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The reviews are starting to come in for the Nikon D850. To quote from Photographyblog: "Offering a compelling balance of size and speed, the Nikon D850 is the best all-round DSLR camera that we've ever had the pleasure of reviewing. This is really the one camera that can do it all, from landscapes to action, reportage to weddings, the D850 handles it all with aplomb." I anticipate the three usual responses: 1)we don't have enough information, 2)there's no such thing as the world's best camera, 3)mirrorless cameras rock. What other bodies would you nominate for world's best?

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Nice!

Actually, over my own 63 years I've seen a few things in the sky that made no sense or I could not explain that were not later on the 6:00 News as something from a USAF Base. Things moving too fast or changing direction in an odd fashion. UFO, Foo Fighter, Flying Saucer, I have no idea. Could be or perhaps some secret government project. All I could really say, is if they are aliens from another solar system the must be from a long way away as we have yet to hear their radio communications.

Is "older Nikon 50" a digital camera? Not D50? I know many of the Canon film models were precursors of digital models later (which added a D to the number).

The problem for the film user when shifting to digital is that the controls are different--there is no shutter dial as such on the digital, so it is understandable that setting shutter manually is baffling without a manual. On Canon, the shutter-priority mode is TV, but I think it is different on Nikon--above someone said "S." Once in the shutter-priority mode, whatever that is on your camera, the dial next to the shutter-release button (the trigger) will change the shutter speed as indicated in the viewer or screen. In AV or aperture-priority mode, the same dial will change aperture as indicated in the viewer or screen. These can be practiced without shooting (lightly touching the release lights up all the information). I wonder what the V stands for in TV and AV?

It's true, iPhones are amazing devices. What I don't care for is that the advances in mobile devices seem to come at the expense of computers. I understand that mobile devices are where the money is so that's where the focus is, but Apple built it's reputation on computers and it seems a shame to me that Apple has put them on the bottom shelf.
For me, I don't need all the things that smartphones offer. They have functions and apps that are convenient, but not necessary. The "phones" keep getting larger and more expensive and a new one comes out every year and (to me) that smells of planned obsolescence.
I had an iPhone 5, then an iPhone 6, but I don't really need anything more from a phone than a phone. I wonder if the popularity of getting a new smartphone every year is a form of mass hysteria.
Any way, I switched to a LG Revere flip phone and don't feel that I'm missing anything. That's just me, to each his own.