Why wouldn't it give you a great shot? Oh, I guess you mean hand held, because you assumed AC will be shooting from the back of a galloping horse.

Do they even make f/8 lenses?

I may be alone in this, but I wand a D800 to replace my D7000. So much easier to grip that thing, whereas I have my pinky hanging off of my D7000.

So you think a photographer just copies his SD card to his computer, resizes the JPEGs and emails them to you? They spend hours reprocessing the RAW images they shot with equipment that probably cost them close to $10k, using software to process it that probably cost them another few grand, and spending a bunch of hours processing and cropping them to tell a story, then hearing your input, going back to reprocess them.

I'm sure $250 is good enough for your Las Vegas wedding though.

Give the chef a bunch of dull knives, put everything in the wrong place, and give him ingredients a few days past their sell by and see how well he works.

I'm not sure about the rental part, since you need to use the camera to get familiar with it so that you don't miss shots. Even leaving it in automatic mode might not be good enough as you might now know how to disable the flash, or why the picture is out of focus.

The iPhone 6 takes decent pics, but I would never remember a trip to London, let alone something as memorable as my wedding, through phone pictures. You could buy a Nikon D50 for $100 and get much better pictures, in RAW format for further fixes. You could spend $400 on a D7000. These things aren't reserved to the weekend warrior professional with loads of money.

And you'd have to print out iPhone pictures, too, unless I missed a new Apple announcement.

So an f/2.2 lens offers greater DoF than a 1.8 lens, or a 1.4 lens?

No one said you have to choose one. The phone is fine to get you by, but you always wish you had something better with you. And if you care enough, carrying an SLR isn't a big hassle.

Picture of the menu, because I'm highly incredulous. I find photographing your food silly, but wouldn't forbid people from doing it. Afterall, how else could I get my chuckles.

Just as suspected, he had no ideas that have any chance of working in the real world.

Why care that you keep living? Don't your parents have other kids? If not, they can create more.

What sort of reasoning is that. You don't think killing our president is something we should strive to prevent, even if we have systems for finding replacements? You think an open seat in the cabinet would be the only outcome of such an event?

Correct, it is the target that's the problem. We should dig underground. Move all of our goverment infrastructure out of sight. Ground all planes and travel by underground trains. Also, all citizens should put their heads in holes in the ground.

Right, because no one has ever been arrested for possession of a weapon and quite likely prevented from committing a crime. A law doesn't block a criminal, but it gives law enforcement more power in finding those breaking it, such as noticing a gun in someone's belt. If guns were legal, do you think it would be easy to pick out who is and isn't a criminal? Similarly, if drones are outlawed within a specific radius of the White House, anyone that looks like they have the equipment, or seem to be controlling a drone would be easier to spot.

It's easy to scoff at this, until someone does attack the WH with a drone and we all call the feds incompetent for not preventing an attack with a toy. We like to have it both ways.

I imagine the difference between an RC plane and a drone is the same as it is between a helicopter and a plane. Could you easily fly an airplane inside the building through an open window? Could you hide yourself behind a wall, out of view of a camera in a plane? No, you'd have to plan your approach far ahead to hit a target with any precision, and obviously you couldn't just hover.

Drones lower the barriers to entry for highly targeted attacks, where you probably might need some laser guided weapon, which would be a bit harder to attain than a drone with an iOS video app.

That toy could be a professional level drone, carrying the same payload a briefcase could. And we still inspect briefcases, right?