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  1. <p>Well believe it or not I use the 70-200 for panoramas. I have enough of the RRS attachments to do single row panoramas. I put the camera in portrait mode and zoom to however much vertical coverage I desire then pan and take however many images to get the horizontal coverage I desire. I overlap each image by about 30-40%.</p> <p>How large do you want to print? Why did you buy the multi row panorama setup? It allows you to use a super telephoto and stitch together 100 images or more if you want to. Assuming the final angle of view is the same and you want to print gigantic murals then use the longest lens possible (assuming the light isn't changing too quickly) The more images that go into the stitch the higher the resolution of the final image.</p>
  2. <p>I was there one afternoon in the middle of the week. I had a great time just walking around all the different areas seeing things I would never even think about buying. It wasn't very crowded until I got to the camera and lens area. Basically I had to take a number just to even get to the counter and ask to try something out. I waited around 30 min and based on the number sequence it probably would have been another 30 min. Because I wanted to look at both Nikon and Leica and these were separate counters it probably would have taken 2 hours just to hold a Leica M8 and Nikon super telephoto lens. I ended up leaving without ever touching a camera or lens. Still had a great time though.</p>
  3. <p>Remove the SIM card or just deactivate or never active the phone service. I have an Android phone that I bought off contract and have never used it as a phone. I use it like a tablet over WiFi for various home automation stuff and as a portable video / audio player because it was a lot cheaper to add a 128GB MicroSD card to it than getting a tablet that comes with 128GB flash. I also have an old iPhone 3GS that I removed the SIM card from and use the same way. The cameras in both still work fine.</p>
  4. <p>Those ridiculously useless 1/2.3" numbers are based on some video camera tubes from the 1970's or before. Unfortunately that "standard" has stuck around even though it doesn't make much sense.<br> Just go here and you can see a picture overlaying all the sensor sizes. 1/2.3" is pretty small.<br> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_sensor_format</p>
  5. <p>Here is a forum on reddit with nothing but pictures of crazy computer/desktop setups.<br> http://www.reddit.com/r/battlestations</p>
  6. <blockquote> <p>Well, I was hoping that some bright people would have some ideas to help film business last a little longer. Looks like you are not one of them.</p> </blockquote> <p><br />You already had the idea of an additional checkbox on their order form. Do you no longer think this is a good idea? If you still think it is a good idea then why don't you contact them instead of insulting me on the internet?</p>
  7. <p>What do you hope to accomplish by posting this on photo.net? Seriously, do you expect us to do something about your problems with an independent business over which none of us have any control over? You claim that all they need is another box to check with your particular option. Others have responded and don't agree with you. You have responded back. Have you considered that instead of arguing with random people on the Internet that you should instead contact the company directly and ask them to implement your suggestion and see what they say?</p>
  8. <p>I think you are comparing apples and oranges. <br> UCTV is a TV channel collecting programs from 10 large public universities and national laboratories. I even remember getting it in North Carolina on my parents' Dish Network satellite feed.<br> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California_Television<br> Philosophy Talk is a podcast with 2 guys who probably are spending way too much on production budget compared to the number of listeners/viewers. They are using Ben Manilla Productions who has won a Peabody Award. Also, their website looks fairly professional. Who created / maintains it? None of that can be cheap.<br> http://bmpaudio.com/</p> <p>This says that for 10 years they got 80% of their funding from Stanford U. Now they aren't getting that much so they are asking for listeners to help out.<br> http://philosophytalk.org/philosophy-talk%E2%80%99s-community-thinkers</p> <p>10 years ago when podcasts first became popular I had a couple of friends make a podcast at home. They were in bands so they had good microphones, mixers, sound editing software. Posting files to free file sharing sites and since they were computer programmers made the web site themselves. It sounded pretty professional. Making interesting content is the more difficult thing. </p>
  9. <p>Can you post a recent link describing their decision on why it will become a paid program? This link is 7 years old and it implies you already have to pay for it and it outlines all the things they have to pay for.<br> http://www.philosophytalk.org/community/blog/ken-taylor/2013/12/why-we-charge-downloads</p> <p>Even if everyone volunteers their time it costs money for the equipment and bandwidth to produce and distribute the show. It doesn't matter if the podcast is about philosophy, car repair, or My Little Pony.</p>
  10. <p>I have 7TB of data and I'm very serious about my data but I don't do any kind of online/Internet/cloud backups. I have 3 sets of drives. One set in the computer and 2 sets of external drives that I rotate every other week between a relative's house 20 miles away. Here in the US I have 15Mbps download and just 1Mbps up. I can pay for more but it's not worth it to me. It would take around 7 months to upload all of my data at 1Mbps.</p>
  11. <p>They are scans of pages. I looked at a 2009 issue and all images are 1375x2000. I looked at an 1889 issue and they were around 1225x2000. The quality is ok but a bit of a let down compared to the magazine's print quality.</p> <p>As Scott says, Adobe Air is a horrible piece of software. I had a lot of trouble with it on both Mac and Windows. I think there may be some way to search things but honestly I hate the software so much (due to Adobe Air) that I don't even have it installed now.</p> <p>If you google "cng2jpg" you can find translators to convert the 225 thousand or so cng files to jpg. I scripted it all up and let it run for a day and now I have 47GB of standard JPEG images.<br> Considering I bought the entire set for $35 I think it is a great value but again, the software is horrible.</p>
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