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As I understand it, Gilbo, the 10-17 fisheye it is actually a Pentax design. Pentax and Tokina, apparently, have an arrangement under which Pentax design a lens and Tokina manufacture it. They make one version with the Pentax badge, and another version in the various other mounts (Canon, Nikon...

Fushigi, it's a friggin printer for chrissake! We are not talking weirdo, high-tech server-grade gear here, we are talking about an ordinary common or garden printer. Printers should work with anything. They are like cars: you get inside and turn the key, or (as the case may be) plug them in a...

Well I did! And have never regretted it: the 20D was and still is an outstanding camera, more than capable of delivering superb image quality, and different from the current models only in details that are, in the final analysis, just that: details. What is the difference between a 20D and a...

Thanks, Stereo. I'm not sure that there are any authorised service centres in Australia apart from the actual Canon ones. Noit for cameras, anyway. They certainly have authorised 3rd party printer repair places, but not (so far as I know) for cameras. With only 20-odd million people, perhaps...

Oh, I didn't see your post until just now, Lunar. I picked that example for no particular reason except that the 300/2.8 IS is regarded as a very, very fine lens. I have never used one (though that's probably the next lens I will buy). Nevertheless, I understand that the big white primes are...

I'm sorry to hear that, David. Send it to Canon. They will charge you to repair it, of course, but it's still a very capable camera and unless it's something truly nasty, worth fixing for sure. Obviouly I can't speak for Canon USA but Canon Australia's repair service has been very good in my...

Hi Dave. Been mega-busy and barely on-line lately. Shouldn't be on-line now. No matter. Sharpness is a balancing act between lens issues wide open (no lens is perfect wide-open, though the very best ones come close) and diffraction stopped down. The more you stop down, the worse diffraction...

I really should do that, JSF. Near enough to 30 years using keyboards, and I still use only one hand. Like Fushigi, I can get up to 45WPM ... but one cup of coffee or a glass of light beer and that goes down to less that half.

Nice to see that news, Lunar. I finally sent my ID III off for the sub-mirror fix just today, so I'll look forward to trying the new firmware out when it gets back. One of my 40Ds died the other day as well, so I sent them both in together. This weekend, I'm down to two bodies: 20D and 40D. Just...

We would care, Mubs. Cripes, there ain't no-one else here who still laughs at my jokes. What would we do without you?

Same thing Canon has been doing for many years, David, with the 1D and 1Ss lines. No reason why Nikon shouldn't do it too.

If you haven't read it yet, read it, right to the end. Great stuff!

Not even close, Pradeep. Fuel excise is currently about one quarter of the cost per litre. ($0.38) It was around double that in the past. We are now paying the price for this idiocy: bigger cars, worse balance of payments, overcrowded roads, higher carbon emissions, and so on.

I hear you, Clocker. A Ford or a GM (or for that matter a Renault or a Nissan) can only build the cars that people want to buy, Commercial suicide is not good business! Crazy fuel pricing leads to bad cars. Back about 30 years ago, Australia switched to import parity pricing. Although we had...

Maybe California wouldn't always be out of step with the rest of the USA if the remainder of the country wasn't so unbelievably backward. 35MPG? In 12 years?! WTFF is wrong with the United States (excepting California)?

Nonsense.

What an extraordinarily beautiful creature! Those neat little spots just set it off.

No point at all in me learning a different keyboard layout: I spend a lot of my time using machines that are not mine, different ones every day, and it's not practical to convert and then reconvert every machine that arrives and departs. Querty is pretty stupid, no doubt about it, but I'm stick...

I have those speakers too. They were excellent.

Well, if you look at the site, Bozo, you will (eventually) realise it's Australian Rules Football - almost a religion as opposed to a sport. Of course, you have to wait until the pages load (assuming that they do load and don't crash your system, that is), and then hunt around looking for useful...

This may well be the worst, slowest-loading, most Javascript-ridden major commercial website in the entire world. I certainly cannot think of any other in the same league of poxiness. I'm not sure what their budget is, but we are talking serious dollars. This is a big organisation with thousands...

And even in SB Live days, the drivers were a horrorshow. Ever tried figuring out which particular one you need when you have a random, unknown SB Live in yor hand? Looked at how many different, incompatible ones they have on their website? Best Soundblaster was the SB 16. After that, they...

Couldn't agree more. In fact, I can't believe that they haven't gone under long since.

Specially for you, Udaman. Seen on a photographic equipment board, the following signature: I have successfully built a Full Frame DSLR with 50mm F1.4 lens that is less than 1 inch thick! On a completely separate note, does anyone know how to dislodge something from a industrial trash compactor?

Damn it, my memory ain't what it ought to be, but as I recall, you should be able to simply switch the hacks off for IE8 and treat it the same as you treat Firefox and Opera. (Or, for that mater, IE 7 a lot of the time - IE 7 is vastly better behaved than any of the older ones were.) I haven't...

I think his relief, Bozo, was that the damn thing reported anything at all - i.e., for the first time, although he hadn't got it actually working, he had at least managed to make it believe that there were, indeed, some hard drives attached to it. Compared to the previous state of affairs, this...

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/netgear-storage-central-kills Enjoy

IE 8 should be no issue, Tim. Word is that it actually works as per spec - in other words, if a page displays correctly in Firefox and Opera, it will almost certainly be OK in IE 8 as well.

Agreed. To get anything worthwhile out of it, you need to take a lot of time over the shot, and fiddle, fiddle, fiddle. I'm still a long way away from mastering the use of mine, though I've done the odd nice thing with it. In fact, it's one thing that propells me towards a 5D or a 1Ds III - you...

sorry

Anyone for April 1st?

Actualy. "evangelists" is an entirely appropriate term. (Concise, accurate description & comparison snipped to avoid offending people with weird beliefs.)

Absolutely. A Real man with a capital "J".

I'd rather play footsie with the traffic than waste precious hours on Hearts of Iron 2 or Supreme Commander (whatever those things are). On the whole, they would probably be improved by increasing the wait. That would give you more time to repent the folly of your ways. Real men play with...

I am Tea! Now I can't get out of this ztupid damn human body! You wouldn't believe how weak and spindly it iz. I can't even tear up telephone books. Tannin should exercise more.

Itsz hard for me to pozt because of this stupid body. All the fingers are too long and it hasn't got proper nails and as for the toes they are hopeless! Anyway, I'm tired all the time.

Good news! I can't wait.

They must be in panic mode. Microsoft [i]never[i] lower Windows prices. Never, ever. For them, tjhis is thin edge of the wedge stuff. It's like the Pope saying birth control is OK on Tuesdays ..... what happens next, we wonder.

What Dave said. Doug is da man. Does a fantastix job. Sheesh, for a human, he's almost human!

Yike! It worked!

n do if they put their minds to it.

Don't be stupid, you can't just swap bodies.

No, I'm fair dinkum. It's hormones. Read the literature. Happens to all of us. Any species.

You agree?

Exactly.

No! Nothing to do with human vs ape. Or male - female either. It's just body chemistry.

Nonsense. It's just chemistry. You need to understand hormones. You have a young ape's body which is full of energy and stupidity hormones, and I have the advantage of stability and intelligence in a mature body.

You can't be born old.

Well, you started it. You mentioned age.

Nasty little ape.