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    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year - 2022

    Of note here in Oz. Our local Woolworths (one of the two giant near-monopoly supermarket chains) started selling hot cross buns the very next day after Christmas. What's next? Santa hats on Easter Monday?
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    SPaceSniffer - Find what is using your disk space

    Answering my own question here, Clocker's Space Sniffer does the trick. It doesn't give me a sorted list, but the graphical view is clear enough that I can pick out the 10 or 20 worst folders, and that's all I need.
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    SPaceSniffer - Find what is using your disk space

    Do any of these many useful products have a flat (ignore tree) mode? I have an excellent little utility called RidNacs which does the major part of what I need very well. (Track it down. Recommended.) But I have a current requirement for a utility which can tell me what the largest folders on a...
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    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year - 2022

    Cheers all. Happy (all those things Chewy said) everyone. :)
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    Blu-ray in 2022

    Cheers mate. That sounds like the go then.
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    Blu-ray in 2022

    We picked up a 4-DVD set of something interesting yesterday at the tip shop for the princely sum of $4. It turns out to be Blu-ray discs, not DVDs. Assuming that we buy something to play them on - (a) An external USB Blu-ray drive to suit a computer? We mostly watch things via an old...
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    dSLR thread

    Wow! Those are indeed amazing features! I can see why you'd go with them. As always, we do what works for us.
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    dSLR thread

    Cheers Merc. I bought all the Topaz stuff a few years back but soon found that I wasn't using it. For the things I do (mostly wildlife and natural landscapes, both done in a naturalistic style) Topaz was doing way too much - over-saturating, over-sharpening, over-everything. Sure, you can dial...
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    dSLR thread

    Oh, noise (for the most part, and for any given camera) is inversely proportional to photon count per unit area. Obviously darker areas have more noise than lighter areas, but this isn't really very useful to know as you still need to expose somewhere near correctly. That leaves a single...
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    dSLR thread

    Cheers Lunar. That's interesting. I used the 7D II as my reach camera for a long time, but use the 5DS R for that role now, unless I'm doing some sort of action sequence (e.g., flight shots) where the slower focus of the 5DS R is an issue and the crazy-slow wait for the buffer to clear is a show...
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    dSLR thread

    An example of the SR's brilliant detail. This is a 100% crop. (The site software re-sizes stuff, so to see it at full res, follow this link - http://tannin.net.au/page.php?image=221103_114123_5dsrxc.jpg - and click on the picture.) Here is the original image. Did I use the term...
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    dSLR thread

    I had to resort to using the touch screen to set aperture and ISO on the 5D IV. Naturally, I switched to the 5DS R as the main birding camera, or sometimes the 7D II. The SR had phenomenal resolution and is awesomely croppable. However it doesn't AF as fast as the 5D IV (OK except for small...
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    dSLR thread

    I am just back from another Sri Lanka trip. Wonderful place, as always. Great people, great food, fantastic wildlife. I managed to clag up the 5D IV early on. My own fault really, I forgot my hat and - having very short hair - just tipped some combination sunscreen-mosquito repellent onto my...
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    Laptop time?

    Sign. Nearly March and we haven't got around to using the new lappy for anything much yet. Still using the old one because someone is too lazy to finish off all the data transfer and configuration stuff.
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    Mirrorless Cameras (MILC) and Lenses

    I've given up on Topaz. Over-hyped, underwhelming in practice. I'm well on the way to dropping Adobe stuff completely. DxO Photolab is my main raw converter these days and is useful for a heap of other stuff too. Not expensive, and no bloody subscription.
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