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IMHO, you went a bit overboard on the contrast. I'm not saying it looks bad, it just looks significantly different than the original.

I think Stereodude did better with the diagonals, and I did better with the rocks. I think the diagonals are more important.

Here is my attempt, also at 11. Why did mine resize to 1600x1202? No idea, ask Photoshop.

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Shot with a hole. :(

Either buy a new belt, or stop killing people ;) Congrats on the fitness, always a good thing.

Right in the middle of an HDR pano, an exposure set output RAW files with resolution of 3485x2348 instead of the usual 4272x2856. The pano was a total of 33 shots (11x3) and only one set of three right in the middle was smaller. WTF? Any ideas?

I have Google Apps for my domain, and I can't find where I would share my contacts. Did you end up trying the Google Email Uploader?

Great link Merc. Overclocking ovens...neat ;)

I find GMail's spam filtering to be the best anywhere. The spam folder is visible from the main interface (even through IMAP!) and I get one spam a day, with one false-positive a month. I've migrated several clients to it (3-15 users) and they all love it. All we need now is an IMAP-like...

Well, technically I was only out for an hour. Then I went and won a sailboat race (the first in my new boat, woo!). I still haven't gotten the nerve to break out the camera while racing, but those would be awesome shots.

I just managed to go a little crazy in Photoshop's RAW converter. DPP doesn't have the options to bring up the dark enough.

1600x1200 is tricky to post in the forum, how about 640x480?

Possibly the only shot that came out today.

Possibly the only shot that came out today.

The download was <9MB? Is that what you meant?

I'll chew on it after I'm done messing with the pictures I took today. Shame I'm not a better photographer, it was beautiful where I was.

Seconded. Though with the lower resolution of stuff viewed over the web (Netflix, etc), I would suggest a projector instead; it is lower resolution, but it is still better than the online stuff.

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Case or video card, I'm leaning towards case. It is the part that most first-time builders don't give enough significance to, and it will last the longest. It is also the only part where real aesthetic decisions can be made, allowing for a more personal gift.

Seconded. I haven't measured the power output, but it all becomes heat, and they run much cooler than 2.5" drives.

Seems fine to me, just passing on my experiences. I also have countless WRT54Gs in the field running dd-wrt with very few failures.

Very amusing. It brings up an interesting hypothetical. If the entire universe were instantly completely eliminated, everything all at once ceasing to exist, would it really matter? Would you really care? Does it count as murder? Pollution? Me? Don't care one way or another. If you put the...

I'm using a Linksys WRT350N with the dd-WRT firmware and am very happy with it. It does torrenting much better than the stock firmware, and has Gigabit and 802.11N.

I'm using a Linksys WRT350N with the dd-WRT firmware and am very happy with it. It does torrenting much better than the stock firmware, and has Gigabit and 802.11N.

That is a pretty bad error message. Can you provide more info?

That is an EF-S 10-22 @ 10mm f8. But it is actually 16 pictures. The only way to get the dynamic range was to HDR it, and I was also trying to get higher DOF, so I combined 4 different focal lengths (each with it's own HDR set). That makes some bits of it blurry, but I like that the leaves in...

Thanks for the ideas e_dawg. Getting some more perspectives helps me think about what I want. I still think I like mine more ;), but there is always room for improvement.

No kidding. How am I going to waste all the money I don't have unless the product actually exists?

I'm still a fan of Gigabyte, but I am currently running an XFX board (the only one made with the features I needed). I'm also told that Intel makes very stable (and not overclockable) boards. I'm not up to speed on motherboards, but this looks like a fine choice.

Nope. The top-end chips don't have as much wiggle room as the low-end chips. The bin concept typically means that as a process matures, more and more chips are capable of premium speeds (and are therefore sold as lower speed to maintain supply), but it doesn't mean that there is more headroom...

Critique please. I am actually proud of this shot, and deserve to be taken down a few notches ;)

I haven't run across a Q6600 that didn't go to 3Ghz with stock cooling and voltages yet. Really, it is 30 seconds in your BIOS. Considering it is also $50 less, I see no reason to do anything else.

How to you do it in Photoshop? If you don't want the whole frame in focus, what are your tips?

I shot on a tripod; there is no way I could keep the exact shooting position while changing focus. When I'm on a tripod I shoot ISO100 because it is has (just a bit) less noise than ISO200, and I can't think of a reason not to. I wasn't actually looking at the tomato, I was looking at the frame...

My Sony GDM-FW900s would interfere with each other when placed side-by-side, and the speakers next to them caused discoloration within 6 months. I don't think it was sample variance, I had 24 of them ;)

Unfortunatly, my RAID card is only SATA.

I would be interested. Why are they crappy?

Except that the extra 250GB per drive would be wasted when the drives were added to my RAID-5 Array of existing 750GB Seagate drives.

5*129 (750GB Seagate) = $645 It is coming down...perhaps I'll wait.

Do you have links to comparisons of different encoders? I'm interested in such stuff...

It does. Nero Recode is pretty good. But it only gives you the option of converting to DVD or "Nero Digital". Not sure what format that is, but it sounds distinctly not open.

Specifically unshielded, CRT monitors. LCDs can do it without issue.

Here is the photo properties page with all the info. 140mm f5.6 ISO100 1/200s

AutoGK handles a pretty wide range of incoming formats and gives a decent number of output options (final file size, quality, splitting) while keeping it all in a single GUI with a queue feature and logging support. There are other apps that can do it, but this ties all the other apps together...

Wow, that is a large file size for standard-def video. I would get the program Auto Gordian Knot (free) to get it into XviD or something else more compact. Even if you wanted virtually no quality loss, you should still be able to get it under 1GB/hour.

Has anyone else been playing with Helicon Focus? I just downloaded the demo and took some pictures. Still playing, but here is my first attempt to get 2 different focal planes. I did play with having more, but dealing with artifacts (it's windy today) gets tricky.

I would absolutely encode to something smaller. What is the resolution on your source video 1080P? Unless you want to do special stuff like menus and bookmarks, the movie maker should do as well as anything else...

That is a great question, and I'm not really sure, but all I had with me was a 6MP PnS. I did however just find the prints from my first trip to Asia, all I have are prints, and all I used were disposables. I do want all the pictures digitized, but there are quite a few. I don't know if I want...