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<p>Andrew "P" for professional mode! Very funny, I'm going to use that one.</p>

<p>No offense, but you could just purchase posters of these vehicles all over the web for $15.95 USD...</p>

<p>Wish I could pop right over... I lived in Newnan for 12 years, but recently moved to Zanesville Ohio... </p>

<p>I would go with 3 or 4 smaller memory cards, 8 GB, instead of one big card. Less chance of a single point of failure. </p>

<p>I went to the 40D from the XTi and haven't had the need to go up from here. From everything I have read the 7D will be an excellent camera for you.</p>

<p>If you are going to use the 64 bit version of Windows 7, you might want to bump the memory up to as much as you can stand $$.</p>

<p>EFS 17-55 2.8 IS USM</p>

<p>Tommy,<br />Thanks for the compliment, you made my point for me... nothing special. SIGMA lens 70-200 2.8. Noise was not a problem. I took several hundred shots, with 40 or 50 of this quality in the end. I did some very minor Photoshop work to the best 25 shots when I was done.</p>

<p>I shot these with my 40D and felt really good about them. I assume the 7D blows my 40D out of the water...</p>

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<p>Charge whatever you think your time plus expenses is worth... Wal-mart charges .40 per card, and you can get decent results with a point and shoot... So don't go crazy.</p>

<p>Standard zoom lenses is a little vague... I shoot a lot in these type situations, and you would be well served to use a very fast lens and use a higher ISO setting. Presenters almost always tell me that they never knew I was there. Flash photography in this setting will distract everyone concerned. I have forgoten how to use my camera on any other setting than Manual.</p>

<p>You might consider staying in Flagstaff and enjoying a twofer... Be sure to go to Salsa Brava while you are there. It is about an hour to the south rim from Flag...</p>

<p>Hi William,<br>

I would take the time to test the camera and PC for drift. I have seen pc clocks drift as much as 10 seconds per hour...</p>

<p>From the audience with my 70-200 was the way to go...</p><div></div>

-Z

I am going to document my serial numbers on everything I own now.... Are you sure that we are all "professional photographers" here? Most of us probably don't document this type of thing, I think that the correct and moral thing for you to do, is give it to the most credible claimant. You are obviously a smart person of good judgement, and this should not be too difficult to figure out. Most people who have such lenses, have accompanying equipment that is of the same caliber. It would be a shame to hand it over to some police lost and found to be lost forever.

Forget about a smaller c:\ partition. Only load the OS and programs on this 250 gb drive and you can simply reload the os and programs from CD at any time. Take the advice to move the page file to one of the data drives.

Assumptions being made here:

 

All of your photos will fit on a 320gb drive. Is this true?

 

You don't need more memory. Stay away from Vista for now.

 

How I would do it. MCSE since 1999.

 

 

All operating system files should go on the C:\ drive with the program files. The page file should move to one of the other 320 gb drives along with all of your working files. Store a local backup copy of all of your working files on the remaining 320 gb drive. In addition to this, subscribe to an offsite backup service like carbonite.com to keep copies in the event of a disaster.

 

Win XP will go on the C:drive.

 

Where should Photoshop, Capture NX, IView Media Pro, Photo Mechanic etc go? On the same C: or a different drive? C:\ drive also.

 

Where do non-photo (MSWord, etc) programs go? C:\ drive also.

 

Where do the few photos I may be currently working on go? on the 320 gb HDD with your page file.

 

I have a huge backlog of photos, all archived on MAM-A CDs and DVDs. I'd like to start working on these. I would be grateful for suggestions.

I took some advice from a couple of books and postings I have read on this web site. I set my 40D to AV mode and chose an aperture of 2.8. I then set my ISO to 3200. All of these shots are

using available light and are completely un-retouched except for resizing to fit this format. The notion of getting it right in the camera first shot is very important. I set the metering on the camera to spot so that I could meter on faces. This seemed to work best out of all of the shots I took. Most of my shots were from the audience at 80 feet away, and the better ones were from 40 feet or so away. If you are front row, backstage, or in the wings, or for that matter directly on stage, you can go with the shorter faster lens. If you are a simpleton in the back like me, get a longer lens, but keep the speed. Another thing is to be sure to focus on taking pictures of all of the band members as much as possible. They are up there pouring their heart into it also. Timing is everything but quantity can help, so take a lot of shots, the concert will be over in a flash. I took over 195 shots in one hour at this concert. BTW, it is pretty tough to get a shot where the Mic isn’t blocking face. Being just off center can help with this problem. The results are pretty good for my first attempt at this. What I find interesting is the thought that the 50 mm does the job; these must have been premium seats!

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The poster is somewhat correct when they state that your system performance is hampered by a full drive.

especially when you are down to 5% free space. You need to make some fundamental changes to your system as

well as your use of space. If I were looking at this from an MIS perspective I would do the following. 1. Move your

data (any file you can't bear to lose) to two seperate locations eg. DVD and external Hard drive. Subscribe to a

service like carbonite.com for $50.00 USD a year to have an external encrypted backup. 2. Reconfigure your system,

you don't indicate what operating system, but I will assume XP for this discussion. The 500gb RAID 1 container

should be partitioned into seperate logical drives. The first primary drive for the operating system (Drive C) should

have at least 16gb of space. Load the OS and all programs on C:\. Create a second primary partition with the

remainder of the drive (notice that I don't specify a drive letter, this is dependant on existing removable drives).

Redirect the paging file to the second partition as well as the My Documents folder. Store all

of your data on the second partition. 3. Buy an external hard drive to equal the 500gb and use something like "Drive

Snapshot" to take an image of both partitions daily. 4. Use a service like Carbonite.com to keep your files backed up

to an offsite location (an alternative is to go with an LTO type drive and manually carry off site daily). This is how I

currently maintain my data, and it may seem a little overboard, but in the end if my house burns down I will hopefully

have my data. If you need more answers, seek me out offline from this thread and I will help any way that I can.

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Jose - some good thoughts. I think that most of my favorite shots come in the form that require as little post

production editing as possible. I have been using photoshop for years to fix my shots, but once I became serious

about photography, I find that if I get it right in the camera the first time, Photoshop ruins the look. I do find that I still

use photoshop to crop something unwanted or resize, but very little in the way of effects. I have always loved taking

pictures, I still don't consider myself to be a real photographer. My problems often come from a real lack of artistic

intuition. I can compose really good shots sometimes, but my favorite photos are taken from a distance while just

being an observer. I find that if my subject is aware of me, the shots are often not as good....<div></div>

Jose - some good thoughts. I think that most of my favorite shots come in the form that require as little post production editing as possible. I have been using photoshop for years to fix my shots, but once I became serious about photography, I find that if I get it right in the camera the first time, Photoshop ruins the look. I do find that I still use photoshop to crop something unwanted or resize, but very little in the way of effects. I have always loved taking pictures, I still don't consider myself to be a real photographer. My problems often come from a real lack of artistic intuition. I can compose really good shots sometimes, but my favorite photos are taken from a distance while just being an observer. I find that if my subject is aware of me, the shots are often not as good....

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D.J.

I have worked in MIS for 17 years and my experience has been that WD and Seagate have been more reliable. Maxtor drives are trouble... I am curious though, what is your application? Downloading from a PC, using as a portable storage point... If it is for downloading pictures using a PC or Mac, I would use firewire as it is much more reliable and fast. A good SIIG firewire card for your PC should cost about $20 USD.