Congrats on setting the date, but 2011?? :eek:

That's a long time to be engaged. And from what I have seen, the wedding planning will continue to happen, regardless of whether the wedding is next week or in 2.5 years, so you're in for a long haul on that part. Good luck.

Yes. I'm having difficulty deciding at this point whether it is merely "planning," or undiagnosed OCD.

You can see it. Therefore it has been diagnosed. ;)

1. No, it doesn't need more light, but in many shots, you may get quite a bit of the sky and that fools the metering of the camera. It will also depend on the metering mode you use on your dSLR - if you use matrix metering, it'll depend on the program of the camera. I use centerweight, as I hate to playing guessing game with Canon, and when I use an ultrawide outdoors, I usually dial in +2/3 stop compensation because of the sky. [Or I can meter with pointing the lens further down to get less of sky and then recompose.] When indoors, not necessary.

You can do an experiment and use manual mode with two lens with the same exposure, shooting the same scene. They should come out the same, or very very close to the same.

2. Hood has nothing to do with it, and you should be using Sony's specific hood for this lens. If you use the wrong hood, it can cause vignetting, but it's easily visible in the picture as darker corners. But again, that has nothing to do with the pictures coming out dark.

Thanks
I will have to run some tests and see if it helps.
as far as the hood , its a rose pedal style hood that came with the lens so i did not think that was really a problem .

Mikey, why you waiting soo long. I thought I was crazy for doing an 18 month engagement.

As an ex-Rochesterian (could only hack it for about 8 months and then I gave up and moved elsewhere. Am still thawing out from that little experiment) I concur. Although you left out a visit to Wegmans.

Better get there now before the snow pack sets in. Which should happen any minute now. :rolleyes:

Wegmans is in Jersey. Good stuff, but can be a bit pricey.

Why do I bother showing up to work in Louisiana?

I should be getting combat pay for this project.

That's a rhetorical question, right? ;)

Obtaining ACARS logs to determine tail numbers of international flights looks like more trouble than it's worth. I take it there's not a central clearinghouse type website for such logs?

I wasn't comfortable with winter 2010, and she was nice enough to let me pick. We have a host of things that we need to take care of, most notably getting jobs out of this market and getting a place to live. I also wanted something between January and April because of the seasonality of a particular cruise we both want to take. If the date I picked works for taking said cruise, great. If not, plan B it is. I'm still working on Plan B.

Thanks! ^ I'd rather take too long and get it right than short myself and screw it up.

Both. I'm one of those people who is always working from a to-do list.

I just started noting ship numbers in my flight history, because I often wondered if I had flown on the same plane more than once.

See above. Schedule it long so as to have more room to get stuff done that needs to get done beforehand.

+1 - expensive sushi and sandwiches, but really good all around. A guy I've known since I was little runs a Wegmans deli section in northern NJ, but I can't remember where. He may have also transferred to Cherry Hill by now.

I have been to the Wegman's in Cherry Hill multiple times. I like the 14" large subs they have. Yeah, a little pricey, but worth it. One of the things I'll miss about the area.

And congrats on setting your wedding date. Mine is set for October 3, 2009, up in New Hampshire - during peak fall foliage.