waltflanagan

<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>

<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>

<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>

<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>

<p>Here is a forum on reddit with nothing but pictures of crazy computer/desktop setups.<br>

http://www.reddit.com/r/battlestations</p>

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<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>

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<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>

<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>

 

<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>

<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>

<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>

<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>

<p>I have tons of problems with polarized sunglasses. If I rotate my smartphone 90 degrees it blacks out. I can't see the radio display in my car unless I turn my head 90 degrees. I see all kinds of strange dark artifacts using the electronic viewfinder of 2 cameras. They interfere with a polarizer on my lens. </p>

<p>I now have some NON polarized prescription sunglasses. Work great for everything. I had to explain it 5 times to 3 different people at the eye doctor that I did NOT want the lenses to be polarized but they finally did it. I'm very happy with them. Everything is darker but as I am near sighted I just look down at the camera without removing my glasses and check the rear LCD of the camera to make sure the last shot was okay.</p>

<p>I had the transition lenses. I didn't like them because they are activated by UV light. While driving your car windshield blocks UV light so they don't darken so I still needed sunglasses.</p>

<p>Here's a nearby lake in IR shot with the J1. I set the white balance preset set from a picture of green grass but I also did a lot of post processing.</p><div></div>

<p>Lex, I used Kolari Vision. The conversion cost $250 and took about 1 week.<br>

http://kolarivision.com/</p>

<p>Just google "desktop sales decline" and you will see hundreds of articles with actual numbers, charts, and graphs. Most of these lump in laptops and desktops and are talking about PC sales declines.</p>

<p>The major reasons are many people are buying tablets and smartphones running Apple's iOS or Android. These are more portable and to many easier to use. The other big reason is that if you have a working desktop/laptop why buy a new one? Unless you are playing games (or editing huge RAW files) most computers made in the last 3 years are fast enough for 90% of the people out there.</p>

<p>Of course I hate tablets and just got a new desktop with 4 cores, 32GB RAM, 8TB of hard drives but I know I'm out of the mainstream.</p>

 

<p>I've had a V1 for about 2 years. My only complaints are the lack of better manual controls. Image quality is where you would expect it to be based on the sensor. Far better than a point and shoot, not as good as DX. I have the 10-30 and 30-110 lenses as well as the lens adapter to put F mount lenses. Using a 200mm lens with the 2.7X crop factor is fun.</p>

<p>I recently got a J1 w/ another 10-30 lens for $199 on closeout. I took a few pictures and had it converted to IR because I wanted a live view IR camera. It's also working fine.</p>

<p>EOS to M adapter. Use any lens you want. Also, I think you mean APS.<br>

http://www.amazon.com/Canon-EOS-M-Mount-Adapter/dp/B008NF8CEK</p>

<p>The problem with the iPad is the Camera Connection Kit is a one way street. You can copy from camera/SD to iPad but cannot copy back to a USB drive.<br /> <br />I have attached a pic of one of my Android phones with a USB On The Go cable connected to a USB card reader. Using ES File Explorer I can easily copy a directory from one place to another. If you get a card reader with USB hub built in then I would suggest a few $50 128GB USB thumb drives and copy from SD to those. Most portable hard drives require multiple USB ports because they need more power to spin the drive. I doubt those would work because the cellphone is supplying all of the power over the USB cable. The phone I used is an old Samsung Galaxy Exhilarate. It's $130 on amazon, no need to activate the service, just use it as a small tablet.</p>

<p>This phone also has a microSD slot so if you shot directly to those with an SD -> microSD adapter in the camera then you could copy to a USB thumb drive without a hub.</p>

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<p>Some (not all) Android phones and tablets have USB OTG (On The Go) support. With a $2 cable you can connect any USB device including a USB hub with multiple USB hard drives, keyboards, mice, card readers. You can use a file manager app to copy from the card to any device.<br>

<br />I have done this and it works but you end up with so many extra cables and power cords that it is just easier to take a small laptop with large hard drive. Now that I think about it if I shot directly to microSD I could put that in the phone and copy to an external USB drive with just a single cable.</p>

<p>How much RAM does your current Mac Pro have?<br>

How much hard drive space are you currently using?<br>

The Mini maxes out at 16GB RAM, 1TB drive<br>

The iMac maxes out at 32GB. 21" max 1TB hard drive. 27" max 3TB hard drive (but this is is over $2300)<br>

The Mini has Thunderbolt and 4 USB3 ports for external storage.<br>

Your Mac Pro probably uses a lot of power even idling. You can buy a Kill-a-watt meter for $20 and find out how much. If it is spontaneously rebooting I wouldn't trust it as a file server.</p>

<p>I don't know what you mean by "presumably VGA." VGA, DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort are output standards. The 8400M GS can do whatever processing it wants internally. The choice of output has zero impact on how it processes data. A graphics card can have any and all of the above standards. I actually have all 4 of those on a graphics card and can use all 4 to drive 4 separate monitors at the same time if I want to.</p>

<p>VGA is an almost 30 year old analog standard. It was designed for analog CRT/tube monitors. Being analog you will have some amount of signal degradation. You can drive some digital LCDs with an analog VGA signal and if you have an excellent A to D converter you won't see the degradation but why bother? Just avoid the problem and keep the signal digital. </p>

<p>DVI is a newer 15 year old digital video standard.</p>

<p>HDMI is exactly the same as DVI electrically except it includes audio. Because the video signals are electrically identical you can use a $3 adapter or $3 cable to convert between them with zero loss of quality.</p>

<p>DisplayPort is an even newer digital video standard and can also include audio. Some DisplayPort outputs support "Dual Mode" which allows you to convert DisplayPort to HDMI with cheap $3 adapters. DisplayPort also has some advantages such as support for even higher resolutions but your monitor is pretty low resolution at 1680 x 1050 so it doesn't really buy you anything. Plus you don't have it on your computer so don't worry about it.</p>

<p>TL ; DR</p>

<p>Buy a $3 DVI<->HDMI adapter and be done with it.</p>

<p>I went to Frank's photo.net gallery and tried it in Firefox and Internet Explorer. I could not right click save in either. In Firefox I then right clicked, selected view page info, selected Media, found the file that ended in "-lg.jpg" and selected "Save As" and got the image. Then I installed the NoScript addon and saved it via the traditional right click. Both methods took me less than 30 seconds.</p>

<p>Frank, the major movie studios spent millions of dollars developing a copy protection system for DVD. It was cracked in a few months. Years later they spent millions more creating an even more complicated system to protect the content on BluRay discs. It was cracked in a few months. I know a 70 year old grandmother with limited computer skills that can copy movies. None of these systems work. All are easy to crack. </p>

<p>I honestly don't know what your point is. Will disabling right click stop 1% of people? 10%? 50%? Is that your argument? That stopping at least a few people is better than nothing?</p>

<p>Michael, no one is arguing against manual controls. We're saying why does that manual control have to be on the top of the body? I believe every Nikon film SLR and DSLR since 1995 has had control knobs on the front and back that adjust aperture and shutter speed. Some low end models may only have 1 control knob but they don't put those controls on the top anymore. I and I would say most others find it more convenient to continue to look through the viewfinder and adjust aperture, shutter speed, and exposure comp. by continuing to hold the grip and adjust knobs with my index and thumb instead of having to move my hand to the top and possibly take my eye away from the finder as well. The exceptions to this are the "throwback" FM3a and new Df. I grew up using an FE2 which looks virtually identical to the FM3a and the front of the Df and the nostalgia is appealing but when I shoot with my old FE2 I hate having to constantly take my eye away from the finder. Your mileage may vary.</p>

<p>If you don't want anybody to download it then don't post it in the first place. Disable save by right click? Anybody on the planet can google multiple ways to get around that. Multi billion dollar Hollywood studios who have spent millions on DRM still can't protect their content from being copied.</p>