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You just need a bigger flash. Like 2 or 3 megatons…..

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That’s really primes vs zooms more than anything, but it amazes me that no one is building something along the lines of an 18mm F3.5 in a compact design for aps sensors. You’d think Nikon might have figured that out after seeing the 35/1.8 selling like hotcakes….

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Back in the day (we wore an onion on our belt because that was the style then) companies produced lenses with good optical quality because that is what people demanded. …. So Canon/Nikon/Pentax don’t spend a lot of money on those kits because they don’t have to. They are a loss leader, slap the lens on the body, and people will buy it because “Look it comes with a lens”.

Um, actually a lot of those cheap modern kit zooms are optically better than their equivalent *professional* zoom lenses from the “good old days”, even if they are built like crap. Lens design has improved enormously in recent years.

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I’ve had good results with hugin, it handled stuff that Photoshop wouldn’t deal with at all.

http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

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Very nice!

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I don’t understand how unprocessed film could last 6 months exposed without losing something of it’s photographic properties.

It will! But film (well, negative film anyway) is pretty resilient stuff, really. It’s surprising what you can get a usable image out of sometimes….

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When was the last time we had this many entries in one contest?

Assuming we don’t get a ton of new entries, “Sunrise… Sunset…” in January. But Trees 2 a few weeks ago wasn’t far off.

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8 inches of sensor holy $#!++++ is right.
whats it gonna be used for? Other than “the video recording of stars in the night sky and nocturnal animal behavior”

Aerial reconnaissance would be my guess. The entire system with lenses and stuff is probably gigantic….

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B’s:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/awrose/4661186597
http://www.flickr.com/photos/awrose/3503001532
http://www.flickr.com/photos/awrose/4220681038
http://www.flickr.com/photos/awrose/2521800619

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not yours

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I could really use a consensus on continental_sausage’s gun fingers. I’ve already removed some stuff that wasn’t in a weaponized context. This is a bit more gray since it’s fingers held in imitation of a weapon, but neither toy, model, nor actual weapon.

I don’t have a problem with it.

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I only hope incendiary devices are fair game. If you can’t blow things up, what’s the point of living?

That goes back to context again (e.g. fireworks: not really). Try not to get arrested…

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How about something like a pocket knife

That would fall into the same category as kitchen knives and sticks….

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Yep, toys and such are fine.

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So. How loose is this one going to be?

Guns and tanks – check
Military folks – check
Kitchen knives?
Plastic army men?
Ranger Joe’s models?
Slingshot?
Blow gun dart? (home made)
BB gun?
A sharp pointy stick?

Kitchen knives and sticks would need to be shown in a weaponized context, I think, other than that, it’s all good…

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