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Diehard Canon fan I see Tannin is, couldn't ever get a rational comparison out of him with any Nikon... never mind. Canon's new 1Ds MkIIIIIIII has how many dense pixels, compared to the D3's that are what, equal to the 5D perhaps???...sheeesh! Tannin's opinions are in the minority as...

Hmm, me thinks those mosquitoes sucked a bit too much blood out of Tannin recently, cause he must have missed some of my posts here on SF, in his woozy state??? Samsung has "announced" March 08 as volume ramp up of the 500GB 2.5in (how many cm is that for Tannin :) ) 5.4k rpm (now isn't that...

I see your point, but from what I've read, the vignetting is probably more than you are familiar with, and like I said, what is the point of using 24mm, if I'm not going to use the entire frame...might as well go for the much better performing 45mm TS-E, which is useless in at least two of the...

2 & 3 will work better if you ditch the Canon, and get a Nikon D3, shoot at 6.4k ISO or if you really need it and can work that Noise Ninja mojo, go for 12.8k or 25.6k. 6: you must have some mighty right friendly, social, civil, and polite Neognathae down under Tannin; cause the blue heron I...

Too bulbous, like Pam Anderson? Here's a link with some pix of the front element, looks like a common 24mm WA, just the mechanics to do shifting & tilting (as linked above, a homemade bellows version could be fashioned that would do more significant adjustments, a la larger format bellows...

Not sure I meant to convey the idea the way you represent it :D. What I mean, is that LM can be fine with buying things that don't work, when it is a small amount of money being spent, which is why he said "just buy the damn filter" (implied was, 'and see how you like it'). I surely can't fit a...

Well I tend to agree with both of you to a point. But if you d/l'd the B+W handbook, they mention (they also have a graphical representation of uncoated, double coated, and the MRC "multi-resistant coating", which doesn't really represent any 'useful' measures of actual performance, just...

Geez, jtr you are ever the optimist...when it comes to certain technologies, everything else ;). 640GB in 1in thick form factor, 1.6TB is probably an array or some sorts, much as you could do with multiple 1TB HD's, for a price factor of <1/10th what these high-end industrial targeted SSD's are...

Where did you get that idea from? 'Lawrence of Arabia' was captured at a resolution that exceeds the resolution of current BR or HD-DVD, ie 2k. All depends on the quality of the master used to do the conversion, and more importantly the expense and expertise used in doing the conversion to...

Warner drops HD-DVD, goes Blu-ray only in 5 months. http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/01/04/warner.blu.ray.exclusive/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:HighDefShare_2008-06-01.svg

Ok, so I was wrong...sure wish I could edit my OP. Samsung will supposedly have a standard thickness 5.4k laptop drive in 500GB capacity available in 2 more months. http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/01/07/samsung.128gb.ssd.and.more/

http://www.storagesearch.com/ssd-buyers-guide.html Of more practical note (not shipping yet, but soon? STEC's $5/GB up to 512GB capacity SSD...expected to drop to $2GB in 2yrs) would be if Samsung actually ships a 128GB MLC SSD in 'volume' H108 in both 1.8in for ultra thin laptops like the...

Thank LM...ah, I think ;). And I do believe you meant "Practically clear means that the color of the image does *not* change enough to be concerned about in normal use." I did some more research (IDSMR, lol). Not saying this site's accuracy is worth noting, even if they are just quoting the...

*cough* Edit, Splash, iGary...and most of all, you Scarecrow...err, I mean 'Wiz' :D *cough*. Thanks all should go to Handy, much accolades for putting up with all those trying times in your own life, and running the show here all by yourself (recall SR has a team). Now is about time for that...

I did some quick research (is there an acronym for that :) IDSQR?)...man am I ever confused now, lol! http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/DigiCam/User-Guide/filter/filter-UV.html UV filters are clear, it says in the link above comparing various skylight, haze, and UV filters above. But... B+W UV 010...

Alright adding to my post above: we have this thread by less experienced photogs, on NC filters @MR: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=4701837#post4701837 LOL, that post #4 is really 'informative'. OK, now i get it B+W is a coating supplier, not a filter manufacturer (was the...

"Practically clear"? Meaning what transmissive rate for visible light spectrum? I can't recall off hand various types of optical grade glass. Schott has one, boro-silicate, IIRC with a certain transmissive rate, there is another trade name with AR coating that supposedly is around 99% whereas...

Sorry, I'm confused. "of course not" the UV filter does not reduce light getting to the sensor, say 1/3rd of a stop as I stated I've read before? If most digicams have internal UV & IR filters, then there would be no reason to use a UV filter over the front of the lens other than protecting the...

TY LM, so I will go with the 72mm B+W filter @$40, but question remains, how much light fall off is there with such a filter, I've read conflicting reports? And as stated, I need every last photon of light to get to the sensor so I may use it w/filter, to assure decent handheld shots in dim...

The seller of the lens assures me that he did not change the T/S orientation and used the lens so infrequently such that he did not think it necessary to have it cleaned/adjusted..."mint" like new condition, so he says. Sure no way of knowing, but for the price of a new lens, I'll get a 300D...

Not surprised jtr. calculate the percentage increase only of CPU clock, and you'd never notice the difference btw the 2 if purely based on clock speed. You see this advice, time and time again when reading comparisons by various review sites, of Mac laptops (oops, forgot you don't read those ;)...

I do, C & D low discharge cells from Accupower (not as highly rated as other brands, but Sanyo ain't doing them right now, neither is Maha...though I'd expect Maha will in the future). All I can say, is it's about time! Now all we need is a 9v transistor radio size, and we're good to go-though...

You just won the Superbowl Merc, what are you going to do next? Going to Disneyland? Well I'm still stuck with my cold virus, though it's almost gone after 16 Effin days, so I'm just about to go to sleep after a few glasses of wine...no partee'ing for me. Tomorrow, if ya didn't go to that...

Woooohoooo! Drama queen ;) I didn't know LM watched Battlestar Galactica...? Or were you referring to the ominous blackhole of storage known to all as the Deathstar (from IBM)? :p Pretty soon SSD's will replace HD's in common uses and you wont have to worry as much. @MacWorld SF in a few...

Eighteen!, 18 of the 24mm/F3.5 Canon TS-E lenses I've tracked on e-bay since I started this thread have sold from a low of $829 (no picture, but notes not in best condition), others in mid'800's that had pictures where suffering small paint chips/abrasions on the corners. Most are listed as in...

My best guess is that tannin's camouflage outfit is a giant chicken mascot like you see at sporting events :p. How else can you get so close to birds without spooking them? I was in Jackson Hole, Wyoming in April 1984 or '85 for late season skiing, where it was -5F in the morning, later in the...

IN my state of hazy brain functioning yesterday I forgot to rant about LCD HDTV's. I was looking for a small table top model the last couple of weeks. Westinghouse had a good one for ~$400 with limited/integrated DVD player in it's base/pedestal. Looking at a 19in Sharp across the isle, I could...

It has been said/rumored that Intel is getting more and more into the graphics arena, and more potent integrated CPU/GPU's on same die (IIRC). TS is a very old program that had very limited hardware minimum requirements, should not your brother's old system been able to run MSTS...

Damn that's cheap, I have a picture I took, 1/2-1 year ago I was going to post here, or was it SR, seeing how SC paid what ~400k for his NY condo; I saw a house for lease, on the westside, 3 blocks from Santa Monica airports, faces fairly busy 4 lane National Blvd (I guess I should provide...

This one's for supa dave :D Swingers,lol Jack in the Box TV commercial (since dd, does't watch TV) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKSB4AV740w Also, still recovering from my cold virus, managed a long day, ending with CostCo @4:30PM (one hour before closing), parking lot was jammed!!! Got...

No one has been out in the last minute/days shopping insanity before Christmas? Traffic in the city here in lala land is painfully heavy, all the stores parking lots are jammed to capacity, Best Buy is like the day after sales (anyone going to any 4AM after Christmas or New Years sales?) and...

EPA Chief Denies Calif. Limit on Auto Emissions http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/19/AR2007121902012.html? Will be interesting to see how the court battle plays out, if the Supreme Ct. will side this time with the EPA/auto manufacturers lobbies, or not prior related...

Ok, something is wrong with the forum software. Handy, the latest update must have gone back to default, no editing of posts mode. I just hit the submit reply button, with my slow internet dialup connection, the post took no more than 20 seconds to load/display, I noticed the bold face article...

Show me a link to the pollution problems with fusion power? Though a technological impracticability (*note* M$ Word’s spell checker is so dumb, dumber than me, that it could not find the proper spelling for this word when I originally had it as ‘impractibility’…had to go to a real hard copy...

LOL, not even a picture of paper/vaporware announcement. Intel demos world's smallest solid-state drive http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/12/14/intel.z.p140.ssd/ pdf product brochure (tiny picture of what one assumes it the chip?)...

http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/12/15/firewire.s3200/ As a joint Sony/Apple product, never got off it's feat really for lack of support and adoption by 3rd party storage solutions. Sony castrated it, along with PC laptops, by only using powerless 4 pin version, whereas the far more...

jtr's link is now registration only, so here's the other one, with more revealing advertising ;). http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/samsung-reveals-first-30-nm-64gb-nand-chip-and-a-bit-of-skin/ Don't you just love all the vaporwave hype between the two leading contenders? Now we have...

I suppose it's all relative. I saw a quickie report on the nightly news on TV (I know, DD doesn't watch TV, which is probably a good thing as if he watched the nightly news he'd probably be suicidal, lol). One of the networks sent a crew for God knows how much money, to China to do this very...

Don't be cheap (unless she's not really worth the $$$ :D, buy a 710is while they are still available... e_dawg's posts haven't convinced you yet of that value?). That being said, Sigma is still trying (WTF is so hard?) to put out their APS sized sensor in a compact digicam. And yes you are being...

http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/12/10/toshiba.solid.state.drives/ "Advanced" controller enables 100MB/s Reads but only 40MB/s writes? Doesn't sound all that advanced to me :p. Not even available as samples and they think it will go into mass production early next year, lol...even more...

Does anyone really want to capture every moment (other than Paris ;) ), and have to cull through hours of useless video? eventually the technology is already here, read up on the Red One camcorder...more to follow in the near future, the future is here (albeit @ a professional level Hasselblad...

Hmm, remember my posting on the cost of 1995 DIMM prices vs 1999? Tannin's rant aside (geez Howser's going to go into permanent comatose mode if you keep doing that ;) ), in another 5years or so I'll bet this becomes relatively a moot point. Flash mem will be much faster by then, and at least...

Nature of the game, compare the dramatic price drops in RAM between 1995 & 1999 and you'd feel worse if you *had* to buy thousands of dollars of higher capacity RAM in 1995 only to see even greater capacity and much lower costs for that greater capacity only 4 years later. I find Tom's Hard has...

Bose anyone :p (j/k) $280 is a lot for 'earbuds'...but (could go with the IMage style, for even more $$$, but lesser sound?, which will annoyingly pull out just like any other that doesn't have a wrap around the earlobe piece) http://www.klipsch.com/headphones/custom-3/...

What I wouldn't give to have a D3 sensor in a Oly OM-1 sized body, running a Canon TS-E 24mm/3.5. ISO6400 would allow indoor room low-light 1/30th sec shots with the lens tilted and stopped down to the sweet spot of F5.6 or F8. Could do 100th/s @F11 w/ ISO 12,800 or 25,600...I could live with...

How's about a "Something Random Picture" thread, so as this one doesn't go in to the thousands with the majority just random pictures?

Blast from the past Thought maybe some of you who complain about how much a 64GB SSD drive would cost, and how you'd not buy one until the price becomes more 'reasonable' should be reminded it's all relative. Take a look at these MacWorld magazine ads from a couple of old MW magazines I'm...

Open top Carrera GTS, Rolls, Mercedes SLR (see lots of those around lalaland with owners gunning the accelerator from stop light to stop light, lol), occasional Lambo covertible/drop-tops...all over $500k Tannin, think you're hobby is cheaper. I bought an inexpensive Alfa spyder in my early...

Nice SR obtuse thread title :p You'll just have to click on the link ;) http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/columnone/la-fg-stew20nov20,1,1708873.story?coll=la-headlines-columnone (you'll need to either reg via bugmenot or clear cookies that latimes sets inorder to read the site more than...

Before it gets bloated down with pictures, like modern OS software packages ;), perhaps ddrueding would like to start a 'something random pic thread'? Is dust removal sensor tech that effective? You still need to clean the sensor when it gets sticky dust on it, yes...and how does one do that...