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Careful with that, I hear your boss can be a bit demanding. Thanks for taking the time.

In case anyone was wondering, the production of 26 2.6Ghz Xeon cores (92k PPD) is less than half what a 4960X and Titan can do (219k PPD).

I have the battery grip, but don't use it that often. Most of the time I walk around with a 24/1.4 (quite small) and the battery pack adds considerably to the weight.

LG G4 32GB Black ordered through the company this afternoon. Probably Monday. I'm just leaving a huge Anker external battery pack connected constantly, this allows me to only swap to a freshly charged battery twice a day.

No issues here.

Thanks for all that Tannin. I'll give those tips a shot next time I'm out. And I do have the new version of the lens, with even better IS, making my situation even more silly.

No need to apologize, I should know the spec of my own equipment. I suspect much of the problem is that I don't shoot in full-daylight conditions much; magic-hour if I'm lucky, dusk otherwise.

I should switch to ISO, I've been using various compression/stripping tools.

I will if I have to again. The last time we moved was right after buying our first house, and there was no money to spare. Then again, my wife and I boxed in one day, moved in one day with the help of one friend, and unpacked in 3. It would be very different now.

Unfortunately I seem to be one of the people that has a bad experience with the current tech (active shutter glasses). I've also had mixed results ripping them.

The last effort to see is a factory reset. If that doesn't do the job then it is a hardware issue.

Just about killed my phone today (it is now discharging continuously, I suspect an internal short. Even with the phone off a new battery runs flat in a couple hours and the phone is always hot) I think I want the LG G4, but I'm tempted to make the safe decision with the Note 5. Will be buying...

Wow, and <$3500.

I stand entirely corrected. f/5.6 it is. And I do have issues hand-holding, but I shake quite a bit.

Wow that is a big lens. Wouldn't work for me as I don't think I can handhold 500mm @ F5.6 at any reasonable ISO. 400@F4 is enough of a challenge.

A while ago I bought a TacX Bushido, along with the i-Bushido computer connectivity kit, and steering frame. I really like it; the geek elements (all the data, computer game aspect, etc) keep me distracted while I ride. Be sure to get a fan to blow on you and a mat for under your bike (you...

Toshiba (or any laptop manufacturer) doesn't sell parts to laptops to regular customers. You'll be depending on 3rd party resellers, and may not be able to find the part at all. I have ~75% success finding parts for consumer-grade laptops and 95% for pro-grade stuff.

I had one friend help me both times I've had a move with stuff. Same person had to move and didn't call me. I've only helped a half-dozen people move. I don't mind so long as they are prepared; I once arrived at a friends place on moving day to discover no packing had taken place. She didn't...

I have a nice microphone hooked up to an Axis P8221 I/O box and an Axis M3007 camera. The camera works fine, and the mic covers audio perfectly. The P8221 supports adding the credentials of the camera so that you can get an integrated A/V Live View feed, but I can't get the video to appear...

The fine I was hearing was $18B? That certainly counts as a kick in the nuts...

Merc nailed it. Label everything, start rotating the cables around the drives. If the same drives keep failing it is the drives. Then start rotating the cables on the ports, if the same ports keep failing it is the card. Otherwise it might be the cables.

Browsing YouTube on a tablet or phone and then sending the video to a TV or media player works pretty well...

Thanks for that. I have image hosting elsewhere, but have avoided it due to the additional effort (4x the work of uploading to the forum? 10x?). I was hoping for a simple modification to the tag.

I'm holding off until they've figured out a way to do whole-house integration of the Alexa functionality.

Big advantage of being on that boat 20+ mile offshore was that there was very little light pollution. How are you guys getting the image to show in the post?

I don't use tracking, but I feature-match between the shots and crop to the portion that is included in all the images.

1. Nope. If you can't see anything in the live view you are SOL. You could point at the moon and AF there before turning AF off, but that might be more work for less optimal result. 2. A 4-sec exposure @ 16mm is fine and should give a less noisy result. For me, astrophotography exposure times...

Was just looking into buying Grid2 (huge discount on Steam right now), but decided to re-install Prison Architect instead.

This is why I run defaults on just about anything. There may be more efficient setups, but I'm trying to do work from a new install every month or so and can't be bothered to fool with it.

In the constant battle against RSI, I have a mouse, trackball, and touchpad that I switch between. For me it is a trade-off between accuracy/speed and pain.

Lately I've been getting the Anker or Monoprice cables and no issues there.

Thanks for talking me down guys, just upgraded the storage system and called it a day. A pair of large 850 Pros in RAID0 giving 1GB/s+ read and write Seq. and even 300MB/s+ 4k Q32TI.

I'm familiar enough with the camera that I can get the settings where I want them pretty quickly and even manage to eyeball decent manual exposure settings before touching the camera. That leaves the creative side where I feel my pictures fall down. I try to compensate for that by taking...

I spent about $400 on internet and another $400 on cellular, but it was by the hour and amazingly slow. Most pages would timeout before loading most of the time.

I'm pretty sure the trunk of a crown vic is good for 4 bodies or 2 people. A buddy is current CHP and was issues a Ford SUV of some kind.

No problem. Just got back from taking the kid to the park after 5 glasses of wine. Much better than the alternative.

The whole question is whether whatever GPU I choose is recognized and used for acceleration in Photoshop and Premiere. If a gamer GPU will do that is what I'd go with. Indeed. Our next vacation is likely in a couple years and by then laiokhdflkiuj sdfglku jhsdfgokun.

Technical. I haven't even bothered to start on the artistic.

I've done single-malt scotch to a significant degree. I think one of the reasons my wife is particularly understanding about the photography thing is that it does get me out from time to time.

The whole purpose of vacations is to placate those around me. If it were up to me, I would tell everyone I was going on a cruise then stay home and sleep. Anything out of the normal routine is so much effort once a wife and 2-year-old is involved that I would consider it pretty much never...

Wow, thanks for the reminder Handruin. Crazy to think that I've been doing this camera stuff for so long and am still awful at it.

I'm hearing reports that all of Win10 is being downloaded to eligible computers even if you haven't signed up for it. Apparently just having automatic updates is enough. Ugh. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2425381/microsoft-is-downloading-windows-10-to-your-machine-just-in-case Thoughts?

Thanks for the info Lunar, I can assure you that my 50/1.4 will not be seeing medium-heavy use. I haven't looked at the other lens manufacturers since the awful Sigma 75-500. Is there a good very fast 50mm that I should be looking at? Edit: Or (because of the crop sensor) should I be more...

I should just do this.

Stylus, too.

If I didn't specifically want at least 3840x2160 I would be running this: https://youtu.be/CcaktV1iiGk

This isn't just about a hardware solution to this single problem. I also want a better gaming machine, a larger screen to watch movies, and more storage than I can fit in a single laptop (so I can bring all the RAWs home). Looking at the video output, the DSLR is certainly higher quality, but...

Two things prevent me from just bringing all the RAWs home. 1. Vacation time is all the time I have; when I get home I go back to work. If the pictures aren't done by the time I get home, it could be months. 2. I don't know what I'm doing. None of the Timelapse shots I took are as good as I'd...

I'm still loving the 24/1.4. I do have the 17-40/4, but I want more control over DOF (shallow DOF helps hide poor composition ;)). After that I have the 50/1.4 and then the 100-400II. Is it just me or is the 50/1.4 not that good a lens? I'm never that impressed with the pictures from that lens...

Only AMEX keeps the CVV number on the front (theirs are also 4-digits to everyone else's 3). Visa and Mastercard still have them on the back at the end of the signature line.