Nikonic

Nikon F2 35mm SLR

For my Photography class I needed a 35mm camera, so I asked my photo-centered grandfather and he supplied for me his gem from back in his 35mm days.  A Nikon F2 SLR, but a beauty nonetheless, with a 70-210mm lens.  I'll have fun in his footsteps.

Update Jan.31st: I loaded Kodak iso400 film, and have some 400 B/W for my next roll.  We'll see how this goes.

Seismic Proportions.

The X-SYSTEM as of January 20th consists of:

• Two 10" Cerwin-Vega! 3-way towers
• Two 15" Fisher 3-way floorstanding towers
• Five Zenith surround speakers (to be upgraded)
• One big-nasty 12" Infinity PS212 subwoofer (new this month) wired with digital coax
• Sony STR-DG720 7.1 Digital Receiver/Amplifier (also brand new this month)
• Wired to my XF Machine and 360 by optical cable

~in my efforts to upgrade my entire audio/video system~

I just recently received the subwoofer I ordered from eBay, brand-new:  a 12" INFINITY 400WATT RMS/700W peak power subwoofer.  I must say, I am impressed.  With all of the subs these days going for 400-1000 bucks a pop (a good one will cost you more towards the latter), I did some sifting on eBay and found this gem for less than the previous budget range.  It just made sense.  Otherwise I was going to get an 8" Polk (PSW111) sub for $30 less, running 150watts RMS...but decided this one was worth the 6-day wait (due to a Sunday and MiLK day).  Which it certainly was worth it.

There's the new 12"/400W Infinity subwoofer next to my old Zenith package-sub (8"/120watts)  |The bass port is about 3x as big as the one on the Zenith|

(all i need now is less crap in the room so there's less to rattle. ;)

IN OTHER NEWS:

-My 250GB external hard drive failed. :(

-I attained a plausible Dolby Digital & DTS signal from The Machine to the DG720...finally.

-I updated my 360, and it changed everything around...and added what I highly anticipated- support for my Samsung's native resolution, 1680 x 1050, which is great, so now I'm officially gaming in HD with HD sound.  (It's crossed my mind a few times to invest in a 42" Plasma/LCD tv or a bigger PC monitor)

-Freed up 50 gigs on my internal HDD just by moving my pictures over to The Vault (500gb HDD).