With all the gun people on UHH, I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Springfield (Mass.) Armory national historic park, an amazing place where you can learn among many things that John Garand, the engineer who designed the famous M1 rifle, was... a Canadian.
The photo rules seem quite open.
Charles Bury
Cookshire-Eaton, Quebec
The 600 is $499 at Amazon today. The 580 is $699. What gives? Is the older one now a collectors' item?
How do they compare, and where does the 430 ($259) fit in?
C.B.
Quebec, Canada
Hello everyone,
As a certified old fart, a photographer and a heavy reader for more than 60 years and a writer and editor for almost that, I can say that the spelling lense is not incorrect. It is however archaic pre-Eastman Kodak and now obscure.
As for making snarky remarks about such things on a forum like this, petty doesnt cover it.
Charles Bury
In Québec
In the old days before plastic, we would just tape a Kleenex over the flash.
Is a card reader really needed for this? I've always thought they were a waste of time, and I don't have one. My camera, card and all, plugs right into my PC.
Based on the idea that the only stupid question is the one you don't ask.
C.
I have some of the eneloop batteries and they work fine, and my old charger works fine with them, and I gree they are the future. I still need a new charger though.
I have been using rechargeable batteries for more than 30 years and it used to be that the batteries would die after a while but the chargers kept working. Nowadays the opposite seems true and it's the chargers that crap out. The latest to fail completely on me have been an Energizer model CFHC and Campower CP 6000 (perhaps Canadian designations), and I have an Optex Class 2 that barely gets my AAs into the green zone on my multi-meter. Of course being modern, they cannot be repaired.
My lone remaining dependable charger is a Dynacharger model MC 240-1 that dates from the mid 1980s or earlier but like myself, it is beginning to show signs of age. So I'm asking for recommendations on a charger that can handle 4 or more AA to D cells at a time and keep on going and going and...
You may want to consider a monopod. There are also camera support rigs (intended for tabletop use etc.) that could clamp to the arm or elsewhere on your scooter.
you haven't said what the weather will be
The U.S. Civil War (1861-65) was not the first war to be caught on camera. Roger Fenton and others photographed the Crimean War in 1855-56.
See:
http://www.allworldwars.com/Crimean-War-Photographs-by-Roger-Fenton-1855.html
or Google Crimean War photographs.
A Canon 17-40 with clear filter for dust and thumbprints lives on my 7D. It's perfect indoors. I put on a longer lens outside.