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Anyone using the IP Board app? Seems to work okay and allows notification alerts.

Got a package from Amazon with some photo related gear. I picked up a Sanyo eneloop rechargeable battery kit after reading all the raves. These are seriously good batteries for the flash. Recycle is so much faster than with standard batteries. Got this funky Lensalign tool. Not a lot of description of how to do anything but the most basic MA calibration. I am not sure what all the other graphics, outside of the numeric scale, are even for. Used it to test the 85 and the 70-200. The Canon needed nothing on any of the bodies but the 85 needed a bit on the 7D. After calibrating, tested the Micro Adjusted lens on the new weird lens I picked up. I had the Bower/Samyang/Rokinon 85 for a bit and thought it was a really nicely built MF lens for the price. I picked up the 14 to try out as a landscape lens as I have seen some fantastic shots taken with this relatively cheap lens.

Looked at my 70-200 folder and noticed every shot I have taken with it was wide open so I decided to go out in the cold and try it stopped down. Too damn cold to find anything interesting to photographicate so I just took pictures of crappy stuff. Full Pic 100% Crop Yellow floaty thing

Happy Birthday. Hope someone got you that iPad you have been secretly dreaming about.

That sucks. I never, ever use UPS if I have the choice.

Yeah I thought the Sigma 85 was a bit slow but compared to the Canon it is an F1 race car.

UPS did the same thing to me. Rescheduled for tomorrow even though I paid for 2 day. Red Oxx refunded my entire shipping charge even though I told them there was no reason to.

E-mail that I received from Amanda at Red Oxx. "As for Corporate, you’ll just want to start with an email to witheld At this point you can’t do corporate online. There are so many things to consider with corporate, it would be difficult to do so on the website. Essentially, corporate offers free logo embroidery on orders over ten units. There is a one time set up fee that is anywhere between $25 and $55 for digitizing the logo, depending on how intricate the logo is. Any bag in our line up can be purchased as corporate and you can choose the colors as you wish. So, for example if your company colors incorporate Olive and Saffron (er-that would be yellow) we can build the bags to match with saffron zipper panels and olive mains. Also when doing corporate, you can choose to have only your logo on the bag and no Red Oxx logo. Or you can leave one of the two Red Oxx logos in addition to you own. Turn around time on Corporate is 30 days from final approval of logo sew-out. The bags are built to the order so they need to be scheduled in the production room. Thirty days gives us enough time to schedule the embroidery and production. So, if you have an in-hands date in mind, you’ll also want to consider 30-45 days for the order itself. If you have questions throughout the process, Tallon can help you out. Thank you, Amanda Markel" I can say that my dealings with Red Oxx up to this point lead me to believe that I will be a long term customer as their customer service seems to be fantastic. Vicki, I PM'd you with Tallon's e-mail address.

Dan, the 18-55 is a good lens for typical shooting. The 16 is nice for indoors but not as good of a lens. I have not tried the big lenses or the adapter so I cannot speak to how it would do with non-kit lenses. High ISO seems to be handled very, very well by the NEX 5.

Happy Birthday

I think I would rather show up without hats and gloves than show up without pants.

I spoke too soon. They want to ship everything together so they did not process a partial shipment of the items from my order that were in stock. When I saw yesterday that my back-ordered items were showing in stock I thought they would ship everything; however, other items from my order that had been in stock are now out of stock so they are not shipping anything. I give up.

Lights Out. Pretty good premier.

More from Times Square Weather Channel personality on location. Father Duffy with a Snowhawk City worker taking a break from sweeping up puddles of water. Out of Towners? Canon Fan Nobody's playing Ping Pong in Bryant Park tonight.

I am finally getting around to using the Canon CPS Equipment Evaluation program. I should have two loaner lenses delivered by the end of the month just in time for a little vacation. This is pretty nice, you just e-mail them the gear you want, bodies, lenses, etc. and you get a quick reply telling you when it will be delivered.

Looks like the Airborne and the Metro will be here Friday, just in time for a little three day weekend trip.

Seems that even more of my bags were on backorder at Red Oxx so now all I have coming is the Airboss which should be here tomorrow and the Metro that should be here next week.

Still coming down pretty well here. Fortunately, we have the maintenance guy and his lawn tractor from the Trump building next door sweeping our street so I should be good.

I didn't even need the picture, the description of the cake made me hungry. Congrats.

I had not. I assumed it had the latest version coming from Amazon the end of December but I should have checked.

Wow, the Nex did a fantastic job of metering on a difficult shot, fine white feathers. I am way behind in learning how to make everything work on the NEX. I am not a big fan of the menus at this point.

I have not gotten around to trying adapters yet on the Nex. Your picture turned out pretty well. Do you get focus confirmation on the Nex with the adapter you are using?

I sometimes wonder if Dinny just comes up with topics and throws them at us to see the frenzy and reap the benefits from shrewd stock market picks. He is up in his tower in the sky now thinking of the next market he wants to manipulate. Why do I have 7 DACs?

Great Bluegrass album from members of The Decemberists.

I bought lots of stuff but some of it is on backorder. The only things in stock were the Airboss, the Sun Chaser and the Airborne. All in Black. Will have to wait on the Flying Fortress and the Metro.