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Has Anyone had any luck keeping their Apple Mighty Mouse working?

 

I got one in September for my iMac and by January the trackball (for document scrolling /

zooming) had packed up, and despite my very best cleaning efforts would not scroll down,

only up and not properly. When a fault occured with my iMac in Febuary I sent the mouse

back aswell and received a new Mighty Mouse, but now the same thing has happened!

 

It seems they have a lifespan of only a few months! This is a great shame as it is otherwise an

excelent product. Any tips of cleaning that tiny ball?? Apple's instructions wern't even worth

reading.

Same happened on my FE2 after a drop off the top of a bus. Tiny bit of blue-tac has done the

job admirably. (only other damage was a wonkey hotshoe - can't find a bodge for that but

havn't needed that since buggering it so all is okay)

Realy low budget sollution.... Turn the lights off when shooting?!

If you get the D200 you'll be held back by your 18-70, but if you get the 17-55 first you'll

get an improvement straight away. Thats the way I'd go anyway.

Yer, thats the one!

 

Thanks a lot. The other looks interesting too, ta.

Hiya, I remember visiting a website from a link on PN which I greatly enjoyed.

 

It was by a practasing photo-journalist in London, with a whole section of tips / tutorials with

great examples of his work and how he used a particular aproach for each assignment.

 

Am starting to do some similar work and would love to find the website again, or at least his

name.

 

Any ideas people?

 

Thanks a lot!

For non-UK guys, that 1.5 hours Ben would probably spend in the slow / middle lanes of our

3 lane motorways...

If you have an apple mac with OS X Tiger you are sorted as far as automation goes.

 

Just open Automator and ask it to take a photo every X Seconds where X is the delay on the

slide projector.

 

Im sure there are ways to do this on Windows but if you have access to a mac this seems the

easiest way!

How about using Select All, Modify Selection, -10px or similar?

I'll host a basic website for 20 gbp for a year if you need it. I have plenty of space left over from my reseller package needed for a busy website of mine! No support pages but fully featured and im always avalilbe by email...

Great to see some examples of this in use after I got all excited

about it shooting a friends gig...<div></div>

Or just get the SB-600 (dirt cheap) and use your SB-800 on the F6 to remotly control your existing SB-800. You will find yourself using this by far enough times to make the cost worthwhile!

Most food type shots will end up on websites and menus I would have thought, making the need for a D200 pretty useless. Also when I've tried I always found the kitchens far too small, so I would not recommend the 105mm. Your idea of a 60mm Micro sounds great. Used if possible, then spend the extra money on lighting. The new macro system looks cool, if not at least 1 SB-x00 and a modifier & stand with money spare for a backdrop / table.

Nobody think that if Americans didn't sue each other over anything and everything that consumer goods and services would cost so much less in the first place?!

no such lens as 18-70 2.8. There is eithor the 28-70 (not realy wide enough for digital) or the 17-35 (or whatever) that you can use. The 17-55mm lens is DX only as I understand, meaning you cant use it on your N80.

 

17-35 (aprox, I cant remember) is your best option. the 'right decision' is up to you!

Take an earn and comfy chairs and make people cups of tea.

Fair enuf. Your 2nd list is a bit more realistic.

 

Try teaching someone to use photoshop who is a confident printer with enlargers and then teach it to someone who has never developed a film - see how much easier it is if you have an understanding of the wet procces!

 

If your parents can afford to send you to private school im sure you can afford a few rolls of hp5 a month so you can't realy use that argument!

Thats enough for a small newspaper, not a high school photo department!!

 

Get 7 K1000s and 5 durst enlargers with maybe 1 D70s with kitlens and a couple of eMacs for editing....

Okay thanks for your ideas and responses. Sorry Larry - i'll keep it!

 

Have come up with a workaround until I can afford to move on and up...

If I focus close then wind on I can then focus where I need it and shoot. Then repeat.... Going to be tedius but if I remember should work. Deffinetly moving smoother after a day of tripping the shutter...

When I tried to network my iMac and XP Home machine through a belkin router I could see each computer but not acttualy share. But the one thing that did work effortlesly was moving my music through the sharing feature built in to iTunes! (needed an applescript to actualy keep the files though.) Bugged me that that proved they connected fine and XP Home has just been retarded enough to make you buy XP Pro tho.

Oh, noticed it fires quite reliabley now as long as the bellows are fully extended! If I focus a little bit further away and fire it eventualy stops triggering.

 

Somewhere in the middle the shutter trips whilst I return the winder handel upright. How odd! Not realy prepared to pay for a CLA as I only paid little over 50gbp for the camera and who knows what a repair would cost.

Hi, thanks for the responses. Although not all particulary what I wanted to hear!

 

This may sound silly, but How do I actualy take the lens off the camera? A good bit of poking has revealed no tricks...

Hiya,

 

I have just bought a Yashica Mat 124G used. It apears in perfectly

good condition, with no marks on any glass and all levers performing

as I would expect them too, etc.

 

Loaded it with a roll of old 120 to see if it went through properly

and was a bit mythed to realise I could only get the shutter to fire

on just a few shots per roll. The shutter simply didnt click some

times, however after rolling on a few frames maybe I could get it to

click properly. I think it may have exposed about 5 frames of that roll.

 

Used some different settings for each shot, and the timings sounded

right when it did trip.

 

Film is at the lab now, will see what if anything comes back!

 

Anyone able to tell me much about this system??

 

Thanks a lot.

Get yourself at the stage exits when they come off all hyper at the end!

Have been forcefully pursading myself NOT to sell my digital kit to buy a Mamiya 7 for some time now... Its hard work.