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Glad to hear it's working for you Nolan. Might want to consider putting your contat information on the logo too! i.e., website and phone number. -

Probably reset several times over six years. Good luck on getting a new camera and the logo thingy.

I doubt that 9236 pictures. 6 years - 300 inspections a year would only equal about five photos per inspection. I don't know if your's used the same conventions my older cameras have, but my older ones (and I think this new one) typically number pictures up to 9999 and then start over at 0001 and go around and around with those numbers. My favorite about this one so far (over the old ones I've had) is that the telephoto function doesn't extend outside the waterproof body. Reduces greatly the chance that dust in dirty places will goof up the mechanisms. -

Fast Stone Photo Resizer. http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm I take large photos, 3 or 4 megabytes, (in case I need to blow them up and look real close when writing the report). I use fast stone to resize all photos to 640x480 at one shot for report inclusion, though I don't include all photos. It's just easier to resize all of them at once instead of picking and choosing. During the resize, I use the Advanced Options "add watermark feature" to add the watermark (logo) and decide where to place it. I used to use the bottom right setting but since I started adding the date and time to them, it covered the time. So I switched to using the bottom left setting. The logo itself is just a document I made up Word, used the "snipping tool" to grab a screen capture, saved it as a JPG and resized, using faststone AND maintaining porportions, to 146 x 78. Had to play with that several times to get it exactly what I wanted. Need help with it, give me a call. 502-570-4054 I got an extra battery with it. Went to Wal-Mart and bought an 8 gigabyte flash card for it. I carry it, (as I did all my cameras after the first three broke from being dropped six times each) in an overlarge belt pouch with a large flap with a "BIG" piece of velcro on it. I also have it attached to a neck strap that reaches to the pouch. Keeps me from dropping it when I'm handling it but the pouch keeps it out of the way when I'm not actually using it. -

No, Scott. It's got that little orange autofocus beam. In attics or crawl spaces or other dark places, I don't even look at the view finder until after I take the picture. I just point that little orange beam (just like I would a flashlight beam) and snap the picture. Click to Enlarge 56.76 KB Click to Enlarge 52.41 KB Click to Enlarge 51.59 KB Click to Enlarge 72.05 KB Click to Enlarge 51.26 KB With all my cameras that have the little orange auto focus beam, I've found it best to turn my flashlight away or off, point the orange beam, shoot the picture with the flash. That's what I did on the above "dark space" photos.

Daylight display is just fine! -

EDIT: Geeze, been trying to get this in here since last night. FINALLY! I got one too! Close-ups with Macro are pretty good (when I can hold it still). IF I was doing the macros and zooms for a reason other than dinking around, I'd get a tripod with a release. Click to Enlarge 27.78 KB Click to Enlarge 49.5 KB Click to Enlarge 31.33 KB Click to Enlarge 30.41 KB Zoom is pretty sharp (when I can hold the camera still) These guys are about 500 yards away out on the lake. The rocks in the background are a good 3/4 - 1 mile away across the lake. Click to Enlarge 56.36 KB This gives you a better idea of how far away the rocks are. Click to Enlarge 57.31 KB These guys were "way out there" in the early morning fog. They were just as spot on the water to the naked eye. I zoomed as far as it would go. Click to Enlarge 38.4 KB The "stitch three pictures together" feature worked pretty intuitively with a decent result. Click to Enlarge 40.48 KB Click to Enlarge 40.02 KB And the "just snapshots" come out pretty good too! Click to Enlarge 87.68 KB Dutch Oven Biscuits for breakfast! Click to Enlarge 54.6 KB Click to Enlarge 49.38 KB Battery life is good but I make sure I've got a spare battery. Holds more photos than I'll ever take at two or three inspections. I like the fact that the zoom works without the lens extending out of the body. That's what usually killed my other cameras, when dust got in the telephoto mechanism. Easy handling. I doubt that I'll actually be sticking it under water to test the water proof feature, but I like it REALLY WELL!

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You lose. My rim joist is way more rotten than your OSB.

If I thought everything was stable and it looked big enough to get through, yup. But, I might go back and double check that there's not another entry in the floor of the second area before I did it.

Ben. Remember to check and see if the courses are recognized by Kentucky for your license. Of course, it may be worth it sometimes even if the courses don't count for licensing. -

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Sure you do. It's that bag over your head!!

Picture 2 was behind a couple of baskets of "finer things" in the master bedroom closet. Besides, I think he was an honest seller that just didn't know any better. Said he was told the closet stuff was from a repaired plumbing leak from the sink to the right (away from the outside wall) of the closet. -

The fun would go out of it if the new guys didn't get awhile to guess so I won't explain yet other than 16 year old house on a concrete block foundation wall w/ crawl space and wood lap siding. Seller just bought it a year ago and had his fireman buddy look at it (inspected?) for him. You can look at all six pictures all on one sheet by downloading the PDF File or one at time by clicking on them. Download Attachment: TIJPost.pdf 43.06 KB Click to Enlarge 62.87 KB Click to Enlarge 29.05 KB Click to Enlarge 49.12 KB Click to Enlarge 58.36 KB Click to Enlarge 71.25 KB Click to Enlarge 62.36 KB -

C'mon Ben. You're in Kentucky. Can't you recognize degraded (dun wore out) duct tape on the flue?? [:-monkeyd[:-monkeyd[:-monkeyd

Got a phone call from Las Vegas later that morning asking if what I'd posted on "uh, let's see, Inspectors Journal website" was indeed true that solar convergence had melted vinyl siding on houses in Kentucky. Yup, it was one of their reporters reading Inspectors Journal. http://www.lvrj.com/news/media-warms-up ... 38834.html Guess whose website comes up second if you Google "solar convergence". Hint: It's someplace y'all know and love. -

Google is a strange thing! Anyone google raisin resin lately? -

I understand that there is a twelve step program for internal raisin resin syndrome. Though personally, internal raisin resin syndorme makes me feel better, at least until I wake up in the morning. A program hasn't yet been established for external raisin resin syndrome. What a nasty bunch of thread stealers we all are. Here we are talking about raisin resin syndrome when the original post was about, hmm, I forget now but I'm sure it wasn't important anyway. -

Yuck, raisins in the kitchen. Geeze, I better go search mine right now! -

Not necessarily true, is it? I've seen cases where contractors come in to upgrade an old 60 Amp service and the only thing they did was install a 200 Amp panel. The original SEC and meter base were still there along with the original power coming wiring to the meter base. -

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Best bet is to contact the gas supplier and see what they say. Local code guys don't seem to know much about gas lines and refer to the gas provider (propane or natural). -

Probably about the story on the news this morning about a hotel in Vegas that shines solar convergence on it's swimming pool. Kind of like the windows we see putting solar convergence on the neighbor's house melting the vinyl siding! http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/las-vegas- ... d=11760093 -

I have a neighbor who was 370 something a couple of years ago. Didn't see much of him. He didn't spend much time anywhere besides work and the couch. Noticed a new guy living at the house the last few months. I thought the wife had gotten a new husband after he was gone. Found out a week or so ago that it was him at 209 pounds. http://teambeachbody.com/connect/succes ... F327.node2 He's the first one on the page. Sharp! Credits it to P90X. He's made several talks about it.