That's a big step, Dorothy, but it sounds you're ready, and have been for a very long time!

Picked up batteries today, and will use the external flash I haven't used in ages to do a bounced flash to for photos of an important document that we have in our collection. It's encapsulated in very shiny mylar so I need to do what I can to avoid reflections. I realized this morning I need a flash stand because I can use my old large flash in conjunction with a wireless setting on the new camera (in a "slave" setting) - but only if I have the stand. I can get away without a stand today, but I just dropped one in my shopping cart at Amazon. I may have a stand at the house so I'll look around first, but they're inexpensive if I need to replace it.

I'm enjoying learning more about my camera - I've been using them successfully for years, but I can do a better job. Now I'm looking at storage space (hard drives) to replace a couple of smaller drives I've been using with the computer. These camera images are huge and need very large files to live on. It is more of a virtual clutter/declutter situation here, and the time that goes into researching if I can use my old enclosures with the new much faster higher-capacity drives, etc.

SRS