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Typically right at opening time, 10AM? before the masses arrive. As it will be bit chilly it might be a low visitor day so people could come and go as they like all day.

Time for another Bronx Zoo trip to help Colin break in his new camera. Any of the NY crew interested in joining us? Sunday morning most likely.

Happy Birthday

Local Birmingham IPA at Dreamland BBQ. --- I am here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.494083,-86.802696

Happy Birthday

Black Rapid is working on a RRS piece that works with the $60 RRS quick release mount. I have been using the quick release with no issues for a month now.

Looks like it is time to buy more lenses. The 70-200 mkII is the best thing Canon makes as far as I am concerned and I could not imagine selling mine.

It really isn't bad, unless you are going through here to get to some crazy place like Birmingham, Alabama on a miniature plane. I remember the terminal for the real airplanes being just fine.

Just took a sorry flight into Chicago on which I was surrounded by little Ginger girls. It was terrifying. I caught one trying to steal my soul, as Gingers are prone to do. Now sitting in this terrible F Concourse at O'Hare. I have to wait in line to eat at a Chilis?

Hooray Team Canon.

Everyone that still wants in should jump in soon as we are going to have to cut this off soon to ensure international deliveries make it in time.

That guy is amazingly annoying.

Happy Birthday Bryan.

That sucks Tom. I really enjoyed the demo setup when I had it here. If they get this product figured out I would definitely pick one up.

Anyone interested in doing another exchange this year? Okay, the list so far: 1. VPI 2. Augsburger 3. Voltron 4. Morphsci 5. CD44hi 6. Justin 7. Luvdunhill 8. Manoax2 9. jvlgato 10. ShellyH 11. Grawk 12. Tyrion 13. BHJazz 14. Nikongod 15. Cetoole 16. n_maher 17. Fitz 18. Guzziguy 19. Torpedo 20. Spritzer 21. Diebenkorn 22. jinp6301 23. Iron_Dreamer 24. Faust3d 25. swt61 26. The Monkey 27. CarlSeibert 28. Blessingx 29. Duggeh Okay I used the random sequencer at Random.org and this is our list with your respective exchange partners. 2. Augsburger > 6. Justin 26. The Monkey > 1. VPI 3. Voltron > 29. Duggeh 22. Jinp6301 > 12. Tyrion 9. Jvlgato > 24. Faust 3D 8. Manoax2 > 30. Headphoneaddict 14. Nikongod > 28. Blessingx 25. Swt61 > 27. CarlSeibert 16. N_Maher > 17. Fitz 4. Morphsci > 11. Grawk 10. Shellyh > 23. Iron_Dreamer 19. Torpedo > 13. Bhjazz 15. Cetoole > 7. Luvdunhill 5. Cd44hi > 21. Diebenkorn 18. Guzziguy > 20. Spritzer Please let me know if anyone has any issues with this selection process and we will go to plan B, Colin drawing names out of a hat. .

Never made it to the Apple Store to pick up a new living room iMac so I ended up buying the cheap IPS LED Monitor from LG sold at Best Buy to plug into one of the spare Minis. Image quality is very good though the weird shot glass monitor stand causes some serious wobble. Nothing a Mini and stack of paperbacks can't fix.

While I do not see enough difference to necessarily account for the price difference between Gitzo and RRS, the actual working pieces/mechanisms seemed to be of better quality on the RRS as did the weight vs. support strength comparo. The other tripod that I saw and liked was the weird 3 Legged Things line, "Bryan" and "Eddie"

No they did not cancel. I am kind of glad as I went and looked at the competitors and I did not find anything that seemed to be built at anywhere near the standards of RRS.

I also got my tracking number for my new tripod on Friday from RRS. I guess they got something different out of our last conversation than I did.

Looks like my trusty iMac has taken a dive. Looks like bad hard drive as when I use the SL install disc it does not find the main HD. May put it into back up role if I can get a new HD put in. Been looking at replacing this one for a while so I guess I will be doing some Mac shopping this weekend.

Took the new 16-35 out for a few minutes on this beautiful afternoon. Updated skyline with the Freedom Tower

Ha, I was just starting one of these. Happy Birthday Juan.

Some S100 shots from today's locale.

Canon 16-35 f2.8L. I think this is the only non-super zoom L glass I do not own so I figured it might fit nicely as an everyday lens as I am getting tired of dragging around so many primes.

Honestly, I am contemplating picking up a S95 as I remember being much happier with the pictures from that when I had it. One More! Handheld HDR.