Posts by Mike O'Connell

My wife and I both had a chance to use our new Nikon 5100 at our son's cross country meet this past weekend. Although we defintely have alot to learn using a DSLR, the camera was relatively easy to use with minimal reading of the users...

Quote:Originally Posted by Cees Alons Hope for you your wife will let you play with it occasionally!    Cees I could have some fun with that statement!

Quote:Originally Posted by Scott Merryfield Sounds good, Mike. The only thing I would be concerned about are those two UV filters for $20. They must be cheap filters for that price. Personally, I wouldn't put a low grade filter in...

Purchased the camera kit today and an additional lens - they were a gift for my wife and I hope she will let me use them....she is headed on a vacation with her sisters and I know whe will put it through its paces. I purchased the...

Did some camera shopping earlier this week and the most interesting thing that happened was at the local camera store "Crick Camera". They have been around for a long time, but I had not been there for probably 10 years. When I went...

Thanks for all the suggestions. Scott - by the way, I still use the "Heavenwood" I bought from you several years ago - I wish I would have bought the entire group.... Take care, Mike

I am interested in buying a DSLR. Both my wife and I used to use SLR camera's almost exclusively (20 years ago...), so we do have some older experience with SLR cameras. I had a Minolta X700 and my wife had a more manual Pentax (don't...

Congrats - I passed the PE in Civil Engineering back in 1991 and understand the sense of relief.   Good luck!   Mike

Just call him Jack "Wolverine" Bauer.Quote:Originally Posted by Adam Gregorich The electric shock help his cells regenerate healing the knife wound.  That should be obvious to you guys...  It was finally a...

 I bought our Broil King 13 years ago.  At that time it cost about $450.  In the 13 years I replaced the grates under warranty in about 3 years after it was purchased and have had the same grates for 10 years and they...