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Join award winning photographers James Shadle and Roman Kurywczak (aka The Odd Couple) as they team up to offer you a truly unique photographic workshop experience!

On February 26, 2011 James and Roman will present this exciting one day workshop in Tampa, Florida.

The day will be divided into 3 individual modules or mini-workshops.

Workshop Module 1: The first workshop of the day is a hands on macro class which ...

Originally Posted by James Shadle

You can do it - Stacked Converters.
I tried this just for the heck of it and I was blown away.

Nikon D700, Sigma 300-800mm @ 800mm.
Kenko Pro 300 DG 2x stacked with a Kenko Pro 300 DG 1.4X = 2240mm

ISO 800 1/320 @ F20, No VR -IS -VC -OS, just proper long lens technique.

Originally Posted by James Shadle

I did receive my D7000 from Hunt's on Friday (I think they have a few left;)).

This morning was the first crack at this new offering from Nikon.

A little history - I have owned and used the following Nikon digital cameras:
D100, D1X, D70, D70S, D2H(yuk), D2X, D200, D300 and D700. I have also used the following:
D40, D80, D3, D3S, D3X, D3000.

First I need to say WOW!

Here are my very first impressions both positive and negative. I've

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Originally Posted by James Shadle

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In the beginning.
To me it seems like forever , but it's only been three weeks since we launched the new Vbulletin 4.0.X. So far so good and I'm still tweaking and adding new features.

I thought I would take a couple of minutes off and give you some idea of what's been involved in upgrading to the new software. But first why did we upgrade and why does the new forum look different than the previous version.

Unfortunately, Vbulletin has not figured out how to allow ...