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Rent a lens first for the shoot and then consider buying one later. Buy new, rather than used if you don't know the buyer and lens history. The TSE lenses often take some abuse and some people partly disassemble the lens to switch TS axes. Doing this multiple times or clumsily can damage the...

The kiddies and Gen Ys in the target audience need their computers in top shape to slaughter opponents a few ms faster. ;)

The best computer PS is the one that works reliably and lasts for some years. :) It's difficult to take that article very seriously when there are ads for power supplies right above it. :(

Man, I always fly down here from the bay area. You like to drive or haul a lot of equipment?

What is used for the encryption?

I just finished with the last-minute gifts and it is off to the bedroom.

It was fairly warm here in the southland - enough to use the AC a bit. Once it was in the 90s on Christmas IIRC, but not comparable to Christmases I've been in the Caribbean, in equatorial South America and Africa, or in the southern hemisphere such as northern Australia.

What about SuperC?

Is that your original created data or illegitimate data from something that you don't own the copyright to and have not incurred the expense and time to produce? I can't afford to lose data (i.e., for more than a few hours) so I don't risk the use of arrays. There are at least three copies of...

Too much, but never enough. :) Here is the local (internal and eSATA) storage in the primary computer. That does not include the backup/storage computer and of course piles of loose drives and 2.5" drives, etc. I don't even have a 36x48 back yet. It will only get worse.

Sorry, the outburst was not so muchtowards you in particular, there is just so much misunderstanding of basic geometry and BS perpetuated on the web. :(

No, you're not the crazy. I bought one each of the Samsung and WD 1000GB drives since I could not decide.

Somebody had opened them obviously and used them. Returned batteries are not cool. :(

Except that Thomas-Distributing sells some used batteries. :(

Arrrrggggghhhhhhh!

Too many of the photos don't look so good to me, especially the weird lateral blurring. The repairs and patches are good enough I guess, but the basic design is obviulsy flawed. The question is whether Canon will shift to a new/revised model sooner than the typical 3-year cycle.

Mine is fine so far. It is cooler and quieter than my pair of 7K1000s, but warmer than my WD Greenpowder 1TB. I don't have a Seagate 1TB 7200.11 yet, but the F1 is the favorite of the three 1TB models in my computer.

I bought an SD800IS (as a gift) because it had a 28 mm equivalent lens at the wide end as well as an optical viewfinder. Recently P/S cameras have too many pixels and horrific NR at higher ISOs. Some of the old 5 megapixel P/S cameras were better overall than the replacements IMO.

A headset looks goofy enough that I don't wear it when not in use. They remind me of the old Star Trek earpieces. :)

Is TI 11 any better or worse than TI 10? TI 10 does not exist any more.

The Blackberry has a low volume so an earpiece can help in noisy environments. I like the Plantronics.

We will all be in nursing homes by the time that one is released. It is the Atlas 10K II of the p/s world. :D Tony loved that one. ;)

"jessica-alba?" What did she do in the field?

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Point and shoot this. :mrgrn:

It is still pretty lame if you ask me.

I don't see any Samsung hard drives at allstarshop.com. Meanwhile Hypermicro.com has a lot of old or discontinued drives, and nothing over 400 GB in SATA. :(

Newegg uses illegal packaging, but sometimes the drives are OK. My Samsung F1 from them is working fine.

OMG, don't tell us you are shooting all the landscapes handheld!?

I have mixed feelings about the 28-300 IS. I was better than I expected, though suffers the obvious zoom range/speed limitations. Ultimately I decided not to keep one. OTOH, I have two of the 100-400s though that lens also has some serious weaknesses. However, you would not be helped by the...

So is it probably just something from the dirty tricks dept. at Seagate or other competitor?

I don't know, but it is OK the way I described. It would be better with a KVM switch, but that would require more cables. I don't think there any KVM switches for DVI + PS/2.

I have an original 2nd degeneration Raptor (WD 740GD) that is still running well years later. Were the original 37 GB drives unreliable? I wonder why there are no newer, faster WD Raptors?

I have the WD 1TB drive and it works well without any special enclosure. The drive alone does not care about the data format.

Or unless it is like the loser's Seagate drive. :) http://www.storageforum.net/forum/showthread.php?t=6851

No, the original 1Ds was very slow, taking about 45-50 seconds to clear the 10-frame buffer. Five years ago the image processors were not as fast.

I write RAW to refer to file format rather than general usage of raw. That is just my style. On another forum it would be CR2 or NEF, etc., but some people in a general forum such as this one may not be familiar with the extensions.

20D has only a 6-frame buffer so it is always empty. ;) The Ultra II is fine for that camera.

I broke one 1.4x converter too. It was ripped apart when the 1Ds and 300/2.8 went flying in different directions a few years ago. :o Fortunately the TC has a weak female bayonet side or the camera or lens would have been damaged. I got two more 1.4x TCs and I not sure that they are exactly...

What do you mean ugly hard edges with the 1.4x TC? Images are slightly softer and with less contrast than the 500/4 alone.

Mostly Extreme III and now IV. The newer bodies like the 1Ds MK III can take advantage of UDMA, whereas the older bodies like the 1D MK III cannot. Still there is some benefit in downloading. I still have some old Ultra II cards but the download speeds are quite slow.

Thanks. My monitor has no resolution, so there is no problem.

What is the difference, or is it only needed with the newer LCDs and faster video cards? I don't see anything.

Garmins Nuvi work well enough. Sometimes the maps are not accurate, which is similar to routes found on the internet. Use common sense. Where possible call business POIs like restaurants in advance to see if they still exist. ;)

Update: The setup works fine with the two DVI cables if the main system is on LCD input 2 and the second computer is on input 1. (Don't ask why.) Oddly, the new DVI cable has about half of the pins missing yet image quality is fine. Am I missing something?

So it is finally almost as fast as the I-RAM? How long will it be before sustained writes are in the mid-100 range?

I don't put up outdoor lights because it is not feasible, but I love to drive around and look at them. It is nice to have some small measure of beauty and serenity around the holidays in the stressful and dreary modern world.

Huh, what?

To each his/her own... Jpegs may be fine if you use a fixed white balance, perfect exposure and other settings, and don't do any tweaking. However, I don't like to throw out 6 of 14 bits on a $8000 camera. There are too many limitations from the jpeg and artifacts that limit NR and other PP...

When there is some that wants to use a small, brick body like the OM-1 with the sensor of a D3 at ISO 6400 with a 24 TSE, what can you expect? :D