Everyone knows that the Internet is worldwide, so why don't articles include appropriate details? Two essential details are location and date.

Our local newspaper has an article about a "Machine Gun BnB." Thirty-three guns, some converted to shoot thirty-three rounds in two seconds, were discovered at a birthday party for a seventeen-year-old. The article mentioned towns and streets, but not the state. I Googled towns in NY, but they didn't show up. It turns out that this was in MN. That should have been the lead-off.

I've come across things like this before - "Major Flood!" Yeah, that was five years ago. The date and location are essential for any online article. "Amazing new features in Windows!" Yeah, from five years ago.

Actually, these are very nice. I agree that some movement of the dog has limited sharpness. The grapes and the front of the basket are close to perfect. My first question would be around whether your camera would have allowed you to use an ISO of, say, 1200. That would let you drop the exposure time to just over .1 second. You would have to make sure noise was still acceptable, and that reduction of dynamic range didn't cost too much shadow definition.

To me, there comes a point where some movement of a live subject is just a by-product of portraying a living being. It can be best to embrace it rather than fighting it.

Mentioned in this group the first of the month I had a Hasselblad update being delivered [X1D II 50c to X2D 100c]. This Medium Format mirrorless camera series began with 2016's X1D - which was the first compact [well, relatively] Medium Format mirrorless camera [that I never owned, but was able to shoot a Colleauge's X1D - which is why I did not by this camera design [at ver. 1.0]. The original X1D's image quality was outstanding, but unfortunately the capability for image production left much to be desired. Even the series second model [which I own and intend to sell now] sped things up considerably - like autofocus and processing - wbut as still not quite there.

My Hasselblad X2D camera arrived on Friday last week - Put the camera through the paces Sunday at an event hired to shoot at the hip at events. I shoot in native [RAW] format - the size of each image produced with my Hasselblad X2D was 200mb [I shot over 120 images with the X2D - 110 were step and repeat portraits like the 1st image of Coach Moton and his family]. This productivity would not have been possible with my earlier version 50-megapixel Hasselblad X1D II, with a contrast detection sensor, as opposed to the phase detection sensor in my X2D. While the autofocus system in the X2D is a huge improvement [a tenth of a slower than my Full Frame Sony a9, for the glorious Hasselblad device and I to capture each exposure is not 'slow' to me - more like assuring due diligence in every capture.

That built-in 100c 1-TB solid-state drive - a first for medium format cameras - made my workflow easier. With the internal drive having a write speed up to 2370MB/s, and a read speed up to 2850MB/s], I simply connect the X2D to my iMac for files transfer [faster than the 1TB CFexpress Type B card purchased - which I have set as the backup drive]. What made shooting with my X2D so much easier at an event with about 150 people step and repeat portraits] than the contrast detect [no stabilization] Hasselblad X1D II, were these upgrades:

a) New image sensor. The sensor is the same physical size as the X1D II, but the megapixel count is double. The sensor is 11,656 x 8742 pixels, which actually puts it slightly over 100 megapixels. Huge image files are good, but not if it takes forever to shoot them. This time around I didn't have noticeable any lags. The processor upgrade, paired with an autofocus upgrade that now uses 294 phase detection points makes my ne X2D make noticeably faster than the X1D II.

b) Game changing 5-axis image stabilization [I have shot hand held at 1.0 second shutter speed]. The X2D includes in-body image stabilization, which Hasselblad says offers up to seven stops of stabilization. The company says you can shoot handheld at up to one-second shutter speed, which I saw in my testing. The detail from that 100-megapixel sensor can be stunning in post process [even with edited reduced mb size for internet publish]. Have to let the haters know ['cause haters gonna hate] - this is the best camera I have ever owned or shot with, period.

Why do drivers think they can drive away and escape the police? The police responded to a domestic abuse situation, and when they arrived, they saw the man in his car. He decided that he didn't want to be bothered dealing with the police, and he took off at high speed. The police soon stopped chasing him because of safety concerns. They had all of his information, and he was arrested the following day. A high-speed chase during the day through residential areas is never a good idea. Now, he has more serious charges against him. You have to wonder what was going through that guy's head. "There's no way those police cars can go 75 MPH. I'll just drive away and hide." Radio communication is faster than any car.

I have a problem with skunks in my yard at night. I live on a 1 acre property in the California foothills. About half of it is fenced so that my two dogs can't get out, but skunks can walk right through the fence to get in. I just watched one do just that. It went under my car to get out of the light I had just turned on. One of my dogs got it once, the other twice. I can't tell you how horrible that is, having to wash the dogs in hydrogen peroxide, baking soda and dish soap. It is impossible to get all of the smell off, and they smell for a couple of weeks afterward.

I have been putting down skunk repellant for the past two weeks, and every morning I find new holes in my yard where they're digging for whatever they eat. Has anyone else had to deal with this? I've done Google searches, and aside from skunk repellant, there are recommendations for putting down animal urine, ammonia, vinegar etc. Amazon sells motion sensor lights to put around your property to make them leave.

Animal control will trap them and kill them. I'm not keen on that, but I'm getting desperate. If anyone has successfully gotten rid of these critters, tell me how it was done.

This is directed to dinosaurs that survived. I noticed the sale of lots of film at my local store the other day, and it reminded me of an experience I never questioned. I was in Australia for 7 months in 2000, and had a Contax G2 camera (35 mm rangefinder - still my all-time favorite traveling camera). I sought film from a local shop in my university and was offered several rolls of Ektachrome, which had ISO of 100 (if I remember correctly) and I was told that it was great in the red range (not my experience in USA-bought Ekatchrome). And it was! I was also told that this film was not available in the USA. Anyone have insights on this? I attach a few pix I took with the slide film (scanned by Kodak USA in 2001). Wish Kodachrome still existed! Cheers, mates.