if you need (lets hope you don't) to make an insurance claim, have photo'd all your valuables, including your cameras, making an itemized list with serial numbers, burned to disc and if possible a copy off site?

nice shot Galoot...
don't overlook the shoot through umbrella...


or reflectors:


both images shot with a single af 360 fgz...

I'm strictly an available light shooter.
That means any and every lightsource available is good to use.

you can't go wrong buying Mattmatic's book.


then experiment and practice...

the lighting 101 section of Strobist.com is good info as well.

Most of my most treasured creations are the illegitimate, bastard children of an unholy union of Pentax d-slrs and Sony Video cameras........

I'm a tramp. Dirty. Unfaithful.

there is something to be said for keeping it simple.
a baffling array of bodies and lenses is too much for my number challenged dyslexic brain.

that is the main reason I hate Harley Davidson Motorcycles.

aside from the weird naming protocol, it's hard to tell one model the next.
All I know about HD is that they have been happily holding on to their title as the most efficient way to convert gasoline into noise without the nasty side effect of horsepower....

Pentax, it is simple.

two models.
Inexpensive, colorful and good... or... expensive and weather resistant and good.

simple theft deterrent.

I worked at a mental health facility in a smaller town here in manitoba.
We treated a number of pedophiles.
We had incidents of patients on day passes being inappropriate at the public library, at the mall, at bus stops, and one incident of three patients renting a house directly across from a grade school, while out on DAY PASSES... (don't ask my opinion on the people that approve day passes for predators, I can't answer with out using profanity.).

no incidents ever involving cameras.

Sorry Nass... wrong argument, these guys prefer to use video cams once they've succeeded in luring a victim to a private location. they don't walk around with cameras in public, where they might be questioned.

funny!

Knowing Sony as I do...
I'm surprised it didn't come complete with a new propriety lens mount, and new redesigned memory cards that only fit this one model....

now I wonder... what battery does this one take...

I have a couple wacom tablets. they do not play well with usb hubs.
plug em right into the mac, and no problems.

try this:
open in photoshop
click layer/duplicate layer
then click (layer mode) multiply.

even try doing that twice or thrice till the background is black...