>>4510763
>>4510763
/r/ is gone so might as well update it
also old wiki link was archive.is, which is discouraged these days in favor of .today, which redirects to .is .md .whatever

>>4510764
the wiki is a portal in time back to twelve years ago nevertheless. no mention of mirrorless cameras in the buying guide and a reference to "the cake is a lie..." I haven't heard that in TEN YEARS
what's the point of directing newbs to such an outdated wiki? update it or scrub it.

>>4510761
>Gear threads are discouraged but permitted.
ROFLMAO

>>4510766
>what's the point of directing newbs to such an outdated wiki?
board culture or smth
>update it or scrub it
how about making /p/ articles on /g/ wiki? Some topics kinda intersect between the two

>>4510768
I take back what I said about scrubbing it. there's a lot of good info in there but it could use an update

>>4510764
what happened to /r/ lol

>>4510771
TAKE IT DOWN Act came into effect
/r/ was just 95% deepfakes so the board was just a giant liability waiting for a lolsuit

>>4510767
We should have a policy of hostility towards gearfags who are not wealthy enough to have gear worth admiring or chill enough to admit their used snoy is convenient junk. Like /gg/ on /mu/ - if you can’t afford a gibson, shut up. If your squier is so great, play it and show us. >inb4 you don’t.

>>4510773
This. People will bring up gear no matter what. May as well make it based.
>actually the fujifilm xe-…
>Can’t afford a hasselblad? Lmfao
>no no no the sony a7-
>Can’t afford a phaseone? Lmfao
>excuse me but according to this chart the panas-
>I shoot 8x10 film and can not fathom caring.

>>4510776
>trying to weasel your way out of being cringe for not being able to afford a hassy
>a-actually my zenza bronica…
You whimpering worm!

>>4510773
>/gg/ as a positive example of anything
Please don't tell me sam has discovered this board

>>4510779
>>4510773
is the venn diagram of /p/ and /gg/ a circle?

>>4510779
Sam goes by cANON now

>>4510780
photography, playing guitar, programming, pets, camping, and guns = the milennial sperg starter pack

>>4510774
>>4510773
Most of the gearfags on /p/ don't actually care about image quality. I've posted hard proof of 600MP+ of real resolution from 8x10 scans scanned on a freaking flatbed scanner, links to 1000MP 4x5 wetplates, shots taken with nearly 15k worth(not spent) of gear and crickets.
The only thing that matters for most is AF performance, 1 million iso noise, charts, grams of weight, and inches of lens length. It's a constant argument between shills of things that don't really matter. All publicity is good publicity, so a constant shill argument about accessible options will sell the most cameras.
There is no subjective assessment because aesthetic is impossible to argue for so all the gearfag shills simply recite charts and stats about their favorite camera. The scientists photographing charts are NOT the arbiters of aesthetic. Only a fool or dedicated snapshitter would ever think that.

The great gearfag convergence will be when cellphone cameras are indistinguishable from MILCs and this is 100% inevitable for /p/. Whether it is from ai enhancement or alien sensor technology. Just give it a few years.
Rant over. Thank you for reading my blog.

>>4510822
tldr
Post hassy or photos. Your janky poorfag rig gets no gigs.
>my film is big!
You scan it on a shatbed. Application for gearfaggotry denied. Come back when you have a phaseone on a copy stand kid.

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>>4510826
5k lens, 2k 8x10 camera, 2.5k gitzo carbon tripod, 2k arca swiss cube tripod head, 2k speedotron 4800ws flash charger, 1k in 2400ws speedotron strobes, 400 for 3 c stands, 400 dollar hand painted back drop, 3.5k dog from one of the best GSD breeders in the country.

I use a 500 pack of kodak azo paper I spent 800 dollars on to make contact prints with the most expensive, most toxic developer, amidol, that produces the best looking contact prints. I've already spent over 10k on enlargers(45vxl, and a leitz 35v focomat), an 11x14 RA4 capable print processor, and a permitting person for a bespoke darkroom that hasnt even gotten through permitting approval yet. Ill be spending almost 4k on a 10 foot sink made from 316 stainless steel before even considering hiring a contractor, plumber, electrician, and HVAC guy to build out my 10x14 darkroom space that will be capable of making 20x24 sized prints.

After all that I feel generous enough to scan my negatives, downscale 500MB tif files to 4mb and share my work with you little cunts. Dear god I wish someone on this god forsaken website would get on my level.
On average my egg pictures take over 5k in gear to photograph. :) I've been using a vintage brass barrel lens I picked up for 2k to take some soft focus egg shots as well, so call it 6k when you see one of those next time.
Oh yeah... I have a leaf aptus 3 MFDB, which is the same company as phaseone, that I'm going to basically never use again becuase I spent 600 dollars on an adapter that lets me use a 700 dollar 645 filmback on my 2.5k sinar hy6. The hy6 is a better camera than the real, non chinese, hasselblads. I can list off the value of the 7 lenses I have for the system if you'd like. Just ask nicely.

>>4510826
Forgot to ask what camera are you using? Lets see some pics too. From your previous posts I would bet you're one of those nophoto nocamera kinda anons. Right?

>>4510835
this post is cringe

>>4510835
Nice A7R photo mate!

>>4510835
Decent snapshot. You clipped an ear.

>i have a leaf aptus 3 and a sinar hy6
>i have an ancient porsche boxster and a used 2005 bmw
Kek. Nothing worth braggin about son. Trichromatic minimum. You gearfags… no one cares what you spent unless you have something nice. Shut up and post photos instead of writing essays about how your rig is mid.

>>4510835
If /p/ is /gg/ this post is bra/gg/ing about buying a gibson lp studio and 68 fender princeton reverb reissue to play autumn leaves. (Plebs wouldn’t get the joke)

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>>4510882


>ebonics

>>4510884
White people invented "ebonics", ya ken?

>>4510884
This photo looks like oversharpened AI. It’s also slightly rotated to the left and there’s too much foreground.

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>>4510885


"mid" is ebonics


It's appropriated Weed slang from "mids" Cannabis


>>4510886


The picture isn't rotated, the parking lot is sloped

>>4510889
Weed is the white man’s drug, hippie.

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>>4510890


It went from “mids” to “mid” when it became ebonicized

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>>4510835
>rattles off an itemized receipt
>none of it even good, all third rate and out of date
>unironically bragging about dated MFDBs that underperform a canon 5DIV
>couldn't even afford a real MFDB that's just one or two generations behind
>clips ear from not framing carefully
>sloppy composition overall
>doesn’t reshoot - prints and scans it
>"I feel generous enough to scan my negatives, downscale 500MB tif files to 4mb and share my work with you little cunts. Dear god I wish someone on this god forsaken website would get on my level."
This poster is exactly why if you don't have the actual best gear, you should shut up and work on your composition skills before your ego overinflates kek. I think nice gear brings something in itself, and I mean, like, actual nice gear. If someone has a leica m11 or the newest hassellad, or a phase one trichromatic back or iq180, that's really cool, we don't see that every day. When was the last time we even saw an anon who actually had the newest sony? Never. Ancient MF like hassy H3ds and sub-$3k phaseone kits? Nah. Not impressive. Same pics as FF. A GFX100SII isnt even that amazing desu. If your gear is so attainable, shut up and shoot. It’s just a footnote and doesn’t warrant bringing up when it wasnt even used for the photo at hand.
>BUT I LF FILM?
LF film shooters developed their good reputation by talking about their photos and not really talking about their gear because it's all generic/interchangeable, and how much they paid doesn't mean anything unless they got a good deal. They often build their own cameras because an LF camera is literally a box rigged to a few poles. Please don't tarnish that.

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>>4510882
I've considered getting a trichromatic back + a couple blue ring lenses and XF body, but I'd rather drop the 20-30 grand on getting my darkroom built.
I also have 100 sheets of 8x10 ektachrome 100VS in my freezer that I need to get through first. I have my slide film processed by a lab and each shot ends up costing a little less than 25 dollars. I've considered dropping the 4k on a jobo processor and one of the 8x10 drums that does up to 5 sheets at a time, but I don't think I have the space, and I don't shoot enough c41/e6 for it to be worthwhile.
Depending on how much I like RA4 printing that could change. Just imagine RA4 contact prints...

Here's a test shot I took with the 100VS. 8x10 slides are really quite cool to look at in person.

What camera do you have? My guess is a sony a6600 with kit zoom.

>>4510883
I'm glad someone else sees the humor in using nearly 20k worth of gear to take a 100 GIGAPIXEL photograph of dog.

>>4510899
A canon 5d classic and a 50mm prime. I bought it for dick pics. Have a nice day!

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>>4510897


The point of their post is pointing out the hilarity of getting a bunch of expensive shit just to poorly take a black and white of a fucking dog

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>>4510897
>took the post seriously
>wrote an essay about their opinion
Lmao. Here's a better crop. :D

Speedotrons are the best bang for your buck 4800ws strobes and they work great. The majority of studio wetplate photographers use them. No way in hell am I paying 20k+ for 4800ws broncolor strobes. Not necessary for what Im doing.

>>4510903
they seem to actually expect us to be impressed by their gear kek

>>4510904
>fucks up composition
>uh you know i can zoom in more! look! *pixel peeps harder*
is this a joke?

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>>4510905


It was clearly tongue in cheek


They were just listing off a bunch have random shit that probably gets touted on here


I ONLY use the FINEST Lenses made of QUARTZ


They cost me quite a Pretty Penny


No matter; I'm what you'd call a BILLIONAIRE

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>>4510904


Who gives a fuck it's just a fuckin dog lol

>>4510907
>random
bruv, he actually bought all that. he’s been bragging about the discount mfdb for over a year.
>putting the bud in the bottom of the grinder
Pourquoi

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>>4510909


That's the "container" portion of the grinder


And kek if he's serious, this board is fucking HILARIOUS


I only post on /ck/ and /o/, but found this place when someone used my "ugly slow gay" on here to describe a nikon camera if i recall correctly

>>4510907
Wait, are you keysanon from ck? The point of my post was to reply to >>4510826 and it flew over the other angry guys head that I was just pointing out I technically do have a phase one digital back and have posted with it. Very funny.


>>4510906
The ear crop was intentional. Ever heard of leibovitz, pleb?

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>>4510909
Don't lie about me, mr.sour grapes. I haven't posted digital pictures or talked about my hy6 in months aside from when I got my film back adapter so I could use it for film finally. That's why I got the camera in the first place. I just got an insanely good deal on one that came with a digital back and 4 lenses.

>>4510910
Holy shit it is you. Are you going toxstart posting phaseone on your engine to upset everyone /p/ now?

>>4510912
>>4510911
>technically, i do have a phaseone
>from the 1990s
Ok bud hope your financial situation improves soon

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>>4510911


That depends


Do you see me?


These niggas say they heard of Me


I wain't heard of you

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>>4510912


I don't even know what phaseone is lol


I'm more into the whole


D R E A M A E S T H E T I C


They don't let me post my... STYLIZED pictures to /ck/ anymore those bastards want to see my food in all it is clarity or something


You just can't imitate my STYLE

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I SHOOT 8X10 AND CANNOT FATHOM CARING.

>>4510902
Incredibly based. You as well.

>>4510913
LOL.

>>4510914
I have, yeah. If you posted phaseone on engine I think you would be the king of /p/. You gotta get the trichromatic back tho.

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>>4510915
Bro I just spent like 7 grand on some old lenses that were made to be intentionally blurry. I could take some pretty dreamaesthetic food pictures with them, but I mostly stick to eggs and dog pictures.

This one has a pretty good dreamaesthetic, no?

>>4510917
>center framed
>not as sloppily
>but: no ear clipping
well, it’s an improvement

The unsolicited cope critiques are always so funny. More power to you if it makes you feel better.

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>>4510917


Best I can do is iphone 16 pro on engine


Haven’t had an apple product for over a decade


Feels really good in hand


The os is still terrible


>>4510920


That’s a waste of money


I won’t divulge my secret technique, but let’s just say it was completely free


Needs more H A Z E


Needs to be blown the fuck out


And my Dreams


https://youtu.be/V1LhC1zGouc


are mostly about Beautiful Women, not doges


Mostly


When the Rain washes you Clean


You’ll know

>>4510920
>i spent seven grand to clip the ear and forget to get the nose in focus
Huskysnapper vibes
https://archive-media.palanq.win/p/image/1757/86/1757868602742.jpg
>inb4 that was your alter ego

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>>4510925
Im not going to put finger smudges all over my expensive lenses. This one is clearly hazemaxxed beyond belief. Do not lie and tell me it isn't.

I'll tell you one of my secrets. If you stretch pantyhose over your lens it will get you an even hazier look. I'm sure you have a pair laying around somewhere.

>>4510930
What did he use for this again? A nikon Z8 and 70-200 f2.8? jej

If I actually did get a trichromatic back I would only ever post pictures of my dog taken with it.

I'm starting to realize eggman is just a narcissist with his own niche autist fixation, no humility either
Very sad, I used to think highly, but the veil has fallen for me

>>4510937
>if
>not when
sad! when anons pose as rich, but are already out of lottery money

>>4510943
The LF fixation just feels like any other photo gimmick at this point

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>>4510932


That wain’t the Secret


https://youtu.be/MtQFDKAonIw


That isn’t the


Right kind have H A Z E

>>4510943
You’re not the first to come to this conclusion - nor is /p/ the first board to notice

>>4510943
I can't joke around with the salty gearfags without getting called a narcissist now? Jeez I never even said I was better than anyone else. I just listed prices for all my gear. I guess you were never a real fan of mine. Sad.
I would have hoped you understood this, but I do still life as a way to practice composition, lighting, camera operation, and artistic expression/creativity. It's not a fixation. It is creative restraint that I've chosen to stick with for almost a year now, and seen huge improvements in my photography even outside of still life work. Working with an 8x10 camera and contact printing isn't a fixation either. I found the photographic process I enjoy the most and I've spent thousands of hours practicing it at this point because I really do love it. The novelty of using big camera has worn off long ago and now it is simply the tool I've chosen to create with. It still really excites me when I first see my prints and again when they're framed and on the wall, but the camera operation is just relaxing fun that allows me make negatives that I can contact print at this point.

>>4510945
Insanity. You're just proving my initial rant correct like so many of the posts that came after it.

>>4510950
I don't smoke weed anymore. :( can I use beer instead?

>>4510959
But maybe it’s time to move on
https://digitalback.com/products/phase-one-xf-iq3-100mp-trichromatic-pre-owned-1
Only one available. Don’t be a pussy.

>>4510822
Do you still have links to these images?

>>4510835
Retarded bragging but people who don't see the quality of the result are also retarded.

>>4510960
No. I love the analog process and the results I get with it too much to stop. Film and alt processes are the future of real photography. It's the counter to AI bullshit and people will appreciate it even more than they already do once AI seeps its way into all forms of digital photography.

Maybe one day I'll actually waste money and rent an XF + trichromatic back for a couple days so I can troll all of you with some really insanely high IQ dog pictures. That would be really funny, but probably not 2500 dollars funny.

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>>4510959


As longe as thee Beer is Good Beer

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>>4510961
Yeah here is the 600MP+ shot. I can't post the full 8x10 because my shop was insanely messy and I dont want you to see, but this crop is roughly the size of half a 35mm negative. I used one of the sharpest 8x10 lenses ever for it, and only like f11 to minimize diffraction. No sharpening in post. If I used a dslr to scan the neg I bet the words on the bottles would be fully legible.
600MP is assuming this crop has roughly 5MP of resolution lol. I used foma100 for this shot also.

Heres the wetplate link. My wetplate technique is not nearly as good as this guys, so I wouldn't be able to pull raw resolution like this, but it doesn't really matter for producing pleasing plates. You still get a very beautiful tonality and look from wetplate regardless. Wetplate grain size is on an atomic scale.

https://billrolph.com/wet-plate-resolution-1

>>4510962
Can’t afford it huh

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>>4510961
I got a wetplate book and it had this fun little factoid in it. If you used the fictional perfect lens with advanced ultra high precision focusing you could get truly unbelievable resolution from wetplate. Expose on glass and you have the craziest negative that you could enlarge to billboard sizes and ruin entirely through optical degradation lol.

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>>4510966
I'm going to be spending the same amount or more on a professional level darkroom once I get my permits approved to start building it.
The room will be 10x14 in dimension and will be fully plumbed with temp controlled water, humidity and temp controls, negative pressure HVAC system for ventilation and a completely dust free environment, and a custom made 316 stainless 10 foot sink that will allow me to make up to 20x24 prints. I have a motorized beseler 45vxl with color head that will be wall mounted for everything up to 4x5 enlargements.
I'm still waiting for a good deal on an 8x10 conversion kit for my beseler, but I think you either have it converted and only do 8x10 or non-converted and standard film holders fit for everything up to 4x5.
I'm fine with just contact prints for now, but enlarging 8x10 sounds fun. I'm extremely interested in seeing one of my egg pictures printed to 20x24. Just imagine this one printed huge.

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>>4510966
Or this one. It kinda looks like a person in a hooded dress, so having it be person sized would have such a crazy presence when you're standing in front of it.

>>4510969
>Yes, can’t afford it
K
Your gear does not matter
Stick to photos

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>Mfw the troll can't read

>>4511006
I simply don't want it. I already use a much better and more powerful camera almost everyday.
I will say that the phase one XF body is incredibly cool and pretty inexpensive all things considered. I think you can use one of the older 50MP backs with it and mamiya lenses to get a really powerful camera for not 30k, but shooting digital just doesn't spark joy like a 40lb camera that takes me 2 hours to compose and take a single shot does.
Maybe if you ask really nicely and compliment my dog photos a few times I'll buy the trichromatic back. The compliments need to be sincere and your request must be heartfelt. Okay?

Wait... why dont you buy it and become the king of /p/?

>>4510959
>Jeez I never even said I was better than anyone else.
Do you think that's what narcissists do?
Sad you can't recognize your autism either

>>4511026
Bizarre you cant understand why I do what I do after I explained it so clearly. Anyways... NO U.

Now post some of your photos and brutally mog me.

>>4511030
I understand why you think you do what you do

>>4511036
>I know you better than you know yourself from the obvious shitposts you make on a basketweaving gear forum!
YIKES!

I got my first 8x10 camera because I wanted to shoot larger wetplates and then I made the huge mistake of getting actual 8x10 film for it and got hooked on the quality of the prints 8x10 film makes. Big film opens a whole world of Alt processes like albumen and ziatype that are really really fun also.

Where are your pictures to brutally photomog me with btw?

>>4511039
Do you think narcissists have an accurate perception of the semselves?

>>4511009
tldr

i dont care about your gear if you cant afford something good. stick to photos. like basic composition, getting your dogs nose in focus, and fixing your black level.

if you only have second or third rate gear no one cares about what you have or why you have it. please spare us your ebay purchase history next time and stick to learning photography, sis. you can’t buy good photos. you don’t have enough money to.

>>4511063
brvtal

>>4511063
>cares enough to read post, lie about reading post, provide an unsolicited critique of a test shot, and reply to post with a weirdly insecure essay.
Dont worry too much you aren't the only one kek

>so offended by the implication of no one reading your gay gear blog that you reply to insist they did
kek

sorry anonymous but if you cant afford impressive gear no one really cares what you buy, and you rambling about your universally attainable ebay finds while posting mediocre/bad photos of dogs is just annoying

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>>4511068
The only people offended are the ones that took my bait. I guess this whole thread was a little too much for you to read, huh?
My dog photography is obviously not serious work. Ive taken some sweet pics of him, and the 8x10 one is an objectively awesome shot even if his ear is clipped, but the majority of the dog pictures I share are obviously just for fun, cute pics or whatever.
It's remarkable how greedily the seething bait takers grab the obviously low hanging fruit. Egg pictures remain entirely ignored.

Now lets see some of your studio shots! I bet you take really great pictures.

>I’m not a bad photographer yammering about gear its bait
>i shot, developed, printed, and scanned these photos as a joke
>also i seethe when told my gear doesnt matter (dont you know how much i spent?) and people dont read my posts
>>4510943
you are right

Does anyone know why the people mad at me for an obvious joke always reply with bot tier responses?
Am I being extremely poorly trolled by literal bots or are these people just retarded?

>>4511134
>I just wanted attention. Why are people calling my bad photos bad and ignoring my good ones? I recited my ebay purchase history (pile of estate sale junk) and begged you to get on my level as a joke it was how i normally act but i didn’t mean it honest
Maybe you should shut up about your shitty gear and stick to posting good photos instead of reposting dog snapshits?

more seething bot posts lmao. Why is it so easy to bait nophotos on /p/?

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>>4511136
Thanks for acknowledging that my egg pics are good. :D
I disagree that professional grade rodenstock lenses, legendary brass barrel lenses, gitzo carbon tripod, arca swiss cube, and the best monorail camera ever made are just estate sale junk, but you do you bb.

Once I get my darkroom built you think this would be a good first picture to print on 20x24 paper?

>>4511145
German shepherds, huskies, and pitbulls are the unholy trinity of shitty dogs for shitty people

>>4511142
It only took you three years, ten different cameras, and most of your dignity to take TWO good photos. By the time you take three you will be $20,000 poorer and being investigated for sex crimes.

>>4511151
Wow. Thanks for the compliment! I took that one almost 3 years ago. :) I've been doing 8x10 eggs for about a year and 8x10 in general for around 2.

Please tell your mother I apologize. I simply could not resist her hot cross buns.

>>4510835
The guy who fucking started this mutant deformed dog breed i hope he suffers in hell. The only gs that should be accepted should be working gsd, the ones that look like normal dogs not the ones with fucked up back legs.

>>4511142
Spends tens of thousands £ on gear, still stars ave angel wings in the corners. Thanks for stopping me in searching for a better milky way lens

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>>4511151
Sorry I lied. I only took that pic a little over 2 years ago.

>>4511256
That was taken with a graflex xlsw with the old style 47mm super angulon and horseman 6x9 back. Super fun and simple camera that costs under a grand. The dust was free. :D

>>4511260
>>4511168
I was never complimenting the terrible practice photos you took of your mutt. The two egg photos you posted ITT are the only good photos you have ever posted here.

Everything else has been pretty garbage, every bit as bad your husky owning alter ego’s landscapes.

>>4511271
>schizo nophoto has shit taste in dogtography.
Thank you for the compliments, angry lil guy. If you post some exceptional work, like I have, I would love to return the favor and give you some big props as well. :)