just want to thank everybody for your wonderful input here! You guys are totally awesome!!!!!! i will come back and read this more thoroughly later. Yesterday, today, tomorrow...blurry...working almost nonstop it seems like. sleeping little these days. totally exhausted. i really have so much to learn. i should get my new cam within next 3 weeks. I'm gonna see how to play with f-stop. i really want to start nailing DOF...not just hit and miss thing. thanks again guys.... i so much appreciate all this. brian...don't make me stick sardines under your nose.... hugs to all!! sheila