Donating is a good deed, and you may even get a (small) tax deduction for doing so. But be sure to "wipe" your hard drive first to make certain nobody can hijack your data, like banking information, etc. Simply "erasing" a file does not protect you from somebody running "restore" software. If you've got a teenager kid or neighbor, they can do the busywork: 1. Uninstall all software programs. In Window$, it's done through the Control Panel. 2. Erase all data files. 3. Windows 10 has a wiper feature that will overwrite "empty" sectors. Alternatively, you can get a free download of CCleaner and have it overwrite the empty sectors. You have the option of just writing 1's and 0's , or super high security, writing alternating 1's and 0's, then alternating 0's and 1', then random. Even spies can't restore the data. The instructions above leave the operating system on the machine, so the lucky recipient can make full use of the computer.
I recently retired from medical practice, and donated 4 computers. I reinstalled OpenOffice (A M$ Office work-alike for free) on each of them.
Good luck on your new machine, and may we all refrain from RAM Envy (Sigmund Freud, 1906)

Raccoons are, indeed, wild animals, though if "adopted" young, they're tame & affectionate. Here's a photo of my wife in a cuddle with "Claudius" maybe 25 years ago.

I have a very sturdy, adjustable hiking stick with a removable top "bulb" under which is a standard mounting thread for a camera.
If you use a wide enough field of view, you can always rotate the image on PhotoShop or equivalent software without losing too much data.
Plus, if hiking in the Alps, you can shove the stick into a snow drift and get a longer-range selfie!

Agree. This app fills a much needed gap in our armamentarium -- It's the gap that is needed.

I think there's a good "bioassay," though I wonder if and how this might change the classification over which many photons have been shed.

If you were to win the lottery (i.e., more $ than you could ever spend), would you change what you are doing?
Someone once said that a "professional" is paid so he/she could continue working at the profession; everybody else is just selling their time.

I'd venture to guess the "professional photographers" at the motor vehicle bureau would not show up for work.

Not sure why it matters so much to fight over definitions and get offended about nomenclature.

Peace and best wishes to all.

Another option is that if you use a cloud storage service (I use Dropbox), you could put the video file onto a folder, which you then have the option of sharing, either as a "public" (anybody can access - not a good idea in my opinion), or by invitation. You specify the emails of those who get permission, and they can log on and then download the file.
But Dropbox has several levels of membership, ranging from low volume, limited options, to a rather expensive corporate level. I've been in the midrange and found it quite serviceable, in my case for sharing large PowerPoint teaching files.
Just a thought

Wow! Not at all what I had envisioned. That's quite a Rube Goldberg-ish contraption. And I assume the two "silver tentacle" reminiscent of War of the Worlds are illuminators. Truly Impressive! Probably less useful for live critters, I'd imagine. Thanks for the visual.

SD cards seem to be rather impervious to pretty much everything but stomping.
Nice review here:
https://havecamerawilltravel.com/photographer/memory-cards-airport-security-scanners/

There's an old saying that you can't get injured from skydiving.

OK, I can ALMOST visualize ping pong ball diffusion. Please enlighten me

I'm still using photoshop CS6, but will probably change; I'm not too keen on the subscription model, so I have pretty much the same question, but I wonder about Affinity vs GIMP; the latter is free and seems to have a lot of features in common with PS.

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For decades, I've relied upon a lens keeper (or lens leash) to keep the lens cap dangling, always out of the field of view (unless doing macro shooting straight down).

You can get a bunch of them at a time from Amazon. One end has a little sticky button and the other an elastic that goes around your lens. These things work!

https://www.amazon.com/Altura-Photo-Premium-MagicFiber-Cleaning/dp/B0058I7CVE/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=1FZSEVUJ1FOW&keywords=lens+cap+keeper&qid=1565137711&s=gateway&sprefix=lens+cap+%2Caps%2C134&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUExWEVSVlRDTkwxMTAzJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwODAzMDMxVVlJVjhUWDRYMjhTJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTA4Njk2OThIRzk3MTRETDhXOUcmd2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGYmYWN0aW9uPWNsaWNrUmVkaXJlY3QmZG9Ob3RMb2dDbGljaz10cnVl

Now that storage space is incredibly cheap, I've been wondering why people don't store their photo files as .tif with zero compression. Bigger file, and as I understand it, no degradation of image quality with repeated edits.
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I agree with the comment by our local "dire wolf" (canisdirus). I love the term "trapped by your glass" but it's so true. Once one gets enough lenses, it becomes a financial big deal to switch manufacturers. The world appears to be divided among Nikon, Canon and Sony. I'm a Sony person, and have been for a few years. Mirrorless. Love my alpha 7r iii !!!
Do an extended Mendel square and it looks like most camera people will fit into one of 6 boxes:

Mirror Mirrorless
Nikon

Canon

Sony

My understanding is that a "built-in" card reader has a more direct access to the motherboard than even a high-speed USB. I'd go with the built in card reader. Just be sure that's what it is, and that the card fits. (I won't mention the old joke about somebody upset that the "cup holder" (CD drive) isn't working.