Bring out your weapons.

[walterick]

I have seen you ralley in the countryside.

I have seen your crests riding in the breeze.

For a millenia now have you gathered in the valley,

Awaiting your call to serve.

I awaken you!

Nikon Samurai!

Clan O Canon!

Sonikanolta Warriors!

It is time to rise! The time has come to raise your flags and advance to the battlefield!

For now is the time for bat-tle!

Let you come to this, the Round Table, and decide what rules of contest for ye first Photographyreview Battle of the Clans!

Speak now! For the winds of war are blowing.

And aye, it is a mighty smell.

[srobb]

Clan O'Canon is represented and I call my brethren to me now!!! To arms!!!!!!!!!!!

[payn817]

lol!
I'm staying out of this, as I may be a samurai VERY soon...

[walterick]

Ah! A defect-or! We welcome ye oh brother! Gather ye sword and prepare for bat-tle!

[Axle]

Armed, Armored, and Ready!

[mtbbrian]

NIKON RULES!
All others, well, you know.. ;)

Brian

[Mr Yuck]

I'm gonna have to side with Canon, safest bet, as it is the best, and I hate losing.

[SmartWombat]

Children, children.
I have Canon, and Minolta, and Exacta, and Kodak, and Casio, and Sony, and Panasonic.
Do I have to fight myself?

Look over my Viewfinder Nature pictures - I thinkyou'll have to agree at web resolution the camera doesn't matter.

[Lionheart]

Oh....can't we just all get along?;)
I've got Panasonic, Canon, Minolta, and Pentax, and at Costco last week, I almost picked up a Nikon D50 just for grins. Does the brand really matter? They all make great cameras, and they all make a few Edsels too. It's the image that matters-especially at web resolutions
However...CANON RULES!!!!!

[walterick]

Oh....can't we just all get along?;)

Nonsense! There is a war brewing!

All ye who pledge allegiance to many clans must choose! The bat-tle will not await ye!

[Liz]

It's CANON all the way! There is no other way!

CANON CANON CANON CANON CANON CANON CANON CANON

Secret: I have a small but nice Panasonic FZ3 as a 2nd camera

Liz

[ken1953]

Ah so Master Samurai's...we shall rise and smite the pretenders. All hail the conquering heroes, the NIKON SAMURAI have picked up the gauntlet of challenge and we shall be victorious!!! All bow before our mighty power!!!

NIKON RULZ,
ALL OTHERS DROOL!!!!

Ken

[JSPhoto]

LOL, Yup, gotta go with my two BIG Canons (1D & 1D MK II N) and then the lil ole 300D, but those first two big Canon's should be equal to 50 Nikon's. And Canon IS the BEST!

JS

[JSPhoto]

Actually Ken, the Nikon users drool when they see those pretty white Canon lenses. I also heard a Nikon user I know has nightmares ever since he and I got the same shot but his was BLURRED.....the nightmare was that he gets fired and replaced by a Canon. Funny, a week later his boss bought a Canon I haven't seen him since either.

JS

[Loupey]

What's all this about!? I'm out of town for one day and I come back to this! Boys! Boys! (and Liz)!

Anyway, I bet I can make one heck of a Bronica mace and beat the whole lot of you!;)

[walterick]

It's CANON all the way! There is no other way!

CANON CANON CANON CANON CANON CANON CANON CANON

Fair maden,

Because of your true heart you shall be shown mercy when the Nikon Samurai whip up on the Clan O Canon.

But let this be a warning! All other Canon members shall meet the wrath of Samurai steel! (aluminum, titanium, plastic, whatever) !

[walterick]

Samurai Master Ken has spoken! Let it be said, and so from the hills it shall ring:

"The Nikon Lords shall prevail and all those who are not shall suffer from superfluous salivation flow!"

So it is written, so shall it be done.

Ah, so.

[walterick]

I decree:

On this, the day of our lord the eighth of march, in the year two thousand and six;

There shall be a contest.

This contest shall be photographic in nature.

This contest shall pit the Clan O Canon against the Nikon Samurai and the Sonikanolta Warriors in a fight for dominance in the Viewfinder.

This contest shall have a theme. The theme shall be decided by all, around ye olde Round Table here.

The tribal members shall then go and partake of many pictures of this theme, and return not until the mission has deemed complete!

The tribe with the best pictures shall be deemed Champion! And shall retain rights to gloateth until the next match shall comence!

Now, brethern and sistern, we must decide upon this theme lest another moment pass! Make haste of your minds! And let ye ideas flow as the ale to our cups!

[PerPlunk]

Yall got problems... It raining near yall or something today?

[Axle]

I doth acept thine challenge Sir Walterick.

As for the rain the naive PerPlunk doth mention, the only rain I doth see is thine. Thou doth raineth on our parade, we are mearly engaging in fair sport.

[walterick]

Rain?

Yes I see rain fair jester.

IT IS THE NIKON SAMURAI BRINGING THE HEAVENS DOWN UPON THOSE WHO OPPOSE US!!

Choose ye side, mortal, and take arms! ;)

[zrfraser]

My Minolta Maxxum is armed and ready...I think with Fuji Neopan 400.

So lets get it on!

[Loupey]

Hey, PerPlunk

I bet you and I know at least two people who need a time out;)

And another thing, I'm Japanese and I'll bet no Samurai ever had an accent like that So to you I say, Rots-a-Ruck! (lots of luck)

[Loupey]

Old Japanese Joke:

One day, an old Japanese man went to the eye doctor. The doctor told him, "you have cataracts". To which the old man said, "no I don't, I drive a Rinken".

[greghalliday]

Fully armed, ready, and reporting for duty. But when I lay the smack down, can I use my Kiev?

On the field of battle, and army is nothing without its "Canons." Nikon? Sounds like a shoe.