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Tell us more about makng your own Windows Update server, Merc. I guess I download the whole lot - about 85 individual patches - about 3 or 4 times a day on average, so it might make sense for me.

The A620 is an excellent little camera. I just bought one for my sister, and I had a (very similar) A95 prior to that.

Hmmm ... he claims that the night on the piss was out of character, which it probably was. He's a right-wing (by Labor standards) christian and would be better suited as leader of the Liberal Party than of Labor. He's also intelligent, honest, thoughtful, and will probably make a good leader...

I doubt that Lenovo would be a player at this time: they are still digesting the IBM buy, which stretched their resources more than sufficiently.

Not so, E_dawg. The same image size "constraint" isn't a constraint at all. Comparing at any size other than same size isn't possible (at least not possible in any meaningful way). As for the distance constraint, that doesn't apply in the context of flower pictures where we are a lot closer...

I head that! Who's new camera? Sorry, I can't hear you. Louder than that. Thankyou. Now, stop stuffing about on Storage Forum and do something bloody useful for a change. Have you got that router confgured yet? And what about Mrs Jackson's system, is it built? Well, get on with it!

ID IIIs are practically impossible to find in stock, Doug. Essentially, you have to somehow persuade your friendly camera shop person that you are the customer among a whole lot of other customers who deserves the 1D III he has coming in this week. PS: I could ask Tea to make the call for you...

Not only the bodies, Beery One, but (finally!) they have announced a set of modern, image stabilised super-tele lenses. Nikon, it seems. are seriously tired of seeing nothing but Big White at the football, cricket, baseball, olympics ... you name it, Canon lenses take the shots. They are tired...

Some reading for you: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/dof2.shtml http://www.dofmaster.com/dof_imagesize.html

Oh, I can assure you it is true, Doggy One. Remember, we are talking about the same magnification - i.e., standing close with a short lens and further away with a long lens, so that the image on film ends up the same size. Let's say you have a 50mm lens at f/4 and take a picture of Tea such...

Let's spam the brewery with yet another photography thread! I've poisted this elsewhere, but just for Dave, thought I'd repost it here. Up until a few months ago I was running a pair of 20Ds: one for bird work with the 500/4 or the 100-400, the other for everything else, mostly landscapes, with...

As Mark more or less says, depth of field has nothing to do with focal length. You can shoot with a 200mm lens from a distance or a 20mm lens up close, and as long as they are both at (e.g.) F/16, the depth of field is exactly the same. For any given sensor, the only factor that counts is aperture.

I am not a fan of too many different fora, it makes it hard to see what's new. Hell, given our relatively low traffic, you could just have one big forum for everything and you could still visit once a week and see all the new posts on one page.

That's about US$5100 at today's conversion rate. Stanard retail in Oz is AU$6500. Bag. Well, that's another topic. Right now I sling tripod, 500mm lens and one camera over my right shoulder, and everything else in a Lowepro Specialist 85 AW bag, which is brilliant! It has a big, soft waist...

So fas as I can discover, Doug, the little tart spent six thousand three hundred and fifty of my dollars. That's a few hundred below standard retail, but if there is one thing I am quite certain of, it is that it wouldn't have mattered if it was well above retail, she would have spent it anyway...

ulp!

What should be here this week?

What did you do?

What?

I'm ordering a 40D to tide me over until the situation with the 1D III (supply, autofocus) and 1Ds III (supply, maybe autofocus as well if it is the same system?) clarifies. Why a 40D? Mainly the sensor cleaner, better viewfinder, hope of improved autofocus, bigger buffer, especially the raw...

Spot on, Doug. It takes ages to do right. Heaps of paitence is an essential part of the job description. You have to work at it. Udaman: in general you will get best results (if you are using an SLR) at around f/11 to f/16. No SLR lens "gets soft" at f/8; that is where they perform best. What...

There is a lot to be said, with this sort of job, for using a tidgy little P&S camera. They give excellent depth of field (because the sensor is so small) and if you are in a greenhouse, the long shutter delay won't worry you - there is no wind to make life difficult. You can get better results...

Oh, I forgot to say - that damn Eclipse evaporates like nobody's business. Even when you seal the bottle up carefully and don't use any, it is all gone pretty fast. I've taken to just using the stick thingie and a clean pad without any wetting agent. So far, it's worked just fine. BTW, I see...

Only used one type, Doug: PecPads, together with a cleaning solution the name of which escapes me at present. Oh yes, Eclipse. Hang on a tic, I'll give you a link: hmmmm .... where is the kit link? No matter, you'll figure it out from here.

I don't get to stop in here so much these days, but I always enjoy reading your posts, Merc. Thankyou for much wisdom over the years, and a good chuckle now and then as well.

Good for you, Will! A very valuable member of this forum.

I use the wet swabs. The key is to have the covering material absolutely clean and pass it over the surface of the sensor once only - change the pad for a second pass, if needed.

Infrequently? Hoolie doolie! Regularly needed ... but then maybe I'm always going off-road. I use the wet swab method. It works fine, provided you approach the task in a careful. methodical way and keep your workspace and tools really clean. Note that my 400D has never, ever needed cleaning...

In fact, seeing as I'm here, I'll even contribute something random ... Went to my (probably) only concert for the year this week: all Shostakovich, and it was great. His cello concerto #2 in particular was really something: made me think about the concerto form in ways I never have before.

I usually ignore this thread. But I'll make an exception to say welcome back Merc, nice to see you aroujnd the place again, hopefully refreshed after a break.

Cool!

Around 70-80% of machines that come into my workshop with Limewire installed have spyware infestations. Coincidence? You be the judge.

I don't understand this refurbishing caper, Piyono. I have never been shipped a refurbished Samsung drive, and I've been selling them since a 3GB drive was a nice thing to have brand new. Obviously quite different distribution arrangements apply in our different countries.

Who TF is your Samsung distributor? No way known is that a correctly functioning, healthy Samsung drive. They just don't sound like that.

(Tannin shows complete lack of interest in Apple software on a PC. Any sort. It all sucks.)

I agree. In fact, it would be logically impossible .... you can't go to a place when you are already there. :eek:

What Mubs said. (PS: I hadn't actually forgotten, it was a willed-failure-to-remember. Our married members will understand.)

What version of Vista do you have? If you have Vista Ultimate or Vista Business, you can install XP Pro on that licence. You have to activate by phone, but that's no big deal.

It's a very well-respected model, E_dawg, don't see that you'd go too far wrong. I just went stupid agan and ordered yet another lens: a 24mm Canon tilt-shift this time. Wish me luck!

Too bloody right we did, Dave. We waited until fools like you helped Microsoft actually get the damn thing working properly, ~ two years after the first release, and waited until the hardware was so incredibly fast that even the then-current-release Microsoft product couldn't bring it to its...

Why not just format the barstard and install XP in the first place? You won't believe how much faster it is. (I have done stopwatch tests - the differnce is huge.) But credit where it is due: Vista has just about killed off the age-old vomit box tradition of bringing an already-sluggish system...

Thinkpad, every time. R Series has always been good for me, but T Series is nice too.

I did that once. I've been getting shed loads of spam from Panda ever since. Thankfully, I've pretty much taught Thunderbird to route it direct to the junk folder now. But the amount of spam they send has to be seen to be believed.

Piyono: great post to start this thread. Welcome to Vista. sucker!

PS: with regard to more recent Word versions (i.e., anything released after 1990) .... see my sig.

Best version of Office? Well, the only Office app I use is Word, which I use every day to generate invoices and purchase orders. Microsft Word is super fast - I mean way faster than whatever you are using right now - it requires practically zero memory, and never, ever crashes. The...

I had yet another one come in today: it was as slow as pouring the honey in my uninsulated, unheated kitchen last night - it was snowing outside. I unistalled TMAV - the poor basket had just bought a 2 year licence - installed Norman, runs just fine. Didn't get a chance to try Antivir yet.

Coug: thanks for the tip: I'll give Avira a try. Could be good. Dave, 40 million blowflies ... er ... I mean you, Buck, and about six other people here ... can't be wrong. (Sorry, "40 miilon blowflies" is Oz slang for "lots of people".) I'm sure that NOD32 is an excelln AV product...

That's another decent option, Bozo. AVG is a heap better than some of the pay-for AV programs. Right now, my #1 choice is Norman AV, but I don't mind AVG at all. Of course, you can't OEM it and you can't put it on business machines, so it's not suitable to use for everything. It's actually...

Thankyou Mubs. That's a very neat way of putting it. Indeed, I just stole it! (See my new sig.)