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OUCH!!! You just described my nightmare scenario. Insurance?

What is your IPv6 readiness? Test here. My readiness score: 0/10

How can you derail "Something Random?" Your "random" post is, well, ON-TOPIC. LOL. That link comes up as $480 for me. As far as moving companies go, don't go too budget. Or else your stuff will be held hostage as an additional $2500 fee suddenly pops up.

Helping someone move a house full of stuff is a crazy hard workout. Maybe worse than shoveling a yard full of snow? I don't know for sure as I've never had the "pleasure" of shovel snow. But I would definitely agree with you that the cumulative effect of shoveling any amount of snow on a...

Gotcha. If you want/need light weight remove the battery grip. But when you are using your 100-400mm perhaps the extra weight of the grip, and the larger surface area in which you can hold onto the camera, can give you some added stability. Or perhaps it will make things worse. Just tossing...

I suspect that we'll have new scripts that need to be run on a regular basis as MS continues to add various KB updates to replace those not installed (or removed) by users.

I was thinking the same thing as well. The 100-400mm zoom is NOT the size of the "big" teles. The particularities of the Canon firmware are very interesting and information that I did not know. I wonder if Lunar knows if the Nikon firmware acts the same way. But ... :scratch: I suggested DD...

I didn't mean to discount your issues, I apologize. I'm just trying to figure out why you are having said issues and thought exposure was the problem. Seems like a faster shutter speed is in order. Blurriness from camera shake would be worse than bumping the ISO up one EV. Underexpose one...

Here's the output from the above script. It blocks a lot of hosts. I can still navigate to those sites in Firefox so I'm not sure how the blocking works? 1: 2: 3: 4: 5: 6:

:scratch: When did you buy a 400mm f/4? I'm jealous. Your 100-400mm is f/5.6 @ 400mm. The Nikkor 200-500mm f/5.6E shouldn't be that much more difficult to hand hold. On a sunny day, ISO-200 should give me about 1/1250sec to 1/1600sec @ f/5.6. ISO-400 would allow f/8. I was considering...

I'm seriously thinking of picking up this. The 80-400 is almost twice the price. I don't think I'll use the the short end (80-200mm) very much. And it doesn't seem to be as good as the $2700 price tag dictates. My only concern is that I think the long end (400-500mm) is really going to...

I agree. But. Many of the emission requirements/test are BS. Forget to tighten your gas cap, emission computer throws an error code and BAM you fail emission testing. And depending on how varied you daily driving is, it could take a week for the "error code" to reset. So an emission...

Over 30 hours and no posts to "Pub & Brewery" Am I the only one here with no life?

I gave up trying to figure out how I can get it to work here. Launch Postimage.org in a new tab, Login (or stay logged in), click the "browse" button, navigate to your pic, then upload. Super quick/fast. I think it's easier/faster than the BBS interface here. You get a list of links...

DD can use one of these if the boat starts a rock'n.

Nice moon shot. There may be a way to get your image to show directly when you upload your image to the Storageforum server but I don't know how. Plus to reduce server load, use an image hosting site. Create a free acct with postimage.org you only need an email address. Then you can...

I tried a star trails shot but the sodium vapor street lights from downtown Phoenix and surrounding suburbs produce too much ambient light. Edit: I aimed camera toward the western sky, Phoenix is east of my location. 16mm, f/8, 30mins, ISO-100. I guess I could try f/22 but long exposure is...

Thanks for the tips DD. I'm trying to do as much in-camera as I can right now as I have zero post-processing tools/programs and zero knowledge as far as that aspect of photography. It's my weakness link right now.

I don't have winter here, so I guess you have something in common with someone on the other side of the world. Well kinda. ;)

Since I'm awake when vampires are because of my night work schedule I've been playing around with taking night-time time lapse MOVs of stars. I'm using my 16-35 @ 16mm wide open @ f/4. Picture taken every 8sec and converted to a 1080p30 MOV in-camera. Exposure ISO-1600, 4sec @ f/4 including...

I haven't been to a beach in 20 years and even I know that was a low score.

[H]ard|OCP was not sent a NANO video card for testing. Because AMD needs fair reviews. Story here. "Kyle, my position is that we need fair reviews. I doubt there is anyone in our entire industry who would disagree." -Roy Taylor-Corporate Vice President "Roy’s backtracking here seems humorous...

DD is really good with that stuff and is exposed to a lot of it during/for his day job so I can understand why he comes at it from that angle.

Interesting. The price isn't all that much more than the Sigma Art 50mm. Only several hundreds more. Not the typical several thousands more for a Zeiss lens. I wonder how the modern Zeiss linked above would compare to something old like this 1977 Nikkor? At least in the center of the frame.

I think you are underestimating your ability just a bit. And the "technical" aspects of photography are really only a tiny fraction of what makes a great photo. Sure Lunar has tons and tons of expensive PRO gear but I bet he'd take some great photos with a simple point and shoot if the...

800mm f/5.6? LOL.

And the whole issue of "clock-tripling" and ....well my 50 MHz 486 is a "true 50", while your 66MHz is only a clock doubled 33MHz. Yada, Yada, Yada. Who would have thought back then that we'd be dealing with 30-50x clock multipliers!!!

^^^ I actually skipped CGA and went right to 16 color (out of 256) EGA. Princeton EGA monitor, 640x350 12" monitor. Text looked amazing compared to CGA and TVs at the time. Circa 1985. The monitor and video card was $200 more than a complete XT computer: XT mobo, case, PSU, keyboard, 8 MHz...

DD if you got the relaxation you needed, then the trip was a success irregardless of child care issues. Should be cool. Can't wait to see'em. I was going to say something along the lines of...."Bikini shots of the wife would be of interest." but that would be wrong. Wouldn't it?

I can take crappy photographs with the $4500 worth of 24MP equipment I have. But I'm happy and MOST IMPORTANTLY, I look damn cool doing it!!! /snark

8 hour night time time lapse I started my 8 hour time lapse about 1h 45m ago. Midnight to 8am. Cloudy sky so no stars. I'm west of downtown Phoenix so just getting the city glow on the clouds. The glow is very-very faint orange to the nekkid eye, but in camera it's really dark/deep orange...

I hope shooting a picture every 6 seconds for nearly 15 hours won't hurt my D610. :crap: DD got me off my lazy butt and I'm playing with my Nikon's "Time Lapse" feature. It takes a pic every x seconds for x amount of time and converts it into a *.MOV file for you. The MOV file is what you...

An APS-C crop body of some type would give you a bit more reach than a full-frame body, allowing you to save a bit on tele lens costs. Canon is 1.6x crop and Nikon is 1.5x crop. I'm sure Lunar will be here soon to give you the info you need.

I've used two different BX chipset motherboards. ASUS P2B and P3B-F and I'm pretty sure they supported 256MB x 3 RAM configurations. I think all three modules had to be dual-rank (vs quad-ranked) DIMMS. Or something like that. Been decades....

I think Lunar has already told said person they're an idiot, but didn't expect the response he received from said idiot.

If the board only has 3 memory slots and two of them ORIGINALLY have 64MB sticks, then 384 would be the limit. Yes you could remove the 64s but perhaps for legal/marketing reasons the 384 limit was specified. Or they just copied over the specs from an older version of MB (or older BIOS) that...

When has "crazy expensive" ever stopped you? You're my hero. ;)

I saw this the other day and for a split second I was thinking "YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!" 100ms later I that switched to Awwwwwwwwwww!!! Not an FX lens.

Yeah it was a paper launch. And $650 is way too high. Should have been priced around $550-600 Many decent ITX cases will hold a full length dual-slot card anyways, so the smaller card (and power envelope) is nice but less performance at same price equals "head-scratch."

Nice. DD buy one and give us a review. LOL.

This. Again This. Yep. Doesn't Win7 support end in 2020? So Win8x should be at least till then. I'm just hoping MS will respond to the criticism. Just wait till some auto-magically pushed update breaks Facebook and all hell will break loose. Any idea when Win11 drops? 2017?

At least Nikon has it's f/1.8G primes that canon somewhat lacks. Well at least on the short end. It would be nice to see a 17mm and 14mm f/1.8G but those would be expensive. Nikon 20mm f/1.8G Canon 2.8 Nikon 24mm f/1.8G Canon 2.8 (and expensive 1.4) Nikon 28mm f/1.8G Canon 1.8 (and 2.8) 1.8...

I can only select 1080p, no 2160p option. That video is pretty much was I wanted to try but haven't gotten around to it yet. Thanks for sharing.

This. You can "quick reply" and things work, but if you "go advanced" the message edit box is empty. Also Lunar my messages didn't have any "special" characters in them and were actually short messages, not long multi-paragraph posts. Seems random and I can't duplicate the error so it's...

Looks like DirectX12 runs better on AMD vs Nvidia. Ars story here.

Well maybe in 10 years most urban dwellers will have bi-directional 1 to 10 Gb internet access. And if everybody had 2-4 of the 100 TB monsters you could do backups to your friends drive and vice versa. Eventually everybody will have a copy of everybody's data. I think no matter how large...

The TV show right? I only ask because this is the "best movie" thread. Hell yeah, Mr. Robot is an excellent TV show. I missed a bunch of the beginning episodes but the 3 or 4 I did see are very good. Definitely not the typical "hacker" movie/tv show. I agree with Merc there's no, "that's...

I believe my Nikon will just combine all the intervalometer / time-laspe images into a MOV file? Probably just JPG images combined though. Do the Canon bodies have the same functionality? Do you actually need a string of huge-sized RAW images joined? Would JPG be good enough?

I haven't had this error in a few months but it happened twice in the last few days.

"The HAMR process consists, in short, in heating the magnetic media platters before writing the data to about 450°C using a laser with 810mm wavelength and 20mW power." and "Apparently, the HAMR technology is only a first step of development for HDDs since ASTC (Advanced Storage Technology...