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Sigma 50-500mm f/4-6.3 EX DG HSM APO RF Telephoto Zoom Lens for Minolta and Sony SLR Cameras
Feature: ... Lens Construction: 20 Elements in 16 Groups Angle of View: 46.8 - 5 degrees Number of Diaphragm Blad ...more
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 4 Date: 2008-10-19 Summary: Worth the money ... I'm using this on an A700. Its fast becoming my main lens. The tremendous range makes it usable in a variety of situations. I love to use it while doing event photography...I can get up close and personal with someone way on the other side of things and they never know I'm even shooting at them. With a good flash, it even serves well at night. I can get great pictures (or at least as great as can be expected with direct flash at night) up to about 100ft away. At that range I can zoom in pretty close with this lens. ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2008-10-13 Summary: 50-500mm lense ... One of the best lenses money can buy. A little bulky as a handheld, but great on a tripod. ...more
[3] Rating: 4 Date: 2008-05-29 Summary: Interesting Lens - Heavy and decent quality ... This lens was a nice lens, but I just wasn't happy with the pictures I got from it. I returned the lens and replaced it with a Tamron 200-500mm and love the Tamron. The is a good lens if you want a lens to get a wide range of focal lengths. It has good build quality, looks good and produces decent images but I saw some strange aberrations in my pictures and the bokeh just didn't look right to me. I am not a pro photographer so the issue I had with the lens may have been user generated...but I will say that the Tamron ...more
[4] Rating: 5 Date: 2008-06-19 Summary: Great lens at a great price ... I purchased this lens, hoping to finally get shots of some birds and people that kept eluding me. I'm happy to say I've been able to get both in range now. The lens arrived on the exact delivery date promised, packaged very well. It has a bit of weight to it, but not nearly as much as some of my other tele lenses. I use this lens with a Tripod, but in good light, while bracing yourself, you can manage to get clean shots up to the 400mm range. I've shot with this on both my a100 and my a350 with fairly equal results ...more
[5] Rating: 5 Date: 2008-12-22 Summary: Causiously optomistic... ... From my first tentative attempts at using this lens I've discovered a few things about it I'd like to pass along. First of all...over all this is a very good lens with a wide range of capabilites. Sharp...clear...bright...tough...solid...all adjectives that describe my first impressions. Using it for the first time to photograph wildlife...flying ducks and geese...I discovered I needed to set my focus to wide field because this lens just seemed to have a hard time locking onto a moving object with spot focus. As long ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | This high zoom ratio lens is optimized for digital SLR cameras and capable of covering a wide range of focal lengths from 50mm standard to 500mm ultra telephoto. In addition, the new super coating on each glass surface produces superb color rendition, while reducing flare and ghosting....more

Steren 50' RG-59 BNC Coaxial Cable
Feature: ... Manufacturer Part Number: 205-547 ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | 50'...more

Sigma 28-200 f/3.5-5.6 Compact Hyper Zoom Aspherical Lens for Konica Minolta SLR Cameras
Feature: ... Mounts to any Minolta Maxxum Film or Digital Autofocus SLR Camera; Zooms from 28mm wide angle to 200mm telephoto -- ideal for family, portrait, landscape, and travel photography; Aspherical lens design delivers excellent image quality throughout the zoom range; Capable of 1:3.8 macro photography for terrific close-ups of flowers, insects, and more; Compact at 3 inches and lightweight at 13.44 oz. makes this the lens to take with you everywhere you go ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | This lens covers all the focal lengths from 28mm wide angle to 200mm telephoto, the most frequently used focal length range. With a maximum diameter of 70mm (2.75 in.) and length of 75.2mm (2.96 in.), it has a compact size. And with a triple-cam internal-focus system, it packs a lot of performance in a compact package. Portable and mobile, the lens can be carried anywhere, so it is ideal for travel and snapshot photography. With 2 aspherical Lens, it has excellent correction for all types...more

I Ching or Book of Changes. Bollingen Series XIX

Cars of the 50's (Classic Car Quarterly, 205)
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | Photo magazine of cars of the 50's...more

The Pilot's Wife (Oprah's Book Club)
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2008-12-26 Summary: The Pilot's Wife by Anita Greve ... The Pilot's Wife is the first work of Greve's that I've read; her narrative and plot development were so compelling that I immediately ordered another one of her novels ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2008-12-29 Summary: Exceeding my highest expectations ... My highest expectations were exceeeded. Excellent product sent quickly. Best service on amazon. ...more
[3] Rating: 4 Date: 2008-10-28 Summary: Quick enjoyable read ... This is my first Anita Shreve book and I'm looking forward to reading more. It is quick easy read with draws you deeper and deeper into the story. ...more
Editorial Reviews — [1] ... Product Description | Gripping new fiction by the author of "The Weight of Water". Kathryn Lyons' life turns to chaos when her pilot husband is killed in a plane crash. As she struggles with her grief, Kathryn faces shocking revelations about the secrets a man can keep and the actions a woman is willing to take....more
[2] ... Review | Oprah Book Club® Selection, March 1999: With five novels to her credit, including the acclaimed The Weight of Water , Anita Shreve now offers a skillfully crafted exploration of the long reach of tragedy in The Pilot's Wife . News of Jack Lyons's fatal crash sends his wife into shock and emotional numbness: Kathryn wished she could manage a coma. Instead, it seemed that quite the opposite had happened: She felt herself to be inside of a private weather system, one in which she was continuously tossed...more

Little Altars Everywhere
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 4 Date: 2007-07-26 Summary: A Strongly Written Book About Growing Up ... This isn't *really* my kind of book - it reminded me eerily of something like Margaret Laurence's "A Bird In The House", given it is a collection of interwoven short stories told from the perspectives of different members of a small-town Louisiana family, most notably from the character of Siddalee. So why am I giving it four stars? Well there wasn't anything I didn't like about it. I found the prose easy to get through and imaginative. The stories for the most part were captivating and enchanting. The characters were ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2007-09-26 Summary: Emotional Roller Coaster ... This book was fabulous - not quite as groundbreaking as the "Divine Secrets.." but still fabulous nonetheless. It made me smile, it made me think, and it made me cry - all the things a good book should do and more. Buy it - read it! Enjoy. ...more
Editorial Reviews — [1] ... Product Description | "We are swinging high flying way up, higher than in real life.And when I look down, I see all the ordinary stuff -- our brick house, the porch the tool shed, the oil drum barbecue pit, the clothesline, the chinaberry tree.But they are all lit up from inside so their everyday selves have holy sparks in them, and if only people could see those sparks, they'd go and kneel in front of them and pray and just feel good. Somehow the whole world looks like little altars everywhere." Little Altars...more
[2] ... Review | "It can wear you to a nub, trying to be a popular person and a good Catholic all at the same time." So says Sidda, one of the characters inhabiting Little Altars Everywhere . Author Rebecca Wells uses her considerable acting talent to perform this abridgment, adding even more spark to her already lively characters. Everyone--Shep, Vivi, Willetta, and the rest--is given a distinct voice, and Wells plays each of them to the hilt. More like a recording of a one-woman show than a mere reading, Altars is...more