I need some sage advice from the Hoggers. A neighbor of mine asked me to shoot some photos of her seven year old's birthday party. here was 6 kids in attendance plus their parents. The birthday boy and his 6 year old sister plus 4 other kids purported to be "family members' [cousins?] were in attendance. Should I have gotten releases from the parents of All the kids? Does it matter as it was just a favor for a neighbor? I have never done something like this except for my own family before. Any serious advice would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Gary

Since you husband probabl uh has better product/specification knowledge, being a photo and all, why not get him a $150 gift certificate so he can pick out the best filter to fit his needs.?

The Oxford English Dictionary says the same. "Len" is no word; it doesn't exist in any sense. In optics, lens is a singular noun and its plural is "lenses". A noun that ends with " s" doesn't necessarily mean it's a plural.

Quote=skeeth]Sorry, sir, its lens![/quote]

Ditto

I have used Corel for years, many years without the slightest glitch. I have also had the "thrilling" experience with the Geek Squad. All I will say to that is: beware the 3rd party pretenders. Geek squad is, IMHO, the worst bunch of pirates sailing their incompetant nonsense everywhere they are. Bottom line: Corel good, Geek bad.

I want to thank everyone for your input and advice. There are a lot of very smart people in the UHH!
I'll keep you posted (as it were) as to my outcomes.
Please say a prayer.

Thanks mrhea! However your suggestion to "deleting the usb entries in windows device manager...." is beyond my level of understanding. E.g, what are "usb entries?" I must admit to being clueless here. Anyway, too late for that as I have reinstalled windows I realize many of my apps/programs are now gone; I'm praying that I haven't lost files!! I haven't gotten that far yet. I guess I'm afraid to find out.

Thanks Chrissybabe! FYI: This all happened yesterday, Tuesday, June 26th 2018, I was running Windows 10 Home Ed. When it happened the 1st indication of the problem was that my wireless mouse stopped working. I eliminated the mouse as the source, while also testing it in all 3 of the 3.0 USBs. Nothing worked. I tried to back up some files but neither a 64 gig SD card, (THE INTERNAL CARD READER also did not function, (no recognition)); nor did a 2 tig external, USB connected hard drive work. I hot and cold rebooted several times (But never unplugged the machine's adapter.) I did exhaustive research on Google and discovered this problem to be somewhat common and also that ASUS (mine is an 8 gig RAM, i7 quad processor) laptops were fairly susceptible to both external mouse & internal "mouse" pads (my pad worked fine.) Google also revealed a plethora of solutions, but none of them mentioned unplugging.
Wouldn't the laptop's main battery obviate the effect of unplugging? Anyway, it is a solution that makes some sense to me and you have vastly greater knowledge and experience than do I with this subject. So I appreciate your reply and advice.
When I finally got around to calling Microsoft Support, they directed me to try resetting the default something or other, which I did, but to no avail.
As my last resort I attempted 2 "factory" resets. That didn't work until the 3rd time.
Now, apparently all USB ports work!! I have to go through the initial Windows 10 setup bs... so far so good, but I'm tiptoeing through it cautious of some new problem arrising. So far, so good.
Anyway, sorry for the rambling recitation.
Thanks again Chrissybabe for your input.

Thank you all for your learned advice.

So I'm blissfully sorting and doing post. I have over 46,000 photos, jpeg & raw, on my harddrive. Low & behold my mouse stops working, then all (3) USB and my card reader cease to work. Can't do any backup. Nothing works. I went into the BIOS to open default settings at Windows agent's suggestion. What a waste of time. Now I'm in the process of reinstalling Windows but not optimistic. Agghhh!

Thanks for sharing Dennis. I thought I was the only one to rotate battery charges this way. It's reassuring to know I'm not alone.

Excellent advice!

Why are you willing to part with such a great lens?

Sorry for all the junk latter in the chain bee. Kissel and I were having some fun
. My advice, shoot the dog once in both feet and run like hell.

Thanks for the spelling lesson Kissel vonKeister. I never was a very good speller. But just for clarification, should I "get serious" or should I "lighten up", as you put it. Reminds me of the scene where the cop says "freeze, get your hands up" and the prep says"well, what're ya want me to do, causal if'n I raise my hands, well they'll be a mov'in, and if they're a moving, then how can I freeze?"