Is anyone out there using Elements 6? It has a new feature that I am interested in evaluating for future purchase and since I cannot download a trial (I did it already months ago just for a day to help someone out.) I am hoping someone might have it on there notebook and could bring it to a session for a good look. Let me know if you have it or are interested. I would expect that PhotoshopCS etc. probably has all the same stuff but I am not interested in that kind of purchase so unless we know it is exactly the same it will not help me.

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How can you keep shooting in inclimate weather like rain or sandstorm? When I travel light, all I carry in my vest is a second lens, a couple batteries, an extra memory card, external flash and maybe a monopod. These items and my camera are well protected with an inexpensive poncho I picked up at Walmart. If the weather is not too bad, and would like to keep shooting, you can purchase a Camera Raincoat for around $20+ or more. However, here is what I use and it works well. Take a clear 1 gallon zip lock bag with you. Cut a hole in the bag slightly smaller than the end of your lens. Next, slide the camera into the bag stretching the hole over the end of the lens. It should stay fine but I secure it with a rubber band. You've just made an excellent Camera Raincoat for a fraction of the retail cost. Take a larger plastic bag with you if you need to protect more than just your camera.

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The one missing element of support for our Digital Photo group and the club in general is a place to get technical support for all the computer related junk that we aquire. Not only our computers but the external hard drives, slide scanners, speakers, projectors, etc. We do a good job when we need to by picking each others brains at meetings but we have nothing specifically dedicated to this topic that could easily be a club all by itself. Would anyone be interested in dedicated some of these threads to that purpose? If so let's talk about it and if we come up with some interest we could write up something for the web page or newsletter to let everyone else in on the idea and help them find this wiki.

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I recently purchased an Apple Touch. I do not consider it to be a photographer's tool or gadget but it does do some nice things for us if you own one. The display for a pocket device is crisp and fast. Looking at a photo on my Touch is more exciting than looking at many 4X6" prints. That is because it is bright and with a movement of fingers across the screen you can zoom in. Storage capacity is only 8 GB. You can buy them up to 32GB I believe but in the photo world that is not much. The only way right now to add or remove photos is to use a PC with Itunes software. This is not hard to do but it would be nice to have a flash drive of some sort built in so that images could be uploaded while in the field. The other most impressive aspect of this pocket device is that it is wifi and allows me to get on the Internet. It does this with ease using it's own Apple browser called Safari. Being a long time pc user it takes some getting use to using the "Apple way" to do things but it is a fun gadget to have.
If you were looking for a field device to transfer images from camera for viewing or just temporary storage, this is not it. If you want a quick and easy way to show someone some of your photos and to be able to check email or go online without lugging a notebook this might work for about $300. If you have other questions let me know.

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How about building a gps feature into our cameras so when we shoot an image it records along with other information the gps location. Then back at our computer we could label one photo and future images would get tagged with that same information. For example, I took a photo out at Sturbridge village. The gps data is recorded. When I upload that image into Photoshop Elements the gps info gives the photo a Sturbridge Village tag as well as a date tag. Next time I am looking for the image I can pull up all images from that date as well as those taken at Sturbridge Village and my image will be among them. Once a gps location is given a tag and a certain radius we could expect all future images taken within that radius to be given the same tag automatically.

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Just thought I'd post something to try it. Hope these comments don't stay here forever.
See my web page at http://webpages.charter.net/grafix7 with some new stuff posted a few days ago.

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How about starting a page at our Wiki of things people want to sell, swap or give away?

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