There’s a plugin for everything

The audio mic is actually something few cameras do well, even high-end ones… by that I mean your typical on-board mic just picks up too much noise, typically has a hiss, and isn’t directional enough to do you much good. Whenever possible I always look for a camera that can accept an external boom microphone in some way.

Some of Canon’s higher end digital cameras accept a stereo mini jack input for a microphone. You can adapt the mini jack to XLR if you want a nice mic. The T2i, 7D, and the 5D all do this but they are in the $800 thru $2600 price range.

Since you mentioned focal length…. the G11 doesn’t do too well in this department… if this is a concern of yours you really have no other choice that to get a Canon Digital SLR so you can purchase or rent nice lenses.

The new Canon T2i is a good value and can shoot several HD formats! It’s has a stereo mini jack mic input, and you can change lenses too! This would be a much better bet if you want to shoo great photos and video under $1000. It is $300 more than the G11 but I think it’s would better fit what you are looking for.

Hope this helps….

Install this plugin and see if you can find anything taking an inordinate amount of time (>1) to execute.

If you simply want to find out if your images are the problem, just install the Web Developer plugin for firefox and select “Disable Images” from the Images menu. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60

To really get your hands dirty and test performance you should get an apache/mysql/php environment running on your local computer so that you can quickly and easily experiment with different caching plugins and optimization techniques without fear of messing your site up.

OSX comes with apache built in, so you’ll only need to download and install the MySQL Community Server package from http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/

Or you can install MAMP: http://www.mamp.info/en/mamp/index.html
Or on windows, WAMP: http://www.wampserver.com/en/

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I see a few things in your code that might break the buttons.. your red buttons under the heading “To View all Print Options Click the links Below” – that div is not tall enough to support the number of buttons you have placed inside of it. This might be a problem so make that div taller. Also you need to remove ” ” from inside of the button code and instead change the font in the CSS style sheet. Be careful as the font sizes might break the button.

Hope this helps…

If you have time can you take a look at it and tell me what you think.

When you go to the link provided select the Senior 2010 to see your Buttons

Thank You
Merritt “Stan” Carr
Photographer