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It’s the Chinese, isn’t it. They’re done with Google and have taken on Farktography next. If this haven goes down, we’ll know…

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I felt a great disturbance, as if millions of geeks suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

Crap, someone spilled beer in the Fark router? That’ll do it.

The SOTU thread went to “lots” :/

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At least it’s tonight and not tomorrow morning?

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How about animals that are not pets? Or would it be better to just stay away from them altogether?

I’d stay away. You don’t know where they’ve been…

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We’re going to put it on the calendar and cross our fingers. Any luck we’ll make an epic road trip and grab some folks on the way.
/thinking about heading up in a rental

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IBack next week. Maybe I’ll use a freakin’ sunset.

Hah! And here I was pondering jumping the shark on the abstract contest 😉

[olavf]

Welcome, N502KW! Kat’s got ya covered on posting stuff, but great first showing!

Also, dammit, I *knew* that frozen lake shot was jinxed 😆

If it’s any consolation, I think all of mine are this week :/

[olavf]

18-55 will give you a nice range of wide-angle to portrait (~50mm). You would find that stuff that’s a bit farther away can get frustrating, but I don’t think the ‘zoom’ will be much worse than a P&S.

I got a 28-135 with my first Canon, and it’s not a bad walkaround lens. Likewise the 17-85 that Kat has.

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Any Canon lens (at least the digital ones) will work with the Rebels. The high-end bodies aren’t backwards-compatible with the EF-S lenses so if you go Canon and want to go to a full-frame sensor in the future you have to pick your glass or be willing to sell some off… otherwise it’s not a problem. One just needs to remember that EF lenses will have a 1.6 factor on the focal length (so a 50mm lens for example will act as an 80mm lens for example). I think that’s the same as the Nikons, but I’m not sure.

If you’re looking at getting a DSLR (which I recommend, even if it is used) my suggestion is to go to a camera shop and look at/hold both a Canon and a Nikon. IMHO they’re pretty equivalent, but they’ll feel different, and the buttons and such aren’t the same. And, once you pick a path it’s a big deal to change down the road.

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B-sides, because I couldn’t fit them all in this week :/

http://65.78.140.207/TF/farktography/100120.sunrise_sunset/sunrise-2612_sm_web.JPG
http://65.78.140.207/TF/farktography/100120.sunrise_sunset/sunrise_sunset-2582_sm_web.JPG
http://65.78.140.207/TF/farktography/100120.sunrise_sunset/sunset_3500ft-3097_sm_web.JPG

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Looks like you’re not alone in the sunrise departement kestrana

Great stuff from everyone so far!

[olavf]

You probably had Jimi on in the background.

/sorry, my brief foray into developing was 20 years ago, and I never did it enough to actually learn the art.

[olavf]

OK, if you want to make is easier to see a summary of your Farktography results in faux-barchart format, edit this link

http://nihilon.com/cgi-bin/fsmf/???

and replace “???” with your login name. If you have a blank in your name I think substituting “+” will work.

That’s pretty freaking awesome 😀

/spaces work fine. the ‘+’ didn’t seem to for Kat.

Also, it’s Case Sensitive

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I’ve got one, but I think the three I’ve slated are a bit better
/not generally conscious enough to operate a camera that time of day

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I think the one, two, and elusive #18 are the main ones I’m lacking.

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