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Cool, just laying off the unsharp mask so every photo doesn't have nasty halos and picking shots with enough resolution, or at least in focus, for the big prints would be an improvement for those of us that just leaf through before thowing it out.

I was at Sandals Negril a couple months ago. The airport traffic went right over the hotel. It would be a very visible location from several of the hotels - built-in marketing. The beach right around there is very narrow and crowded. I'd hate to plow into a ganja peddler at 60MPH. I guess you have a good spot picked out, I just didn't see much. I would have jumped while I was there - at least until cocktail time at 10AM. Sounds cool have fun.

Leaving in the morning. After 10 hours of driving though heavy rain and flood warnings should have that first beer gone before Dayton.

$3300 - eek. http://www.dpreview.com/articles/canoneos5d/

I went about 500 jumps without a visual altimeter.

I worked dubbing video last year after getting hurt. I did it for free to pass time between pain killers. It was cool since I got to watch all the 4-way video. I only did it one day since day 2 I washed my morning percocet down with a redbull and voldka and was in no condition to even perform simple tasks such like dubbing videos.

Ha, yeah, I've done the same thing. I never did find a speed ramp. Well, that was free or at least affordable.

3 fps for 16 RAW frames is fast when you consider the amount of data it would need to pump through the buffer - 50% more than the 1D MKII or 20D. The 1D MKII can only process 16 RAW frames also and the 20D a very limited 6. Hell, if fast is the main criterial get a 3 or a 1V and get up to 10 "raw" frames per second.

Its a rumor that is all over the dpreview forums. It looks credible but there is no real way of knowing until the end of the month to see if a 5D is released.

If this thing is real I'll be poor for Christmas. 5D Specs.

A couple notes on the manual lenses - Zenitars. On the 300D and Elan series they don't stop down meter very well. Sometimes mtering would be perfect sometime it was all f'ed up. I don't know about the 350D. Also - a 15mm or 16mm 180 degree fisheye does not equal 24 or 25.5mm on a crop factor camera. Rectilinear to fish-eye is not a direct correlation. The FOV is what is cropped - 180/1.6 = 112.5 degrees. This is around 19mm. Details: FOV

I've used a 300D with Sigma 20/1.8EX skydiving. Its a nice lens but big and heavy. It has nice color, contrast and resolution, I have a 20x30 in my living room shot with that lens with a film body. I thought it was a little too narrow on the digital for jumping and a bit too wide with film. Optically it was great but the autofocus was very slow and noisy. Also, I hated the push-pull clutch. I finally sold it for a Tamron 17-35/2.8-4. The Tamron is better built and even better optically but sacrifices a stop on the wide side.

Grab me at Orange this weekend I can show you a 1/2 dozen or so EF lenses. You can see what sort of thing you like. I recently sold my DSLR and kept the Elan 7NE film burner, I'm not a big fan of the rebels.

I'm planning on making the 9 hour drive. I haven't been there in 5 years now. Not much about what will be there for airlift, etc. The website, while flashy and noisy, doesn't have much detail.

Nothing wrong with a $450 FX. I haven't paid more than $600 for any of my last 4 canopies with a loading between 2:1 and 2.5:1. The last 105 Viper was the best 400 bucks I've spent and if I chop it in the woods I won't care that much.

I had an FX-83 @ 2.5+ loading for awhile. It opened nice without having to do anything special while packing. Not super slow but staged and comfortable. Full flight was steep and fast. It flattened out ok on risers but brakes worked better to float. Turn rate was fast on all control surfaces - harness turns where all that was needed for normal flight. It dove a lot but ran out of speed quick and the stall was shallow and brisk - all the points that indicated it was well overloaded.

I was happy to my knuckle-head puppy back. After a week of freedom he decided to turn himself in for 3 squares, AC and bedding. Except for being covered in ticks, a couple scrapes and a few pounds light he looked good. Thanks to everyone at CSS who helped look for him and watched him until I could drive down. Especially, Nancy, John and Dawn. Also, Sean who brought him in on a makeshift extension cord leash.

I have around 10 landing pictures. I only took a few and it was really low light. How would you want them - they are from 1.5 to 3.5MB each. I attached a couple small ones.

Here is a couple pictures of the little lost dog.

Cool, lots to do....but, but what about the skydiving. I'll be down tomorrow afternoon.

Congrats. It was just like being 16 for me - I solo-ed on my 16th birthday.

I use a Bauerfeind OmoTrain Shoulder Support.

I appreciate high quality shoes - my backpacking boots cost well over $200. Not sure that helps since all my other shoes are like 20 bucks, hair cuts are $14 and have no idea about thread count I got bored after I got to 3.

I use RAW for everything but skydiving and sports. It just takes too much time to write RAW for continuous drive shooting. For skydiving I always shoot JPG-fine. RAW holds up much better to post processing and tweaking - I use C1 PRO for RAW conversion and it allows for a lot of flexibility. Good shots get output to a 16-bit TIF then to Noise Ninja (if its high ISO shooting) and from there to Photoshop for sharpening, cropping.

The jetboil has a built-in coffee press and I get grumpy without coffee - that was enough reason for me right there. Plus, one fuel can lasts and lasts and lasts with the jetboil. I bought myself a Gregory Lassen this year - great pack. But its larger, a bit heavy and a top loader - exactly what you don't want.