SadElder

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  Any photographers here?

  by SadElder in

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  18 years ago

  i've been shooting with a canon rebel xt for about a year and have acquired a few nice lenses.

  i've been thinking of moving up to a canon 5d.

  anyone here have experience with this camera?.

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  SadElder 18 years ago

  Thanks to all for the advice thus far. Perhaps I should just concentrate on purchasing more goodies for now. I already purchased Canon's 100-400 image stabilized lense and just received Sigmas new 24-70 macro which replaces that nasty freebie kit lense that came with my camera.

  Any ideas as to where to go from here?

  For the film shooters. I was reluctant to venture into digital, but now I find myself shooting more and critiquing in ways I never did with film. Though a daunting program Photoshop presents opportunities I never had with film.

  Happy shooting

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  Any photographers here?

  by SadElder in

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  18 years ago

  i've been shooting with a canon rebel xt for about a year and have acquired a few nice lenses.

  i've been thinking of moving up to a canon 5d.

  anyone here have experience with this camera?.

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  SadElder 18 years ago

  Here is a little sample of some of the things I've been working on:

  http://picasaweb.google.com/canonpix

  Thanks for the quick info - Rebirth, Sparkplug, and MYMils

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  Any photographers here?

  by SadElder in

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  18 years ago

  i've been shooting with a canon rebel xt for about a year and have acquired a few nice lenses.

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  anyone here have experience with this camera?.

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  SadElder 18 years ago

  I've been shooting with a Canon Rebel XT for about a year and have acquired a few nice lenses. I've been thinking of moving up to a Canon 5D. Anyone here have experience with this camera?

  I'm particularly interested in knowing if the 5D shoots RAW in the auto function modes as well as in the manual settings. The XT shoots RAW in the manual modes but jpeg in all the auto modes. Sometimes it's nice to just let the camera do the work, but I like to start with RAW files if at all possible.

  No attacks from Nikon shooters please, I do shoot film with my two trusty old Nikons, but.....

  Happy shooting all.

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  Meetings are BORING!

  by 5thGeneration in

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  19 years ago

  why do the brothers take such offense when someone says that the meetings are boring?.

  i can't possibly fathom how people who have been going to the meetings for decades can sit at the kh and listen, for example, to yesterday's wt study for an hour about adam and eve, cain and abel, how we are all allowed to pray, blah, blah, blah... and not be bored out of their minds!.

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  SadElder 19 years ago

  That's why we clapped when they were over!

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  Jehovah's Witnesses beneath the Tower of fear!

  by Atlantis in

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  19 years ago

  (please delete if already posted).. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-yr5fw1udu.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-yr5fw1udu.

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  SadElder 19 years ago

  Actually heard this talk by the 'famed' Charles Sinutko, Jr.. I recall he was really hopped up on the '75 thing.

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  Such Pharisees!

  by Dawn in

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  19 years ago

  i guess i'm gabby mouth tonight .

  my brothers are both elders, i'll call them brother a and brother b. brother a disowned my mother since our dad passed away, because he's mad at things that happened when we were kids.

  apparently it's easier to take it out on mom now because brother a couldn't stand up to dad - but that's another story.. it's a while since dad passed and brother a refuses to return her emails, phone calls, help her in any way.

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  SadElder 19 years ago

  I'm surprised he didn't play the trump card (call it corbin), I have to spend my time, money, resources, health, etc. for the Society. These holier than thou folks just make my blood boil.

  Why don't you write another letter to Brother A, ask him if he'd prefer that you communicate with the Service Dpartment (aka Bethel CIA) and then they can communicate with him directly. That will for sure get his goat. ...and then follow through with it, send a letter to Crooklyn.

  If you're feeling a little upset by things you've done in the past, please go read Micah 6:8.

  Have a great day

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  Roger Insellman, Barry Sobieski, Wade Payne – These guys still COs?

  by Seeker4 in

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  19 years ago

  roger insellman, barry sobieski and wade payne were three of the poorest cos i can remember in the decades i was a jw.

  sobieski was a bully, using his authority to intimidate as much as possible.

  insellman was just not personable, and was such a company man is so many ways.

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  SadElder 19 years ago

  Last we heard Barry Sobieski was in the SW Florida area as DO maybe temporary, he had been CO around Gainesville, FL. Know some of his family who of course are no longer speaking. Seemed quite impressed with himself.

  Clayton Peace was in the Tampa, FL area, heard they were or did leave the road. Didn't like air conditioning, actually had them turn off the AC in a hall during his visit. Always had a list of things not to cook for them. Hated dangly ear rings, refused to work with sisters who were not wearing hose while in service. (In Florida yet) What a jerk. Good riddance.

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  Mark Nevejans paases away (from Bethel/Franz era)

  by Dogpatch in

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  19 years ago

  i was very sad to hear of this, mark was one of the ba's at bethel during the franz incident, and a good guy!

  he died of brain cancer, a friend who was at bethel just told me via email.

  randy.

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  SadElder 19 years ago

  Thanks for the update. I remember Mark fondly and his Bethel roomy Carl Johnson. Lost contact with them years ago.

  Knew Mark's brothers too. Neal - in Texas soemwhere. Roger- heard he was in some other country now. Carl .. don't know where he is. John still at Bethel, but heard he is being downsized, er sent out in to the field. Sister April married some prick fellow from Wallkill.

  Any word on Mark's wife Lucy?

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  Bethel Downsizing - Management Discussions

  by core in

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  19 years ago

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  the spin on downsizing is apparently "go out into the field" yet when the gb initially considered this it must have been presented as a practical problem - too much surplus hr capacity/ too expensive to maintain - or whatever and yet they turned it into a positive matter by stressing the return to the field - all those in such discussions are clearly able to deceive themselves as much as they try and deceive the "flock" - what do you think - did a discussion on a practical problem have to have a positive outcome and how did they twist their minds so as to sell it as such - for years they begged people to stay in bethel service (make it your home for life) and now they cast them out into the world with the thin veneer of "speedin g up the preaching work .. etc".

  all those at the top must have been involved in turning this huge embarrasment (jehovah will provide etc) into a positive spin - they should try out for a marketing award "downsizing - the only way to grow!

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  SadElder 19 years ago

  Much of the behind the scenes IT work is furthered by a dub from Florida - Haniph Latchman, an Oxford educated Phd. His work has most notably been the Bethel WAN and inter-branch communication via the internet.

  See this for his bio http://www.list.ufl.edu/latchman.htm

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  Elder says no to congregation picnic: Brooklyn says no large gatherings

  by truthseeker in

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  19 years ago

  our congregation has really gone down in recent months.

  the friends don't talk to each other, there have been many disfellowshippings and jc's.. an elder i was talking to in the kh after the meeting says that "he and the other elders would like to have a congregation picnic but can't because bethel disapproves of large social gatherings.".

  i looked at this elder and felt sorry for him - it was like hearing a child cry because mother wouldn't let him outside to play baseball.. the cong.

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  SadElder 19 years ago

  This is one of the things that always irritated me as a "loyal" dub. Why do they think that the "congregtion has the right or authority to dictate one personal; affairs?

  I remember many years ago some meddlesome elders at my sisters wedding reception (for which I was footing the bill) attempting to dictate what we could or couldn't do. I politely informed them that I was an elder too, that this was my party, and to keep their opinions to themselves. One elder was politely informed that he had three seconds to vacate my party or he would be very embarrased when the police came to remove him. Oh what a stink that caused, but we survived anyway.

  Control, control, control. That's what it's all about.

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