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awesome read: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2012/06/in-defense-of-depth.html

Happy birthday David 909

@dinny: flash, lots and lots of flash. With a little more flash, in case you dont have enough. Water Droplet by Lord Nikon 12, on Flickr ^^ One image.

Happy Birthday Ben!

Since we were talking about cool VW's the other week, I see a bug with semaphore turn signals. Easily one of the most badass things ever invented. Check it out here:

Happy Birthday Brent!

Happy Birthday Jin!

you want a 21-window bus.

Personally, Id go for the moar better high ISO. soooooooo nice. Although I have never shot either, I would imagine that the D7000 is a little more user-friendly.

Happy Birthday Chris!

Only if I get to drive. I have always wanted a VW bug

Am I alone in being consistently underwhelmed by efforts to run STAX transformers off of speaker amps? I really like transformers when they work right, but yea, no. It seems like the current push for STAX transformers is an effort to re-make what started as the cheapest thing possible as expensively as possible... I think of them like a $50 big mac or a $50 loaf of wonderbread or a $250K VW bettle. NTTAWWAoTT (not that theres anything wrong with any of those things), but its a big-mac not a gourmet burger. Its a loaf of wonderbread - its not like Spritzer baked it. And its a VW bettle, not a bently. Maybe its just me.

Have you tried turning it off and on again? Seriously: Sorry to hear. Maybe it can be fixed with a magic button sequence or something? I dont know if this will help: http://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?thread_id=140081

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Shelly

QFT

Yes, just take the ferry back to NYC. You have to get off of the one ferry, and get onto a different one but its easy. Once your back in NYC I would take the subway. Fair warning: The brooklyn bridge to ~86 st is a little over 7 miles BEFORE you account for any wandering in the parks.

Personal favorite path through NYC - although it is biased towards street photography in the parks and a decent bit of walking. Start in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Walk around there down closer to the river a bit. There are great shots of Manhatan bridge, the NYC skyline from brooklyn, and shots down by the river. After that cross over the brooklyn bridge. There are always tons of people around on the brooklyn bridge. There are lots of options on this leg but the key is winding up in Washington square park. This sounds nice: Walk up center street to Canal street. Turn left on Canal and walk to 6 ave. Walk up 6 ave to West 4'th, turn right to Washington square park. From there make your way over to the corner of Astor place, 8'th st, 4ave. Its fun to shoot around there. After that walk up 4'th ave to union square. From Union square park walk up Broadway. This will take you right past the Flatiron building. Its quite an interesting and attractive building. Maddison square park is just across the way from the flatiron building, but IMO there are MUCH better parks for taking people pics. Feel free to prove me wrong though. Its still worth the detour on your way uptown. From there walk up 5'th avenue (NOT BROADWAY!!!! Stay to the right at the fork opposite the flatiron building) for good views of the empire state building and all the tourists who congregate at its base. Continue on 5'th avenue up to 42'nd street staying on 5'th avenue. Turn RIGHT for a pretty good view of the Chrysler building. Turn around, and walk back towards the library. The library has some pretty cool architecture on the outside, and a couple decent photo-ops inside but also a bathroom. They do try to restrict photography in certain areas but thats OK. Wander through bryant park on the way to times square. Walk on 42'nd street to times square. This is a couple miles so far, plus whatever you spend in the various parks so maybe you end your walking trip here and hit central park another day, but if you're feeling up to it: From times square get on Broadway (top left corner of times square, left at the fork) and continue up to 59'th street. This is the beginning of central park. Enjoy central park. Wander around a bit - the twisty and hilly paths will be a welcome change of scenery from the rest of NYC. I would strongly advise that you get to the bethesda veranda & fountain. Plenty of people hang out here, and the archetectural shots are quite nice too. If there is still light (or there will still be light when you get there...) head down to the ferry now. The sunset over NJ can be nice.

No, mods actually do something.

I might take you up on that. Interested in a weekend day photo walk? I think they are pretty close. I looked around a bit and the Ken Rockwell review says that the S100 is way faster. Ken Rockwell likes nikon, he must be right Would prefer both. Im overly comfy with mostly using JPG and resorting to RAW when necessary.

Im thinking the X10 is also larger than I want. Fitting in an average pocket is pretty important. My S90 may have a little more life in it than I thought, so I'l just keep rolling it around in my head.

My current digital P&S is starting to act up a bit so I'm looking for something new. I have a Canon S90 now, and I am leaning towards the Ricoh GR-IV as a replacement. Can anyone out there think of an alternative for me? My criteria are as follows - in order of importance. Small - I want something that will fit in my pocket. A little bigger than the S90 is OK, but a G12 is too big. VERY good image quality FAST AF/low shutter lag Very close close focus I don't *NEED* a zoom lens, but I'm not really opposed to one either. I value the close focus more highly than zoom. Any suggestions?

INTP Introverted (I) 79.31% Extroverted (E) 20.69% Intuitive (N) 60.53% Sensing (S) 39.47% Thinking (T) 76.67% Feeling (F) 23.33% Perceiving (P) 56.41% Judging (J) 43.59%

Variable ND filter? Made by stacking 2 polarizers on top of each other and spinning one.