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Welcome back!A few months ago I got a good deal on a new camera and several accessories. One of the things included in the sale price that I’ve since had second thoughts about is a camera bag. It’s a nice one, with a shoulder strap and all the compartments one could hope for. The one […]

Does anyone remember when a camcorder was a big, bulky thing that rested on your shoulder and seemed to weigh about as much as a Volkswagon Bug after recording about an hour of video? The camcorders for sale today look more like over sized credit cards and don’t seem to be much heaver than a […]

I was reading one of the mailing lists that I subscribe to and saw someone talking about a website called the3dstudio.com where it’s easy to get started selling stock photos. A stock photo is a photo that is available for download at a given price and, once someone pays the price, they can use the […]

I recalled reading something not terribly long ago which suggested that if you could take a telephoto lens and attach it to the camera backwards it would make a great Macro lens - good for close-up shots. Today I tried it.
I have a 3X teleconverter lens that fits onto my Canon Powershot G2. It’s not […]

I got some more email from those guys with the photo “contest”. The email I got about my flower picture
in case you missed it, here it is.
The latest email from these people about this picture says

Dear Thriell,
Not long ago, our Editors reviewed the thousands of submissions entered in our International Open Amateur […]