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>"Jay" <smtp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> For two grand I'd get the D300 with a kit lens then buy a better lens
>>in a few months.
>> I don't like Canon at all........... not even close.
>> For me Nikon lasts longer and I always end up having the Canons more
>>in the repair shop than the Nikons I use.
>>
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>Also you can't use a Canon for some types of macro work.
>Ever try to shoot flies with a cannon?
><Sorry I couldn't resist >
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Er; just to be pedantic,
Did you mean Cannon? (See below)
canon1 [kánn?n] (plural canons)
n
1. general rule: a general rule, principle, or standard
one of the fundamental canons of free-market economics
2. religious decree: a decree issued by a religious authority,
especially one ruling on religious practices
3. body of religious writings: a set of religious writings regarded as
authentic and definitive and forming a religion’s body of scripture
4. set of artistic works: a set of artistic works established as
genuine and complete, for example the works of a particular writer,
painter, or filmmaker
It’s not one of the best-known pictures in the Welles canon.
5. part of Mass: in the Roman Catholic Mass, the prayer during which
the bread and wine are consecrated
6. music staggered singing or playing: a musical technique in which
different instruments or voices enter one after the other, each playing
or singing exactly the same sequence of notes, resulting in often
complex counterpoint
[Pre-12th century. Via Latin from Greek kanon ‘rule’.]
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cannon [kánn?n]
n (plural cannons)
1. (plural cannons or cannon)former weapon: a weapon used in former
times, now used only ceremonially, consisting of a simple iron tube
mounted on wheels. It fires heavy iron balls and other projectiles.
The cannon fired a 21-gun salute.
2. modern weapon: a modern heavy artillery weapon large enough to need
to be mounted for firing, for example one mounted on a war****p or on a
tracked vehicle
3. aircraft gun: a rapid-firing gun mounted on an aircraft
4. cue games billiards shot: in cue games, a shot in which the cue ball
hits one ball that then hits another ball. In billiards, this is a
point-scoring shot.
US term carom n.1
5. bell loop: the loop at the top of a bell from which it is suspended
v (3rd person present singular cannons, present participle cannoning,
past cannoned, past participle cannoned)
1. vt military See cannonade v.1
2. vi collide: to collide with something or bounce off it at great
speed and with a lot of force
a 35-yard shot that cannoned back off the post
The car, out of control on the icy road, cannoned into the bridge
abutment and burst into flames.
3. vi cue games make a cannon shot: in cue games, to make a cannon
shot.
US term carom v.1
[14th century. Via French canon from Italian cannone , literally
‘large tube’, from, ultimately, Latin canna ‘reed, tube’ (see
cane).]
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