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Well I got the near perfect wing beat. <ding> However ISO too high, background wrong and feeder skewed and dirty. <bzzz> <bzzz> <bzzz>

^^^ Some very nice vacation pics DD. Industrial stuff is interesting as well. Yeah. Life happens. Things change. Hobbies change. Busy, busy, busy. So many things I used to do, all the time, I seldom or never do anymore. Such as: Day hiking, car-camping, backpacking (incl. snow-hiking)...

Quail. In the shade, early in the A.M. Taken at ISO 5000. Yeah, that ISO is just too high for my D610.

Bird on a wire.

When you exit Grand Canyon National Park from the eastern portal you come upon the "Little Colorado" gorge. This shot taken April, 2015. Image is 4k (3840x2160).

MILCs are awful. MILFs are the opposite of awful. ;) Anyways, I guess I could experiment shooting RAW+JPG vs RAW and time buffer clearing but either way the buffer is still only 10 frames so time saved waiting for buffer to clear might not be worth it. I'm trying to keep my "bursts" to only...

The buffer in my D610 is tiny. Definitely not a sports/action/wildlife camera. Only 10 RAW+JPG shots and buffer is full. Then a long wait for the buffer to clear. I have two, 95 MB/s write speed, Sandisk Extreme Pro SD cards. I'm writing in BACKUP mode, basically RAID-1, to both SD card...

The price premium moving from a Nikkor 500/5.6 to a 500/4 PF is huge. Like 2.9x the price for one stop of light. Plus sharper in corners, touch faster focus, better build quality, etc. If the 500/5.6 PF is $3600, I 'm guessing the 600/5.6 PF will be $4200-4600. Rumor is the 500/5.6 PF is...

She finally opened her wings. Too bad she is upside down and these a leaf bottom/center of pic.

I thought bumblebees were simply all black, but they seem to have an iridescent sheen on their wings and bodies. This shot is two stops underexposed, taken at ISO 180. Must have bumped the exp-comp as I was zooming as EXIF says photo taken at 480mm not 500mm. Flower seems fine but sky is more...

Too bad this will be north of 4k and you'll be on a waiting list for 3-9 months.

Another pic. I bumped exposure a stop, increased contrast and saturation a bit, cropped then export to a JPG.

EXIF data says 2.99 meters to subject. I bumped up the saturation to enhance the colors (sent you a link to RAW file) so that might have increased the noise. I'm still hand holding camera. Images still not as sharp as I'd like even with a 1/2000 sec shutter speed. Looking to pick up a...

For me, "post processing" is so frustrating, I basically haven't taken any photos in nearly 2 years. I DO NOT WANT to deal with any catalog or database PP software. No Adobe pay monthly crap. I'm not printing. I'm not selling. I'm not sharing (save the occasional post to forums). I'm not...

LM, I sent you a Google Drive link to the RAW (NEF) file I posted above. 26.7 MB in size.

Best Buy has the WD - easystore® 8TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive - Model:WDBCKA0080HBK-NESN back on sale for $129.99 + free shipping. These no longer have the WD "RED" drives in them but if you need some extra space they are nice.

Thread back from the dead. My imagehost, Postimages.org, performed an upgrade a while back and changed their base URL so all my linked images earlier in this thread don't show up anymore. So here is a new one.

PetaPixel: 204-megapixel photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The 14,400 x 14,200 pixel image here.

I've decided to pick up a SanDisk Clip Sport Plus 16GB MP3 Player for now and hold off on the pricier DAP. $54 and change, and I can walk into BestBuy and pick it up. I can take the Clip with me on walks, the bike, hiking, etc, and if I lose/break it no big deal. I'll want to do some research...

That page hasn't been updated in a while. A loooooooooooooooooooooooong time. On right side of page: "storageforum.net This site consists of computer related discussions and the occassional bit of computer news. Mostly it is the place where I hang out with my friends." He doesn't hang out...

No negative history with WD per se. I was just wondering if those HGST drives were still available. Probably sometime late this year I'll take the plunge and replace my 1 & 2 TB Seagates with two 8TB units.

I keep thinking I'll get a smartphone, eventually. LMAO.

Yeah that's it. I've been eyeballing the Sony NW-A45 for $220 instead of just buying a cheaper Sandisk Clip Sport Plus for $50. I'd hate to buy the A45 then have the A55 come out 2 weeks later. Do you remember the lag time between the Japanese availability of the A30 series and North American...

Correct of course. HGST was taken over in 2012 (or whenever) but they were still mostly independent of WD and not using WD production lines? But what I should have said was that now (semi-recently) HGST is completely under WD control and no longer make their own drives. It's harder to find...

No. Player not headphones.

Title. /rant incoming I've never been on a forum with a search function that wasn't utter shit. SD posted a while back about a nice portable music player. I think he said it shipped from China as it wasn't available in the U.S. yet? I wanted to re-read his post as I'm looking for such a...

Thread necro. HGST has been taken over by WD. I should have bought that 8 TB from B&H last year. So what the "quality" 8 TB HDD these days? Is 8 TB still the sweet spot size/cost wise? THXs.

I LOL'd. Wait a minute! Maybe this is DD's secret upcoming venture he's looking into. "Drop in electric drivetrains."

This. When you are young, time is treated like toilet paper. When you are old, time is more precious than gold. Sounds like DD may be building a war chest of savings so he can start his own business, aka the "fork in the road." As long as it truely is only several years before he can step...

Sandisk will also make CFex cards.

Perhaps the edit timer can be extended for just Lunar and myself. Lunar's always making typos and f'ing up links and I'm OCD and anal about my posts.

This. This again. Of course I had to replace my crappy Panasonic BluRay player, that had annoying sounds glitches, with a Sony.

No. My D610 has dual SD slots.

ProGrade Digital CFexpress memory cards coming in addition to the Sony cards. Up to 1400 MB/s write speeds.

I wonder...when the Z 6 and Z 7 (as well as D5, D850, D500) receive their firmware update to work with CFex cards they will utilize the full speed of there babies. 1700/1480 MB/s read/write speeds. The D5 buffer might get close to being bottomless with those write speeds.

I have rubber hoses on my clothes washing machine. They are 13, going on 14 years old. Every 6 months of so I read a post regarding "burst hoses" and I think, "I should probably replace my hoses" but I never do. {fingers crossed}

Canon uses CFast not CFex. Or are you saying that Canon will also move over to CFex. I think, going forward, CFex and SD (or SD express) will be the only memory slots used in cameras. Speed or small size.

Canon and Nikon have to ship their flagship cameras (DSLR 1DX3 & D6) before they ship their high end MILC. Don't want to eat into those sales. To nit-pick it's a 58/0.95 not 50. Nikon does have the Z mount 24-70/4 but it's a bit pricey. They do need a cheaper kit lens such as a DECENT...

Looks like the D5, D500 and D850 will receive firmware updates that will allow those cameras to read/write to CFexpress memory cards in their XQD slots. "After upgrading, users will be able to use both CFexpress as well as XQD cards in their camera interchangeably," according to post at Nikon...

Nikon announces their Z mount 24-70 f/2.8 S lens. $2300. Shorter and lighter then the F mount 2.8E lens. A bit sharper in the center, (according to theoretical MTF charts). It will be interesting to see if the build quality is better than the Z mount 24-70/4 S lens.

Canon officially announces their new FF MILC the Canon EOS RP. $1300. Canon Rumors link. PetaPixel link. Small. Very light. Low price. Nerfed video specs. Lots of glass announced as well. Mostly high-end glass. RF 85mm F1.2 L USM. RF 85mm F1.2 L USM DS.** RF 24-70mm F2.8 L IS USM. RF...

Edit: Somehow I miscounted the number of emails in the archive. It's actually a bit over 4000 emails on the primary account and about 1400 on the secondary account.

Google knows everything that's in my emails, which is pretty much EVERYTHING to know about me. I buy something from an online retailer and the retailer sends me a confirmation email with my name, address, phone#, CC info, etc. After a few dozen such emails they know everything about me. I...

My main email account had a really simple password. Something like: "xxabc1234." Seriously that simple. Since 2009. And for three years before that it was "xxabc123." Never any issues, but I figured it was time for a change. So I decided to change the passwords and recovery options on all...

If you have a gmail acct just log into that, then go to my link above. If you never had any Google accounts they won't have anything stored in your accounts because you never had an account. I don't think the archive contains "anonymous" data about you, just info you have given/received from...

Download everything Google has saved about you. Google will ask you to log into an account if you aren't already logged in one before you click the link. Says it may take "hours or days" before the data is ready for downloading. I told them to send me a download link via email. Interesting...

This. I was watching the Planet Earth II (4k) series on my brother-in-laws 65" 4K curved Sammy (via Netflix) and the picture did look pretty fantastic. Perhaps as SD mentioned above it's the HDR or WCG and not simply resolution alone that makes the picture pop. My feeling right now is...

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I ate way TOO much CRAP food this holiday season. I trying to finish it all up before the clock strikes midnight. I have a bowel with the leftovers of pecan pie, choc & strawberry ice cream, cookies, whip cream, etc. Going into a sugar comma. Goodnight.

Happy New Year.