I had a canon rebel G 35mm, so I stayed with canon because they told me my 35mm zoom lens would work on it. It didn't and had to buy a new 70 to 300mm zoom. If I have good light you don't need a tripod just use a good stance. There is a multiplication factor of 1.5 in digital, so the 17mm setting is the same as 28 with film, but it makes the zoom comparable to 450mm. If I had known old zoom wouldn't work, I'd probably gone to Nikon.

When dad died my way of dealing with it was to ignore/forget it. I was the oldest child and felt I had to not break down for my brothers and mother. As far as sfather goes, my family doc when I was first married talked to me. We took one of the kids for a visit when he was done with him, he told my W to leave with the kids. He told me he belonged to a group adult children of alcoholic parents. Told him I know if SF supported me in baseball maybe I could have gone pro, but I wouldn't have met my W and who's to say my life would have been better.

SF died a few months ago, I hadn't seen him in twenty years. But you're right I didn't have a role model on how to be a husband by example.

I guess she is mine,W left us both behind.

Mike


M 51
W 49
S26 S25
D24 D19
Married 27 yrs
T over 30
S 7/12
D-bomb 9/26