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Whiskeyman

Whiskeyman

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hark said:
My degree is in Music Education. General music was what I went for which allows me to teach vocal and/or instrumental from K-12. My local district didn't hire any music teachers for the 6 years that I was a substitute teacher so I wound up working for a health club instead. After having tennis elbow surgery 7 years ago, I haven't touched an instrument. Anything I do that causes the repetition of finger movements creates chronic tendonitis in my forearms.

I loved the baritone for brass, viola for strings, and vibraphone for percussion. And I already played flute/piccolo (and piano). Our sophomore year was the woodwind year. The entire first semester was devoted to clarinet. Let me just say it is quite different than the flute. ;) And so is the bassoon.

The college scoffed when I asked why they didn't teach the guitar. :beguiled: But I learned some of that on my own, and really enjoyed it, too.

Good luck to your kids. They say the brains of musicians develop differently than the brains of non-musicians. And the cerebellum supposedly is thicker which translates to a 5% higher IQ. :encouragement:
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Wow! That is amazing, and I had no idea that MusEd majors did all of that. It sounds as though you are also very talented, and I'm sorry to hear that you no longer play.

And you must have at least a 10% higher IQ: 5% for being a musician and 5% for shooting a Nikon! :D

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Whiskeyman said:
Wow! That is amazing, and I had no idea that MusEd majors did all of that. It sounds as though you are also very talented, and I'm sorry to hear that you no longer play.

And you must have at least a 10% higher IQ: 5% for being a musician and 5% for shooting a Nikon! :D

WM
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5% for shooting a Nikon. Ha ha! :encouragement:

MusEd major--that's exactly what we were called. ;)
 
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carguy

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Taking a family vacation soon and only plan to take the Coolpix A. I bought a new spare EN-EL20 Nikon battery and a SanDisk 64GB Class 10 ExtremePRO SDXC Memory Card.
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weebee

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External battery charger for my P900. For a camera with this price point. You would have thought one would be included.

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Whiskeyman

Whiskeyman

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richnmib said:
This,


Now I really need some one to talk me out of buying the Sigma 24-105 f4 ART lens...
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"Rich, You shouldn't purchase the Sigma 24-105 f4 ART lens. All it would do is sit on the front of a camera body and allow wonderful, rich light to pass through to your camera's sensor when you ask it to. After that, it would just sit on the front of the camera until you activated it again, then it would allow the same to happen to your camera sensor again. After a while, you'd go home and take those wonderful light captures from the camera and place them on your computer where you'd process them and then have beautiful photos to look at and share. Think of all the time you'd spend with the lens and how much time it would cost you after you use it, looking at photos!

No, don't buy it."


There, Rich, how's that? ;)

Wayne
 
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richnmib

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Whiskeyman said:
"Rich, You shouldn't purchase the Sigma 24-105 f4 ART lens. All it would do is sit on the front of a camera body and allow wonderful, rich light to pass through to your camera's sensor when you ask it to. After that, it would just sit on the front of the camera until you activated it again, then it would allow the same to happen to your camera sensor again. After a while, you'd go home and take those wonderful light captures from the camera and place them on your computer where you'd process them and then have beautiful photos to look at and share. Think of all the time you'd spend with the lens and how much time it would cost you after you use it, looking at photos!

No, don't buy it."


There, Rich, how's that? ;)

Wayne
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You are right Wayne, I should not buy it because if I do, I am going to have to buy a D750 to keep my Sigma 150-600 attached to at all times and keep the Sigma 24-105 attached to my D610!
 
Whiskeyman

Whiskeyman

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richnmib said:
You are right Wayne, I should not buy it because if I do, I am going to have to buy a D750 to keep my Sigma 150-600 attached to at all times and keep the Sigma 24-105 attached to my D610!
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Hey, Rich, I tried to talk you out of the Sigma 24-105 lens, but I won't try to talk you out of buying the D750!! :D

Wayne
 
canuck257

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I just ordered a 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR AF-S DX NIKKOR from Camera Canada who have it on sale. Now, the tough bit............................. waiting for delivery:sorrow:
 
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RobV

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canuck257 said:
I just ordered a 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR AF-S DX NIKKOR from Camera Canada who have it on sale. Now, the tough bit............................. waiting for delivery:sorrow:
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Congratulations! That looks like a wonderful alternative to any of the DX kit lenses.
 
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Chris E

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Just got Dell XPS 13 with the 3200x1800 touch screen, loaded out with windows 10, I7, and 16gb of RAM. This screen is crazy, you can't see the pixels. Time to start having fun with LR.
 
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Don Kuykendall_RIP

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hark said:
What one did you get?
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Nothing fancy. I got the iKross Professional Camera Protector Rain Cover. I feel confidant that the D750 is weather resistant BUT I still am not comfortable with it getting rained on. Getting this to keep in the case "Just in Case" I have had some of the disposable rain covers in the past and they are just to flimsy for me to be comfortable with.
 
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Fortkentdad

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Internet Upgrade
First a new ASUS RT-AC68U 1900 Dual Band Router
And then upgraded my internet service - upped my radio to a 5G unit (was 2.4) and upped my package from silver to gold for $20 more per month ($59-79) to go from 6 Mbps to 10 Mbps. For rural areas that's good. No high speed. This is roof top radio dish - often mistakenly referred to as satellite service, I suppose because the receiver looks like the TV satellite system which was also have. But it is line of site to a tower that sends us our signal.

I'd like to say it was to access Nikonites better - but the real motive was to video chat with the grandkids better. Remains to be seen if our investment will pay off.

I am getting close to the promised speed (actually hit 11.01 download on the tablet in a test - never got much more than 5.5 when I was on the 6 Mbps service.

Now to see if they live up to their name as an ISP = Internet Sometimes Provider. Not uncommon to lose service for a day or three.

BTW that blue USB Drive is an older USB2 300 GB Seagate - plugged into the router. It has about 43,000+ of my photos on it. That exercise really taught me that I need to work on my photo cataloguing and coding system. I need to tag and rate images. And store JPG's separately from Raws. Managing even 40,000+ photos is not that much fun.
 
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Don Kuykendall_RIP

RIP :(
Fortkentdad said:
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Internet Upgrade
First a new ASUS RT-AC68U 1900 Dual Band Router
And then upgraded my internet service - upped my radio to a 5G unit (was 2.4) and upped my package from silver to gold for $20 more per month ($59-79) to go from 6 Mbps to 10 Mbps. For rural areas that's good. No high speed. This is roof top radio dish - often mistakenly referred to as satellite service, I suppose because the receiver looks like the TV satellite system which was also have. But it is line of site to a tower that sends us our signal.

I'd like to say it was to access Nikonites better - but the real motive was to video chat with the grandkids better. Remains to be seen if our investment will pay off.

I am getting close to the promised speed (actually hit 11.01 download on the tablet in a test - never got much more than 5.5 when I was on the 6 Mbps service.

Now to see if they live up to their name as an ISP = Internet Sometimes Provider. Not uncommon to lose service for a day or three.
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I ungraded all my equipment recently since I could rarely get past 30mbs I am now a lot faster. 5572754223.png
 
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