I used to manage a 1 hr photo finishing store in Virginia near Washington DC. I saw a lots of pictures taken by customers with all landmarks and landscapes around the area. I often saw some pictures that have good composition and ideas but somehow they were not done well. May be poor exposure, poor focusing, insufficient DOF, have something extra in the pictures that can be removed, the lighting at the time was bad etc... I would then went out to the place at a better time and took the same pictures only with the improvements I wanted.

Yes and this is my case. I created the thread to ask the question. I have a response that said he doesn't understand. I can't post another to explain.

Why do you want to know where I am from when you get upset if I ask you where your camera come from?

I asked the question. Someone posted a question back and I can't post an answer.

I always cradle the camera with my left hand and I don't really hold the camera at all with the right hand. I do find it's impossible to cradle my Nikon F5 due to the bulk in the bottom of the camera. Also I can cradle my new Df but it's a bit more difficult because the lens sit higher on the body as compared to say the Nikon F3.

No it meant that you can buy the camera and the lens now for $600 but you can only buy the lens alone in March for $300. Right now if you buy you can only get the whole kit.

I am more of an old dog that doesn't learn new trick. I still use my cassette but I don't like the vinyl as I never did. I listen to FM radio and as always do not listen to AM. I still use 35mm film and I am not going to get a mirrorless except if it's a pocket camera. I use CD but not MP3.

Well Chris to answer your question I would need to know what do you mean by the most amount of light? If you go by GN then a good number of newer flashes boast very high GN but because they have zoom head and at long focal length setting they can produce very high GN. Some flashes rated their power at 200mm setting. A fairer comparison would be to compare them by the GN at 35mm setting. I think all flashes without zoom head are designed to cover 35mm and all the ones with zoom head do have the 35mm setting so they can be compared. Another way is to compare the WS output but 2 flashes of the same WS rating may produce different amount of light due to their differences in efficiency. Besides most portable flashes do not have a WS rating published.
Now I assume you would exclude the studio type flashes so
Among the handle mount flashes I think the Metz 60 series is the most powerful with GN of 197 ISO 100 and 35mm coverage. For hot shoe mount flashes I think the Quantum Q flashes are the most powerful.

Yeah like renting the camera for the trip and not paying.

I like DSLR but I think the trend is toward the mirrorless. The 2 big hurdles that they have to overcome is to eliminate the mechanical shutter completely and make the EVF good enough to manual focus without any aid.

Have you made the tally yet? How many don't recommend at all as there is no best. How many recommended Canon and how many Nikon and how many another brand? You get the answer?
I do think you wanted to start a war as you already knew the answer for yourself.

Ektachrome has been discontinued for a number of years now. There is talk about bringing it back sometime this year. Right now Fujichrome is the only option. I tried to soup E6 myself back in the 80's but found it's cheaper and better. to bring it to a local lab and pick it up in an hour or so. Although I had a darkroom I don't even soup the C41. I had the lab process the film then I made print and process the print only. It's hard to beat the consitency and economy of a machine running high volume processing. For the same reason it's hard to get good quality processing from a minilab now aday They simply don't have sufficient quantity to have a stable process. I used to process 100 rolls a day running the lab. Today I asked some of them they couldn't even make 10.

I shot a few rolls of B&W back in the early 80's when I was taking a photography class. I haven't shot B&W since then. I do my own darkroom but it's only color. The reason? I can't shoot any decent pics in B&W.

I have an A1 and the Canon 199A flash.

Well I still think the large format inkjet printer is your best bet. Printing large using photo sensitive material isn't easy especially color. How do you process the print? Trough? I have never attempted anything larger than 16x20". However, what if you use a 13x19" inkjet printer which is reasonable in price and glue them together? With digital it's easy to print a section of an image.