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Is it as awful as that ITune sh*t?

After a year or so it is not worth returning most defective drives for a refurbished replacement.

Thanks, all. I was mainly interested in the size and power consumption to ensure that the graphics card would integrate easily into my current system. It is nice to know that the cost is trivial compared to the monitor. I guess it is time to try the NEC 3090, unless there is a better option...

SD cards are too small, flimsy, and fiddly to efficiently use in the field. :( They are better suited to cheapie DSLRs, P/S digicams, small video cameras, and consumer electronics. SD technology and capacity vs. performance will probably continue to lag behind CF. CF will be using SATA modes...

You are only using 38% of the lenses for 35mm, so the edges are good enough not to need much overlap. Nevertheless, the IQ tradeoff between primes and zooms is similar for pans and single frames. The main difference is that you can shoot multi-row pans to gain vertical angle of view instead of...

Why would anyone risk buying condoms on the internet?

I mostly use >50% overlap with the L lenses (many have limited optical quality). Primes tend to be better and of course teles need less overlap for geometric reasons. Especially with wideangles the edges are often sawtoothed depending on the style of remapping projection, so greater overlap...

I've used Nikon SLRs since '76 and some are very nice bodies, but I reserve "special" for the Leica and Contax gear.

I'd rather have 1440 vertical pixels (4:3 ratio) by 1920. Now I will probably buy a 2560x1600 monitor when I'd prefer narrower.

If I wanted a 12MP FF compact body, I could have purchased a 5D three years ago, or one today at an even better price. What is the big deal?

Perhaps the new Rebel bodies use the sh*t SD card system?

The new EX3 cards are labeled 30MB/sec. and identified by "2008" in the tests. I did not find the latest Kiss/Rebel version. Maybe it is new. Nasty little bodies for normal hands to work with if my 400D is any example.

I meant that a HD is my system bottleneck for the first time in several years. I don't use your software and therefore cannot compare processing times. My pans usually start out with no more than 5GB of TIF source files, but with substantial frame overlap.

I don't know about the Blue Rays. If I need a special TV or else there is no picture, then forget it.

The results are quite accurate in my considerable experience with DSLRs (100+ MP), CF cards (100s of GB) and SD cards. Notice that the write speed of some cheap cards does not measure up to snuff in real-world use. I used a similar home test - photographing a print at a fixed lighting level...

So it is a CRT??? I am confused.

Oh. I thought the video cards for 30" displays cost $300-500. That must have changed in the last few years. I would have no use for dual DVI outputs. Actually the monitor needs dual inputs instead. However, a 30" display has only one of the full resolution inputs and one of lower quality...

WD BlackPower It looks like WD finally has a 7200 RPM 1TB drive consisting of three 333GB platters. When will there be 1.5TB drives?

Asymmetrical output cropping may be the most useful feature, depending on when it occurs in the workflow and if temp file sizes are reduced. It would not be very beneficial if done only at the end, since cropping .psb files afterwards is trivial, though may take a few minutes.

Thanks. It does not matter that much now since I forgot many of the old passwords.

What minimalist video card would be needed for a 30" display? I don't want one of those big honking ones that has a giant fan and occupies two PCI slots. I believe most of those flamethrowers are for the kids playing video games or movies. A small, quiet 2D only card is desirable. Thanks.

If one doesn't care too much about the image quality, cheaper may be better. :) Calibration does nothing for uniformity of illumination and color, min/max brightness, gamut, and changes caused by viewing angle. Some of the cheap monitors are crazy bright and suffer in the darker gradations at...

Now you see my dilemma. That should take about an hour or two. I'm assuming that you only use frames that are properly underexposed - not throw in the bracket. :eek:

Yes.

Yes, but what is there to do in the meantime? Now I am tempted by this one, but it is quite expensive. :o

I think it is about 2 pixels wide, and a perfectly straight line. The monitor has not been moved since 2006.

There is a thin yellow stripe visible near the left side of my LCD monitor, especially when it is just on for a while. :bibber: Has anyone experienced such a vertical stripe on their LCD monitor and did the display deteriorate further afterwards? Now I fear it is the beginning of the end, so...

Arrrrggggh! I will have a large bill soon, too. :(

Isn't it is too early to be shooting for the most part? Or are you on a road trip?

I rarely visit, so I don't know how common that is. Have you tried other Canon sites, perhaps EU or Australia?

I don't have much experience with the Canon portrait primes. I'm more of the 85/135 type however.

I believe the two are unrelated. I have many versions of TI, some from around the time when DI was DOS based. However, TI 10 was the first one that worked properly to restore some SafeCast activated programs. This may be incorrect, but recall that the Powerquest V2i was a pro version of the...

Is there no backup that you can restore the data from? Or are you paranoid not to have a backup for the time it will take to copy the data to the rebuilt array?

If not for the demise of Contax there would be a fine T series digital by now. :cry: I still have a G system around somewhere. The lenses were exceptional compared to the Nikon and Canon SLR fare.

Max mag is 1:8, but you can use tubes. If you want hard/sharp/flat then get 100 macro, but they are overcorrected for SA so you may not like the bokeh much at middle apertures.

135/2.8 is fine for artsy fartsy flowers.

Whatever happened to Gary? His website no longer exists.

This is too confusing. If I am invisible, do I know who I am? :) How do you keep all the different personalities under control?

I just want a compact P/S that can produce better results than a film P/S from ~15 years ago and have some reasonable functionality. DSLRs reached that point with the 1Ds in late 2002. Digital P/S seems to be going in the wrong direction both in image quality and functionality.

I don't log out. However, when I revisit the page some time later I must log in although it states that I am online. I suppose this means that there is some timer that thinks I am still online even after rebooting, cleaning cookies, and disconnecting the internet.

Maybe, or more likely they will simply make the pixels and sensors snmaller and cheaper. :(

So what? Now some P&S cameras will have slightly (2/3 stop) less noise in their crappy images with 1.75µm pitch sensors.

I have a great plan for you, David. :D Please buy 4 of the new 1TB drives for the backup and I"ll buy them back from you afterwards for the price of 3. :)

Test your body carefully upon receipt, during the return period. After that it is all about the warranty. Don't worry too much about other people's defective equipment, though there are exceptions such as the seriously flawed original 1D III.

No. The cookies are frequently cleared, maybe 2000-3000 times per year.

Why must you keep upgrading constantly? Didn't you just change to flash drives? Is it $1200 in one month for fuel? Maybe a more economical vehicle is a better choice than more hard drives. :)

Just a little joke. :)

Why does the site claim that I am online even when I'm not logged in?

Why, is he/she watching pornos?

Welcome back, Merc! :)