What are good baseline setting for long exposure night photography with Canon 350D? Good morning/afternoon all, I was given a Canon 350D by my Father-In-Law as he wasn’t getting any use from it. I was very lucky, it came with a whole bunch of surrounding kit. I have: Canon 350D Speedlite 199A Flash box Panagor 2X Tele Convertor Canon 28-80mm Lens Canon 18-55mm Lens Canon 75-300mm Lens It also came with a larger attachable bat…

LPT – Review prices of things you plan to purchase during major sale days (e.g., Boxing Day, Black Friday) more than a month before that day to see what the baseline price is, the markup, and the eventual “sale”. Hopefully most people are aware of this sneaky trick by companies where the huge sales of 50% off or 70% off is just a drop from the pre-sale markups and even if it is a bit lower than the normal price, it’s not as much as they advertise. Take some time, get a sense of the original prices and then decide on how much the sale actually is. sub…

Common Item Cost Baseline Question When traveling to different countries, are there items or expenses that you use as a baseline for estimating the cost of other expenses in that currency? I.e., if I spend $12 USD on lunch, I should expect a bottle of water to be about $2 USD, and a hotel room to be $100 USD for the night. What are other common baseline expenses? submitted b…

Briggs & Riley… Baseline vs ZDX After nearly 7 years and I dont know how many trips, I am ready to say goodbye to my TravelPro MaxLite4 stuff. I have 4-5 of them in various sizes and its all been great, they’ve dealt with more than I could have expected, and TravelPro service has been amazing taking care of things like zippers. But now, with all the wheels on their last legs, …

‘Them Changes’ by Thundercat. Where is the baseline familiar from? From a deep dive into 80s funk adjacent music, I swear a band like Level 42 had a similar bassline somewhere. But I’ve trawled all of Level 42 and couldn’t find it. Has anyone heard a similar bassline from a band long before Thundercat? Not intending to take away anything from Thundercat; I love his work. It’d help settle a long-running questio…