jim,

You didn't mention lens hoods, but do you really need filters on the lenses for protection if you keep the hoods attached. Some years ago, on You-tube I believe, they had a film of testing filters for lens protectors; it didn't work. The front filter is so close to the main lens, that if it got hit hard enough to break it, the force went through to the second lens shattering it too leaving any unknown pieces of glass deeper in the lens, so it's off to the repair shop in either case.

I use another alternative for attaching filters; Before you mount them to the lens put a couple of drops, two is probably enough of a very thin oil (not a penetrating oil) to the threads using a tooth pick as an applicator. I captured an old bottle of sewing machine oil from my grandmother's sewing kit when she died 40+ years ago, bur you may be able to get some from a sewing machine repair company (they are not completely obsolute yet). Obviously you don't need to use much. 3:1 oil might work, but it may be too viscus to spread as needed.

Good luck

Lille,

I think the gmail size limit is actually 20 mb, and it applies to the email size not each individual attachment. You could possibly circumvent that limitation by sending xxx # of emails, but you might also run afoul of their individual attachment size. Good luck! Perhaps a printer should be "in the works" for a birthday or Christmas present?