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Usually when I mount a remote camera for basketball games, I put the camera behind the back board, or on the sides of the support, or overhead in the rafters. Those are all good locations and make great pictures, but I’ve also always wondered about the possibility of a low-angle mount from close to basket center.

This past Tuesday, I tried one of these low mounts at the Indiana game at Crisler Arena here in Ann Arbor, Mich. I wasn’t sure whether my camera position was entirely legit, given that poor ball boy looks like he probably hit his head on my mount a couple times throughout the night…

But I thought the results were worthwhile, and the angle is definitely worth trying again. What d’you think?

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As of today, Jan 1, 2008, the Transportation Safety Administration has new regulations that prohibit passengers from packing any loose lithium-ion batteries in their checked luggage on flights.

[See the TSA's news release]:

Passengers will no longer be able to pack loose lithium batteries in checked luggage beginning January 1, 2008 once new federal safety rules take effect. The new regulation, designed to reduce the risk of lithium battery fires, will continue to allow lithium batteries in checked baggage if they are installed in electronic devices, or in carry-on baggage if stored in plastic bags.

So this means for us photographers, we can pack our extra camera batteries in plastic baggies and include them in our carry-on bags. Since I never like to check anything anymore when I fly, and if I have to, I check only my expendable cloths and stuff like gifts or monopods, hopefully this new regulation won’t be too much of a nuisance.

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