If you can get to the church asap, try your existing lens and find out its capacity. 105 may be long enough at 25 ft if you can get the results you are looking for and ISO 1600 or below, especially manual focus. I do churches a lot and some times from much further and have the Canon 70-300 4.5L with good results with manual and ISO as needed.

Thanks Kaz. Will be going with a friend (Priest) that was ordained in Rome and has family in area.

Will be in Rome for 3 days in late May, so my question is: what ISO, Shutter, etc. to set camera for interior shots in Sistine Chapel, St. Peters etc. knowing that flash is a no-no. Will have a Leica V Lux 2, would like to bring Canon 5DMkII & long glass except for weight, though fairly healthy at 83 yrs.

Isn't this the contents of the 28th amendment to USC tat needs only 3 more states to ratify so it can be put to vote by the people?

Hey Racer-No harm intended, wish you could be with us tonight, my youngest daughter's birthday, now 50 yuk you know what that makes me, going for a night of that Cajun Delight, boiled crawfish with all the trimmings. Finger licking goodness.

Remember when in Cajun Country and use the word Cxxxxxs, you have to use CAPS. and SMILE, that is a state law.

Ouch!!!!!!!

Thanks Baton Rouge! Don't forget the studio also and the many clothes closets, a fortune in those.

Having worked in Insurance for many decades, agent, broker and Adjuster, and having followed the news of the horrendous weather across this country, even back to the fires in the west, I wonder how many of our fellow Hoggers are complacent about having adequate proof of home and possessions. With the advent of digital, it is so easy to document all one owns, so here are some of the rules that I always emphasized to those in attendance at my seminars:
1. Stand in the middle of each rom in your home and take a picture of the funiture and wall, all 4 walls.
2. Take a picture of your private possessions: photo equip., firearms, artwork, prized collectables, family jewelry (these you should spread out on a good background to be able to identify each item). The more pics the better.
3. Scan as many receipts that you still have.
4. Down load all photos unto a cd or thumbdrive even better, in fact 2 or 3 copies backup even better.
5. Looking at each picture, rename the file according to the location in your home, ie: BR1-1, BR1-2, BR1-3 and BRl-4 for the 4 walls and furniture in your main bedroom, and follow through with the LV, DR, UtR, etc. even the garage where lawn equip, etc is stored.
6. Sit down and look at each picture and write a discription of each iterm in the picuture, age, price and today's approx. value.
7.Take pictures of the outside of your home, from all angles, even though the agent usually does this, the quality is not always that good, I remember the days of the Poloraids.
8. Now this is an important part. Bring a copy of the drive to your agent to be put in your file, and exchange with a friend or family member living some distance away from you. In the event of a disaster, just think ow much faster the insurance adjuster can resolve your case instead of having to go through all the rubble and try to document what was lost. Also if it should wind up in court, your attorney would have a very powerful case with your documentation.
10. Now I hope and pray that you do all these things and never need to use, but you would be prepared if needed.
CajunLou

WOW, what fantastic pictures. I will be there in May, and only hope my pictures turn out half as good as these. We will be in Rome, Sicily and Lourdes for a total of 2 weeks, and hope that the weather will cooperate. What lens or camera did you use for these fantastic pictures?

Young people have theirs ... now Seniors
have their own texting codes:

ATD - At the Doctors*
BFF - Best Friends Funeral*
BTW - Bring the Wheelchair*
BYOT - Bring Your Own Teeth*
CBM - Covered by Medicare*
CUATSC - See You at the Senior Centre
DWI - Driving While Incontinent*
FWIW - Forgot Where I Was*
GGPBL - Gotta Go, Pacemaker Battery Low*
GHA - Got Heartburn Again*
HGBM - Had Good Bowel Movement*
LMDO - Laughing My Dentures Out*
LOL - Living on Lipitor*
OMSG - Oh My! Sorry, Gas*
TOT - Texting on Toilet*
WAITT - Who Am I Talking To?*
WTFA - Wet the Furniture Again
GGLKI - Gotta Go, Laxative Kicking in!

Google 42nd Street Photo and type in any camera model you are thinking about, get good pricing and a good description and opinions from owners, also B & H Photo to compare prices.

Check out on google the Canon SX50HS and the Nikon Coolpix 510, both super zooms, light and good for carry around cameras. Canon shoots both Raw and JPEG. I have the Canon Mk 2 with white glass, too heavy for long trips, so have a comparable walk around with the 600 mm equiv. zoom. Love it.
Target has both under $400 now, and no shipping if near you. Go in and handle, and try the zooms.

Current Newsweek Mag.0 (Dec. 24 issue) has an article about how the Chinese Buddhist caves are in danger by human contaminaiton. Article continues by saying they are in process of digitizing and have a $40 million dollar visitors center to be built. To be used will be a camera by Northwestern Univ. and Andrew Mellow Foundation to create a digital archive of the caves using a camera with a billion pixel resolution.
It will take 20 minures to record a 30 square foot fresco and there are 492 caves with murals inside. What a task if at all possible

Best of luck and will be praying for your family at Mass this morning and next Sunday at a very special Mass. From a Hogger from Maurice, La.