I have clogged a few canons. I have decided that I should either buy a Pro 10 and only use Canon inks and remove the ink tanks when not in use, or buy the $79 printers, use Non-OEM ink and consider the printer as a disposable item - office supplies rather than tangible equipment. I have cleaned Canon heads - successfully, but if your time is worth something, you cannot afford to do it. I have replaced Canon heads - at 80-90% of the cost of a printer.

You say she fell in love with the camera - there are many ways to fall in lust with a camera, but only one way to fall in love. If you look at pictures - taken by excellent photographers - you can easily fall in lust for that model. If you read specifications (do other people actually enjoy reading specifications of cameras you do not own?) you can lust for the camera. But to fall in love with a camera, to know that you and the camera were made for each other and you are willing to go into hell with that camera to get that shot - well, you have to hold that camera, you have to cuddle it and fondle it. If she can do that and not be looking over at that cute Nikon or the flashy Sony, then yes, she is in love and you need to satisfy her - go quickly and buy it for her.

1. DO I shoot professionally - yes, but no! I shoot as part of my Environmental consulting and my photographs are published in our reports, so, in that aspect I do shoot professionally. I do not shoot specifically to sell my pictures as Art, so in that aspect, no, I do not shoot professionally.

2. Specialty: Industrial and landscape for work and pleasure, respectively

3. Camera: Canon T6i (750D). I have never - with this camera - seen shutter effects - most of the shutter problems occurred 40 years ago when I was shooting a Ricoh with a 1/60 flash sync and film.

Why not FedEx your gear to arrive in Iceland a few hours ahead of you and be held at the arrival airport. Then you can pack it and protect it and not worry about it. And you can insure the package for its true worth.

If you each take one body and one lens - one a short zoom and the other a long zoom, and maybe a monopod and one flash, you should have it covered.

Cameras are personal - you need one YOU are comfortable with - doesn't matter what I shoot. Lens selection should be based on what and where you are going to photograph - is this a museum trip or a wide open sky vacation? Maybe a non-slr camera will fit your needs....

Why do you need a Rockwell motor?

Measure the diameter of the saw-blade pulley, and then go to a Grainger or equivalent store and buy a motor. If you are going to cut plywood, a 3/4HP may be fine, if you will be ripping 3 inch oak, 1 1/2HP may not be enough. The reason for measuring the pulley is to buy the proper speed motor and the proper motor pulley to keep the blade speed under the listed maximum blade speed on the saw blade.

My dad would just stick an old washing machine motor on it....

Well, first, I think DPReview should go ahead and publish this on Monday the 22nd rather than wait until Tuesday the 22nd - long weekend, eh?

I was watching those &%$#@* Tigers last night on NBC, and they played a very slo-mo clip of a play, and you could see the cyclic rate of the DTE electricity as wave after wave of light ran through the video.

In the olden days, when the world was dominated by horizontal shutters, a very fast horse (car, or train) would be longer when running right to left and shorter when running left to right. With a vertical shutter, fast moving objects will lean into the direction they are moving. It is the Photographer's choice whether this leaning is considered a photographic error, or a burst of creativity. Are you going to fight it or use it?

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In the late 50s/early 60s, I delivered (real) newspapers in Michigan. If, for even only one day, the newspaper had placed an advertisement as intrusive as the ones that dominate the web today, my daily delivery on my bicycle would have dropped from 130 to maybe 3! Imagine being forced to look at the ads on page 3 of your morning newspaper for 60 seconds before you can turn to page 4 and continue reading. These ads that hijack a page and force focus on the ad for 5-60 seconds do not make me want to buy the item advertised - they make me want to close the page they have hijacked. Not only do I not look at the hijacker's ad, I force myself to ignore all the other ads on that page. Content providers lose my business when they use these advertising techniques!

Ads should be placed above, below, to the right or left of the subject matter - but not in front - and they should not take control of my computer nor your webpages!

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Thank You, I feel better now.

If you do not buy the canon ink, do not waste your money buying the canon warrantee. That being said, I buy LD ink.for my (insignificant) canon. I believe that LD ink, or Ink Tech Ink is like Perrigo Aspirin - made in the same batch as the original, put in different packaging.

Keep the original Canon Cartridges and if you need Warrantee work, put the originals back in the machine...

Put a lens cap on and take a long exposure (30 seconds to 3-4 minutes). Evaluate the resulting photo and see how many pixels are leaking (white spots). If the energy leaks are low enough for you, and the resolution (15MP) is high enough, why spend money? (it does help the economy to buy, buy, buy...)

third line - "center of the lens"!!! Damn fingers!

Noticeable is the question. The prime lens has a larger diameter glass so at the same f/ stop, the prime will be collecting closer to the center of the lens (percentage wise). The closer you are to the enter of the lens, the sharper the image, the less distortion, the less chromatic aberration. The Zoom is "optimized" for all possible lens setting from min to max. Optimized means that every lens position gives a little clarity and resolution for the convenience of a single lens.

The question that must always be answered is "What are you going to do with the image?" Crop it more than 1:4, print it larger than 5X7? The more you crop, the larger you print, the more critical the gaze upon the image, the better the prime will perform compared to the zoom.

Will a f/2.8 zoom lens on a 24MB FF Sensor look better than a f/1.4 Prime on a 18MB sensor? .........?

If your house insurance has a $500 deductible and pays replacement cost (as opposed to original cost) then buy what feels right - it will cost you $500 for the top of the line or the bottom of the line. Talk to your agent and find out what their limits are for the loss. Add in the cost of the bag, and every ball point pen, sharpie, mini tripod, and battery in the bag.

Don't have house insurance that will cover the $4000 - $5000 you lost? I'm sorry!

While good advice can and will be had here, you cannot touch, feel and handle that advice. Your local camera shop (not Best Buy) can let you see, and feel the differences between Canon and Nikon and Sony (and others). They can put a 5D, 7D, 80D, and a 780D (or the equivalent in other brands) in your hands with a variety of lenses and allow you to judge for yourself which is the right camera. While you are there, look at the powershot cameras for your daughter. Commit at least an hour to this task. CAUTION Do not buy at this time. If you are lucky enough to have more than one camera shop near you (I have 4 in a radius of 100 miles), go to two shops, otherwise, go back to the same store at a different time and talk to a different sales person.

Develop a short list of make and model of body and lenses. Now, go to DxOMark and DP Review and other professional review sites and read what the professionals say about the cameras on your short list. When you are ready to buy, go back to the camera shop and politely inform then that you want to buy from them, but will not pay more than B&H, Adorama, etc have the equipment listed for- take printout of the pages with you. They will make you happy!

If you are doing this to document your son or daughter's high school athletics, you will find a group of other parents at the games - SHARE PHOTOS - this is about your son or daughter - not about your photography. Four parents, four cameras will give you four views of each action - some may have the other parents in the picture capturing their child and that may be the one that eventually means the most to the Child 20-40 years from now.

Ask about classes - for you with your new camera, and your daughter with her new camera

Have a friend assist you. As a photographer friend, you will not have the courtesy from other guests that a paid professional will have - when taking posed pictures you must take control - full control of the situation(but don't be a B---- about it). You can ask, but will not receive assurance that when you set up a shot, that you be allowed to get your shot BEFORE that person from the grooms side steps right in front of your camera to get his shot. Others with cellphones will change your posing, distract your clients, and walk into your picture, because they are much much more important than anyone else - even more important than the Bride.

Develop a list of shots that the Bride wants - on paper and have your assistant check them off when complete. There will always be one of the four (or six or eight) grandmothers that will have to go pee 2 minutes before you are ready for her ("assistant!"). For the posed formal shots, I always shoot from the largest group down to the Bride and Groom - that way, when I am finished with a part of the group, they can go get a drink. Don't bounce around on the bride's list - get all the shots that include grandma and then let her sit down or whatever.

On a given posting, take a bunch of shots, if there are children take three bunches of shots - you still may have to move a smile from one shot to the next. If you have a remote, use it and get out from behind the camera.

Remember, you will capture people having fun together, sharing future memories, that may not ever see each other again - and that is the best reason for calling the disassociated photography professional. That stress will remain until you have reviewed every shot and seen the quality of your work (with Film, that was days, now, only minutes to hours). On the other side of the coin, you will spend time and effort to get a group shot set up and carefully set your exposure and make sure everyone is smiling and before you can review the image on your camera back, your phone will ding as someone has put the image up on Facebook, and it will immediately get 84 likes and 14 shares - don't let it bother you - your images will end up on large format paper hanging on a wall long after their image is buried.

Have fun and enjoy the wedding