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To: zeta1961 who wrote (70)	5/28/2007 7:57:41 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 379

Must be a fine line between pumping the immune system up...and wearing it down. Seems each year the cold viruses take things up a notch. <poor bees who've had a rough year with that CCD> What is CCD? Speaking of skills on the digital camera... So I took my long lens and slapped it on my Maxxum 5D the other day to get some shots in the woods. I set the shutter for probably something like 1/500th, hand held. Needless to say every shot was garbage, seemingly unlit. I snagged some freeware editing software and started cranking up the brighness and such. Not a single thing worth keeping. From now on, I will have a tripod with me! It is pointless to try and hand hold anything if the light is questionable. I did get a nice hand held shot a couple months ago driving up to the ski area. A few good shots in amongst a couple dozen hand held snapshots of the snowy mountains and scud. If I get brave I will post my best shot over on the photo thread. Two of my favorite shots were done with an older crummy digital camera (the kind with no lens to speak of). All my best shots are lucky--the light is perfect and you just snap away and one in 20 turns out. Thank goodness for flash memory chips.