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raddevus wrote: PC stopped meaning "personal computer"
No, it didn't. "PC" still means "home computer", a computer the average Bob owns and uses for his personal computing needs. Some are more portable than others, but as time goes on, any distinctions will be lost, the same as "notebook" computers (remember them?) no longer be distinct from "laptop" computers.
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So after several years of not owning a camera other than what my phone has, I am taking the plunge and buying a new one. I used to be quite an avid (as opposed to good!) photog and had always had some sort of camera on hand from my first proper, grown-up camera (which I think was the Minolta-X-700 [^])
Anyway, I'm now firmly in the Canon camp and am going for the Canon 77D[^] as it suits my pocket and I have my FIL's old Nikon kit to px as he really has no use for it - an old Nikon F5[^] with some mis-matched lenses.
What I'd like to get as well is a 14mm prime for astro work but will have to wait as I'll only just make enough off the px to not make this painful 
Curious as to what kit others use; especially for astro work...
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Hope it's a nice camera. It is unlikely I'll ever spend that much on all cameras I ever own combined.
I do have a Canon, not sure what model, and am pleased with it.
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RyanDev wrote:
Thanks - by all accounts it is a decent enough camera, one step up from the Rebel range which are the entry level offerings. I would have liked a 5D - a little out of my price range!
RyanDev wrote: It is unlikely I'll ever spend that much on all cameras I ever own combined.
TBF, I could only do this because of the px camera; otherwise I either wouldn't have or may have considered second hand - ebay has plenty of decent models at a lesser than new price. It will live in my backpack like my other camera used to - get some great street image opportunities that way!
RyanDev wrote: I do have a Canon, not sure what model, and am pleased with it.
There are 3 types of camera owner - Canon, Nikon and anything else.
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I have a Canon 5D Mark II. I'm hesitant to link so that you all can berate me about my ludicrous fiduciary abuse.
I don't do much Astro work. I'm more landscape and wildlife (well, as wild as a Nuthatch could be). I have a 70-200 zoom I use for that stuff, and the bog-standard 24-105 for my walkabout lens. I do have a 50mm f/1.8 for my more artsy attempts.
I do have a 14mm prime for landscapes (not the f/2.8 though), but it's really soft around the edges, so I don't pull it out much.
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I've been using Pentax cameras (k200 and k5) for the last few years, mostly for the weather resistant body and lenses.
Pentax has a nice plug-in, the AstroTracer to help astro photography.
ASTROTRACER | GPS UNIT O-GPS1 | RICOH IMAGING
I'd rather be phishing!
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I used to buy new cameras on a regular basis, mainly when I was in Oz visiting my grandkids - they were cheaper there than the UK.
That is, until I purchased my current one, a Nikon Coolpix P520. It has 42X optical zoom, 4.3 - 180mm, a 1.3 - 5.9 aperture lens and full HD. It also has a full range of settings for even the most picky photographer.
For me, I just set it to one of the automatic setting and then point and shoot. I have never been disappointed with the resultant photos.
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What's the first rule of power tools, children?
Yep - disconnect from the mains before changing blades.
Rich didn't - we were cutting up an old sofa bed to fit it in the car and take it to the tip, and while I'm angle grinding away, he changes the blade on his grinder from ceramic to metal and catches the power button. Blood all over the place - but one trip to the local minor injuries unit later and he was seriously lucky. The tool swung round and caught him between two fingers, instead of the blade taking his finger off.
I knew we should have had a Health and Safety briefing before we started... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ouch!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Yikes !!!
Lessons learned.
I'd rather be phishing!
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That happened to my ex-BIL a few years back. Only he lost 3 fingers!
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Does he fit in the car better now? 
Marc
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My father (who turns 85 today) was full of helpful lessons like that as I was growing up.
Two come immediately to mind:
Telling my brother and I never to go into the basement barefoot, then proceeding to step on an up-turned metal funnel and having it remove a half-inch section of his slipper and cut his heel.
And having the circular saw cut its own cord.
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At least he wasn't barefoot. Imagine what sort of damage it could have done without the slipper.
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Glad it ended on a less than worst case scenario.
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So am I - I had visions of a bag of frozen peas and a very rapid drive to A&E...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Losing fingers is not the worst case scenario, but that too.
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If a dolphin was falsely arrested, would he apply for a writ of Habeus Porpoise?
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The SJWs would probably make a tuna protests.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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spouting blow hards, but they are good at chasing the sharks away.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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He would do it just for the halibut.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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and probably backflip on that
Sin tack
the any key okay
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She could probably issue some cetaceans, although the courts could be fin-icky about accepting them.
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I snout it.
Now, if we can only transfer their sonar ability to detect yer incoming jokes! 
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