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Thanks for the tips Tannin. I do run around with the 35mm/F2 Prime quite often, but none of the pictures make the cut. Either I need more practice or I'm too used to shooting @ 50mm. Likely both. I shoot with a prime almost exclusively; the only time I don't is when I am hiking with only a...

Thanks Tannin. When you speak of shooting details with a longer lens, is it the compressed perspective that you are after? Or just a closer crop to the subjects? I see what you are talking about with your critique, and most of the things you said make sense (despite the 80/20). Thanks much.

I'm looking for a critique on this one if anyone has the time/inclination.

They had something with the Raptor that no one else had (10k SATA). A 7.2k Ethernet is nothing special.

Yay 2k for Mark and Fushigi!

When I did electrical design and prototyping, we would put all the boards in the dishwasher to clean them off.

My CorsairGT has survived it twice, and many of my other caseless wonders don't seem to have any issues at all.

I haven't been out surfing in many years, but it's amazing how big the "ridable" waves are getting nowadays. Of course, I consider getting towed-in cheating, and the last guy to paddle into such waves dies trying (at age 45!).

I installed the EOS Viewer Utility, and everything works fine, except that anytime I try to change the name or time, it crashes. Tried with 2.0.0 and 2.0.3 firmwares to no avail. Anyone have experiences with this?

We have white ones and brown ones. I'm sure they have better names, but I don't know them. At one point I was told that the brown ones are female and the white male of the same species; I have no evidence either way. These aren't nice bird pictures, in that the birds simply wouldn't move. This...

I've never had a thumb drive lose data in the laundry. It could be that in most cases I strip the case off, so it's just circuit board and chips, no place for water to stick around. Anyone else?

Excelent.

Brown Seagull

Wow. That is the dumbest thing ever. What affiliation does WD have with the media industry? Sony may be willing to let it's storage products flop in an attempt to help their movies, but WD doesn't make movies. If their HDDs don't sell, they're screwed.

My best bird pic evar! I'm catching up, Tannin! ;) Shot with a 50mm prime...the bird just wouldn't move.

And my latest attempt at a panorama includes 80+ pictures, so I don't think a 1Ds buffer would do me any good, either ;)

I believe that was Tannin's point above. You get many more shots in the buffer if you shoot JPG.

'Fraid not. Although "yeah" is technically a word, it doesn't really represent an emotion or concept well enough to be used emphatically. Sucks and dude are both capable of providing emotional context, and are therefore more powerful when used correctly, as you demonstrated above.

My Extreme IV couldn't keep up with a pano shot I was taking today. I suspect it is camera-limited in transfer rate (20D).

Poor undereducated me could only average a 36. Max @ 41.

Dude...I think that is the first time I've seen you use all caps somewhere. And it was so perfect for the situation. Now I'll wait another few years to hear you use "dude" appropriately, and my life will be complete. Great pics, BTW.

Dual Link supports higher resolution (>1920x1080, IIRC)

Thanks for the link.

...and I don't think flying squirrels ever reach 100mph.

I was bouncing off the buffer the whole time last night. My action photography (argentine tango), always has something interesting going on. Good dancers can go from walking side-by-side to a flying gancho before you could press the shutter. And with it as dark as it is, shooting in JPG just...

Very cool. I've been trying to figure out how to base jump off Mt Whitney. I love the hike up, and the views are fantastic, but my knees can't handle the hike down anymore. At 4400+m the air isn't thick enough to get away from the wall, this might be enough.

Yup. I do suspect that we are on the cusp of mass-adoption for performance applications. As soon as that happens, the prices will fall significantly.

That is quite funny. But who spends all their time exploring limited AI systems?

Interesting tidbit from the thread: Canon lens tested: 18-55 f/3.5-5.6 (kit lens), $180 Olympus lens tested: 12-60 f/2.8-4, $950 Nikon lens tested: 24-70 f/2.8, $1700

One would have happened for me already, but the tech is still moving so fast; it's hard to step in and take that kind of depreciation in the face.

This is significant. I know with my system the BIOS occasionally chooses to prioritize one of the other monitors I have connected (that are typically off). When this happens, the screen is in standby during the entire boot process, until Windows loads and finally takes control of the display...

Ugh. No thanks. Adoption of that is going to be horrible. People may like to screw around with their desktops, but those in charge tend to make reasoned decisions WRT production servers. What carrots are the offering? DX10 and Aero aren't going to cut it.

The pictures I'm posting I don't consider to be excellent examples of anything; I'm just looking for (and receiving) constructive criticism as I go. I'm sure that, in time, I'll be glad to not have these pictures featured as examples of my work.

The trick is that there is no way AMD fan boys would buy Intel motherboards. They have already convinced themselves that Intel is inferior for some reason, so going to them for a mobo would be unlikely.

More bloat? Server 2003 was XP with less bloat. I was hoping they wouldn't mess that part up...

I downloaded the latest version and gave it a spin. The ability to pull panoramas out of a folder full of files was attractive, as was it's ability to handle RAW files. But it didn't detect anything, and crashed afterwards ;)

With 21MP images being easy to produce, 16GB or RAM can be chewed through in no time. Or I can run a mid-sized office's worth of virtual servers on a single machine for testing purposes.

Finger prints would be unlikely, as this is a combination of >5 pictures. Unless you see 5 fingerprints, I don't think so. The hangars on the right are Moffet Field, still used by NASA (and the MythBusters on a few occasions). The Bay Bridge is really hard to make out, but the supports and Angel...

Most recent attempt: Moffet Field to Bay Bridge (8.5MB)

Sure, any one in particular? From the panorama linked earlier?

Thanks for the tip. Great app, just threw together a 16537x3524 in <10 minutes. Too bad it doesn't directly take CR2 files...

Thanks for entertaining my curiosity.

This is still in Photoshop? Just using Win2k?

That is cool. Too bad I am not mechanically inclined.

Good, or bad? When I get on a plane, I know for a fact that my life is not im my hands. No matter what I do or how quick I am, it won't help me. On a train, however, perhaps fast reflexes could save me? So I should constantly be on alert, ready to head for one of the emergency windows at the...

LeDr9, Out of curiosity, where is "here"?

So I should be using the "long" side of the frame for the direction not being stitched, and just have more pictures to combine? I like the idea, but (as mentioned in another thread) I can't seem to merge more than about 4 pictures before it crashes.

Aren't they in the process of rolling out GPS assisted navigation for trains? Why not use a form of adaptive cruise control as seen in high-end cars?

<sarcasm>

160 is getting to be the smallest drives you can get. I think 80s are still available, but you save all of $10.