So I'm getting a canon EOS 350D body only camera and I was wondering what the best 'starter' lens would be. I have a budget so I would like the price to be as low as possible. It's for photography at my school and I would be taking mainly basic photos.  Thank you to anyone who replies 😀
I am considering buying my first DSLR.  How do I know whether I need a 18-200 lens, 17-85, or 18-55? Or something else?
Keeping tables/figures close to where they are mentioned Is there any package or a method to force LaTeX to keep floating environments like table and figure closer to where they are declared? Strange arrow mark with TikZ edge and anchors. When I draw an edge between two nodes with anchors and globally set option [-&gt;], I get an additional arrow tip symbol at the beginning of the last edge in the path. For example in  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz}  \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}     \node (A) at (0,0) {$A$};     \node (B) at (1,0) {$B$};      \draw[-&gt;] (A.north east) edge (B.north west);      \draw (A.south east) edge[-&gt;] (B.south west); \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}   the first \draw command produces incorrect output, while the second produces correct output:    Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug in TikZ? How can you dynamically create variables via a while loop? Why is my total reputation less than my monthly reputation? When I went to the  to see my ranking in the reputation league, I saw this. Is this an error? My total reputation is less than my monthly reputation. File upload to Heroku not working I need to prove this equivalence   Let $a,b \in \mathbb{Q^{+}}$ then $\sqrt{a} + \sqrt{b} \in \mathbb{Q} $ if and only if $\sqrt{a} \in \mathbb{Q}$ and $\sqrt{b} \in \mathbb{Q}$  I have already proved the reciprocal (the obvious part) but I am having difficulties with the other part  Please any hint will be appreciated.  Thanks in advance. Maclaurin series of $\ln(1-x+x^2)$ Is there a closed form expression for $\text{n}^{\text{th}}$ coefficient of Maclaurin series of  $$\ln(1-x+x^2)$$ What do LRESULT, WPARAM and LPARAM mean? How to extract img src, title and alt from html using php? I would like to create a page where all images which reside on my website are listed with title and alternative representation.  I already wrote me a little program to find and load all HTML files, but now I am stuck at how to extract src, title and alt from this HTML:  &lt;img src="/image/fluffybunny.jpg" title="Harvey the bunny" alt="a cute little fluffy bunny" />  I guess this should be done with some regex, but since the order of the tags may vary, and I need all of them, I don't really know how to parse this in an elegant way (I could do it the hard char by char way, but that's painful). how to make clean without any modification? How to find the period of the sum of two trigonometric functions I am working on a prototype, one function of which is to detect whether an object is "in range" by a few cm. Right now I'm just using an Arduino and a cheap  that operates at 13.56 MHz:    I've successfully gotten it to detect the tag, but only at a distance of about 3-4 cm when the tag is oriented parallel to the antenna.  According to my  , the HF band allows read ranges of between 10 cm and 1 m for passive tags, depending on factors like antenna size, tag size and orientation, and transceiver power.  I realize this inexpensive reader is not up to task as-is, but I'm interested in building something that achieves read ranges of 15-20 cm.  Some criteria:   No need to read multiple tags; only whether one tag is in range or not. No need to write to the tag. Cannot use an active tag.   I'm not experienced with RFID reader construction (yet) but am interested in knowing what I should pursue.  Here are some things I've considered:   Ditch the embedded antenna on the cheap RFID reader and construct my own, larger antenna. I'd need to see if the onboard  is up to the task of providing additional power. Look for a different IC around which to build a reader from scratch. Find a ready-made solution instead of trying to build one (more cost-effective?). Use something other than RFID for simple proximity detection.   I am experienced with microcontrollers and basic electronics, and have made audio and lighting projects, but this is a first with RFID. Since I don't need to read multiple tags, which RFID is suitable for, I've considered maybe some sort of magnet and hall-effect sensor, but the range does not seem adequate. I considered using an ultrasonic proximity detector, but the application calls for detecting the tagged object while ignoring untagged ones (ultrasonic would produce false positives on untagged objects). I've considered some sort of reflective surface placed on the object, and detecting reflected light, but the object orientation is not reliable enough to maintain alignment.  So, in a nutshell, What modifications can I make to my existing reader, or what alternate technology should I pursue to achieve 15-20 cm detection of a passively tagged object?  I plan on connecting whatever proximity detector is used to a microcontroller using SPI. Does the concept of infinity have any practical applications? I know what you're thinking: "of course it has, for example, it can be used to tell you how many times you can go around a circle". But that isn't really true, now is it? You'd be dead or the world would go under long before an infinite amount of loops had been reached.  Are there any practical applications for the concept of infinity? Is it a useful concept in maths at all?  I know that Donald E. Knuth has argued that for all practical purposes, a very, very large number has the same effect as infinity, in his book "Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About" (can't remember the exact quote, nor find it online, unfortunately).  Examples are appreciated. I am trying to write a bash script for testing that takes a parameter and sends it through curl to web site.  I need to url encode the value to make sure that special characters are processed properly.  What is the best way to do this?    Here is my basic script so far:  #!/bin/bash host=${1:?'bad host'} value=$2 shift shift curl -v -d "param=${value}" http://${host}/somepath $@ Problems with \printbibliography I am writing my thesis and need to do this with apa citation style.  I used the following code in my main document:  \usepackage[backend=biber,style=apa,sorting=none,natbib=true]{biblatex} \addbibresource{library.bib}  \usepackage[autostyle=true]{csquotes}    and in the end of my main document..  \printbibliography[heading=bibintoc,[title={References}]   However I always get this error:     "Undefined control sequence.   \printbibliography[heading=bibintoc,[title={References}]"   Furthermore in my references table, I get (yearmonthday) instead of (2015)e.g. and the references are not alphabetically sorted. Two column float with [t] using the cas-dc template I am using the cas-dc template for Elsevier. When trying to use \begin{figure*}[t], except I get the error 'The module 'cas/fig' does not have a key called 'cas/fig/t'. Other templates I use work fine. I have included \usepackage{stfloats}. I don't see anything mentioned that strictly forbids it, unless I missed this. Anyone know why? I am Sri-Lankan staying in Bangladesh working in well established company in Bangladesh. I, my wife and two kids applied for Schengen visa from German embassy in Dhaka. I got only sponser letter from my paternal uncle in Germany. We submit all company letter, bank account, school letters, insurance, booking air tickets, etc.  Our visa refused and the reason given "your intention to leave the territory of the member states before the expiry of the visa could not be ascertained" so I want to know what it mean. And how I apply again fix by this reason? Our annual vacation starts on 15 July for one month. I applied visa for 15 days. We plan to stay 15 days in Germany and travel to Sri Lanka and back to Bangladesh. Alphabetically display the items in itemize How do I create subdomain like  ? Do i have to access htaccess somehow? Is it actually simply possible to create it via pure php code or I need to use some external script-server side language?  To those who answered: Well, then, should i ask my hosting if they provide some sort of DNS access?? We write all postive whole integers after the comma, how do we prove that this is an irrational number? ($0.1234567891011121314...$)