Prize-winning questions you'd love to hear....

[DonSchap]

Hey, Photo-gurus,

Does the EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 USM III lens weigh LESS when I have it set to the 75mm focal length? I have noticed that it definitely looks much shorter, at that point, than when it's zoomed out to 300mm.

Or, how about this one:

When I set off the electronic flash... how do I change the bulb? It's seems to be stuck under this plastic lens... and I cant.... unggh... get it off. Please help...

Or better yet...

When I bought the camera, they said it was "weather-sealed." I took it to the beach and a storm came up. A big wave rolled up on the beach and washed over my camera bag. My camera does not seem to work now... and I am wonder WHETHER or not, I am doing something wrong? It sure worked nice before the heavy-weather hit.

Thank you :rolleyes:

[24Peter]

Hey, Photo-gurus,

Does the EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 USM III lens weigh LESS when I have it set to the 75mm focal length? I have noticed that it definitely looks much shorter than when it's zoomed out to 300mm.

Thank you :rolleyes:

For sure. Now I have a question for you: What are you smoking tonight Don? :eek:

[forno]

For sure. Now I have a question for you: What are you smoking tonight Don? :eek:

Or any other night or day for that matter:D

[cdifoto]

Nah DonSchap isn't smoking anything. He's just missing something.

[forno]

Nah DonSchap isn't smoking anything. He's just missing something.

CAPOW, cop that Mr Schap:D

[adam75south]

it may be lighter at 75mm but you can get more megapixels at 300mm.

[DonSchap]

4) If a photographer sets his aperture to f/4... his shutter speed to 1/250... his ISO to 400...

What kind of lens do they use to take images of the Pope?

5) If two photographers are walking toward one another at 3 mph... and a squirrel drops a nut from thirty-feet over their respective heads...

What kind of backpack do you recommend for a one-armed photographer with a monopod?

These and other questions of this type continually exhaust me... am I alone, or is this common? :confused:

And "No"... I am not suffering from Drain-Bamage

[zmikers]

4) If a photographer sets his aperture to f/4... his shutter speed to 1/250... his ISO to 400...

What kind of lens do they use to take images of the Pope?

Simple answer: None because snakes don't have armpits.......DUH!

[Forced Perfect]

Hey, Photo-gurus,
Does the EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 USM III lens weigh LESS when I have it set to the 75mm focal length? I have noticed that it definitely looks much shorter, at that point, than when it's zoomed out to 300mm.


Okay, noodle this one for a while. A truck driver has a trailer full of birds and he's overweight so he bangs the side of the truck to keep them in flight to make it lighter. Does it work?




Answer: No it doesn't. The weight of the birds is still pushing on the air under them and still shows up in the total weight of the trailer. But you knew that, right? :P

[zmikers]

Okay, noodle this one for a while. A truck driver has a trailer full of birds and he's overweight so he bangs the side of the truck to keep them in flight to make it lighter. Does it work?




Answer: No it doesn't. The weight of the birds is still pushing on the air under them and still shows up in the total weight of the trailer. But you knew that, right? :P

But isn't that only if the trailer was completely air tight?

[Forced Perfect]

But isn't that only if the trailer was completely air tight?

You have a jar packed with Skittles with a shrunken monkey head in it. If the monkey head is toward the bottom of the Skittles or almost at the top of them in the jar the number of Skittles doesn't change, they're just moving around. The birds aren't pushing air out or anything, they're just moving around in it.

Please don't ask if the wing flapping blows it out. hehe

[zmikers]

You have a jar packed with Skittles with a shrunken monkey head in it. If the monkey head is toward the bottom of the Skittles or almost at the top of them in the jar the number of Skittles doesn't change, they're just moving around. The birds aren't pushing air out or anything, they're just moving around in it.

Please don't ask if the wing flapping blows it out. hehe

But that's like saying, if a bird was flying over a scale would the weight of the bird register on the scale. Of course not. The only way it would work is if it is causing enough psi within the trailer to create the weight, hense the trailer would have to be air tight. Or something like that!

[Rhys]

But that's like saying, if a bird was flying over a scale would the weight of the bird register on the scale. Of course not. The only way it would work is if it is causing enough psi within the trailer to create the weight, hense the trailer would have to be air tight. Or something like that!

Given that most birds are quite light since they have to be in order to fly, what else has the guy got on his trailer to make it overweight?

[zmikers]

Given that most birds are quite light since they have to be in order to fly, what else has the guy got on his trailer to make it overweight?

LOL.....good point!

[adam75south]

But that's like saying, if a bird was flying over a scale would the weight of the bird register on the scale. Of course not. The only way it would work is if it is causing enough psi within the trailer to create the weight, hense the trailer would have to be air tight. Or something like that!

i'm gonna have to agree.

[cwphoto]

My brain is starting to hurt. :(

[aparmley]

4) If a photographer sets his aperture to f/4... his shutter speed to 1/250... his ISO to 400...

What kind of lens do they use to take images of the Pope?

5) If two photographers are walking toward one another at 3 mph... and a squirrel drops a nut from thirty-feet over their respective heads...

What kind of backpack do you recommend for a one-armed photographer with a monopod?

These and other questions of this type continually exhaust me... am I alone, or is this common? :confused:

And "No"... I am not suffering from Drain-Bamage

This has got to be one of the funniest damn things I've read in a long time. :D

You are certainly not alone Don.



What kind of backpack do you recommend for a one-armed photographer with a monopod?



I'd recommend a vest with the following stictched on both sides "It would be cruel to wave at me while I'm carrying all this gear."

LMAO

[aparmley]

But that's like saying, if a bird was flying over a scale would the weight of the bird register on the scale. Of course not. The only way it would work is if it is causing enough psi within the trailer to create the weight, hense the trailer would have to be air tight. Or something like that!


Me thinks it takes a big bird to weigh a Ton. . .

you guys are fogetting the classic -

"A photographer is hicking through the woods, comes across a cabin and looks in the window. He sees two men, they're dead. He immediately knew how they died. How did they die?"

Or as Don would ask, What type and how much flash memory were they carrying?

[aparmley]

Given that most birds are quite light since they have to be in order to fly, what else has the guy got on his trailer to make it overweight?

A ton of bird crap!;)

[Wesan]

You have a jar packed with Skittles with a shrunken monkey head in it. If the monkey head is toward the bottom of the Skittles or almost at the top of them in the jar the number of Skittles doesn't change, they're just moving around. The birds aren't pushing air out or anything, they're just moving around in it.

Please don't ask if the wing flapping blows it out. hehe

Hold on a little! Uhh...I'm trying to understand this... Maybe I'm a bit slow - some say it's because I'm blonde - but if the birds are flying around inside the trailer, flapping their wings...won't they blow the air out? :confused: :p ;)

[zmikers]

This is my last comment on the matter as I am getting a headache. This is the most actual thinking I've had to do since uni......LOL.

It's called displacement. If your jar was filled to the brim with skittles then the monkey head went in, the skittles would pour out of the jar. 2 objects can not occupy the same space. Now, it is impossible to have a trailer half full of air so we have to assume that the trailer is filled to the brim. As you put the birds in, air will "pour" out of the trailer, therefor unless the birds are standing on the deck then they are not creating any weight. In order to do that they need to actually force air down on to the deck while huvoring above, "without flapping their wings?" In order to create this force, they need to create pressure. No pressure is created because the extra air just simply floats away. An air tight trailer has no place for the extra air to go. Thus creating pressure, thus creating weight...........But this is why I simply stated that snakes don't have arm pits.........lol

[adam75south]

i can't trust anyone without armpits. sorry guys, it's just this thing i have.

[aparmley]

i can't trust anyone without armpits. sorry guys, it's just this thing i have.

That'll make those boardroom meetings a little awkard. . .

Adam: "That sounds like a great plan judith, I want to trust you on this but, I apologize, I'm gonna have to check you for armpits. . . "

[Gasp] . . .

Tune in next week when Adam goes to trial for executive misconduct . . .

[DonSchap]

This ... from some Bob:

"Question: On the advice of my neighbor, I recently went to the camera store and upgraded. I switched from a

Canon Rebel T2
19651

to a

Canon Rebel XTi.
19652


Before, when I went to continuous shutter, I shoot the entire roll of 36-shots in about 10 seconds. Now, on my new camera, they must have pre-loaded it at the store ... because I've shot over 100 frames and I never seem to run out of film. Do I return the XTi to have it unloaded, when it eventually runs out, because I cannot seem to locate the "rewind" button or the "back-cover release" on this digital thing? I know I'm getting pictures, because I can see them through the little window on the back of the camera, going back and forth.

Oh, this is so embarrassing ... :o Darn, new fangled things ... :rolleyes:"

Answer: Dear Bob,

As far as your new camera goes, I do believe I have a solution to this apparent "film-loading" problem that you are having with your new camera.

1) Do you still have the box and all original materials that came with it?
2) If so, place the camera neatly back in the box and carefully repack the manuals and other items with it.
3) Grab the receipt you were given with the camera's serial number on it.
4) Take the box and drive back to where you bought it.
5) Give the entire package and the receipt to the salesman and tell him that you made a tragic mistake and are not capable of using this camera and that you would like a refund and your original camera back.

Problem solved. Some things just aren't worth trying to explain. :p

(My apologies to any IS-guru who has had similar frustrations.)