NO!

does a "peaceful stab" hurt?

Contax/Yashica one of the standards for this magnificent lens.

I concur. How do you want to spend your time. Shooting images, or editing them on the computer.

Have not shot RAW for quite some time now (measured in years). No real advantage.

Tough to get the dollar bills to fit under the waist bands of those cupcake liners!!!!

Two very often overlooked items on tripods which seriously affect cost.

1. Long center posts. The longer the rise of the center post the wobblier the steadiness of the tripod. So using the full length of the center post to reach eye level compromises the value of the tripod.

2. Leg sections and locks. MAXIMUM 4 sections on segments. 5 segment legs contribute to a less sturdy tripod. In addition good locking on the locks at each segment end are better for non wobbly..

Unfortunately both of these potential weak points of a tripod are a significant cost factor.

Piece of Shit tripods often have too long a center post which does not lock tightly, or they have 5 segments per leg. Although less costly they will not do the job for which you spent the money.

Other factors have been mentioned, but these two are often overlooked. Just spend the money once!!

There is only one place worldwide that you can get a UNIQUE photo. Nowhere else in the world has NON golden arches at McDonalds other than Sedona. When McDonalds applied to build in Sedona, the city politicians said the Golden Arches were too gauche for their site requirements. Hence the building are a reddish sandstone and the Arches are turquoise.

This is the only truly unique image you can come home with from the Red Rock countrly. I have enjoyed many trips to Flagstaff, Oak Creek Canyon, Sedona, Jerome (built on stilts), Prescott, Camp Verde and other communities.

One day to see GC and Sedona.... Total Effing waste of time. Find two weeks in your schedule and hunker down near Sedona, and many others. Just going for one day......at least get a picture of the Turquoise Arches or leave your camera home.

A Frakking steal at that price for that combo. The 18-55 always sells at $250=300 on all sites, eBay and other. I just paid $700 for the body. Man, if I had another $825, I'd drop it on you RIGHT NOW!

I will have the money at the last day of this month and will check back with you then.

Lars

and at that, a democrat speaking the t***h. Trump needs to be erased from history.

There is a seller/buyer on eBay who buys, reconditions and rebuilds the Nikon scanners and sells them. His eBay ID is nikon_coolscan. He also knows the hacks that make the nikon software run on current windows, but it's a hack, and he recommends VueScan. I used it and it works well.

Actually, Minolta sold out to Konica to become Konica Minolta. Both good strong products. Then Sony purchased Konica Minolta. For some time, the Konica Minolta lenses worked on the Sony Camera platform. Hard to transition that to how that relates to what is happening with Olympus.

I have been a strong supporter of Olympus since using their 6X6 folders and then the rangefinder and SLR lines. I was a user of all the Oly OM bodies, and took up their digital offering when Olympus, Panasonic and Leica all formed the 4/3 consortium. Although Leica did not follow through with the 4/3 sensor, they formed a strong Alliance with Panasonic on lens provision.

It's hard for me to envision a world without Olympus. They started the Mirrorless concept at least a decade before other players came into the market. They have the broadest range of lenses of ALL the mirrorless market and the lightest, fastest AF and incredible in body IS.

There is a huge used inventory out there to choose from. Nobody knows at this point what the Investment company who is buying Olympus camera division. But on their tail is Panasonic, virtually a twin platform but with more emphasis on video.

I certainly would not shy from Olympus based only on what is conjecture at the point. But, I can't see them NOT producing camera's and continuing a record of aggressive evolution, as they have for decades.

Full service Michael's Art Stores have incredible Printing, Sizing and full frame services. Matting, custom matting and a huge range of custom frame are available.

There is a Michael's about ten miles from me and the two ladies who assist with design and choices are absolutely wonderful. Anything I do for sale is put together by them, after I do my relatively small amount of post processing.

Many Costco stores shut down printing as their machines began to need excessive service. I think those stores can still take send in orders..???

Looking forward to the video of your first "Eskimo Roll"!!!!

Nope it's a 1953...1954 had chrome eyebrows over the top of the headlight bezels and the tail light bezels.

All sheet metal for the 1953 and 1954 was identical. Our family had a tan/brown 1954 for 4 or 5 years. This is a 1953