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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...

I was looking for someone who would print and mount canvas panoramas and I found these guys. They seem very competitively priced, and their website is easy enough. Anyone here have any experience with them?

Which 40"s are you contemplating? I'm loving my 42", but I don't have enough room for two...

At one point I had 2 24" Sony CRTs, but it was a custom desk...

That is what typically happens here, too.

After working with SSDs, I have no doubt that the primary hard drive of my next laptop will be one. So unless the laptop supports 2 internal drives, there will be an external along for the ride on photo trips (and which trips aren't photo trips ;)).

If I were in need of massive, fast, portable storage; I would be taking a close look at this. A Pair of 500GB 2.5" drives in RAID-0 connected by USB 2.0. Very sexy indeed.

Excellent description with samples, awesome. Thanks for taking the time.

What I want is a triple-head GPU from ATI or nVidia. I can only seem to get video overlay acceleration to one card or the other, and I would like all 3 screens to support it.

Calling them academic amateurs is being a bit generous, don't you think? Sure, they tried to criticize his research, but they didn't do any themselves; not even to read the paper they were criticizing.

I'm sure I missed a bunch of these, but thanks to Howell for sticking around for over 2000 posts... Edit: I know it is usually congratulations, but it seems anyone could post-pump and be there in a minute (or bribe Handruin to just up the number ;)) It really is a thanks for contributing to...

Just send me out with 2 36MB SD cards ;) I would have for a couple hours, revisit several spots, and spend an hour setting up the shot. I'm already considering bringing a stool so I can park behind the tripod and contemplate the framing, lighting, etc. IMHO, taking a million pictures only...

WINE does very nicely with Photoshop. I can't get it to run in Server 2003 (because I can't get SP2 installed), but in WINE 1.0 in Ubuntu 8.04 it does very nicely.

Wow, he put in a lot more time than I would have bothered to.

I shot the same flower at 16mm and 140mm. I thought that...how do I phrase this...that if the depth of the flower from front to back was a larger percentage of the distance from the sensor to the flower that it would seem more 3-dimensional. It doesn't seem to be the case. Does anyone know what...

Why can't you? Saddled with a corporate box?

I just flipped back through the last weeks worth of POTDs, and they all were massively over-sharpened.

Yup. And I like mine much sharper than most. The part that is jarring for me is the ring around the back of the head caused by the noise being sharpened.

When I get my 20D back from repairs (which won't likely happen before I send it in for repairs), I'll do some comparisons myself.

Both are probably because you've doubled your MP. How do they compare at ISO100?

That is quite a deal, how did you score that?

I haven't, and I plan on going through a local camera store specifically so they can deal with it.

Congrats on the new purchase. I hope you are as happy with yours as I am with mine.

EBay. Don't sell it to a customer, because then you would have to support it. Just unload it to someone you won't have to deal with.

Quite so. We just watched the original recording of "7 things you can't say on television" and Dogma to remember him. Lewis Black commented on NPR that a million heads just turned to John Stewart as the next best thing. :pale: Far from it in my opinion, but good nonetheless.

The primary reason for my trigger-happiness was a single bird and high wind. In order to get the shutter speed high enough I was shooting ISO400 and f5.6. Because of that the DOF sucked, and because of the wind the bird was all over the place. On top of that, I wasn't keeping it stable enough...

I understand the need for long, fast glass to be heavy. It has a job to do. But the D300 with a basic lens on it was double the 450D. The quick spec list: 14bit RAW 12MP 3" LCD LiveView Dust Reduction Of course, the longer spec list (and the price) show the D300 to be a much higher end...

The breaking point is whether I am carrying more memory cards or not. With 8GB cards, I don't bother to bring more, and with that I also don't carry the little case that I keep all my cards in. It's not the effort of changing a card, it is the additional accessories I'm trying to cut down on...

I would have just a little, probably picked the white shirt in the bottom of the image as a white point. Actually, I just stopped for a minute to play with it, and there is no way to cool the image down without making the hair in the foreground blue.

I know how to do this in Linux; just create a file and misstate how big it is, but I don't know in XP.

The bar has been lowered a bit, but all As and Bs wasn't something that I managed, so props to them.

I got to shoot with a friend's Nikon D300 today. All I could think was that it is damn heavy.