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Apr 10, 2024 11:33:38   #
StanMac wrote:
Southern Photo Technical Service - they do all kinds of camera repair services and have been around since I started this hobby in the 60’s.

http://www.sp-ts.com/

Stan


Thanks Stan. Good info to have.
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Apr 9, 2024 11:52:07   #
StanMac wrote:
Ahhh, the venerable SPTS sticker. I’ve seen that inside many a film era camera.

Stan


What STPS stand for? I googled it and all I got was the JC II.
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Mar 26, 2024 14:39:22   #
#1, but if strictly wildlife #3 then.
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Mar 3, 2024 15:05:25   #
burkphoto wrote:
My wife had a 2000 Sienna. Our daughter was on the way to a friend's funeral when she drove off a curvy country road into a big rock and totaled it. The airbags saved her. She'd bent down to grab a map...

Leigh was late to the funeral. I had to leave work, arrange for a wrecker service, and take her to the funeral as it was ending. We were all sad about the Sienna, as it had been a family vacation adventure mobile for years. That's when we got a new 2009 Prius.

My sister in law had a Caravan in the 1990s. The transmission and brakes were MAJOR failure points on it. My dad had a 2001 Olds Aurora that I inherited and gave to my twins when they learned to drive. It was a total POS. I spent more repairing that car than I spent to repair TWO 2009 Priuses over the same course of time. Starter, AC compressor, alternator, power steering hose and pump, electric window motors, water pump, thermostat, brake master cylinder, and more than that broke down. I should have sold the thing after Dad's funeral and bought the boys a used Corolla.
My wife had a 2000 Sienna. Our daughter was on the... (show quote)



And I should have never give in to my wife's worrying about the cars price when I bought the POS Caravan. I wanted the Sienna from the get go, but my wife, at the time was too afraid of having any kind of debts, so we bought the Caravan cash, when I knew that I didn't trust anything coming out of Crysler corporation. After that fiasco, I never again gave in to pressures about economic reservations from my wife. Now she's "in" with me when choosing which car to buy.
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Mar 3, 2024 14:11:40   #
This is when I used to buy American cars, Ford 500, AMC Matador, Jeep Cherokee, Crysler-Dodge Caravan, garbage, nothing but utterly garbage.

Since then, Toyota Sienna 14 years and the only reason to change it was because my wife got bored by then of driving a minivan. Mitsubishi Outlander Sport, a unrefined, noisy, underpowered SUV in comparison to the other Japanese and Korean companies, but, here's the but, my first one extremely highly reliable with adequate power handling for its size, 13 years in my hands, gave it to my daughter during high school, totaled it within 6 months, what a shame. My second Outlander Sport, so far 11 years, not one repair do to a failure so far. It's going strong, it's an underpowered when attempting acceleration and noisy. The Genesis coupe I bought to my other daughter, 10 years, no one single repair other the the standard wearables, Honda Accord Sport, 11 years and still going without a single repair other than the regular wearables. Nissan Sentra, had it for 13 years. This was the only Japanese car that by year ten started to have reliability problems.

I still remember the nightmare the Dodge Caravan was, at less than 36000 miles transmission had to be replaced, at 47000 transmission went again, by that time the interior plastic was disintegrating to a fine sand, the roof velour material was hanging (coming completely unglued. The change to the Toyota Sienna was a god sent. My wife's new (2020) Mazda CX 5 so far no a problem, but is still relatively new.

Bottom line each and every single American car that I ever bought were not only unreliable, but a junk nightmare of constant repairs. So, never again.
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Feb 26, 2024 21:55:27   #
Well, then, the people in England should all stop paying their electric bill.
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Feb 22, 2024 18:07:49   #
Whenever I want a mouse I buy a gaming one for the fact that they can configure to your heart content, are sturdier, resist a lot of use and abuse and you can click, and click, and click without damage for years. They're more expensive though.
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Feb 21, 2024 17:40:58   #
If you want Logitech cordless the best are the G900 or the G903. Their software is good to set it up as you need.
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Jan 15, 2024 15:54:56   #
What a shot. Fantastic.
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Jan 12, 2024 11:27:06   #
Beautiful flower, great shot.
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Jan 12, 2024 11:21:50   #
I really don't get it with these "you have to pay us" to shop at our store. You can do better if you shop around.

When my first daughter was born I bought into this, but soon realized that it's not for small families, unless you don't care the type of products you're buying, and throwing away food because the quantity were too big for a family of four.
With calculator on hand I went to the various stores and supermarkets in my area, all within one to two miles and check their prices against Costco. I ended up buying Pampers from Publix, powdered milk from Target, and the various items such as baby oil, talc powder, wipes from Walmart. I could choose the brand and type I wanted at lower price per unit over Costco.

To me Costco is for big families, small business, and those that don't care about the type of food you ingest.

Since most hormones, preservatives, and all type of chemicals are mostly deposited in your fatty tissues I prefer to buy as much organic and/or no preservatives, additives, colorants, pesticides, etc., as I can, which at Costco you're extremely limited with choices. TV, jewelry, stuff like that are mostly the lower tiered models. If I need to buy a TV that actually has all the features I want I would have to go to Best Buy, or online. People say is so cheap at Costco, of course it is, your buying the lower to some middle tiers models from any brand.

Actually, some of the things where Costco is very competitive as far as regular household items is concerned is items like Paper towels, toilet paper, wipes, their Kirkland brand are not bad. The big packages are a good deal.

Overall, I prefer to get my stuff somewhere else due to choices. I'm lucky enough that in my area I have a lot of very small produce producers that have their small markets, like "farmer markets", and the various places where I can get organic meat, cheese, milk, butter, etc.
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Jan 4, 2024 10:19:59   #
What the heck? This proves that no one can say or do anything anymore without people getting all bend out of shape for the littlest insignificant things in this world anymore.

People get a grip of yourself and your perceived sensibilities. The posted picture has nothing derogatory, the title had nothing to fan the flames. It seems that all of the sudden if you say anything about the Nazis concentration camps is fodder for hurt sensitivities real or imagined. Humans have been doing this since the first big settlements appeared on earth after settling down due to the discovery of agriculture.

This picture/title besides some exposure flaws has nothing to get all riled up. Chill.
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Dec 29, 2023 13:20:53   #
Thanks. Very interesting and helpful. I will re-read and study further.
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Dec 25, 2023 23:08:13   #
Dude on the first photo looks like he means business. That machete is ready to come out anytime from the scabbard .
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Dec 23, 2023 10:31:41   #
FTn wrote:
This is just speculation. I have no inside information but if you look carefully at the sensor it appears that Nikon has left room for a sensor that is larger than 24x36mm. Could the S series lenses be larger to cover the larger sensor? If larger sensors become the latest thing Nikon is in a good position. If not no big loss.


That would be interesting.
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