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Well a canon 40d and 28-135 IS lens can be had for around 600. It is weather sealed and more than enough camera. I always buy refurb bodies. They are pro grade and can be repaired cheaply if necessary.

You could always get yourself a d90 and give them your old one. Kinda need budget info.

Get that fixed asap. A house next to my friends place exploded a few weeks ago and blew the windows out of all the surrounding houses. Luckily no one was in the home when it happened.

I've been meaning to get a decent plane or helicopter. I live back in a 30 acre field with nothing around, but my barn, house, and observatory.

I need about 200-250ft of CAT6 so buy a bit to much and I'll buy it from you. Sucky part is I'd prefer burial grade.

My brother and I used to fight all the time. Haven't gotten to really beat him real good for a long time now and actually I'd be afraid I'd kill him due to all the drugs/crap he's put himself through.

300,000,000+ americans, not nearly enough accidents to warrant lots of things we get "protected" from. To me its simply stats and natural selection.

Its not out on the road much. Very hard to steer and I take it slow so mostly winter fun unless its on my car hauler. Good news is it can drive any where in this flat county.

First truck - add rust and a black flat bed. The engine is actually still going at 300K+ in an 89 4x4. http://s3.amazonaws.com/picable/2006/11/07/8450_Pimp-My-1986-Toyota-Pickup-Truck_620.jpg Second truck - still in my yard used it tonight, fun times. http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f185/EWhytsell/IMG_1683.jpg

We got a few inches. My offroader got to play a little pulling people out of snow drifts up my way.

I own one IS lens and don't use it. been meaning to sell it, but I'm to busy 28-135 F3.5-5.6 IS. I'm a pro though so I understand the relationship between shutter/focal length, subject movement, etc and can work around not having IS. By pro I'm not meaning "elitist attitude" I've simply shot tens of thousands of photos with my gear and know it well and shoot for pay. For everyone else IS can help, but the point of owning a DSLR camera with all those settings is learning to use them so that you can get great shots. If your the shaky hands type of person get IS though for sure. IS is great in situations, but to me in weddings I'm dealing with low light + moving people so it doesn't really help. Thats where strobes come in handy.

If it makes you feel any better about harbor freight, they have a warranty. I've even used the warranty on other power tools there and it works perfectly. Just return to store for a new one. (hehe even obviously misused drills)

I have a harbor freight one that I got on sale for $40. Its big enough for shade tree work, but I wouldn't use it for jobs. Pretty loud too, but it gets the job done and even though I've read reports of them exploding I've left mine cycling on/off due to forgetting about it for weeks at a time and have had good luck.

I wasn't going to argue over the 28-300L vs 70-200L, but since its still going I guess I'll say that I've never really noticed the 28-300 while nearly every photog in the business owns a 70-200 even if they don't take it out much because they shoot primes. I'm sure if the 28-300 was even equal to a 70-200 in IQ that everyone would have one of those instead. I know I would so there's likely some type of problem with it such as heavy vignetting, CA, or something else. Especially with that wide of a focal range. That single lens would basically make my main kit obsolete (16-35LmkII, 24-70L, 50, 70-200L.) Each of those lenses has a purpose and can't be replaced by a single lens at this time. I also wouldn't need to carry a 5DmkII and a 40D around with me at the weddings (stuff gets heavy you know.)

Tough call, if your goal is to pay off all debt I'd almost pay off the car and put money towards CC until its paid which will be much faster now. Can do it in reverse order if you want doesn't really matter as long as you can stick to your goal. I'm just thinking adding 450 to a CC payment is much better than adding 250 to a car payment. Besides the next step after paying off the car for me would be getting another CC with 0 percent balance transfers and paying off the old card with that. Then put your $700 per month total (old car payment + cc payment) towards the new 0 percent CC and your set.

American won't even switch over the metric. Good luck with how we measure time. My wife never understood math, but when I showed her how simple metric is she "gets it." And then wondered why we don't use it. No wonder americans don't look good against a lot of countries test scores. We aren't even studying the same techniques.

Get a tripod sometime and play with long exposure photos. Those are always fun and cbus skyline can provide a nice subject. Also you might read the book "understanding exposure" You can find it in pdf online but its also very cheap through amazon and a must read for any hobbiest.

He said he has the 75-300mm lens or I'd sell him mine cheap. I haven't used it for years since I got the 70-200 to replace it. Its a zoom and thats it, there's nothing nice about it, slow to focus and very cheaply made (plastic everything). Well I guess there is one nice thing, it weighs nothing, but to me thats a drawback.

I wanna move on to pelosi. I hate her because she said, "lets just pass it, then we'll find out what's in it." Oh and she is a democrat and sucks eggs;-)

yeah my nifty 50 is hit or miss with focus also. Great lens for 80 bucks though.

There's the F4.0 version. Its way better than what you have now, but still not good for low light.

Maybe he should take his kid from the POS and make her pay for support.

Mid West Photo down in clintonville sells this http://www.mpex.com/browse.cfm/4,4004.html Might be worth a look through it. Though a used 70-200 F2.8 non-IS is about the same price now so myself I'd go with it.

This one would be perfect http://www.adorama.com/US%20%20%20%20413090.html The company thats selling it "Adorama" Is a great place to buy from on the net. Really fast service and they are the huge local guys in NYC.

I'd get the 70-200 F2.8 ( lower number = better low light for you) Either the non- IS or IS version (Image stabilized) There's about a $600-700 difference in price. I have the non-IS due to being cheap and it works for me, but it will take more learning to use it. The IS version is sweet and has a horizontal panning mode to allow for tracking sports action fairly easily. They recently came out with a mk2 version so the older one is going cheap used right now. Also you can buy the brand Sigma, but buy it from a store so you can test it first. They aren't quality controlled as well as Canon so you can get a dud.