crappyjones123

nex 5 it is then. thanks for the help everyone. just picked up a bnib from fredmiranda.com for $40 less than amazon/bhphoto/ebay. should be here next week. fun

Was reading some more and found that the nex 5 doesnt have in body in body image stabilization. There are some is lenses though. My hands do shake a lot which is not a terrible bad problem for very short exposure times but it gets worse very fast. It would be a reasonable assumption that buying non is lenses as great as they might be wouldn't be terribly smart. I sort of just took the is of the s95 for granted and never tried to shoot without it to see what differences I got. Would it be better to just stick to something that does in body is or just go with this? Are the 18-55 and the voightlander lens you suggested Dan fairly close? Could I get away with the pancake and that lens from eBay? If I am walking around with 3 lenses I might as well just get a Dslr as it will probably take as much space. This stuff is so much worse than headphones. Infinitely more options. With adapters this shit gets even crazier.

Thanks dan, kd. So nex 5 with the kit 18-55 then? I dont think I can stomach a $2k lens right now. There are one or two used nex5s floating around. Would it be cheaper to buy just the body used and then get the lenses elsewhere? Or should I just spring for the kit? How is the culture like on fredmiranda.com for newbies? I sent very polite emails to a few people but no response.

heh. that lens alone costs more than my whole budget. might look into it seriously if this nex5 really is the cats shit.

bleh this is driving me nuts. heading to ireland at the end of the summer. wanted something nicer than the s95 for the trip. as of right now im considering panasonic gf2, gh2 and sony nex5 with some sort of wide angle lens. id like to buy this sooner than later so i have time to play with the camera and figure things out before i leave. suggestions? budget is ~$1300 +/- a little (little being subjective ) but thats for both body + lens. used would obviously be preferred.

God damn Laxx. I usually don't like ink but that's a very well done tattoo. Take picture once the inflammation is gone.

That I don't get.

I was trying to act smart. Stop stealing my thunder

Least common denominator.

Like how to fucking add fractions in a calculus course. Learn that shit in 2nd grade you dumasses

Dude how can one misspell "Chris" 6 or 7 times I forgot of your connections to those in the legal profession.

Our entire families' paperwork was meticulously done by my mom. She said if you spend time with the paperwork you will save time later. The test itself is cake. I looked over the book on thd way to the test. You should have no trouble chris. That said good luck.

happy bday sir.

Summoning the anti Christ?

"it's not gambling when you know you are going to win," said my friend just before he won with 3 9 offsuit. Everyone at the table got pissy lol.

i did that last year. didnt go to any of the talks. spent the entire weekend with another grad student playing poker. first night i lost $1700 and he wont $800. second night i made $2300 and he lost $1500. third night we both made ~$2000 each. excellent trip overall just before we were about to leave, on a whim, we both put $100 each on black and lost our money but still came out on top. the flight and the stay was paid for so a good time it was. on the way back we both laughed to ourselves that i had just made the same amount of money in about 20 hours that i normally take a month to make as a grad student.

malwarebytes found nothing.

Will run malware bites when I get to school. Forgot to mention that my laptop was turned off last night when emails were supposedly sent out.

Wtf. I changed my password to a 17 character behemoth. All my contacts got another set of emails last night. Keylogger then? Dan how would the spambot get my contact list without the password? Or are there ways?

unless the bot knew the windows 98 license key to my computer in india, i doubt it would have been able to get access to it. i dont have any written record of it anywhere.

hard drive farm is at school. at home i just have a 3mbit line which would render the whole thing useless. i didnt not know that dusty (about the contact being compromised). i just find it very strange that i had no problems whatsoever and then the one night i take the laptop home this happens. no evidence other than what i posted earlier. if someone guessed my password then they deserve to be in my interwebs. if a machine did it then whatever. it was a 14 character random sequence of numbers and letters and 2 special symbols.

Strange thing is my thinkpad hadnt been home in over 2 months. And I had no problems. My mom came back from India and the very next day got locked out of her emails. I took my laptop home last night for the first time in months and my email got jacked. My laptop at least everything is updated daily so I don't think that's the issue. The only thing that changed for my machine was that I took it home. Before then there were no problems. I want to think it's the wireless but I dont know enough to be certain of it.

we have a dsl line with at&t at home and a wrt300n linksys wireless router. the password to get admin access to the router settings is pretty strong. up until now i had been using wpa2 personal encryption and the password was ok. not terribly strong. about a week ago both my moms emails accounts were compromised and i reset the router settings and changed the ssid and all router associated passwords. last night both my gmail accounts were hacked and random emails were sent to some of my contacts. i tried find the last few used ip's from gmail but they all were from a few hours ago and only showed my office or home ip addresses. is it possible to remotely (not within range of the wireless router) access the wireless router and fuck with the home network? what do i do at this stage? get a new router (seems like whoever is getting access to my network right now could just as well do the same with a new router...) or change the password more frequently? suggestions for other things i could do to prevent such intrusions in the future? all home machines have symantec suites installed on them. i use nod 32 on my thinkpad.

Happy bday sir.

kick ass ollie. and chew gum. or is it the other way round?