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No Merc. Once bitten, twice shy. Canon got $3200 of my money on an awful dud of a camera, damned if I'm going to fall for that scam twice. (I got about half my money back on the R by selling it 18 months later.) Bottom line is that I look through cameras as well as take pictures with them...

Speaking of the 5DS R, it is a magnificent camera. After owning an EOS R for more than a year, I have no intention of going back to mirrorless . The EOS R was rubbish, worst Canon camera I have ever owned by quite a margin, and I've owned plenty. My current kit - 5DS R, 5D IV, 1D IV, 7D II -...

There is a pixel density limit beyond which there really is no point in going smaller. That limit moves from time to time as technology (lenses, mostly) improves, but it moves quite slowly. Currently, the sensible limit is around about 70,000 px/mm2 - i.e., roughly 60MP in a full frame camera...

Having got all this lovely new kit, I won't be using it for another month or two. I'm off to the old house for a month or so shortly, and I'll take the old laptop because it is compatible with the stuff there (screens mostly, and there is a docking station) and I can't be bothered looking around...

Good tip Merc. That is what I would have done in any case, but purely out of habit as I cut my teeth in the days when it was impossible to boot off any drive other than the first one. This newfangled any-drive-you-like caper only came along ... oh ... mid nineties maybe? Meanwhile, I've...

It is a nice little machine. Not a patch on the solidity of the old T Series models, but better built than most of the stuff you see around from other makers. Mind you, at the price you would expect that. This is not a cheap notebook. The screen is remarkably usable for a Thinkpad, actually...

Why they have made them EOL I have no idea, Lunar. Such an obviously useful thing. But the WD ones at least (which are still available if you look hard enough) are very expensive. The very first thing I thought of was a portable NAS, but I have not been able to find anything in that line. Every...

Cheers lads. I've never really found much use for VMs, and none at all since I discovered DOSbox a few years back. But I'm an old OS/2 user and consequently developed the habit of having lots and lots of things open, a habit which endures to this day. RAM doesn't seem to be so much of an issue...

Well I just spat the dummy and ordered a new Thinkpad. It is a T15g, a current but outgoing model. Intel i7 10750 (a lower-end i7 from the Gen 10 family, which ought to be plenty fast enough for me) 16GB RAM. 3 empty slots, can take up to 4 x 32GB for 256GB, which I won't need. 1 x...

At the moment I'm on the track of a used Thinkpad T430, essentially the same thing as my current one but a 14 inch screen. (Which I prefer.) I'd need to add an mSATA drive (if I can still find one - they are a bit scarce) and max out the RAM, possibly replace the battery, but I'd end up with a...

Some very interesting answers here people. I'm learning a good deal. (Half of this new stuff I have to look up because I have made no attempt whatever to stay current since I retired.) I'll look at all of those. No hurry though, I'm just casting an eye over the water at this stage. Time enough...

Thanks Chewy. I don't really care much about screen size: it would mostly run shut using external kb & mouse and one of my big photographic monitors. 14 inch is best for me, but whatever is fine. Discrete graphics because image processing software uses the graphics chip to do its calculations...

It might be time I started thinking about a new laptop. The T Series Thinkpad is more than 8 years old now. It's still going fine but it is getting a bit long in the tooth and today, for the first time, I tried to install some software that I actually cared about which it would not run. (DXO...

JTR, I have the need, once in a while, to run 16-bit DOS software. I find that it works very well under 64-bit Windows using DOS Box.

Many useful and helpful answers, thank you all! We have a successful result. Access 2010 will be all she needs and it is working fine now. The whole idea was to avoid having to learn new skills, FB! Between the two of us we do have at least one bigger, fairly complex database, but that runs...

G'day all. Mrs Tannin uses Microsoft Access for various tasks. She has zero interest in any of the other MS Office applications and doesn't want to rent: she likes the pay once and own it model. Oh, and prefers that it be a proper Windows program, not a stupid Metro app. Can you buy it? If so...

Australia has done much the same, Snowhiker. Meanwhile, the IOC have their heads stuck firmly up their own backsides and are living in cloud-cuckoo land. There is no way the Olympics can go ahead, and hasn't been for at least a month. WANTED: 1 plot. Lost somewhere neat Tokyo, hasn't been...

Not really. It is very much in keeping with Morrison's actions right through this crisis, and through the bushfire disaster before that. His standard MO is "too little too late". Many schools are finally closing as we speak, but even now that is none of Morrison's doing. It is the state premiers...

Better now?

There will be any number of clueless cashed-up gearheads who will happily hand over US$10k+ to buy RF versions of the big whites they already have, simply because it will be a new product. Utterly pointless, but they will spend the money anyway. But you know this. Actually, I'd quite like an...

Perhaps. But there is no advantage to RF over EF when it comes to sport lenses. None. Zero. RF, exactly like EFS, offers a shorter distance between the back of the lens and the film plane. That is useful for wide-angle lenses, marginal for normal lenses, and offers no advantage whatever for...

^ That would be insane. I don't believe it for one moment. Not only are mirrorless cameras inferior for sport and action work because of the lag, Canon don't even have a sport/action mirrorless model yet. They have no mirrorless product equivalent to the 1 Series, the 7D II, or the 5D IV. Camera...

Image processing differences are, in most instances, immaterial. Only where the photographer wants to perform major tonal adjustments (i,e., has left the field of photography in the true sense and is making a manipulated image instead) is it of any consequence. (Or, of course, in the case where...

It's not "of course" shooting raw. It is actually quite amazing how many photographers say this sort of thing without thinking about it. For some tasks, JPGs are clearly preferred. An example is sport on a deadline. And for nearly all tasks they have both advantages and disadvantages. In...

Meanwhile, back in the mundane world, the only thing I've bought recently is a Tamron 85/1.8 IS. At around $800 AU it's a mid-price lens, vastly cheaper than the Canon 85/1.4 IS and 85/1.2 and the Sigma 85/1.4 Art, quite a lot more than the ancient Canon and Nikon 85/1.8s. More importantly, it...

Not quite Newtun, but near enough.

mistake

I don't still miss them. I have three, and use them often. I also have a superb (and mega-expensive) big Dell 16 x 10, which is the next best thing. Cold dead hands, Dave, cold dead hands.

A few months on and the report card is excellent. Battery life is as good or better than expected. It goes for about 9 days, but I usually charge it up once a week. When I travel and use it as a mobile hotspot, than can chew up the juice a bit, brings it back to less than a week. Battery...

Why not just get one that is a more sensible shape?

Microsoft goes out of its way to mess you up that way, Angelwings. There are three reliable ways to beat it: (1) Pay double the price for a professional version of Windows 10 (2) Stick with Windows 8, which is faster and (assuming you are not brain-dead and use Classic Shell) has a better user...

Are we still talking about Sarah?

September is fine. Beautiful time of year. Often superb in the south (it is the spring), the last month for traveling in the centre (it can get very hot there from October on), getting warm but still fine and clear in the north - it gets horribly hot and steamy from about the end of October on...

Are we still talking about Sarah?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/13/hacker_extortion_scam/

Here in Oz, we aren't breaking any temperature records just now. It's mid-winter and generally mild. Without looking up averages, my impression is that it's a fairly normal winter - which probably means it's an unusually warm one: these old bones reckon an actual normal winter is very cold. We...

I do not understand that last post. Somebody remind me not to check in on this thread anytime soon just in case someone explains it, I don't think I want to know.

Ouch! 46 is seriously hot. I've experienced 46 and 47 on only a handful of days. Some were in the Western Australian and South Australian outback, which is one thing. One was Black Saturday right here in Ballarat, which is generally cool by Australian standards, though can be hot in summer. That...

I'll give you Sydney to a brick that their RDP keylogger runs only on Windows (if it even exists, which it almost certainly doesn't). You could simply ignore the whole thing other than changing passwords and be 99% safe. Are you happy with 99% Perhaps for peace of mind you could nuke it and...

So it's basically just the same as money then?

Well? So am I. By the way, what is a cryptocurrency anyway?

So?

Wow. Much of the rest of the world (outside America) regards tipping as demeaning, which it is. The last thing any sensible person would want to do is encourage it. If you want somebody's services, or if you want to provide a service to someone, negotiate an honest price and stick to it. If...

What is "hot"? I don't remember "hot".

It seems that I forgot to update this thread, and in particular to thank Stereodude. My apologies.

Ha. well spotted. I didn't know that that was even a thing.

A funny thing. Two hours ago, Google introduced a new feature. If you hover over the written description of any video, a symbol like a three-dot colon now pops up. You can left-click on it and select "not interested". Neat! Or, in other words, Seek and ye shall find. Ask and ye shall receive...

People say I love my 100-400 II. That is untrue. I just say that I love it to get it into bed with me.

If you log in, Lunar, there are two differences: (1) You can set preferences, for example, turn off the bloody auto-play, set notifications, preserve history, find stuff much more easily, like and unlike things. This last is handy because you can (for example) easily find something you watched a...

I use Chrome for Youtube, Handy. My policy is to use other browsers (Opera, Firefox, Vivaldi, Palemoon, Seamonkey) for all of my browsing except Youtube and similar Google services where there is no privacy anyway. I use ad-blockers on all the others, not on Chrome. I don't really mind...