I had a 3000 many years ago, it was a great printer in its day. By looking at your print I would not think cleaning the head is necessary. I believe the problem is located in your file that you are printing. When converted to B&W it still is retaining cyan information, and trying to print select areas with cyan ink! The cyan is not random by any means which may be expected with a faulty head.Make sure the file has no remaining color information. SO look at your method of converting the color image to BW.
Why not use the lens and filters you have? But shoot multiple images with about 1/3 image overlap, the camera body set to shoot vertical images if you want more height to the image. Make sure the tripod head is level before you shoot, then pan on the horizontal. Shoot as many images as you have patience to take, then combine them in PS? With that technique you can shoot wider than any lens ever made.
Obsidian has raised a good point. I have done the 24 hr drive to Hoover Damn, and Grand Canyon with my wife many years ago. It was a whirlwind trip with few rest stops along the way, assuming you want some serious picture time at the destinations. And a car can get very claustrophobic. A luxury bus will be the way we go the next time for sure!
I purchased Photoshop 6 not long ago, as a used program, from someone here on UHH. How do I know it is a legal copy? Because the owner transferred it to me through Adobe, and I now have it legally transferred to me by an Adobe support person. That person explained to me that Adobe will not allow any copy older than 6 to be installed anymore, the Adobe rep told me they no longer support any other versions, and that they will no longer allow older versions to be installed legally through them. If anyone buys older versions online and they can be installed by themselves without registering it with Adobe, then it is a bogus copy! If it works, then enjoy, I know how frustrating it is to have to pay monthly rent, rather than a onetime cost. But if you did not have to register it with Adobe, it is a hacked copy.
A safe sync device would be wise to use. I have had some studio flashes read as high as 600V ! And by the way the voltage as measured by a meter may not be even close to accurate. An oscilloscope is a better tester according to engineering friends. The peak sync voltage spike may actually occur in too short of a time period to record on a meter. Worth spending a small amount to protect your camera.
No camera manufacturer will repair your camera for free if any voltage spike from a flash caused the problem.
The nails are called "spikes" and many Manfrotto tripods have retracting rubber feet that you can then allow the spikes to protrude, or screw in the foot so only rubber touches the floor you are setting the tripod on. You may also want to consider "snow feet" which have a circular disc, with a spike in the center often, That way you have more stable feet in snow or ice? Manfrotto used to sell those as a user installed option for their tripods as well.
Camerapapi is spot on, stop trying to fix it, and test it first. Even after your erasure fix, test it before doing anything else.
I have fixed front elements of a lens with a deep small scratch (3/16" long)by just using a tiny bristle brush with some flat black paint and applying the least paint I could to cover the scratch. The only purpose to that is if the sun is in the picture or, near the edge, the scratch can cause a flare. And the fixed lens tested equal to a pristine version of the same lens after that minor fix: a 24-120 f4 by the way. I protect that element with a filter now, because repeated cleaning will remove the paint and force me to paint it again. Most rear element scratches cause no problems depending on the lens design I suppose? But flat black to the rescue might be the best answer. The paint eliminates some light from hitting the camera sensor, but quite minimally.
If she had Liberty Mutual: then they saw a thing or two?
Did the woman have a valid fishing license?
Fascinating narrative, and terrific photographs! Looking forward to more. Thank you for taking the time to write!
Many women in the know still wear either seamed, or the seamless reinforced heel and toe gartered stockings. They are still made today on some of the original looms from the old days. I only know because I am lucky enough to be married to a lady that looks great in them, and wears them!
I never entered that store, but I know I would have loved to see such a large display of American Flyer trains. They were great train sets back when. Thanks for the posting!
You mentioned your friend wanted to buy a "kit". Does that include the telescope and drive system to keep aligned on celestial objects? If so, then $1000 is a mighty slim budget. Mentioned correctly earlier: the Moon is an easy target and within budget. Planets, tougher but possible. Objects outside our solar system, then the dollars go way up.