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I confess that the idea of a mobile phone locking up is foreign to me. When did they get so complicated that they can not just work? Whatever: I don't know what brand mine is (I could look, but that's the point - I'd have to look) nor how old it is: sometime early this century, I think. It has...

Initials?

Yes, Tea, but generally not all in the same glass.

Guys, guys, let's get real, huh? Tea drinks everything. Hell, if I didn't wear runners all the time I'd have to lock the boot polish up.

Merc, how does that square with cable length restrictions though? OK, we don't have speed of light issues with multiple stacked hubs (i.e., not the same thing as ethernet cable length restrictions) but I'm talking about generalised signal quality loss - my all-purpose rule-of-thumb is that every...

Off the top of my head, you'd be fairly restricted with daisy chaining - there are certainly cable length restrictions which vary for different sorts of devices, so you'd think daisy chaining would be problematic.

Thankyou gentlemen, a Sandisk Micromate it is then. I couldn't find anywhere in Australia with them in stock, except for one place in Sydney with a bundle of 4GB Sandisk SD card and reader for $88. I don't really need another 4GB SD. Shrug .... ordered it anyway. It will be interesting to see...

You mean I could get Tea to maintain my sites for me?

One of my new cameras has an SD card as well as a proper CF card. I don't use the SD slot much (CF is so much nicer to handle) but I keep an 8GB SD card in there for emergencies (such as running out of space on my CF cards). I have now been through THREE different USB card readers and none of...

Interesting stuff, Gilbo. I've never really heard of either one (well, vaguely familiar sounding names to me, no more than that - I might have picked them as CMS packages prior to this conversation, but would probably have guessed that Drupal was a prescription medication and Joomla was...

Just so. I agree entirely. But I'll add one more thing, which is, when you think about it, the worst thing about Adobe: this is their determination to see to it that no competitive product ever threatens their monopoly. (What evidence do I have that there is some sort of Adobe conspiracy to...

Mubs, different people will see things different ways - as witness Mangy Dog's comments - and note that the Mangy One is a smart cookie and a pretty serious photographer. You can download a 100% working copy completely free of charge here...

(Posted without expressing an opinion as to your degree of boredness today, I hasten to add.)

Good move, Handy. I like it. Good suggestion, Udaman.

CS3 all the way. Absolute no-brainer. The smart objects feature alone is probably worth the money for many people. Ever do something, then do some other thing, then realise you did the wrong amount or the wrong sort of something A? With CS3, you can go back and change action A without having...

OK, OK, it's Friday. Cut me a little slack, Hairy One. Several reasons, Tim: * Because I want a CMS that does what I tell it to, exactly what I tell it to, and nothing but what I tell it to. * Because I like being able to actually understand how that damn thing works. * Because I seem to spend...

'cause they suck.

Talking about the 40D, Mubs. The 1D III has significantly better ergonomics - for example, the asinine backwards shutter/aperture controls can be easily fixed via a single custom function; ISO is in the normal place (same as 20D, 30D, 5D, and 1Ds III). Also, it's big enough not to be cramped/...

Mine seems pretty nice. Haven't used it much yet - still trying to get my mind around the 1D III - but so far so good. Pluses: * Much quiter shutter - heaps better. * Dust shaker * Better viewfinder * Some further improvement to the control layout * More ISOs to choose from, finer range of...

Same old, same old, Tim: http://tannin.net.au If you visit there now you'll get a static site, all hand-coded HTML. I'm working on a complete replacement, retaining the look and feel, most of the content, and even (in the main) the same CSS and HTML code, but all delivered dynamically by a set...

Essentially, I'm off the planet and not posting here at present (or anywhere else for that matter). I'm up to the eyeballs in a big PHP project and might not post much for a while. So that's where I am .... where are you?

That must be the craziest thing I've ever seen you write, Dave. (1) A video card update is a major hardware change? Ahem .... Planet Earth please? (2) Not a big deal? Mate, it's your operating system, isn't it? You paid the money for it, it's none of their freaking business what hardware you...

Compaq are still selling new machines with Vista pre-loaded and 512MB of RAM! The one I saw today also had on-board video robbing another 128MB out of the measly 512MB it started with. And then they pre-install Norton Anti-virus. Adds a whole new world of meaning to the word "pain". Absolute...

Norman Virus Control is good on resources, reasonably priced, and very effective. Also, it doesn't drive you spare with pop-up crap. Make sure you get plain vanilla Norman Virus Control, not one of their varous more expensive bloatware variations. AVG Free is even lighter on system resources...

I can only spare ... oh .... three or four hundred. Would that be enough?

The trouble you and I have, Doug, is that our Mark IIIs are the only 1 Series bodies we have owned. Mine clearly has better AF performance than my 20Ds or 400D (the 40D is still too new for me to know how good it is yet - only used it for a handful of frames, and not at all for birds in flight...

It had actually never occured to me to count the carbon in leaves. The appropriate way to measure trees use of carbon is to look at the amount secreted in the trunk and the roots. These are long-term things: that carbon won't return to the atmosphere for hundreds of years - indeed, assuming...

I did some quick sums, soon discovering that the Terrapass calculator is useless (even after I faked it by making up a zip code, using a state without any nuclear power plants (New Mexico) on the theory that that might be, like our power here in Victoria, primarily fossil fuel generated), but...

I don't even have a TV anymore. And I miss it .... not at all. Life is too short for TV to have any place in it!

Depends on the lens, Stereodude. No-one uses them as actual filters, at least no-one that I've ever heard of, but they continue to have a useful role as lens protectors, depending on the particular lens, and on the way that lens is used. I shoot exclusively outdoors, in the bush, carrying a...

Couldn't agree more, Doggy One. Either get a top-quality filter, or don't get a filter at all. I bought a set of cheap, bottom-of-the-range filters once. Once was enough to learn my lesson. Added a whole new meaning to the term "coke bottle".

1) No idea, but expect it to be in very short supply for a long, long time. Nikon never seem to be able to produce the required zillion copies of their latest and greatest model until it's been on the market for a year or so, and thus have no incentive to discount until something else is not too...

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Don't try to pull that pitiful-little-me-only-a-cute-baby-ape spelling-everything-with-Zs trick on me, Monkey Brains, I stopped paying attention to that years ago.

Ha! I thought as much. Just like every other fool on the internet, you are mouthing off about stuff you have never even tried.

Exactly, please Tea. Simple enough question. How many have you used?

So how many Tamron, Tokina, and Sigma lenses have you used, Tea?

I must say that I have never ever had trouble wit ha Tamron, Sigma, or Tokina lens. Never, ever.

Upgrade to OS/2.

That was a safe bet, Doug: they are: 1: 500/4 2: 60 macro 3: 10-22 4: TS-E 24 5: 100-400 6: 24-105 7: 50/1.8 8: 18-55 Numbers 4, 5, and 6 are a bit vague so far as order goes, they all have their strengths and weaknesses. All three are very fine lenses, I hasten to add - but the first three...

You wouldn't think so to read some of the rants on DPR .... but that really just goes to show that for any given subject, there is always an internet site where people will mouth off at great length and from a great height. Then again, lots of Canon people wind up with an ugly "L Fetish", and...

And so it begins ...... ....... the start of another Storage Forum fortune for Canon. As if they haven't got enough money from Lunar, Handy, and me already. Damn it, I wish I'd bought Canon shares when I wa younger.

Compact Flash cards and Compact Flach card slots are robust and designed for many, many insertions. Those stupid little micro-USB connectors in your camera are small, delicate, and fragile. ANS: use a flash card reader. The only time I use the direct camera connection is when I need to...

Card readers are the way to go, every single time. No mess, no fuss, no stupid software, no weirdo cables ..... no contest.

No. Dynamic range is limited by the output device. Ordinary old JPG can cover the entire gamut from pure black to pure white, indeed, you can use any file format and do that, even a 1-bit per pixel format. HD Photo looks very much like a solution in search of a problem to me. Look at it this...

Ahem. Tea! Play nice, please. I think that last post of yours was unnecessarily cruel and hurtful. Some of my best and oldest friends are green and live in the fridge.

Udaman is spot on. I don't like any of the picture-sharing sites. Sorry to be harsh here, but they are all crap. Different strokes and all that, but the way I see it the only way to host pictures is to run your own site. The key points from Udaman's post follow: if it gets automatically...

A true macro shot is indeed 1:1 or greater (object size to size of the image on the film). But that definition obscures the real differences between macro and non-macro lenses. Dedicated macro lenses can be distinguished from non-macro lenses that have close focus ability in several ways...

On the 20D, ISO 200 is no cleaner than ISO 100, and ISO 400 is very little different. 800 is perfectly usable, and 1600 can be used at a pinch. Good noise reducion software (Neat Image or similar) helps a lot. As an example of just how good the 20D can be at very high ISOs, have a look here...

I just want to apologise for Tea's language, and also for Tea's behaviour, and also just generally apologise for Tea. If I had a program called "Time Machine" I'd run it on her!