Tom,

I am very impressed with the quality of your pictures.

All I have to say is you and JohnH suck.

I started out looking at nice cheap point and shot cameras, now I am
convinced I need to go with a DSLR so she can take more than stationary
pictures. I keep hearing the time delay on the shutter makes it hard to
take pictures when the subject is moving.

As I said, you and JohnH suck for even mentioning the DSLR, and I hope you
both end up in a special level of hell.

Before you go to hell though, can you check out this combo pack and let me
know what you think.

http://www.expresscameras.com/prodet...?prodid=362726



"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 06:33:49 -0500, "Sir Rodney Smithers" Ask me
about my knighthood. wrote:

Bill,
Thanks a lot, I will check it out in the store.

You would be better served going with a Olympus E-300 kit system.
Slightly decreased frame speed in action shots (2.5 fps vs 3.2 fps),
but the four/thirds capture is far superior to that produced with
standard CCD imagers. If you look around, you can still find them.
It's a great camera for little money now as Oly just introduced the
E-500. For that matter, for about $899, you can get a E-500 with the
same lens kit as the E-300. I was so impressed with the E-300 and
it's images, that I bought E-1 and E-500 bodies - I just swap lenses.
At these kind of prices, I use the E-300 as my kick around camera - it
goes with me everywhere.

Here are some images for you to look at.

http://www.swsports.org/images/

Two of these, (the Daemon images) are heavily processed, but you can't
process if you don't have anything to work with. The experiment#1/#2
images were post processed only for noise. I'll add a couple more
for you to look at in a few minutes.

The rest are straight shots taken over a couple of days. They
overlook my house and barn taken from a hill over three miles away.

The lens was OEM - Sigma 50-200mm zoom, manual focus.

If you want to discuss digital cameras, go to http://www.swsports.org
and follow the email instructions - I'll be glad to go through other
options with you.

Later,

Tom