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Cameras, lenses and accessories (includes point & shoot, SLR and video)

Panasonic SDR-H200 (DV camcorder/digital still camera)

Panasonic HDC-HS9 (HD video camera)

Sony HDR-FX7 (HDV camcorder)

Canon ZR700 (DV camcorder/digital still camera)

Sony HDR-HC3 (HDV camcorder/digital still camera)

Panasonic PV-GS500 (DV camcorder/digital still camera)

Panasonic PV-GS34 (DV camcorder/digital still camera)

Nikon D2x (digital SLR camera)

Panasonic PV-GS35 (DV camcorder/digital still camera)

Nikon Coolpix L1 (digital point & shoot)

Samsung SC-D6550 (DV camcorder/digital still camera)

Nikon D50 (digital SLR camera)

Canon Optura 600 (DV camcorder/digital still camera)

Nikon Coolpix S4 (digital point & shoot)

Nikon Speedlight 800 (camera flash unit)

Nikon D70s (digital SLR camera)

AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED (digital SLR lens)

Nikon D2Hs (digital SLR camera)

Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT (digital SLR camera)

Nikon Coolpix S2 (digital point & shoot)

Nikon Coolpix 8400 (digital point & shoot)

Nikon Coolpix 7900 (digital point & shoot)

Canon PowerShot S70 (digital point & shoot)

Canon PowerShot Pro1 (digital SLR camera)

Sony DCR-TRV70 (DV camcorder)

Canon PowerShot SD100 Digital ELPH (digital point & shoot)

Printers & scanners

Lexmark C543dn (color laser printer)

Epson Stylus Photo R2400 (photo ink jet printer)

Lexmark C500 and C500n (color laser printers)

Epson PictureMate Deluxe Viewer (standalone photo printer)

Lexmark E120n (monochrome laser printer)

Canon Pixma iP6600D (photo printer)

Lexmark C520 (color laser printer)

Canon Pixma iP5200R (ink jet printer )

Epson Stylus Photo R320 (ink jet printer)

Canon Pixma iP8500 (ink jet printer)

Epson Perfection 4990 Photo (flatbed scanner)

Canon Pixma iP6000D (ink jet printer)

Lexmark X7170 Color Jetprinter (general purpose, multifunction printer)

Epson Photo Stylus R800 (ink jet printer)

Lexmark P315 Snapshot Photo Printer (standalone photo printer)

Canon i9900 (photo printer)

Lexmark C510 Color Laser (color laser printer)

Canon Pixma iP1500 (ink jet printer)

Hewlett-Packard Color LaserJet 1500 and ColorJet 3500 (color laser printers)

Canon i850 Photo Printer (ink jet printer)

Epson Stylus Photo 960 (ink jet printer)

HP LaserJet 1300 (monochrome laser printer)

Miscelaneous equipment

Panasonic IC-US430 (flash-based audio recorder)

Books, maps and CDs

The UN Gang (book)

Current Practice Guidelines in Primary Care 2009 (book)

A Tragic Legacy – How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency (book)

Michel Thomas Method French For Beginners, 10-CD Program (Audio CD)

Fundraising, 2nd edition (book)

The Coming Collapse of the Dollar (book)

The Truth About Managing People (book)

Strike the Baby and Kill the Blonde (book)

Audition - A Memoir (book)

Contrary to Popular Belief (book)

Elvis by the Presleys (book)

The Pill Book (book)

Who Hates Whom (book)

265 Troubleshooting Strategies for Writing Nonfiction (book)

DVD Demystified (book/DVD set)

Outliving Heart Disease (book)

Michel Thomas Method - Speak French Vocabulary Builder (CD set)

Reporting: Writings from The New Yorker (book)

A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 (book)

Emergency Navigation (book)

Crimes Against Logic (book)

Saving Dinner the Vegetarian Way (book)

Recognizing and Surviving Heart Attacks and Strokes (book)

Chase's Canendar of Events 2008 (book/CD set)

The Self-Destruction Handbook (book)

Speak German for Beginners (CD set)

Just Enough German (book)

Awake in the Dark – The Best of Roger Ebert (book)

Magical Secrets About Thinking Creatively (book/DVD-ROM)

BLS Case Studies in Emergency Care (book)

Icons of Photography – The 20th Century (photo book)

Iraqi Phrasebook (book)

The Female Brain (book)

Dorothea Lange - Photographs of a Lifetime (photo book)

Nazar: Photographs from the Arab World (photo book)

Anatomy for the Artist (photo book)

Forensics For Dummies (book)

In Italino - Rapid Success in Italian for Beginners (book/CD set)

Harrap’s Pardon My French (book)

Tune Up Your French (book/CD set)

AA London Street By London (book)

Read & Speak Chinese For Beginners (book)

Lonely Planet Trans Siberian Railway (book)

The Itty Bitty Guide to Business Travel (book)

Big Blue Book of French Verbs (book)

Hanging Out In England (book)

Hollywood Divas (book)

Hollywood Bad Boys (book)

Lonely Planet Travellers' Tips (book)

Lonely Planet Norway (book)

Search Engine Visibility (book)

50 Walks in London (book)

Visual QuickStart Guide - Adobe Acrobat for Windows & Macintosh 6 (book)

The Writer's FAQs, 2nd edition (book)

The Mac OS X Conversion Kit (book)

The Longman Handbook of Twentieth Century Europe (book)

Advertising Media Planning (book)

Alberto Salazar's Guide to Road Racing (book)

Lonely Planet Russian Phrasebook (book)

Lonely Planet Frankfurt City Map (map)

Opportunities in Television and Video Careers (book)

Siberian BAM Guide (book)

101 Questions and Answers About Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (book)

Walking Amsterdam (book)

Brought to You In Living Color - 75 Years of Great Moments of Television... (book)

en français - Rapid Success in French for Beginners (book/CD set)

Teach Yourself Islam (book)

How We Lived Then - A History of Everyday Life During the Second Word War (book)

German for Dummies (book)

On This Date... (book)

South-East Asia - A Graphic Guide (book)

Teach Yourself Film Making (book)

Software

Apple Mac OS X v10.5 (operating system)

Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 (word processing, spreadsheet, presentation & communications)

Microsoft Word for Mac 2008 (word processing)

Microsoft Excel for Mac 2008 (spreadsheet)

Microsoft Entourage for Mac 2008 (e-mail)

Microsoft Word 2003 (word processing)

Adobe Photoshop v7.0 (photo retouching)

Norton SystemWorks (computer utility)

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