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A question for those who have a zf.2 35/f2 distagon. Is there any play in the aperture ring? I recently acquired a used one and wanted to make sure it was an anomaly before contacting the seller. Unless it is locked at f22, it moves back and forth a bit and makes a "tuk tuk" sound. Even at f22, it still makes noise but less that at other apertures when rocked back and forth. Is this normal behavior or something wrong with the lens? The focus ring is smooth and there is no play with it.

Happy belated birthday Bonnie!

Happy birthday fitzypoo

Went to my first every hockey game tonight. Had center ice seats right next to the penalty box. The Panthers came out swinging But the Canadiens scored within the first minute Then the Panthers got into penalty trouble early But they kept getting into more And then the Canadiens finally won But I was the one who won the most Went to look at apartments for med school earlier in the afternoon and then had dinner at Bahama Breeze. All in all, a lovely date night.

Two assholes backed into the front of my car in the school parking lot today. Didn't leave a note. Different heights of damage and different paint chips. Then on my way to lunch the rear bumper got completely smashed by this 83 year old lady who got out of the car and said, "oh, I'm sorry. I thought my foot was on the brake but I put it on the accelerator by accident. Please don't call the police - lets figure this out." I waited and she pulled out $80 from her wallet and said that should cover it. I called the police. God damn old people.

Must be nice to just have oodles of cash in the back and just give replacements.

External hard drive AirPort Extreme works better for me than any NAS I've tried. Have you looked into that? NAS systems seem too expensive to me for what they do. A friend has a synology unit but I can't remember which model. I can ask.

Marc, all my drives are connected to an AirPort Extreme so needed to format them anyways as ae doesn't read ntfs drives. Gene ill try that later. Thanks.

Thanks gene. I just copy pasted the files over. No fancy program. Macs can read ntfs drives but not write to them. I wanted to write to the drives as well hence the entire cascade format event. I might not have explained correctly. The files are unhidden and I can see them after using the command you posted. I don't want to delete them. I simply want to change their attributes from hidden to unhidden permanently so they look like any other file and then turn off the see hidden files feature. I want to keep all the files - just have them all be visible in regular view mode. I wouldnt even care if to open them I didn't have to right click on them every time and select a program manually where with regular files one can just double click.

Gene here is what I did. Purchased brand new drive A and formatted it to OS X journaled. Copied everything from ntfs formatted drive B to drive A. Files on drive A are hidden. Need to unhide them. Files on drive C were then copied to drive B and drive C was formatted. Cascaded this until all drives were formatted to OS X format. I used the disk utility in mountain lion. All drives have only one partition.

Hahahahahahaha. That is awesome.

ryan, MAX is freeware and does batch conversion. Just leave it running overnight and your library should have been done by the morning. Saves you $10 and fidgeting around with an unnecessary app.

a lot of my hard drives were formatted to ntfs. upon recently acquiring an airport extreme (and wanting to use it as a file server) i formatted all the drives to mac os x journaled format so the AE could recognize it. quite a few files were set to hidden on my windows machine which i can still view but i don't know how to unhide them permanently by changing the file permissions. they all sit in one folder. are there any tools that are available that can do it in a batch? failing that, are there any tools that allow my to do that one by one? right clicking on the folder and clicking on "get info" didn't yield anything of use.

Rofl

Panthers games never sell out apparently. Julie's favorite team is from Montreal and they are in town on a Sunday in March. She keeps talking about hockey so figured I'd surprise her. The box office was what was suggested the night of the game itself but I'll visit them this weekend to find out how things work.

What are decent (albeit inexpensive) seats for a hockey game? Never seen it on TV or live so suggestions would be nice. Is ticketmaster the place the buy them or are they available for better prices elsewhere (at the mall, in person at the box office etc)?

x100, f2, iso 200 either I have the worst luck with af or the zeiss lens really produce some very sharp images. i like it so far.

god damnit. I was hoping it would be prohibitively expensive to make the decision easy.

spoke with gf and she seemed excited at the prospect. i really wanted to make moa but finances didn't permit a cross country flight and room/board for the two of us. Atlanta is within driving distance so certainly doable. i checked and my all my finals end on 29th april and the classes I teach will have finals the following T/R so I am free for the weekend. Julie emailed her professors to find out when hers are (she is taking 2 online classes). If both of us are available I will start looking at hotels in the area. Is there a negotiated price for some hotel already? I faintly remember Trav mentioning something about the Mariott. I'd like to attend a meet before I start med school as I know once I start, I won't have time for anything. Hopefully this can work out.

Hmmm. This might be during summer break for me...or finals week.

Is that story real? I find it very unbelievable. If true, it is quite sad.

Happy birthday sir.

Happy birthday John. Best wishes to Anne.

Pork tenderloin with basmati rice/red onions/hot sauce.

She sounds better than some human companions. My best wishes to you Peter. I can't imagine a time like this being easy but try to think of all the fun you had with kitteh over the last 20 years. RIP Luvbug...