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    dSLR thread

    Manual focusing an AF camera is quite tough. First the viewing screen in the camera has no focusing aids like the split image or pentaprism area. Second AF lenses typically have a very short amount of throw in order to make them focus quickly by reducing the number of turns needed by the...
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    dSLR thread

    Maybe your seeing eye dog can point it out to you. :razz: You actually have correctly identified it. It has a big "3" on the front and that should make it painfully obvious.
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    Ebay sniping service suggestions?

    It's been working just fine for me, though I've yet to win anything using it. I guess I'm too much of a cheap bastard. :lol:
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    Ebay sniping service suggestions?

    Uh, no thanks. Sniping gives the bidder (me) an advantage, so why wouldn't I use it?
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    Power Strip

    You could get one without any surge protection, or you could open it up and take out the MOV's.
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    Ebay sniping service suggestions?

    I'm trying out Gixen. We'll see how it goes.
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    Ebay sniping service suggestions?

    Is that what your wife told you? :D
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    Power Strip

    Uh... I guess I'm a little confused. In foreign countries they won't have the same plug in the wall as the US, so what good will a US power strip do? Typically the surge protection in a power strip doesn't trigger until 330V, so I don't think that will be a problem.
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    Ebay sniping service suggestions?

    I'm going out of the country to the other side of the world next week and won't necessarily have internet access at the right times, or won't be up at the right times to snipe myself, and I'm not a fan of bidding before the end and giving others a chance to react to my bid. So, does anyone have...
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    Random help

    I can't exactly understand it. It sounds like she's correcting the Latin name he's using.
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    Random help

    Do you really want to smell burning human waste (assuming it burns)? :pale:
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    Random help

    That's not a grill. That's a survival stove.
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    Affordable graphics cards

    Thanks, but I'll stick with nVidia. Every time I try an ATI card I end up unhappy.
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    DD-WRT is vulnerable

    All the more reason to use Tomato.
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    Probably increased leakage current. That happens as you shrink your lithography.
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    Motherboard Replacement

    Sounds like bad caps. Those are the same symptoms my buddy had when his mobo assumed room temp.
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    Microsoft supplying some Linux kernal code.

    :nono: Wouldn't that be an ice bridge? :rotfl: Still, it was a somewhat surprising headline when I read it yesterday.
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    dSLR thread

    I see a film camera in there. This is the dSLR thread. :joker: And, I'm surprised to see you have a non Canon (Sigma?) lens in the back row. What lens is it? And what's with the Tamron lens cap on the Canon L lens on the camera in the front? And I hope your a professional photographer...
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    Costco's Film Developing / Scanning

    Well, I batch scanned 2 36 exposure rolls over the weekend. With the settings I chose (16bit, B&W, max res, 4x multisample) it look about an hour per roll. And you get ~1.2GB of TIFF files. But the key is that the SA-21 to SA-30 mod definitely worked on my SA-21 auto feeder. :D
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    DVD Ripping and playback

    The Lite version is ok if you uncheck and say no to all it's attempts to take over your PC. There are also other .ISO mounting tools / virtual drives, but I haven't messed with them.
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    DVD Ripping and playback

    Rip to .ISO's and use Daemon Tools to mount the ISO. Play back normally.
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    dSLR thread

    Huh? http://imageshack.us/
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    Favourite TV series

    Just remember the whole 4 hour limit though. :bigeek:
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    dSLR thread

    imageshack is your friend
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    SLR Thread

    So, uh... we need a thread for the non digital variety... Yeah, that's it! :D Here are the results of shooting Kodak T-MAX 100 Professional (not to be confused with the newer and similarly named Kodak Professional T-MAX 100) that expired more than 11 years ago and was not kept in a fridge or...
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    Random help

    How un-level are your floors?
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    Favourite TV series

    Pretty much any place that sells DVDs also sells Blu-Ray discs. You can get 'em at Fry's, Amazon.com, DeepDiscountDVD.com, Best Buy, Walmart, Target, etc, etc...
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    GPOS

    They are Lithium primary cells, not Lithium-Ion cells. They are not rechargeable. So far no one has managed make a Lithium based rechargeable that has a 1.5V nominal voltage. Sanyo's Eneloop NiMH cells are probably your best bet for rechargeable AA's.
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    Fritzy is out of his mind if he thinks eliminating dealers will cause higher sell prices...

    Fritzy is out of his mind if he thinks eliminating dealers will cause higher sell prices allowing the dealers to make more money and requiring less support from GM. It would also be more believable had they targeted underperforming dealers, but we all know some crappy dealers were left open and...
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    Drive imaging software

    If it doesn't work with it now, what makes you think it will in the future?
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    dSLR thread

    This is the first sign your SO needs to go instead. Give her a list of all the things she has to get rid of and see how she likes it. Then tell her she can tell you what to get rid of when she gets rid of that stuff first.
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    Favourite TV series

    I only have 2 TV, both HDTVs.
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    Thoughts about educational systems

    I think Udaman and Santilli are long lost cousins or something.
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    Costco's Film Developing / Scanning

    No, they're not on a photo sharing site. It's from the flash firing for each exposure and the foliage being close to the camera. In case you couldn't tell the pictures were taken at night. Not sure I did shoot some T-MAX P3200 back then, but those scans are from T-MAX 400.
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    Costco's Film Developing / Scanning

    Well I did the mod on my SA-21, and the software now sees it as a SA-30. :D I don't have any longer strips of film around to actually test a frame past #6, but I have the option to pick 'em up to 40 whereas I didn't before. And, most importantly the scanner and feeder still works! :aok:
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    GPOS

    For which model, and where did you see that? Also, I see Garmin has released a new touchscreen GPS line with two models in between the eTrex and Oregon models. Dakota 10 & Dakota 20.
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    dSLR thread

    I've already got a Rebel XSi do I don't need a Rebel XTi, but I might be interested in other stuff you want to sell. :)
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    Never-B4-Published '07 Letter> LSD-Inventor Albert Hofmann to Apple CEO Steve Jobs

    Merc has you on ignore as do most of the people here, so you don't have to worry about them reading it. ;)
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    Thoughts about educational systems

    I got a 1400/1600, so I guess you are the village idiot (so far). :lol:
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    Thoughts about educational systems

    Of course not, he's white. Haven't you been paying attention? :owneddnce:
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    CRYSTAL BALL ON LCDS?

    One standing next to a LCD monitor, but yeah... Unfortunately, he hotlinked the image, which doesn't work and gives the nice image I posted.
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    Costco's Film Developing / Scanning

    You have to wonder if they really thought people wouldn't figure it out.
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    CRYSTAL BALL ON LCDS?

    Nice hotlinking there ace. Clearly this is what you intended to show us.
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    Costco's Film Developing / Scanning

    Sweet! :cheers: I can convert the SA-21 film feeder (6 frame max) that came with the Nikon Coolscan 5000ED into the optional and $$$ SA-30 film feeder (40 frame max). link Obviously I wont have the roll catcher on the back, but that's not real important IMHO.
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    Thoughts about educational systems

    That, or "Don't drink and post: Here's why!"
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    Thoughts about educational systems

    Maybe move those posts to another thread? :thumbleft:
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    dSLR thread

    I told you it was a n. :p
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    Thoughts about educational systems

    Someones been drinking... :nono:
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    Windows 7 nonsense

    Until MS gives business a compelling reason to upgrade they are very unlikely to do so.
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    Random help

    So you have a well too?
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