Red-Ringed Tupperware Party with (ineffective) Tin Foil Hats

Claire wrote in post #2440338
MERRY CHRISTMAS!

It's 9am and I just got up. Haven't even looked in my stockings yet. Realised it's the first time in 27 years I haven't woken up ut 6/7am & looked in my stockings, then back to bed.

Damn, that shows how tired I am from work etc. LOL

Morning Claire (or evening to you?)

Claire wrote in post #2440370
Dave, in Sweden we celebrate on the 24th, Christmas Eve. Christmas Day is for lazying around & trying to digest the food & enjoy the pressies.

Or in my case, tomorrow meet the girls, catch up on the past 6 months & get more gifts.

I can't believe there's a whole country that celebrates like we do (except that we open our presents tomorrow...but the big celeb. is today! Did you look in your stockings yet?

Morning PG.. yer up early...

Lightstream wrote in post #2440889
Morning PG.. yer up early...

Yeah, got a lot to do today...I just needed some "ME" time before the bustle....coffee and silence are golden, and much to be desired before a busy day!

Permagrin wrote in post #2440894
Yeah, got a lot to do today...I just needed some "ME" time before the bustle....coffee and silence are golden, and much to be desired before a busy day!

That sounds good...

Lightstream wrote in post #2440903
That sounds good...

Yes it's nice...everyone is still sleeping...the coffee is good and so is the silence. Haven't had ANY of that for days

What are you doing?

Permagrin wrote in post #2440882
I can't believe there's a whole country that celebrates like we do (except that we open our presents tomorrow...but the big celeb. is today! Did you look in your stockings yet?

Big dinner was today here as well. Not planning on doing much tomorrow.

Lightstream wrote in post #2440920
Big dinner was today here as well. Not planning on doing much tomorrow.

What's your photo shoot?

Permagrin wrote in post #2440922
What's your photo shoot?

I gave someone a ring and we might be on the city streets tomorrow with our SLRs. Planning to fly light: 24-105, 5D, 430EX, and unload ALL non-essentials from the bag. Bag gets Real Heavy Real Quick too. Going to push the IS system to its limits, probably going to work ISO 1600.. we plan to be out after sunset way into the evening.

That's if he doesn't run out on me.

He's also a Noink user.. 18-200 VR and D70s.

:p well ... got some of my thingy's yesterday ... saves on wrapping paper

.... no camera stuff .... BUT .... once it adjusts ... a new target to shoot!

my baby (the angel this devil married) let me get a 28 gallon bow face fish tank, stand, decorations, AND a baby Albino Tiger Oscar ... when he gets full grown with be 10 inches long
(2500mm for the rest of the world )

... can't wait for the little chicken to come out of hiding ... little booger is scared to death ....

Lightstream wrote in post #2440928
I gave someone a ring and we might be on the city streets tomorrow with our SLRs. Planning to fly light: 24-105, 5D, 430EX, and unload ALL non-essentials from the bag. Bag gets Real Heavy Real Quick too. Going to push the IS system to its limits, probably going to work ISO 1600.. we plan to be out after sunset way into the evening.

That's if he doesn't run out on me.

He's also a Noink user.. 18-200 VR and D70s.

Oh...that'd be cool...I don't do much street photography at all but I enjoy looking at it a lot. Hope to see some of your shots? I wonder how yours/his will compare...I've always wanted to see shots from each camera side by side (though I'd really like to see the d80 compared to the 30D). I'm not a noink hater you know...I LOVE some of their options and wish Canon had them on their lower end models.

Digital_Duck wrote in post #2440929
:p well ... got some of my thingy's yesterday ... saves on wrapping paper

.... no camera stuff .... BUT .... once it adjusts ... a new target to shoot!

my baby (the angel this devil married) let me get a 28 gallon bow face fish tank, stand, decorations, AND a baby Albino Tiger Oscar ... when he gets full grown with be 10 inches long
(2500mm for the rest of the world )

... can't wait for the little chicken to come out of hiding ... little booger is scared to death ....

I've never seen an albino oscar...weird. What do you keep in the tank with it? We used to have three of the regular ones when I was growing up...they ate everything else in the tank except the plecostomus catfish....

Permagrin wrote in post #2440948
Oh...that'd be cool...I don't do much street photography at all but I enjoy looking at it a lot. Hope to see some of your shots? I wonder how yours/his will compare...I've always wanted to see shots from each camera side by side (though I'd really like to see the d80 compared to the 30D). I'm not a noink hater you know...I LOVE some of their options and wish Canon had them on their lower end models.

I'll up some of them.. I hope I get something good. His low-ISO performance is nowhere near mine, but the 18-200 VR is a decently credible lens and tremendously convenient. We have nothing on that.

I have decided to be stubborn and pigheaded about my choice of camera though, since everybody is about theirs and I have had enough of being tolerant. (pushed to one side if you will) However, for friends I make an exception.

Lightstream wrote in post #2440928
I gave someone a ring and we might be on the city streets tomorrow with our SLRs. Planning to fly light: 24-105, 5D, 430EX, and unload ALL non-essentials from the bag. Bag gets Real Heavy Real Quick too. Going to push the IS system to its limits, probably going to work ISO 1600.. we plan to be out after sunset way into the evening.

That's if he doesn't run out on me.

He's also a Noink user.. 18-200 VR and D70s.

gotta love those bits of flash ...

wife got a 1 carat diamond ring and I got another gold chain yesterday ...

Lightstream wrote in post #2440962
I'll up some of them.. I hope I get something good. His low-ISO performance is nowhere near mine, but the 18-200 VR is a decently credible lens and tremendously convenient. We have nothing on that.

I have decided to be stubborn and pigheaded about my choice of camera though, since everybody is about theirs and I have had enough of being tolerant. (pushed to one side if you will) However, for friends I make an exception.

I've heard that some, not all, but some of the Nikon lenses out perform even the Canon L's...I've never personally experienced this though, so who knows if it's true. But several of them get great reviews.

As for my choice of camera, I don't go for the s & p, because it doesn't really matter to me if anyone agrees or not...just as long as it works for me. I read on a thread the other day that the camera is a tool, not the object de art itself...just a tool to acquire the it...I don't remember which thread but they were talking about babying the camera itself and one guy just said "I USE mine, not baby it..." Anyway, it made sense to me. I can understand taking care of one's gear for sure...I'm not advocating leaving it in the sand ....it (for it's own sake) just doesn't matter to me as much as to some, so what others think about what I've got is irrelevant.

Digital_Duck wrote in post #2440969
wife got a 1 carat diamond ring

nice gift DD...I'm sure your wife will like it!

Digital_Duck wrote in post #2440969
gotta love those bits of flash ...

wife got a 1 carat diamond ring and I got another gold chain yesterday ...

Cool, congratulations!

Permagrin wrote in post #2440973
I've heard that some, not all, but some of the Nikon lenses out perform even the Canon L's...I've never personally experienced this though, so who knows if it's true. But several of them get great reviews.

As for my choice of camera, I don't go for the s & p, because it doesn't really matter to me if anyone agrees or not...just as long as it works for me. I read on a thread the other day that the camera is a tool, not the object de art itself...just a tool to acquire the it...I don't remember which thread but they were talking about babying the camera itself and one guy just said "I USE mine, not baby it..." Anyway, it made sense to me. I can understand taking care of one's gear for sure...I'm not advocating leaving it in the sand ....it (for it's own sake) just doesn't matter to me as much as to some, so what others think about what I've got is irrelevant.

Nikon's got a few good primes. As I told you the other day, I personally watched my dealer use a D80 with Nikkor 50/1.8 AF-D to cream a Canon 50/1.4. BLEAH.

They are not so strong in the ultrawide, zoom, tele, USM (theirs is SWM) and IS departments though. Their strength, I feel, lies in the classical primes, because of their long heritage. This is where the 'we didn't change the mount and therefore did not need to change the optical formula' heritage shows through. However, by not changing the mount, one needs to navigate an entire compatibility chart just to figure out WTF can be mounted without actually causing damage to the camera.