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Lens reviews are not particularly meaningful as they are often full of personal agendas, inconsistency and just plain nonsense. There are several test sites such as here and here that may be relevant. I don't know anything about the 55-250 EF-S, since it is was recently announced and is not...

Of course many people prefer 4000-5000K for general indoor lighting, where the CRI and MI are not usually as important as seeing a reasonable amount of blues in fabrics, books, etc. I'm overly sensitive to blues and easily annoyed by weird fluorescent and especially LED lighting.

FWIW, I use a couple of different methods to achieve neutral color balance — a 77 mm Expodisc plus or a small WhiBal card set. The former is used for incident light and the latter is used relectively. (Neutral color balance is often undesirable, but that is another topic.)

Joe, when you do the raw conversion a white reference point on the macbeth (or other) chart should be used. Obviously the incorrect settings were used for the incandescent shot. Ideally it is better to use ~4000K or higher (filtered) incandescent lights to reduce the noise in the blue channel...

One hopes their lights are more reliable than 5 min. on and then off. ;)

Did you later go back and improve your education?

When, if ever, will there be LEDs with a reasonable CRI at 4.1K and 5K? Current LEDs are quite sucky blue with many other color casts depending on the luck of the draw.

Dell....ain't working no more......

I had an R1800 a few years ago but did not like the compromise of gamut and super gloss vs. accuracy all that much. Of course it depends on the subjects and your areas of interest. I prefer the R2400/3800/4800/7800 K3 inkset which is more traditional like the old SP2200, rather than the...

FWIW, most of the consumer NiCd C and D batteries contained sub-C cells. The early ones I got around 1968 had only 1.0 AH of capacity, barely enough for 15 minutes of vibrations.

:rofl::bglaugh::rofl:

That looks really uncomfortable and probably noisy. :( What happens when going over the potholes and driveways, or does it just sit in the garage? ;)

No, I've only used some OM lenses on the Canons. Back in those days I had Nikons. In the mid 70s they were larger than the OM series, but not huge by today's standards. I have used a variety of gear that was not ergonomic, such as the GSW690 III clunker and awkward Contax rangefinders...

Cool, but 64GB will be costly. :( I prefer 16 GB or even 8GB for a striped pair. A 1.8" SSD could be mounted almost anywhere - very nice. :)

It is the other way around. Canon has the customer bent over all right. ;)

It is not surprising that the pro cameras are less popular on the "flickr". I don't see any D2H or D2HS listed at all, and the proportion of 1D/1D MK II/1D MK IIn is quite low. The users are out probably out shooting games or events and selling the images elsewhere than on the "flickr". Where...

That Olympus seems rather inexpensive, so is the cost really a major issue? I'm curious what the market niche of the Olympus and miniature sensor are compared to a body with a larger small sensor, such as a D80 or similar?

Mostly they are old 160-250GB drives without FDB.

I suspect that all produced until ~October are possibly defective and that Canon cannot differentiate by S/N. Fortunately Canon will further lose market share from this debacle.

I'm not against the drive per se, just the misleading rpm.

I have many ~5 year old drives for archives that only operate a few hours each year or two. After only a ~1000 hours of use are they expired in that case?

Try applying your technical skills to a specific area based on your other interests and expertise. Computers and related technology are used in so many ways. I'm sure there are plenty of good career options if you have the right attitude.

Some people are fairly reasonable most of the time, but become assh*les after intoxication.

Are they supposed to be particulary attractive??? I don't think so.

If the target is clean, and locked properly with a reasonable read time, laser radar can be more accurate than the speedometers in many cars. Why don't you just RTFM? ;)

Wow, what an advertising crock! Apparently 5400-7200 is a descriptor for the type of drive, not the true RPM. :(

http://www.google.com/search?q=trinton+azaleth&hl=en

I know quite a few smaller photogs, usually women in the sub 5'6" range, that handle Canon 1D series or Nikon D series bodies and lenses up to 500 mm without difficulty.

I don't understand that rationale. It is the opposite of most of my work. Are you always photographing objects of similar size?

Canon clusterf*ck finally official.

You think that a 70-200/2.8 is a big lens? I would say it is mid sized. I have 8 lenses that large or larger.

I'm 20 lbs overweight. :(

Clueless am I. :(

We need to find three nice women to do a serious Mercutonic intervention on that tropical island -- one with no telephones, TVs, or internet, etc. :)

The cropping of the wide end of the 16-35 to an effective 21 mm is unacceptable IMO. I don't feel that it is worth spending $16K on a pair of 1Ds MK IIIs yet. Maybe next spring...

Why is it not worth it? What did I say to deserve that remark?

Wow, 320 GB in a 2-platter 2 1/2 inch drive is amazing! I wish there were a 320GB PATA drive to upgrade my old notebook.

Sure, they are bringing back CNN Sport and Trinton Azaleth too. ;)

Does anybody have some of these? The low power, heat and noise are appealing. How effective is the variable RPM function; i.e., is there a lag that affects performance? Thanks.

Have you tried spending a couple of weeks or a year on tropical island?

The 1D non-S series is not so good for landscapes due to the limited resolution and weird crop factor with no native circle-of-coverage lenses. I've been dissapointed with the 24 TSE. Image quality deteriorated too much when shifted and was not that great even at 0/0. I sometimes use a 35/2.8...

I recall that "Storage Forum Pub & Brewery" was chosen as an alternate to the "Bar and Grille" forum at the old SR.

Good grief! Why should anyone care about the transmission of a rental car? Are you planning to take the passengers to the race track or drive like a maniac in the city? If anything you will create the negative impression of being spoiled and snobbish.

Are the woldwide bans mainly for E26/E27 bulbs, or for incandescent lights of all types? How do the bans affect automotive, marine and aircraft lighting, projectors, and a myriad of special purpose devices, etc?

I agree with the clown and the loser. :) Tin can cars are scary. My main vehicle weighs about 3600 lbs without any bodies in it. It is a reasonable compromise between safety, comfort, and parkability, and has good fuel economy compared to the SUV.

So where is the reactor core of the Atom, perhaps under the testicles and causing genetic damage? :)

What is that insect crawling around in your avatar? It looks like there is a gnat on my display. :)

You could actually go buy a book about basic optics and photography. In the olden days that simple explanation of aperture with an example was in the instuction manual.

It looks like Canon finally identified the problem after 5 months and have a solution. http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=7-8740-9068-9129