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There was a 50/1 in the late 1980s, but it is not made any more. I recall they were about $1700. None of the fast 50mm lenses are really sharp in the corner to the corner sense, but that is not their purpose.

Making a good 50/0.95 != simply making a 50/0.95.

Can you afford two hard drives in some sort of backup arrangement, or maybe a larger, faster one like the WD1001FALS?

Perhaps I am too skeptical, but perhaps they were surprised that you noticed, not that the disks were counterfeit. :)

Years ago NJ made a mess of one camera three times in a row until they finally replaced the whole sensor assembly for free. Since then I have used Irvine. Any of the MK III defects such as sub-mirror mounts, side-to-side adjustments for peripheral AF accuracy, oil under the AA filter, ERR 99...

It makes little sense to replace the sensor for one hot pixel. Ask them to apply the mirror fixes and whatever other service is required as well. They may very well only charge the $30 shipping/handling fee. FWIW I've had better luck with Canon in Irvine CA than the one in NJ.

Well, I am so glad to have started this thread. :(

What do the video cards have to do with anything? I will buy a basic, cool and quiet card that is suitable for 2D. Video cards and PCIe slots are not expected to change soon or are they?

High ISO NR kills the buffer capacity IIRC. Anyway, 400-800 is not really high ISO. How many frames do you have, 30-50K?

Well I'm assuming that 4GHz is easy with a decent heatsink.

Canon will map out the hot pixels if you ask when you send the camera in for service. I usually send them in once a year for cleaning and checking.

But isn't a 50% improvement to be expected with six cores vs. four cores, or is that per core?

Will there be other Gulftown CPUs besides the Core i7 980EX? The Intel Extreme CPUs are usually ~$1K. :(

Correctamundo. I had the original 18.2GB Atlas 10K. Man that was a noisy and expensive drive.

I have a ca. 2008 technology system with Q9650@4.05GHz and 8GB RAM on GA EP45-UP3P. XP32 boot drive is old fashioned X25-E and XP64 boot drive is X25-M G2, with the page file on the X25-E in both cases.

I think this was covered in the SSD thread, but we are well into it. There is no need to wait unless you need large capacity.

Mainly I am interested in the motherboard, CPU and RAM. I'd like to keep that part below $2000. The other components are fairly basic and many will be from the current system. I don't want to buy items too soon if susbstantially new technology is around the corner. OTOH, I don't want to wait...

The Intel chipset roadmap stuff eludes me. When would you build a new system this year? The old one is rapidly becoming obsolete. I want something that will be usable for two years, and I'll have to bite the bullet and deal with Windows 7.

What are you using the two screens for? I tried it once and shifting gaze back and forth drove me crazy. :(

Bummer. Was that on a UPS?

MK VIII.

That should be standard, not an option! Or maybe the manufacturer should put the extra money into a redundant system.

Finally! How fast can that CPU run? 3GHz seems rather basic.

I meant that they might jack up the price as was done with the X25-M G2 a few months ago. :)

The C300 is already out of stock at newegg. Are they up to old tricks or only received a few?

All meetings in Hawaii are cancelled for next week. :(

The X25-V 40GB is now $115 today.

Blocking is usually on, but I don't always log in. Posts are often very difficult to follow as if from an ADHD sufferer.

I should have mentioned that they are notebooks. I don't know about the mini desktop systems that sedentary workers have. I agree that 60GB should be enough for most users.

30GB is not much if the OS is Vista or 7. At one place I worked Corporate specified 120-128 GB drives for standard 2010 and 2011 machines.

I have a couple of 1Ds MK II bodies that have depreciated vastly in the last 2.5 years, just sitting around in the closet. I also have a barely used 5D II purchased for testing and never used in the field.

:lol:

Does he even have any FF bodies? At least I have five such bodies to make evaluations.

They look to be OK for light use, i.e., if the user is not saving many large files.

It has been that price for several days or maybe a week now.

Does anybody have the 17 TSE? The 24 TSE II is sometimes not wide enough.

The 1D MK IV is fine. It's more of a reach camera than a low light one, given the pixel pitch. Try ISO 1250. The linked examples are rather poor, certainly not what one expects from a properly processed the RAW files. It looks like the focus is off or the subject is moving and/or NR is...

Apparently not for the phone I had. I only use a phone about 300-400 minutes in a year, but I charge it every month.

I tried that, but the imitation cells were garbage and did not last very long.

I was joking. :D

It is $479 now. DD probably has a couple on order already. :)

Any modern CPU should provide dramatic performance increases over what you have. I tried to install the program in XP but it failed, so I cannot comment on the speed.

That is just awful. Count me among the new cell phone buyers (or rather a XMAS gift) in 2009. However, I only needed a new phone because the battery was shot in the old one. :(

A decent PATA SSD can breathe new life into old computers, especially notebooks.

So the ambient temperature gets down to 15°C. It must be cold in your house.

How does the idle temperature reach 15-20 °C? Does it employ some active heat transfer system?

I suppose. It pronounces like phlegm.

Every year I hear more of the same stories. You have to call someone in IT and it is routed to some other state or a foreign country. After you talk to that person hopelessly for ten minutes, finally they send one of the few beleaguered support staff in the local site to help. If there is no...

I don't understand most of that article, but holy cow - 1.2 billions phones are sold annally? That equates to everyone on the planet having a new phone every five years or so. Where do all the phones go?