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Interesting! I got into photography in 1956 when I got an Ansco Memar 35mm camera. I have a lot of Anscochrome and Echtachrome color slides that I took then (both ASA 32). I also used B&W, mainly Plus X but also super-fast Tri-X when it came out - 200 ASA I think, or was it intially 100? But...

Didn't he just spin it around? I haven't seen it in a long time. Love that movie though, especially Keely Smith.

Woops - just noticed that. Is that a loop you made or the actual sound? Maybe the cleaning up program you used made them sound more raucus and relentless. I remember the whippoorwills and bob whites and water frogs and tree frogs and the sounds of the Pine Barrens from my backpacking and car...

Thanks. That's the sort of thing I was looking for, but I think it still has a way to go before it catches up with the stand alone GPS units (and puts them out of business). The reviews on Skobbler are very mixed, but reading them I found out about this one - OsmAnd. It gets mixed reviews too...

Hitch seems to be, as far as I can tell, that I can only download and save a small area of Google maps on to my tablet for offline use, so it wouldn't be useful for driving long distances, but it might be quite nice for, say, the NJPB.

But lots of good reviews for Google maps - and it's free! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.maps

Navigon for Android. Lots of bad reviews. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.navigon.navigator_checkout_us&hl=en

Oh yeah of course - duh - like downloading maps to my GPS so the maps are on the GPS and not just picked up online. Duh. My Samsung 7" tablet has built in GPS and so does my little Samsung 4.2". Any idea how poi's and road routing and saving waypoints etc. compares on those tablet mapping...

Less. $180 for the 7" Samsung Android tablet at Costco, which is the one I have - but I'm totally confused about using it as a GPS. Doesn't it need to be online to function as a GPS? Mine won't acquire maps unless I'm online, but haven't owned it for long and know very little about it. I've...

Well, I'm going to have to get a new one sooner or later I think, though I've been accustomed to the Garmin 176 and 276C style for years now, but my 276 battery just went dead (tho it still works on external power) and I can't find my spare, and the buttons are becoming more unresponsive, and...

What, if any, advantages does the Oregon or Montana have over the latest Nuvis if you're only going to use it in a vehicle, including a vehicle driven off paved roads, like in the Pine Barrens or the Sonoran desert for instance? Meanwhile my Garmin 276C is still chugging along.

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A lot of people feel as you do, Bob., but I am fascinating by subterranean stuff, and what's more I like tight places. It's an ancestral thing that goes back to the ice age. I feel safe from cave bears and other big fierce Pleistocene animals in a nice cozy cave.

Oh I thought you knew how to get in the caves, Man. when you said, "Doesn't matter to me anyway.I know where the caves are when I am in the mood." I agree with what you were saying in almost all things, but maybe caves might be a bit of an exception as vandals trash them and destroy the...

I didn't know that. I used to be more concerned with me catching something from the bats rather than vice versa, like crawling through thousand year old guano and breathing it in. Do cavers ever get sick from that? "I know where the caves are when I am in the mood." Do you know how to get...

Hi, Manumuskin. I mostly caved in upstate NY, and a few in the west. I don't know if Leigh Cave is accessible anymore. Latest thing I noticed online (admittedly not searching very hard) was from 2002 saying access has been shut down: "Please note that access to Leigh Cave has been interrupted...

Love those sounds! I'm glad they're still around. I was afraid that amphibians are going extinct. I remember camping out by Bamber Lake one summer night about 1970. The croaking of the frogs was very loud. And I'm with the guys on this thread who love New Jersey, at least the nice parts, esp...

Ha I found it! It's spelled Leigh and it's NJ's largest cave. It's in Hunterdon County. There's a list of all NJ's caves here: http://www.nj.gov/dep/njgs/enviroed/oldpubs/bulletin70.pdf

One of my sports used to be caving (spelunking). I was a member of the Met Grotto Caving Club in NYC, and I remember going caving with them once - about 1990 - in to cave in central or southern New Jersey called Lee Cavern or Lee Cave. It was locked with a gate so people couldn't get in, but...

What a sight that would have been to see it flying overhead, the length of an eighty story building!