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i-Berg wrote:
Don wrote:
I do it all the time, hardly ever blow anything up...
I'd be interested to hear about those occasions when something did blow up Don!
When I was younger, like ten or twelve I can't remember exactly... my friend down the road from my Gramma's had gotten an Estes Model Rocket kit for his birthday. That was soooo coool! We flew it a few times.
I didn't have money. But I had a library card. I took out some books on chemistry and Werner Von braun.
I scrounged up some scraps and household items and built my own rocket.
Going with liquid fuels for a first try was, how shall I put it? Ambitious.
I blew a hole big enough to bury a coffee table in, in Gramma's back yard.
That afternoon, my friends dad came over. He handed me a baseball sized rock (that had landed on his shop roof in his yard).... "This belongs to you I presume?" then he handed me a brand new Estes Rocket kit, Just like the one he gave his own son... "Play with this, it's safer."

Me and my friend, his son later that day got in trouble for damaging a parked car with a toy "Rocket car", sadly the frog piloting the car did not survive.
Live and learn... (if you live) I always say.

Comment by Don posted on a/c adaptor at 29/01/2011 - 10:56

Don
looks a little over exposed.

1/45 sec...??? why?
if using only flash no point in using anything other than 1/160 to 1/180 sec...
if balancing flash with ambient... then ok use whatever...

at f 1.4 you may not be able to use multiflash accurately.. stop it down a couple stops....

Comment by Don posted on The Sigma 30mm f1.4: I'm with Smeggypants! at 29/01/2011 - 00:20

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we'll need some exif info and lighting set up info....

Comment by Don posted on The Sigma 30mm f1.4: I'm with Smeggypants! at 29/01/2011 - 00:02

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it is really easy to build battery replacements....
you take the right diameter wooden dowels and cut them slightly shorter than aa bateries, then screw in screws to the ends of the dowels and solder wire leads to them. insert instead of batteries and connect the leads to your ac power supply.
I do it all the time, hardly ever blow anything up...
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ps glue sticks work if you cannot find dowels...

Comment by Don posted on a/c adaptor at 28/01/2011 - 23:45

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simonjames wrote:
Then I suppose if I bought the 35 2.4 I'd always wonder what might have been..... the 35 2.8 Limited is very tempting, decisions decisions.
to be honest, I'd go for the 2.4.
I might just buy myself a second one for shooting 3-d.....

Comment by Don posted on Budget Prime? at 28/01/2011 - 22:41

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greynolds999 wrote:
What is an app?
"Find my iphone" is the one my wife uses most. To stalk me.
if you have a mobile phone, do not give the number to your boss or your spouse (which in my case is one and the same) or you might as well be wearing a leash..
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(not my photo, not actually me, for illustrative purposes only...lol!)

Comment by Don posted on what is the best app on your phone at 28/01/2011 - 22:31

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flixter and maps.

Comment by Don posted on what is the best app on your phone at 28/01/2011 - 19:25

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beginner wrote:
The 16/45 is a hard act to follow!....for image quality and price it is unbeatable!
My 16-45 and 28-70 f4's leave me satisfied and wanting not for any other zoom lens that covers the same range.....
they are my studio zooms, and only get taken off where a prime lens is needed.

Comment by Don posted on Pentax 17-70 any good? at 28/01/2011 - 18:37

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for that kind of money... I will build you helicopter drone with camera and you can fly your Pentax camera over to what ever it is you want to photograph.....

Comment by Don posted on May be moving to Canon at 28/01/2011 - 18:30

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I have a pentax 85 mm lens hood that fits my 35 2.4 and does not vinette.
My suggestion is ANY standard or collapsable 35-50mm (49 mm diameter) lenshood will work. Optex and optima brands are usually easy to find.

Comment by Don posted on Lens hood for FA 35/2 at 27/01/2011 - 23:07

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