I read the auction description over and over again, and nowhere did I
see mention of the fact that you had the damned thing in a swimming
pool, and damned near electrocuted you and everyone else in the pool
with your flash.
Hmm, my memory is getting hazy, verry hzzy, it could well have
David A. Mann wrote:
...
I am also quite fond of Provia 400F. From the couple of rolls I tried
out once, It has a nice palette.
...
I find the price of this film simply outrageous. Here in Italy is about
10 Euro/USD (eh,eh) and 100F 105 Euros a 30' reel while the roll is
around 6-6,50.
To Rob 1 (Brigham):
I don't plan to discard the 190.
Of course not estending the center post is mandatory if you want to get
the best results but, replying to Rob 2 (Studdert), the problem of using
the plastic base is the inability to slightly adjust the camera height.
When I have time I'll
David A. Mann wrote:
...
Are they adjustable like the older lock mechanism? My older 055 legs
just require the right size socket (3/8? I forget). In fact it came
with a worthless plastic tool for this purpose that broke the first
time I tried to use it.
...
Yes, they should be
There is one feature about 100F that may not be too well known. It's
exposure range is 1/4000 - 128 seconds WITHOUT any exposure compensation.
The feature of some tungsten film in a daylight emulsion - truly fantastic.
In addition, it is lower contrast with a wider latitude which makes it
I have only shot the sample roll of 400f that
Aaron gave us earlier this year but i liked
what i saw.
Price is a bit of a factor though.Something
like $18.00 Can in these parts.
At least proccess is only $6.00
Dave
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On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:06:06 -0400
Doug Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Scanning at 4000 dpi with 48-bit color, the output images are about
135MB if you don't crop down to just the frame boundaries, and about
125MB if you do. Scanning an entire six-frame negative strip at 500 dpi
and
Had a hance to quickly look at this months
pug.Again some very nice submissions.
I notice a few IR entries this month,all look
very neat,but seem to have less pixelation than
my scan.
May i enquire how ya all are setting up the
scan??
I did it from the print,and played with the
settings in
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I dont see the point. What windows image applications can handle 42 bit
color?
Kind regards
Kevin Waterson
Photoshop. that's the only one that matters for most people. the scanner
driver will convert to 48-bit color.
Herb
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If I didn't already have that lens I'd buy it.
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This one's for UK eBayers only, and *I'm sure* UK
eBayers won't mind me
mentioning it...
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1363562179
I just bought an EOS version of the Pro II ;-)
Seek on the web and ye shall find...
A good resource: http://www.robotstxt.org/
And the rather dry RFC: http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.html
t
On 7/1/02 10:08 AM, Steve Desjardins wrote:
I'm not familiar with this robots.txt thing. What does it do and what
kind of
At 12:58 PM 7/1/02 -0400, you wrote:
Mike Nosal wrote:
My photo lab has a sign up warning customers that they've experienced
problems with APS film being fogged by X-ray security machines, but not
other film types. I'll ask them for more info next time I'm there.
Could it have something
Hallo Bill!
The front element of a 50 mm f/1.4 lens has bigger diameter than a 50 mm
f/4 lens. (Am I correct?) Therefore the preliminary amount of light energy
reaching an imaginary plane or film behind the lens per unit time per unit
area is more than a 50 mm f/4 lens as it has a smaller
Hi Timothy.
I also used the 4x6 print,Epson manual mode so
i could do the dpi etc adjusting.
I started out with high dpi and when i adjusted
in PS6 to 600x400 it would make the print size
about 1x1.5 which i thought would come out to
small on the PUG.I played with the source and
destionation
Hallo Yves!
Just a few minutes ago, I replied to Bill.
You are absolutely right in your point. I know that quite well. The
f-number is defined as the ratio of focal length to the diameter of the
aperture (Am I correct?). But I am talking about the preliminary intensity
of light reaching the
Thanks Wendy.I really like your March Road shot.
The main problem i was having was when i
resized from a large dpi scan,300 or 600 dpi,
in PS6(to the pug size of 600x400 and 75 k)the
picture size was reduced to less than an inch
by abit bigger than an inch.
Am i missing something with the
Thanks. I guess I just don't keep up with these things.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/01/02 01:20PM
Seek on the web and ye shall find...
A good resource: http://www.robotstxt.org/
And the rather dry RFC:
http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.html
t
On 7/1/02 10:08 AM, Steve Desjardins
In a message dated 01/07/02 18:34:38 GMT Daylight Time, Frank writes:
You little tease!! g
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A little box arrived from Japan today.
I will explain later
Well, now is later I've had time to code it all up, sort into orders
stock etc.
A couple of 31mm
I'll try to comment on other favourites later, but I'll take time now to
comment on my absolute favourite for the month, which is:
Angels in America by Richard Seaman
I love the way you panned with the left-to-right plane, keeping that
sharp, while the other jet is a bit blurry, giving the
Hi David,
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:37:47 -0400, David Brooks wrote:
Thanks Wendy.I really like your March Road shot.
The main problem i was having was when i
resized from a large dpi scan,300 or 600 dpi,
in PS6(to the pug size of 600x400 and 75 k)the
picture size was reduced to less than an
Bob wrote:
There is one feature about 100F that may not be too well known. It's
exposure range is 1/4000 - 128 seconds WITHOUT any exposure compensation.
The feature of some tungsten film in a daylight emulsion - truly fantastic.
REPLY:
Well, I don't think it's particularly fantastic
Dave wrote:
What's the color like compared to Velvia which is ISO 50 ?
It seems that people are either Velvia lovers or Velvia haters - I don't
mind the film but if the colors on the Provia 100 are a little more subtle,
it may be the film for me when it comes to chromes.
REPLY:
Provia F may be
William wrote:
Shooting in the morning sun the past two days revealed no difficulty focusing a f5.6
or f8 (with a Kenko 1.5X TC), and I do plan on getting the Pentax
1.4X-L TC for the superior compatability, but I wonder about a 2X TC, going to F11.
Will I need a searchlight to focus in
In a message dated 7/1/2002 1:07:02 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Close second goes to:
After the Fall by E.N.R. Reed
A beautifully poignant moment showing the bond between a father and his
son. I do kind of wish the father's face were a bit brighter, but of
the
At 23:11 1/7/02 +0530, you wrote:
Hi again!
You probably sent this mail before receiving my previous answer: I hope this will
clarify it anyway.
The front element of a 50 mm f/1.4 lens has bigger diameter than a 50 mm
f/4 lens. (Am I correct?)
Yes
Therefore the preliminary amount of light
Hi!
I'm on holiday and so i'll go to the seaside for some time!
ciao
Laura
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I'll try to comment on other favourites later, but I'll
take time now to
comment on my absolute favourite for the month, which is:
Angels in America by Richard Seaman
Yeah,
http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html
is the redirected link
James
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Oh, the seaside. You make it sound very romantic.
When I go on my holidays, it's to the lakefront. No appeal to it.
Jeff
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Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 2:50 PM
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Hi!
I had planned to go for a weeks camping to Vernon, BC with my family today,
but I'm down with bronchial pneumonia.
It might be fun, no fighting kids, just peace and quiet. Won't get out much
with my camera, but I still hope to get some BW photos done to submit to
the August PUG.
I am thinking
Hi Yves!
Your explanation is absolutely clear to me. So, it is the diaphragm which
blocks of the extra amount of light collected by lenses with bigger front
element.
Yeah! I liked the pinch of salt.
I am very much thankful to you and Bill.
Now, I am in a position to arrive at the second
Does anyone have a personal, and, hopefully, recent experience with John
(please limit it to fixing cameras :=)?
Regards,
Alex
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Ayash Kanto Mukherjee wrote:
You are absolutely right in your point. I know that quite well. The
f-number is defined as the ratio of focal length to the diameter of the
aperture (Am I correct?).
Yep - so the light-gathering of the bigger front element will
get funneled down
David Brooks wrote:
Am i missing something with the size of file vs
the constrants in image resize???
drop the dpi down to 100 (any more is wasted the web)
when you resize to 400x600. This will spread things out
so the image doesn't shrink.
Bill
Go to:
http://www.outertech.com/news.php?news=23PHPSESSID=93ff98990fdc63e637e6e639146f26b5
Download and install the cachemanager, it will resolve the 512MB
limitation for WindowsME and the like, will likely improve the
stability of your system, and increase the speed of many tasks, like
On Monday 01 July 2002 03:06, Doug Franklin wrote:
Make sure you've got at least 256MB of RAM in your system or you're
going to do a lot of waiting. I'm maxed out at 512MB and it helps
when you've got more than one image in memory, like batch scanning.
1GB is not too much if you want to
On Monday 01 July 2002 14:25, Doug Franklin wrote:
I haven't used the strong setting on FARE, but I've been very happy
with the results of the normal setting. I just wish Vuescan could
deal with the scratch removal.
I thought Vuescan does support this, but then again I don't have this
My photo lab has a sign up warning customers that they've experienced
problems with APS film being fogged by X-ray security machines, but not
other film types. I'll ask them for more info next time I'm there.
Could it have something to do with the magnetic layer on APS films?
Not likely.
I have flown in and out of SFO numerous times with unexposed and exposed
film, including after the 9/11. The last time was in March, and I carried a
bunch of Kodak Portra 400NC. I had no fogging problems at all. I'm pretty
sure that as recently as March the SFO security gates were still
hes being doing my spotmatics for years with
great results.
jco
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alex
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 4:28 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: JOHN TITTERINGTON
Does anyone have a personal, and,
I just finished viewing the entries in the July PUG. What a truely great
collection of photographs!
The PUG is usually excellent, but I think this month is well above average,
with many great shots. Quite a humbling experience!
My favorite is Angels in America, by Richard Seaman. I have
My advice is to forget using a 2X converter with a 600mm lens.
Well, yes and no, Paal...
One thing is that no lens will give good result with a 2X
converter (in spite of what some people claim, no good 2X
converter has ever been made - you get visible image degradation
with all 2X
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From: Bill Owens
Subject: Re: Carry-on inspection of film -- and an unfortunate
incident
My photo lab has a sign up warning customers that they've
experienced
problems with APS film being fogged by X-ray security
machines, but not
other film types. I'll ask
I bought a slide scanner about 2 weeks ago and have just updated my web
site with some newly scanned images. The new images are under the
Birds gallery. The other gallery pages still have the old images and
will be updated in the near future.
--
David S.
Nature and wildlife photography
Getting a bit closer now - a week on Saturday!
If you're anywhere near Cambridge, England, on Saturday July 13th, come
along to the Flying Legends Airshow at Duxford. Details below.
I've put a little update on the web site, nothing much. Hope to have a
big update within a week.
Hi,
Suppose I have a 300
mm f/5.6 lens. What film speed should I use in order to stop the action as
well as attaining good depth of focus (say, 4 m) in an artificially
illuminated stadium?
If your subject is 2m in height then to fill the frame using a 300mm
lens you must be 17m away. To
On 1 Jul 2002 at 9:49, Peifer, William [OCDUS] wrote:
These funny screws are used on lots of different Pentax cameras, and I've
found an easy way to remove them I thought I'd share with anyone interested. I
take a paperclip, then bend it so that both ends are straight, parallel, and
spaced
That does bring up an interesting point about the 120/220, though: Nothing
to shield it. What have people's experiences been with that getting scanned
at airports?
t
On 7/1/02 3:08 PM, William Robb wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Bill Owens
Subject: Re: Carry-on inspection of
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 21:44:00 +0100, Frits J. Wthrich wrote:
Go to:
http://www.outertech.com/news.php?news=23PHPSESSID=93ff98990fdc63e637e6e639146f26b5
On my machine, Cache Manager made _everything_ worse. Every program I
use would randomly crash with out of memory errors. It really blew
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 21:44:00 +0100, Frits J. Wthrich wrote:
Go to:
http://www.outertech.com/news.php?news=23PHPSESSID=93ff98990fdc63e637e6e639146f26b5
On my machine, Cache Manager made _everything_ worse. Every program I
use would randomly crash with out of memory errors. It really blew
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 22:24:50 +0100, Frits J. Wthrich wrote:
I thought Vuescan does support [FARE], but then again I don't have this
scanner.
It claims to, and it will let you select scratch removal from the
menus, and it even does the IR pass of the image ... then it craps up
the image ...
Could I please have his contact info ?
J. C. O'Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hes being doing my spotmatics for years
with
great results.
jco
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alex
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 4:28 PM
To:
On 1 Jul 2002 at 12:58, Peifer, William [OCDUS] wrote:
Mike Nosal wrote:
My photo lab has a sign up warning customers that they've experienced
problems with APS film being fogged by X-ray security machines, but not
other film types. I'll ask them for more info next time I'm there.
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 21:50:59 +0100, Frits J. Wthrich wrote:
Well, with Vuescan, available from http://www.hamrick.com you can do
batch scanning without using Photoshop or another program,
But VueScan won't do FARE (IR Scratch Removal). Plus, I couldn't get
anything that looked good ...
Sure. It is, out of places, there:
http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/cameras/pentax_repair_shops.html
Alex
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Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 6:11 PM
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Subject: RE: JOHN
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From: Sid Barras [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 9:13 AM
Subject: Any optical engineers w/zone VI spot meters know this?
Hi Sid;
Sorry to take so long to respond. I aimed my Zone VI modified
Pentax Digital Spotmeter, and chose a
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Fred
or see if I can get by with nothing at all between 55 and 135mm
(to simplify my life)
No, Paul, that just won't work.
Forget about it.
Don't even think about it.
Fred
He *said*
I would recommend MX or ME Super with SMC PENTAX-A 35-105/3.5. The
viewfinder of Super A/Program is relatively dim and small.
regards,
Alan Chan
My friend who is new to photography has decided to go manual focus for now.
She wears glasses and doesn't like the viewfinders of the ZX-50, ZX-30,
85mm is the perfect bridge between 50 and 135.
YOU MUST buy a 85mm lens...
jco
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Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 11:02 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: FS: Kiron 105/2.8 PK 1:1 macro lens, $149
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1363495334
anyone interested its going for about $220 US
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But the picture looks more like PZ-10.
regards,
Alan Chan
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Hello all...
I'm semi-seriously shopping around for a photo backpack; the recent thread
on this topic was very informative. I had narrowed it down to a Micro
Trekker 200 or an Orion, but during my research, I noticed LowePro has a new
pack coming out that appears to be waterproof: the Dryzone
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From: Robert Woerner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My friend who is new to photography has decided to go manual focus for
now.
She wears glasses and doesn't like the viewfinders of the ZX-50, ZX-30,
ZX-L, and ZX5n. Her budget doesn't permit her to go with an MZ-S or pro
body
Looks like a PZ-20 to me, but I can be wrong...
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of wayne master of
jelly
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 11:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FA: PZ-1 on ebay
In a message dated 7/1/2002 10:27:37 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
anyone interested its going for about $220 US
and Alan Chan commented, But the picture looks more like PZ-10.
The description sounds more like a PZ-1p -- fewer Pentax functions and the
built-in flash
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85mm is the perfect bridge between 50 and 135.
YOU MUST buy a 85mm lens...
jco
And then. a 105 K and perhaps a 120 K. The bridge will get stronger.
Bob
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob Rapp
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 11:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FS: Kiron 105/2.8 PK 1:1 macro lens, $149
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From: J. C. O'Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi!
I think that 28-135 mm f/4 is the best option because of the range focal
length one gets and also the maximum aperture do not change when the lens
is zoomed in. This is great advantage. Why? Because, this
lens can be used with automatic flash units because one can set the
aperture
On Behalf Of Fred
or see if I can get by with nothing at all between 55 and 135mm
(to simplify my life)
No, Paul, that just won't work.
Forget about it.
Don't even think about it.
Fred
He *said* don't think about it.
??? (~I~ said Don't even think about it, Tom - I'm not
85mm is the perfect bridge between 50 and 135. YOU MUST buy a 85mm
lens...
Absolutely. And, you never can have too many 85mm lenses...
...even if you also have a few 100-ish macro lenses... ;-)
Fred
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Hi!
I understand your point quite well now. I liked the term funneled down
that you used in your explanation.
Many thanks, Bill.
With best regards,
Ayash.
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Bill D. Casselberry wrote:
Ayash Kanto Mukherjee wrote:
You are absolutely right in your point. I know that
or see if I can get by with nothing at all between
55 and 135mm (to simplify my life)
the best fill-in between a 50mm and a 135mm is a 6x7 with
the 135mm macro, the 150mm f2.8 and the 200mm f4
!8^DBill
right, the one Cotty is selling -- although i am nost sure one can get
a mortgage for this
vbg
mishka
From: J. C. O'Connell
Subject: RE: FS: Kiron 105/2.8 PK 1:1 macro lens, $149
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 19:49:10 -0700
85mm is the perfect bridge between 50 and 135.
YOU MUST
I have a PKA Vivitar version of this lens -- it is fantastic and is
worth every penny. If anyone is looking for 1:1 a macro lens -- this is
the one. The only downside is the wrong direction of focusing (don't
know about Kiron though).
No, I don't expect comissions on this sale :)
Mishka
Sign up
Hi!
It is quite an informative email. I never knew the details of the lighting
in a stadium until I recieved your mail.
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Bob Walkden wrote:
Hi,
According to Michael Freeman in his book Light all stadiums that have
TV coverage use multi-vapour lamps, because these
JCO wrote:
But the missing link is between the 50 and the 85mm,
there is no 65mm lens! :(
Again - that's where the 6x7 and the 135mm macro fit in
!8^D Bill
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Bill D. Casselberry ;
Hi Joe!
So, you mean that professional photographer are shooting all the time at
f/2.8 and hence they possess those lenses becuase they really need that
aperture
only.
Yes, you are right that a monopod will make the life much easier under
such situation.
Many thanks for your helpful
I have a Gossen Luna Pro SBC and am thinking about finding a Multibeam spot meter
attachment for it. Has anyone used one of these? Does it work well enough that you
could recommend buying one over buying a separate spotmeter for travel use? Obviously
size and weight are a consideration.
Hi Giafranco!
I visited the websites that you have mentioned and can understand the
position from where you took the shot. I was suspecting from the beginning
that it should be some sort of hilltop because the skycrappers in your
photograph look small but I never knew that there is castle
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But the missing link is between the 50 and the 85mm, there is
no 65mm lens! :(
JCO
55 f1.8 or someone else's 58?
Bob
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So back to reality; what do you think of the Multibeam?
New! SBC Yahoo! Dial - 1st Month Free unlimited access
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I HAD to have a spot attachment for my old Luna Pro... Just had to! Then my
first spotmeter soon followed after. I
But the missing link is between the 50 and the 85mm, there
is
no 65mm lens! :(
Doesn't Nikon make a 65mm macro?
I have a 65mm Angulon...
William Robb
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From: Fred
Subject: Re: FS: Kiron 105/2.8 PK 1:1 macro lens, $149
Absolutely. And, you never can have too many 85mm lenses...
But more than one 77mm is overkill.
William Robb
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On 1 Jul 2002 at 20:37, Timothy Sherburne wrote:
For my purposes, this would be perfect. Right now, I use a wet/dry bag
around a camera bag while canoeing. While it keeps my gear dry, It's not
ideal for accessing my gear. Pelican cases are another option, but I think
I'd look ridiculous
On 1 Jul 2002 at 23:27, William Robb wrote:
Doesn't Nikon make a 65mm macro?
I have a 65mm Angulon...
I had a CZ 65mm macro, nice bit of gear went to 1:1 without tubes :-)
Also soon to have a 65mm for my Mamiya (blasphemer I know :-)
Cheers,
Rob Studdert
HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA
Tel
Bob Rapp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At the end of the day, it was an expensive attachment
that I had to have and it provided no useful help at all.
Bummer...
What specifically made you dislike it so much that you bought a proper spotmeter
instead?
Marcus
New! SBC Yahoo! Dial - 1st Month
At 20:37 1.7.2002 -0700, Tim wrote:
I'm semi-seriously shopping around for a photo backpack; the recent thread
on this topic was very informative. I had narrowed it down to a Micro
Trekker 200 or an Orion, but during my research, I noticed LowePro has a new
pack coming out that appears to be
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