I wonder how they ended up at my place. There must be something tasty for them to eat.

That's the diameter of the lens. Not sure why they used a star instead of a circle to indicate diameter.

http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/7021056.htm

Happy Easter. Happy Passover. And for everyone else, happy weekend.

I have a p&s Nikon at work that came with VNX2. So I use it at work and it seems fairly straightforward to use. But, that's coming from someone who uses Capture NX2 at home and the terminology is similar between the 2 programs.
I think the manual is on the disk, if I recall correctly. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

Thanks, Bmac.

Very unusual looking insect. Never seen them around here before. A couple of them were hanging out on one of my olive trees this morning. Good bugs, btw.
Turns out these go back over 200 million years. Wild.

Feel free to post your unusual looking insect photos.

Snakefly

I agree, that's very likely. Also, the image I posted has been reduced in quality so there will be artifacts even in the "original".

That's exactly right and is what I was saying. My point was to indicate that the ratio between the widest aperture for my lens and f11 was plenty to get more depth of field for that pic. I didn't need to go to f22, when f11 worked just fine, for example.

It's a drill chuck.

Good advice. I have noticed that too.
Also, airplane windows are polarized and will really mess with a polarizer filter so you have to remove the filter when shooting from inside a plane.

Here you go. Sorry for the delayed response. I hadn't been back to this thread in a while.

Logan Pass

Thank you, Debby.

The maximum aperture of this lens is 3.5 at the wide end (18mm), so I think f11 is pretty tight for 18mm. Enough to get the entire scene in focus.

Been there, done that. LOL. Fortunately I didn't drop it as it fell into my fingers.

Another thing to remember about using a CP is you get best effect if the light is at a 90 degree angle to the front of the lens. If you shoot with the sun behind you or in front of you, almost no effect. 90 degrees and lots of effect. Just be careful about darkening skies. They can get almost too dark and look a bit funky because of it. As others have said, get out there and check it out. Point it at a tree and rotate the filter (in the correct direction so it doesn't fall off!) and watch the leaves suddenly become a beautiful green as all the reflection from the leaves is filtered out.
It can also be used as a 1 or 2 stop ND type filter for slowing down water movement somewhat.
You might like this article.
http://www.outdoorphotographer.com/how-to/shooting/do-more-with-your-polarizer.html

A few from neighborhood car shows.

http://inlinethumb32.webshots.com/13663/2258844780100948274S500x500Q85.jpg

http://inlinethumb15.webshots.com/49742/2181457050100948274S500x500Q85.jpg

http://inlinethumb12.webshots.com/47627/2355734640100948274S500x500Q85.jpg

http://inlinethumb49.webshots.com/6960/2640486590100948274S500x500Q85.jpg