I second the LowePro recommendation. I use one of their ginormous backpacks, as well as several lens cases.

looks like blue. nothing wrong with black, in my opinion.

I've had Red, Black, Blue and Gold (Centenary?) version, and I didn't like any of them. They're all blends. IIRC, Red and Black have an indeterminate amount of neutral grain spirits in them. Blue and Gold consist completely of single malts. The end result is so chaotic it's hard to identify any one flavor. Blue is bad in this manner and Gold even worse. I think the only blend I liked less was the truly awful Chivas Century of Malts, which is made up of 100 malts.

I readily admit I consume the products of Islay and Skye, and not much else so I am more than a little biased on this subject.

. o O Is that Johnny Walker Black? Yuck. The whiskey is better in my life, and I have are Quads.

HRBUD? I'll bet it will have great synergy with Dom.

This here is some impressive strobist work. A quick peek at the exposure info explains a lot. 1 second exposure @ F/13, ISO400. That means the photographer had some wiggle room to trigger the gun and the strobe, yet didn't have to worry about ambient light making the pellet appear blurred. What I surmise he did was trigger the gun and strobe simultaneously, and had a digital delay actually fire the strobe X milliseconds later. Knowing the FPS of the pellet and how far it had to travel to pass the razor, it would be reasonably easy to compute. Getting a shot like this actually work is a whole nother matter. My hat's off to him.

I'll echo the faster and zero timeouts comments. Yay tkam!

I like everything about the Balancing act except for the power light. It look like a 1980s motel phone. From what I recall (and can see from the above pic) the Moth gear used faceted light covers that looked both more classy and vintage. I really do like the sloped front and upward facing knobs. It (duh) recalls the storied Xana and has a great "mad scientist" feel about it.

These are current production models, and supposedly one can order them.

I love the ginormous 650 connectors.

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