John Bennett
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We’re getting our worst storm of the winter today. Heavy snow fall, high winds, and then freezing rain later this aft/eve.
Im Canon Labrati. Currently with
24-70 f2.8 L
85 f1.8
180 f3.5 macro
400 f5.6LI intend to add the 70-200 f2.8L IS to complete my lineup. I can only get so much past the warden though 🙂 so any new lens purchases are for down the road when the times is right, unless I want to sleep on the couch for a few months 🙂
then after that I can try to figure out how to get a 500 past her
;DIt could be a fantastic lens for sports shooters. The zoom unlike primes will enable them compose as the action draws near or moves away and perhaps more importantly it offers f2.8. Compare that say to the 500 f4.
If I had to cover some twilight, night games maybe like soccer/football I might be all over a lens like that. Fast enough that you can open the lens as wide as youd need to freeze the action and versatile enough that you can shoot at 200mm one minute and 500mm the next as the action goes down field.
Few if any zooms are available in fast glass. I know from trying todo my daughters gymnastic where I use an 85 f1.8, the one thing I dont like is the fixed focal length. Sometimes shes too close and sometimes too far for the 85 but its the only glass I have thats fast enough to use for indoor sports.
A bit greek to me but here goes. Quad core, 2 gig ram, Vista platform w/ 24inch lcd.
Processing.
Photosop7 and ACR (through elements 6.0). Trial period on CS3 just ended, will move to that immeninently.Storage
500gig HDD. back up to two 200gig external HDs, which in turn get backed up to DVD.
I try to do my backups periodically although if I have a critical folder that gets backed up immediately.I do everything by calender quarter. So at the onset of a new quarter, a new folder is created on the HDD, the just completed quarter is backed up and the oldest quarter on the HDD gets a weeding out, backed up, and burned to DvD
Can’t speak to salt water but I guess it would say it depends as with Salt you might very well be casting from a platorm, in wind and need distance, but Im honestly a bit surprised.
All the guides Ive used are certified (in fact id problably wouldnt book with a guide whos not certified and that includes CPR) ;D and have no problems if/when you ask them to keep an eye on aspect you might be having trouble with. Meaning, when you book make it clear that that youd either like some intruction or to keep an eye for an obvious problem in the stroke.
meaning
If I wanted to arange a day and for whatever reason wanted to correct an aspect or work on my double haul (for example) and the guide balked, he wouldnt get my business then or later.Lessons certainly are worthwhile and pound for pound better, but you can arrange that as well. Every outfitter I know offer “Learn to” which is half/half dry land and on the water. Where they cover everything from entomology, to knots, to casting and finish with a couple hours on the water.
For self teaching and correcting sexy loops is a nice web site.
My best advice would be to book some time on the water with a guide. You get a .5 day or full day of guided fishing, and they can help you to work on your casting to boot 🙂 its a win/win and something I try to do atleast once every year.
I remember seeing that a few months ago. 34 pounds not mention what kind of support you’d need.
OuchThe new 150-500 OS/HSM looks intriguing as well, although I’m not crazy about the f5-6.3. Thats a bit slow for my liking.
No kidding Zack, the prices are coming down a ton.
Currently I have one 4gig, three 2gig, and two 1gig Extreme III cards. I belong to the school of thought that despite the inconvenience smaller cards are “safer”. Meaning if you were to lose or destroy a card, better it happen to 2gigs worth of images, than an 8gig card.
The 1gig card I paid $130.00 for a couple years ago. I paid the same for the 4gig card about 8 months ago and I think today they sell for around $90.00.
One problem a camera like the Sony is likely going to have should someone want to take full advantage of the fps is how fast it writes to the card and clears the buffer.
The 1DMKIIN +400 +1.4 is controllable with entended burst. I rarely do it prefering 3-5 shot burst typically, but there have been occasions where Ive taken extended burst of 8-16frames. No doubt though that it can jump like a jack hammer. Using a Bushhawk pays dividends for that Im sure.
Ive seen some good GIF animation of Birds of Prey swooping in on kills that are anywhere from 8 to 16frames that were taken with the MKIIN and 400s or 500s.
Back when Barry Bonds hit his record breaking HR, there was a SI shooter who wired 3 MKIIIs and synched them, such that the 3 produced 30 fps. It may as well have been a vid camera. Hard to tell from the vid but it looks like he’s using 500 f4s or maybe the 600s, but it sure sounds sweet.
That was one of my first thoughts to labrati, that things going to be a beast at 6.5fps 25mp. Anyone catch the buffer size in the release? With the MKIIN
Was just reading the release.
With Nikon seemingly holding out on their new FF and Canon not delivering on the much rumored 5D replacement, this certainly sounds like a shot across the bow.
Zach, I thought I read somewhere that Nikon was producing their own chips for the D3s dont quote me though)
Id wait and see what develops (if anything) as well for that kind of cost to service them Zack. Want to point out thought that a friend of mine slipped and landed in some mud the week he got his MarkIII. The body initially worked fine and showed no sign of problems. It died a few days later, his 500mm f4 mounted at the time was and still is functioning perfectly.
I don’t imagine his broker was too happy about that one
You should look into having your gear on a rider.
Generally speaking if its under your homeowners theres no certainty it will be covered should you braincramp. Where as Riders for the most part are no fuss replacement. Also, there are other considerations like deductibles and premium increases if you do submit claims.Zach.
At $17/month for your body you might want to shop around anyways, thats pretty expensive. I pay $110/year and thats for over 7G worth of replacement coverage. Granted, we live in different countries but I often see reference to around 100/year both north and south of the border.Another vote for Aqua stealth.
I switched to Simms AS after my dog chewed my leather felt soled boots apart 3 seasons ago ad have fallen in love with them. You probalby should give alot of thought to the environs you typically wade but atleast in my case Ive havent yet been in a situation where I missed my felt soles.
I do alot hiking sometimes to get to the stream and theres simply no comparison. AS boots are infinitely lighter dry, let alone wet once the felt starts absorbing stuff and I think the studs are better suited to hiking (ak crossing deadfalls, going upslope tc).
As pointed out the studs will trash decking. I have a cedar deck that I cross to get to the stream behind my house and theres no way Id ever cross it with the boots on.
With regards to the comment about felt being a perfect medium for transferring bacteria.
I’d have to think so, we’re being advised to get in the practise of washing down waders after a day.
Id have to think felt soles are that much more susceptible to transfering.Mark…great link…and as much as I would like to win this photo contest…I refuse to get the “Itinerant Angler” Man tattoo’ed on my arm! HA…
Lol.
I have a Brown tat on my left shoulder, Im sure I could have “IA” henna’d above it and do a self portrait. Will that count?Looks to me like the photographer took your typical trophy shot and then visualised the comp with the dorsal extended. Rather than have the gent change his grip and do it, he just reached out, lifted it and took the shot.
My 2c
Pick up a Pentax WP for about $300.00. Small enough to fit in a pocket, good enough for the shots your DSLR cant do, cheap enough not to worry about it, no fussing about with housing etc.Lol funny Zach 🙂
Anytine our forecast is snow and its 4 inches I’m releived. Luckily this is shaping up to be another mild winter here and we’ve only had 1 big dump.However, the idea of tooning on snow, thats original 🙂
Might work as a tobogan but 1) I woundnt want to get bounced out and 2) more importantly, I wouldn’t want to be the the one lugging it back up hill. Where it could be alot of fun is on an iced in lake and with a parasail./deit
btw I imagine there were alot of accidents if you got the snow, yes? How rare is it there?My 2c that areprobably worth less than 2c as my hunting days are long behind me. I was going to suggest not overlooking a side by side but someone beat me to the punch. On the few occassions I went birding I used both O/U and side bys. While I preferred the O/U the side by was nice to. Not sure Id want to use a pump for that style. I guess with practise you can get quick enough but there are/were occassion when I had to fire in quick succession when on the wing an Im not sure I could do that with a pump, even when I was practised.
Dogs.
Not sure Id want to take an untrained or gun shy dog into the field. I still remember one day when one of the party brought a new dog out. It was good at flushing but had a bad habit of leaping into the air after them. I was fortunate enough to recognise it was leaping as I was getting the partridge in m sights and its head ended up square in my sights just as I was about to pull the trigger. Would have been my fault but its not something you need or want to have happen.Take up Falconry 🙂 You can satisfy the desire to do some small game/bird hunting and develop a bond with a Bird of Prey at the same time.
j/k its a huge commitmentIm not going to touch the right to bear debate with a 14ft spey.
But.
but my guess is Morsie could layout a nice case for not allowing civilians to have guns. I think alot of times we are ethnocentric in thinking the US of A is the best thing going.
Not neccessarily Seafood.
Our laws are fairly strict and prohibitive.
Canada’s tough new gun control law, which took effect Jan. 1, 2001, requires individuals to obtain licenses to posses or purchase either guns or ammunition. By Jan. 1, 2003, registration of all guns in Canada will be required. The Firearms Act regulations apply to the importing, exporting, possession, use, storage, display and transportation of all firearms, and are in effect across the country.
Under the Canadian Firearms Act, the three classes of firearms are:
1)Non-restricted (most ordinary rifles and shotguns);
2)Restricted (mainly handguns); and
3)Prohibited (full automatics, converted automatics, handguns with a barrel length of 105 mm (approx. 4″) or less, and .25 or .32 caliber handguns among others).One might think that Canada wouldnt have gun problems. The problem is, it isnt law abiding citizens you have to worry about. I live/work in Toronto and gang related violence is, depending on who you listen to, very much a problem and the illicit gun trade is of great concern, many of which are smuggled north. England, from what I understand is also having similiar problems although dont quote me.
And thats all Im going to say about that 🙂
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not quite, feel i should clarify.
Alot of Torontonians are/were shocked at the “wanton” violence thats been occuring is the last few years, trust me some of it atleast for “us” has been pretty brazen. “Toronto the Safe”? Two summers, not a day went by that there wasnt a headline about the “Summer of the Gun”.A blurb from a US Newspaper.
TORONTO — A city that prides itself as one of the safest in North America is bewildered by a surge in violence that has produced a record number of shooting deaths this year, the latest a 15-year-old girl on a street filled with holiday shoppers.Whatever the cause, Canadians recoiled Tuesday after a gunbattle the previous day in Toronto left the teenage bystander lying dead and six other people wounded in a street near a popular shopping mall.
It was the 52nd death inflicted by a firearm this year in Canada’s biggest city, which is nearly twice as many as last year and raised the overall homicide toll to 78 — not far below the record 88 homicides of 1991.
From this year.
Two men have each been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the weekend shooting death of 11-year-old Ephraim Brown at an outdoor party, Toronto police said Monday[qote]
The 2002 Michael Moore documentary film Bowling for Columbine was partly filmed in Toronto. Moore visited suburbs in Toronto, where he found front doors unlocked and much less concern over crime and security.
In 2005, Toronto media coined the term “Year of the Gun” because the number of gun-related homicides reached 52 out of 80 murders in total;[1] almost double the 27 gun deaths recorded the previous year.[2] On December 26, 2005, 15-year-old Jane Creba was shot and killed in the Boxing Day shooting while shopping on Yonge Street in downtown Toronto. After this incident, many people called for the federal government to ban handguns in Canada; this also became an issue in the 2006 federal election.
In May 2007, the shooting death of Jordan Manners, a 15-year-old, at his school, C. W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute, raised calls for a ban on handguns again.
On July 22, 2007, 11-year-old Ephraim Brown was killed after being shot in the neck by a stray bullet, during a gang shooting in the city’s north end at Jane Street and Sheppard Avenue.
On March 17, 2007 and on July 21, 2007, there had been early morning shooting deaths in the Oakwood-Vaughan neighbourhood. Both shootings happened during parties.
TORONTO – The stray bullet that struck and killed 15-year-old Jane Creba while she was shopping on a busy downtown street on Boxing Day 2005, left an indelible mark on the psyche of Canada’s largest city.
In Toronto, 2005 is still known as The Year of The Gun.
Yet two years later, murder rates have spiked to even higher levels.
Rosemary Gartner, a criminologist at the University of Toronto, says in the past Toronto has typically seen about 60 murders a year.
For the first time in more than 20 years, however, those numbers have spiked in two of the past three years, to 78 in 2005 and 82 so far in 2007.
Does Toronto have a gun problem?
I think so
