Stephen Vanderspek

As an extension of this thought, which is definitely accurate it's also worth noting some airlines have moved to a single highest fee system, I've flown my Magliner which is 100lbs for 100 dollars. With this system its some times the same cost to fly with gear as it is to FedEx Ground it, and that's not even looking at media rates. I know Air Canada and Alaska moved to this system and that United hasn't, also worth noting, you fall under the baggage policy of the first leg of your trip, so if I flew from Vancouver to Toronto to Chicago, the first leg Vancouver - Toronto is Air Canada so you fall under their baggage policy on the way there, but Chicago - Toronto leg is United so on the way back you get beat up by their fees.

I'm on a horse. I do love these quirky commercials.

I think I flew for $12 last year from Bellingham which is like a 30-45 minute drive from Vancouver and the customs is faster driving vs flying, so it was like a win 3x over. Airfare from Vancouver was like $300. It wasn't too bad either really, I expected a lot worse for $12.

You can RSS this forum already, no need for an app RSS reader for iPhone is what I meant, sorry for any confusion. Unless I missed a RSS function i the iPhone's version of Safari

I'm not really sure what form an app would take for a forum... The only thing I think you could add is Push Notifications, but that could be done via an RSS feed app. Sorry to rain on the parade, Steve

I'm pretty sure 2+2=5 gets you a cake from the IRS not a jail cell. 2+2=3 however...

http://gizmodo.com/5385443/canon-1d-mark-i...e?autoplay=true The stream embedded on that page still works, for those who wish to ignore Canon's desire.

mmmm fried pickle.....

I'm afraid I don't have experience with US/UK but I do with CND/US, so I might be able to help with afew of these. You'd be right, last I checked you need to be bonded to get one and that takes at least a week. I've taken my full package across with no problem as long as I prove I'm not crossing to sell the gear, it'll depend on how reasonable the officer is/how much they like doing paperwork. Be prepared to explain exactly what it is you do and half of them don't seem to watch TV or films so that can be fun. They usually like to know how much the gear costs, usually it's safe to under shoot the used sale value by 10-20%, depends how ballsy you are, they don't really have any way of knowing. They'll usually want to inspect at least one case. If you tell them your broker told you that you don't need a carnet, that seems to help. They could decide to charge you whatever duties that they'd normally charge on imported gear from the US. I'm pretty sure they can seize your gear until you get a Carnet, I'm not completely sure on that point. I'm pretty sure that's the carnet, which is usually 40% gear value and yes you'll want a broker if nothing else just to maintain your sanity. Should work, when I bring gear to/from US, as long as I have the paper work proving I've already paid CND import then I'm fine. I don't know if this helps any, but again all of my experience is US/CND which I'd imagine is wildly different than US/UK.

Yea its retail only, but still neat. I also build my desktops from scratch, but really, in comparison to the full market, homemade is a pretty small percentage, sure you know many people who make their own, but how many people do you know that don't, lots of people are content with the $500 dollar netbooks or the $400 e-machines you can pick up at Best Buy.

An interesting, semi related stat: 91% of computers sold for over $1000 USD in June were Macs http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/...-NPD/1248313624

There seems to be a time function related to editing, maybe 10-15 minutes or so before the post is locked.

Really resisting the urge here...

Did I miss something? what are the DM-1X motors??? Higher Torque, Lighter DM-1 http://www.steadicamforum.com/index.php?sh...48&hl=dm-1x

Happy Birthday good Sir.