Boca Joe I have not been on this forum so much, but somewhere or other have noticed your name before. Today I looked over your postings of trips to Florida. So enjoyable. I live there half a year and have seen some of what you have shown. How you photographed everything and wrote about it, so well written and fun, really makes a great impact. I would like to show your work to some friends, and am not to computer literate. How would I go about doing so? And would that be okay with you? Diane

Happy Birthday (though a tad late) - birthdays should always be special - it is the only holiday that is yours exclusively.

Those "car lights" theories are mostly nonsense. I haven't seen Marfa's lights (even though I have been out there), but I have seen the Brown Mountain lights of NC, and there is no way to explain them at all. The lights appear from nowhere, and they rise and fall, in altitude against the mountain side, and move sporadically, sometimes slow, sometimes fast and abrubt. This location is in a valley, far from people, and just getting to it, is a chore, as the only access is a forest dirt road. There are still a great many things that science has not as yet found a good explanation for.

It is a great camera. However, I not totally sure how I feel about the D90. It performs well, I wish it would focus a little faster. Low light performance is great, well beyond my previous cameras (which I still use regularly). However, I feel you are able to get better color quality out the box with the Olympus system. I hate spending time adjusting 'levels' afterwords. I like it right the first time, out the camera. As close as you can get in comparison, some of the quality glass is cheaper with Olympus, However, Nikkor has so many more options available vs the 4/3rds system is still fairly new and there isn't that many option out there. The view finder on the D90 blows Olympus out the water. The optical viewfinder in Olympus cameras is so small. Tech upgrades on the D90 are great, 12.3MP, High ISO, Live mode, movie capture ability and it can take SDHC cards( I really like that). I don't know that I really needed Lv view since I haven't used it yet, but the movie mode has been a nice addition. Granted, it's not great, but still nice. I also bought the 50mm f1.8 but it is still in the box. I was able to get it NIB for just over $100, so I couldn't pass it up. Linda - yes, I am at Offutt AFB, NE. I was stationed here four years ago for four years. I have been TDY here for a month and I am ready to return home to Erin, Abigail and Elijah. z_joe