(November 30, 2010 at 8:45 pm)Abraham3 Wrote: I see you're still shooting. Looks good. What's a SkyStacker?
I don't know if you've heard yet, but Insight is closing its doors to non-Insight customers at midnight tonight. So you finally got me over here. But I need someone to debate. Can I bring Mishka over?
Just kidding. Pics look good. My wife and I were both SLR users for many years until walking around Disneyworld just made it too bulky and we picked up a little Olympus point-and-shoot (this is in the film days). When digitals came out we couldn't afford DSLRs and we've been slowly moving up through the nicer pseudo-SLRs (currently a Fuji S-5200). But we swore to ourselves that our next camera would be a DSLR. I looked around and decided the Canon T2i was the one we needed but it's a little pricey for us and the bundled lens (18-55mm) is crap. We're considering now just getting the Canon for ourselves without any other presents between us. Still a bit high. Maybe. If you were starting over would you consider the T2i?
Hi Abe. Please, whatever you do, don't let the assholes over there know about this place. I have the T1i (it is modified for astronomy work), and I have been very happy with it. I have also heard good things about the T2i. I agree that although the lens that comes with it is very functional, the optics sucks. I've proven that to myself when attempting some widefield astrophotos. Very poor optics, IMHO. But for general photography, it is fair, but not great. Good lenses are at a premium right now. Exceptional lenses are hard to come by.
As for debaters, I think you will find plenty to debate over here. Houston told me what Insight was doing. I'm not surprised. I left for different reasons, since I am actually an Insight customer. I think you know why. Anyway, great to hear from you. I hope you hang around a while.
Folks, Abe is a great guy. You're gonna really like him.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
