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Just started the pork chops marinating for tomorrow night. ;)

It is the only way I can think of to know where a camera is pointing when it is flying 50' overhead. Even if the live view is 2fps, at least I know about where it is pointing.

Ahh...got it. Never really looked at them that small. I'll see what I can do.

I still haven't figured out an effective NOT argument to put in the search to dump the sellers. I've ended up putting most of them in my exclude filter.

There are plenty of ways to kill a drive using these enclosures, but nearly all of them involve user error. Pulling the drive too fast, formatting the wrong drive, etc. I wouldn't worry about that so much, so long as you are careful.

That is great.

There was some variation in the grass, and the clouds were throwing shadows on the hills, but I don't see what you are looking at? The number of images stitched here is high enough that blotchy-ness should be avoided.

Works fine with me. What is better in the composition?

In an attempt to shake some of this, I went out looking for distinctly unnatural stuff to shoot. If the air is impacting things, perhaps my subjects should be closer? Perhaps not keeping the entire shot in focus? Something slightly less natural? Here is what I came up with...nope, still boring...

For my workbench I use one of these, with the power cable tapped directly from the PSU in my workstation.

Now the madness of getting a 5DII makes sense. Combining it with a WFT-E4A gives me complete remote control, including live view and focus, over WiFi.

;)

Well, I wouldn't trust my memory...too much LDS in the seventies...

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I believe it was that massive anatomy of an SSD article that was in the SSD thread a while back.

Probably not without a BIOS re-flash, maybe some soldering. I was joking, but now you have me curious. ;)

IIRC, there was 256MB of buffer and just enough battery to write it all.

You don't plan on OC'ing your netbook? :p No, no difference that I can imagine. If they are the same price, may as well get the faster one.

There is a buffer and a battery on the Intel SSDs, but the cheaper ones have nothing, or 64k at best.

Be cool, ditch the batteries for a flywheel.

Still sold as Liebert.

I'm getting better at flying my RC helicopter (Belt-CP v2). It is capable of some hardcore 3d flying, but I have this crazy idea of mounting a dSLR to it and doing aerial photography. That would be an expensive crash.

Congrats on the 6k as well! :grin:

Sweet. Though after reading the first sentence I thought you had a 370Z coming ;)

Perhaps one of these would help? Hoya 77mm Ultraviolet UV(0) Haze Multi-Coated Glass Filter

I am aware of this flatness you speak of, Tony. And unfortunately, it has been quite bad lately. Most of these were even shot the day after a strong rain, hoping to clear out the air. This time of year, the sky is mostly without clouds, so I lose that interest as well. I'll try to get some other...

I was thinking of getting the 24mm T/S, but had the same concern. That was the primary reason for my interest in getting a tethered laptop with a good screen. I still way go that way, but I have no idea how hard it would be to get a tilted focal plane to align with a multi-shot panorama. Just...

Just strap on an X25-E and do massive amounts of read-ahead.

Thanks guys. As is usually the case, the things you say are correct, and I just hadn't put enough value to them. It's not that I believe that newer is always better, but that the features I haven't tried could be fun/worthwhile. They usually aren't, but I like to have them/try them anyway. Full...

That would depend on your metric for both. I suspect that you are willing to pay a premium for SSDs, and that speed for your large drives isn't as important. If they could get down to merely double in price, and not completely suck at small random write performance, I doubt they would have a...

Looking at the Nikon stuff, the 5DII seems to sit between the D300 and D3 in terms of price, but much closer to the D3 in terms of features. Thoughts?

I'm actually living off the 35/2 prime these days; I just like the amount of space it captures. Occasionally I'll take out the 50/1.8, and once in the last 4 months I took the 75-300 out for a single shot. I do mourn the loss of my 10-22, but I don't think I'd be using it much, anyway. Of...

You think I should go Nikon? My impression is that they are currently in the lead WRT IQ, but that the glass costs considerably more.

How much does this cache cost, anyway? Why not 256MB? I'd guess the real-world performance would go up considerably.

I'd bet even money that SSDs beat 2.5" spinning platters to 750GB.

My Aspire one only shipped with 512MB onboard, and the expansion slot only recognized 1GB.

I almost got a pink one for myself, far less likely to be stolen ;)

You can get her a pink one. ;)

Yup, an X300 is exactly where I need to be. That or a Macbook Air with a real OS put on it. Of course, the extra $2k hurts a bit.

Yup. Every time I evaluated a netbook, I thought "more memory and CPU is all I need". I've come to the conclusion that what I need isn't a netbook.

Let me know how it goes. I've basically come to the conclusion that my Aspire One is fine for web stuff, but I really want a small full-featured machine. Even playing with the idea of a Shuttle SFF for photo editing on trips.

I take it you would prefer free? IIRC, the paid version of Foxit loses the watermark.

Thanks Mark, I should have included its international name, 500D. Tannin! Haven't heard from you in a while. Been out?

Found a buyer for my XSi, torn between the 5DII and the T1i. The higher resolution, full frame, and support for shooting wireless are tempting, but the price difference is significant.

I barely had a tripod, and the rooms lights were totally the wrong temperature.

One of the rare, really legit uses of HDR. It is a big image, view original size if you feel like touring the city a bit.

I'm generally satisfied with the APC units. My only complaint with them is that when their battery dies (usually several years), there isn't any notification. It just fails to keep the system running. For really important stuff I have put two in series before, testing them regularly.

Does 5k here count? ;) Including all aliases of course.

Probably, but this plus this looks pretty easy. The complications (and price) show up when you want multiple monitors/HDMI/DVI.

Decided to splurge for the weekend and took the wife to San Francisco. We're staying at the San Francisco InterContinental in a sweet corner room. Unfortunately, both batteries are dead for my camera, so no photo love for me. The view is great; the western 180 degrees from the hotel includes the...