Wohoo! Got a new gadget!

Hey Mr. Potato Head.

Made you a nice Iceland Avatar to remind you to take out you wallet and buy a ticket.






Thor

 

Hee-Hee!

I actually have plans for the rest of the summer, but, I may go at Christmas time, get loaded in a pub and then wander off and get lost in a blizzard!

Silly am I. Thanks for the avatar, Thor.

Mike

 

I happen to know the station manager at Icelandair at Kennedy.

They have taken to discontinuing NY flights later in the fall, and start back up in April.

The rates go up double June 1 or so and go back
in early Sept.

Both May and September offer very nice weather there, and lower rates for accomodations, which generally are just the other side of onerous.

Beer and liquor is stupidly expensive.

But it is a nice trip.

Thor

 

Thanks for the info.

Mike

 

congrats!!

 

Wow dude...the land looks awsome there,very quiet and peaceful, great camera too...the pictures are crystal clear!

I wanna goto Iceland

-Jon

 

i bet that place stinks hardcore

 

Smells like money, dude!

You can make good cash in that biz.
It's putting 2 kids thru college for me.
Don't knock it too hard.
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Ivar, nice shot of Botnsdalur!
[ link on Pic 16 does note work, though ]
On the menu of the camera you can adjust the picture size so the will come out at about 60 kb, they call it 'e-mail' size.

Guys, note Keilir is actually a classically
shaped volcanic cone. Perfect.

Thor

 

I have a tip for you. I work at a company that manufactures and sells memory (including compact flash). The Nikon Coolpix series is a little picky about the kind of CF cards it uses, you should make sure when you go to buy a new card (if you do) that it is SLC or, Single-Layer-Cell. The memory controller on the Coolpix cameras does not generally like MLC cards (Multi-Layer-Cell). Just a heads up.

BTW, nice camera, and beautiful pictures!

 

Wow! Iceland is soo different from Maryland,USA...

I wanna move

they have all that neat stuff there you only see in pop music videos here

-Jon

 

I have a Coolpix 2600 and its not bad. I paid like $199 for it.

Pics get blurry without the flash indoors but other than that its not bad. I only use it for taking pics of the nephews when they come to visit or for putting stuff on ebay *lol* I used it to take pics of myself for my personal photoshops and it worked pretty well.

 

The reason that happens is that the camera is continually adjusting itself to the light conditions. You can get great non-flash pictures indoors with poor light but the subject has to remain very, very still.
I don't like flash because it washes the features and color right out of some things. My kids are trained to SIT STILL!

 

Also a tripod or steadying the camera against something helps a LOT. I got this little fold up tripod called "Ultrapod" from campmor.com that is very handy. Fits in a little pocket on my camera case and it can either strap to a pole or something with the strap attached to it or you can fold the legs out. It's come in very handy and I credit it for some good pictures with my Canon Powershot A70.

Ultrapod


brad cook

 

Well I have a 2 year old nephew and a 6 month old nephew. They won't sit still so flash is necessary for them But when taking pics myself, I tend to shake for some reason when I hold the camera so they blur a bit.

Will any full size tripod fit this camera or do I need to know the thread size?

 

Is that just the coolpix series, or does it also apply to Nikon's digital SLR bodies? I ask because our school's newspaper has a few D1X/H bodies and they said they've been having some trouble where the CF cards just get erased while they are being used. I never had trouble with the D100 I use, but I don't know if we were using the same type of CF card or not.

 

Ivar, just had to comment on your avatar... - Lo Bob... You have pie?

*whee!*

*if that didn't make any sense, go to
http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/