what do you shoot with

hehehe we use a Mavica at work still- Had to "Special order" our new computers with Floppy drives just so we could use the camera

I use a Canon Powershot S2 IS. After using it for about a year, I'm undecided as to whether it was really what I would buy if I were to do it again. It takes fantastic macros (focuses up to touching the lense on "super macro" setting), nice telephotos (10X optical zoom, plus more with digital zoom), and the image stabilization feature and white balance setting feature are great.

But it sucks batteries like nothing else. It takes AA batteries, but rechargeable batteries can't be recharged with enough juice to last for more than a dozen or two photos. Quality alkalines (Everready or Duracell) are better, but when they no longer have enough juice to work the camera, they still register well into the "good" range in a battery tester. And the camera has so many features and functions that they remain mostly just confusing to me, even after a year of fairly heavy use (roughly 4,000 photos). When you want to change a standard setting, there are so many menus to choose from that I don't know where to begin. And the screen comes on with 20 or so icons that tell what settings are selected -- most of the icons make no common sense and are just baffling. So out comes the extensive manual for anything other than a point and shoot pic on auto setting. My old Olympus 510 had much fewer features, but they were much easier to figure out without having to get out the manual every time you wanted to change something.

So those are the pluses and minuses. But a big plus is the macro (which is why I bought it). You rarely need such detail, but it's kind of nice to have, just in case. Here's a pic of common table salt from our kitchen salt shaker, at closest macro focus plus cropping the image with the included software to zoom in as close as possible:

Well I too was hoping for gun talk but for pics i use the Sony Cybershot DSC-H1 5.1mp w/ 12x zoom. Takes great pics and mpeg movies but I need to get as tripod for it.

As for guns, my collection is up to 20 with my prize being my grandfathers 32 cal auto from WWII - before they switched to the 45 cal. Its not my most expensive one by far but its the only thing I have of his.

*LOL* All right, that cat is obviously a crazed Commie! Now we need a dog shooting back with a good ole American rifle!!!!!....mel

Thanks Lizard
I actually have that picture up for sale at istock, but nobody's buying. They seem to be more interested in another eagle picture I took and some plainer ones. But then again I may be talking too soon... I'm fairly new at istock.

I prefer the M4 Carbine but the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) gets the point across rather quickly. Oh you mean Camera? they dont seem to last long in the desert but I use a sony dsc-40 it works ok but not much more than a cheap point and shoot.

LOL, lizard as I was writing the above, that eagle picture got sold.
hmmmm... can we talk about all my other pictures? maybe the others will sell too

got a panasonic dmc-tz1.
need to get some rocks done so i can test the macro.