Purchased camera $778.00
Shipped with tracking
Tracking email says delivered
Go outside not there
Go to post office,
Long story short delivered to my neighbor (per GPS on mail truck)
Trust my neighbor, he did get it, must have gotten porch pirated
eBay denied any claim, seller won't communicate
Post office said to file clam but need the sellers name and address to do so
Home owners needs a police report and has 500 deductible
Filed a claim with Mastercard see what happens

Like many fellow uhh'ers I enter a few photo contests in line with my favoured photography subjects, however I recently came across a photo contest which totally baffled me as to the subject matter, this is it below, does anyone have a clue what I should look in my portfolio for??

"Transitions and displacements are the objects of reflection for our call. The concept of the two terms is a recall to the “liquid” vision of contemporary philosophy. Transitions, displacements, mutations of condition are the prerogatives of a fluid approach to reality, prerogatives of a free change in the state of things that allows full organic adherence to the environment and to the context in which each subject / object is immersed . The works that will take part in the exhibition will represent an excursus on the subject, addressed both from a physical, chemical and biological point of view and from a social, cultural and political one"

Sports Illustrated

Too bad we didn't know.
We enjoy entertaining new guests here.
Perhaps if you come this summer let us know and we can have a great BBQ in our pavilion and bar by our pool. My wife caters and loves to entertain.
Just PM me any time.
We are well known here so our address is no secret and we do get visitors.

Architect1776 is right. AA filters are a good thing, and if anything are too weak. The dual-layer birefringent type filters we commonly call Anti-Aliias filters would be more accurately called Color-Preservation filters as they guarantee that any detail is presented to each of a R, G, and B photosite and is thus recorded with the correct color. Without this filter, a white detail that images onto a blue photosite is recorded as a blue detail, not a white detail. Thus sensors without this filter have high color noise. There's also the problem that information can be completely lost. For example, a blue detail that images onto a red photosite is complete lost from the image.

For the filter to work properly as a true Anti-Alias filter, it would actually need to be four layers and cover a 4x4 photosite area so that two photosites with the same color fitler would be covered in any linear direction. That would eliminate moire.

The rationale for leaving these filters off of high pixel density sensors is the idea that the lens's image being imperfect could provide enough blur compared to the tiny photosites to perform the function of an AA filter. That has been shown to be a bad assumption as even lenses known for their softness still produce aliasing artifacts including moire. Worse, most lenses today are astonishingly sharp with aggravates the problem.

BTW, DX sensors are smaller so the photosite size is smaller for the same pixel count compared to a larger FX filter. That's why Nikon tried leaving the filter off the D500, D7100, D7200, and D7500. The D5, however, as already pointed out above does have the filter. It would be a disaster otherwise. It's also Nikon's flagship body, so cutting corners by leaving off critical components such as this color-preservation filter would be very unlikely.

Architect1776 is also correct that these filters are left off because people buy them, and not for technical reasons. No competent engineer would think this is OK. I'm quite sure the Nikon engineering department has been at great odds with the marketing department over these decisions.

Yup!! … Bought those in Bridgeport, when they had a full-blown mall, right in the middle of the city. Both Radio Shack and Lafayette - were close to each other, at one end. Couldn't find what you wanted in one - go to the other - a few stores away. Unfortunately, due to thefts and pilfering, the entire Mall was shut down. It now houses a Community College - perhaps, a better deal for the young folk in that city …

My 15w Digital Optimus is in my U/S bathroom - powering those 40w Optimus metal speakers. It's a great set-up. Even have added both a CD player, and a tape player to the mix … you never have to leave!!!!

The 22w Analog Realistic - used to be my kitchen radio. It has now been replaced by a 40w Marantz Digital - which used to be in the bedroom. This unit creates a delay between front and rear speakers - approximating a surround system. The wood 40w Realistic speakers are the front pair, and a 50w Optimus pair are the rear ones - over the sink. In some ways, that system - sounds better than ANY of the more recent surround systems which provide 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 9.2, 11.2 etc. They rely on music which has been recorded - aimed at reproduction in those systems - which are few and far, between. The Marantz I use in the kitchen - with the Radio Shack/Optimus speakers - creates surround - with ALL music!!!!!!

The 22w Realistic Analog - is about to be installed in the Darkroom, powering a pair of Lafayette 40ws. The 50w Optimus Digital - I used to use in there, has been retired, temporarily. Am still trying to decide where to use it - whether in the front office, or somewhere else. TBH with you, that one's sound - doesn't cut it, as well as the lesser-powered Radio Shack units I have. Yamahas are a passion with me. I've lost count of how many of those I have. Far superior to most out there, except, perhaps - Onkyo. I have a 65wpc Onkyo 5.1 - which sounds fuller and better than units with twice as much power!!!!

I have - both - a 22wpc analog Realistic Receiver, and an Optimus 15wpc Digital - and they both work fine. The former had a switch, for changing the microsecond delay - which I never used. It was rewired to function as a cut-out switch for the lights, so I could use it in the darkroom, w/o fogging paper. I also have a 50wpc Optimus, with a flip-down door over the digital display, into which I inserted a masked piece of cardboard, cut to size - to black out its display. In the 90s, most of the ones in the Danbury area shut down, but there are still several - functioning perfectly, in the surrounding areas - including New Milford and Southbury. At the latter store, I bought my U/S Yamaha - a 95wpc 6.1, and a Pioneer 110wpc 7.1 - which I actually had to go and pick up in the Orange store. Other Yamaha 85wpc 5.1 units were bought at the Radio Shacks in Trumbull and one in NY State. Also, I picked up a Sony 6.1 120wpc unit in Southbury. Radio Shack has been part of my Audio purchases for the past 60 years. Not sure how I could have managed without them. You need a fuse - go to Radio Shack. Need Speaker wire? go to Radio Shack.

I also had a "Trash 80" in 1979. Loved that thing! But - it was tricky to upgrade. Finally - gave up and went to Commodore. Bought the Vic 20, the 64, then the 128, and then - when Commodore went with IBM clones, so did I. Bought their XT copy, and then their AT copy. Both are still in use.

Back to Radio Shack. I have several pairs of Realistic Speakers, and many Optimus Speakers, too. The wood version of their 40w model is a classic. I have two pairs. I also have the metal version of that one. Believe it or not, I also have some pretty good Lafayette Electrostatic Speakers, I use down here, too.

Before the digital revolution, I used square format cameras, twin lens reflex and Hasselblads. Now I am using DSLR's and enjoying them. The only thing I find annoying is having to rotate the camera. I own several brackets that allow me to rotate from horizontal to vertical and I certainly can do it manually.
I got to thinking about the good ole days when I owned a "Robot" 35 mm camera. (Yes I am that old!) It was a 35mm square format camera. It was never popular and did not catch on. Later, Kodak brought out it's Instamatic line of square format cameras and films but again they were popular for awhile and then disappeared. Now everything is digital and we have sensors in many varied formats, 2x3, 3x4, full frame etc. I am curious why some enterprising manufacturer hasn't brought out a square format sensor in the 35mm size. (36mm X 36mm) It doesn't appear that it would take much retooling to create and the resulting camera would certainly be less expensive than the large square format digital cameras on the market today. I think the functionality of our present DSLRS and Mirrorless cameras could be retained and at the same time give us square format lovers a camera to enjoy. Any insights or comments, anyone?

The other day I was looking at some of my old photo equipment and came across these two
batteries. Radio Shack became bankrupt and it was sold to a company that filed two years
later for bankruptcy as well. In 2017 Radio Shack's stores closed down. The company did
sell off the use of its name to places in Mexico and a few other countries where it was
totally independent of the parent company in the US. I would guess that those who dabbled
in building and repairing of electronic equipment have found other sources to replace what
Radio Shack use to sell. Either that or you go to Mexico. All this is hard to believe since
the company has been around since its start of its first store in Boston in 1921.