[shakari]

Think I'm going to get myself a Canon 350d Rebel and also upgrade to a really good scanner for the images I already have.

I was suprised at the price difference on this camera...... in the US I can buy one for about US$650, in the UK it's about US$750+ and here in RSA it's about US$1250. I'll carry on with the price checks and then wait till I have a client coming over from the right country and ask him/her to bring one with them.

There's a guy in Botswana by the name of Randall Moore who owns "Abu's Camp" in the Okavango Delta. It's a very high dollar photo safari lodge and the tourist transport is all on Elephant back...... The camp is named after an Elephant named Abu who also starred in a lot of movies including White Hunter Black Heart. Abu's dead now but I'm told if he saw a camera pointing his way, he'd give it a full out charge and skid to a stop a couple of feet from the photographer and then saunter off......... Randall wrote a book called Elephants For Africa and it has some of the very best photography I've ever seen in it. The book costs a bloody fortune but the images make it worth every penny....... I'm lucky enough to have a wife who likes to buy me signed first editions, so I'm lucky enough to have a great copy of this book......

Bearing in mind what's been said here about copyright, would anyone out there like me to scan a few images from the book and post them on the general photography & chat forum? - obviously with the relevant mentions......