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<p>Yeah, that works good. Much faster. Thanks.</p>

<p>Thanks, Andrew. I'll give that a try because I've discovered that using the space bar and then moving around the image with the hand cursor is brutally slow. It really bogs down the processor and the movement hangs up and then jumps around. Almost unusable on my i5 laptop with 16 GB of RAM. Cheers.</p>

<p>On that same trip I managed to find some wonderful light on Delicate Arch in Arches National Park.</p><div></div>

<p>They were being followed by a raptor!</p><div></div>

<p>No shooting in the last week, but I've been working on scans of 35mm slides and here are some Kodachromes from 1992.<br> This doesn't look like much, but these are dinosaur tracks near Moab, Utah. A pair of sauropods left tracks in the mud. </p><div></div>

<p>Outstanding! Many thanks, guys.</p>

<p>I suspect there is a way to do this, but I don't know how.</p> <p>In the Develop module, the normal cursor is a magnifying glass and if I click on an image, Lightroom will zoom in to a 1:1 view (at least the way I have my copy set up). After that I can select the Spot Removal tool and go around cleaning up dust spots. That's great, but once I finish removing dust spots in the viewable area, I have to turn the Spot Removal tool off and use the little hand cursor to move the viewable area to a different part of the image, and then turn the Spot Removal tool back on. Is there a way to keep the Spot Removal tool turned on, stay zoomed in, and move the viewable area around the image? I hope I asked that in a way that makes sense.</p> <p>Many thanks.</p> <p>Cheers,<br />Dave</p>

<p>The South Tower used to stand here.</p><div></div>

<p>We caught the subway down to Ground Zero.</p><div></div>

<p>I had a couple of days in cold, rainy, windy New York last weekend.<br /> Here's a subway train approaching Grand Central.</p><div></div>

<p>Agreed. I wanna party with Jeff!</p>

<p>Pretty much every restaurant and bar has an armed guard out front. Those that don’t get police protection hire private security officers. This gentleman was guarding a liquor store.</p><div></div>

<p>Our hotel is in Zone 10 and it’s pretty safe, probably because there are so many armed men around. This is a member of the National Police guarding our hotel.</p><div></div>

<p >On the road again, and this time I brought my camera for a short layover in Guatemala City. </p> <p >You don’t see too many telephone booths anymore and I wonder if these even work. Everyone in Guatemala seems to have a cell phone.</p><div></div>

<p>I've been using Norton for years and have been virus free, so far (knock wood). Norton used to be a tremendous drag on your system, but they did a complete re-write a few years ago and it has a much lighter footprint now.</p>

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<p>Wow, this is great! I just decided to build a new rig after 7 years with my current machine and I logged in to Photo.net this morning to ask for advice and here was this thread with all sorts of great information. Is that cool, or what?</p> <p>Randy's build looks like a screamin' machine to me and, except for the video card, could almost be a gamer's rig. I think I will overbuild a bit too in order to future proof the machine and, because, well, it's fun. I can't afford the best car or the best camera, but I can afford the parts for a really good computer.</p> <p>Just a couple of questions that might be relevant:</p> <p>What's up with overclocking these days? I just read in <em>Maximum PC</em> yesterday that most new Intel processors are locked so you can't overclock them or can only overclock with the multiplier. The bus is unavailable and therefore there was no point in buying extra fast RAM. Any truth to that? That might also argue for a faster processor.</p> <p>I like SSD's for data because of the speed. (BTW, I saw an article saying new testing had revealed that even consumer level SSDs would last a thousand years of read/writes. Hope it's true.) So, would there be a marked increase in speed with two SSDs in RAID 0 compared to a single large SSD? I know that's true for HDDs, but how about SSDs? Still true or is there some other bottleneck?</p> <p>Many thanks. I hope those questions are relevant to the discussion and won't be considered a thread hijack.</p> <p>Cheers,<br />Dave</p> <p> </p>

<p>I wasn't interested in Filmpack, but I signed up for Viewpoint. No email yet. </p>

<p>You might already be there so this could be too late, but I spend a lot of time on Maui and I've always seen a lot more whales near Wailea than Lahaina, especially whales close to shore. It might be worth renting a car and heading east along the coast. Good luck.</p>

<p>Great image, Andy. Very nice!</p> <p>Here's one from last week in Fukuoka, Japan. The local professional baseball team is called the "Soft Bank Hawks," because they are sponsored by Soft Bank, the third largest telecom company in Japan. Kinda like a Japanese T-Mobile. The players are very friendly and you can shake hands with them any time you want, day or night.</p><div></div>

<p>Here are some lighted trees and an illuminated gazebo at the entrance to the Hakata train station. There were actually some Christmas decorations nearby that I refused to photograph. You see Christmas decorations all over Japan these days and it just seems wrong, just like all the Starbucks, McDonalds and KFC stores seem wrong in this beautiful country too.</p><div></div>

<p>This is the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima. It was the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall in 1945 and the Bomb detonated 2,000 feet almost directly overhead. Since the blast was coming down from above, it didn't knock the building over. Every three years the City of Hiroshima does a soundness survey on the building, which is why it's surrounded by scaffolding right now. The Peace Park and museum are nearby with memorials, exhibits and calls for world peace and the abolishment of nuclear weapons. You can even ring the Peace Bell, which we did. (Fun Fact: South Africa is the only country to voluntarily give up nuclear weapons.)</p><div></div>

<p>Happy New Year everyone! I hope 2014 was good to you and that 2015 will be even better.<br> <br> I'm on the road, as always, and was gone for both Christmas and New Year's, just like most holidays for the past 30 years, but at least I got some interesting photos during this last week. This is a Shinkansen bullet train stopped at Hakata Station in Fukuoka, Japan. We had a day off so we hopped on the bullet train to Hiroshima to see the museum and the Peace Park. The train will do 200 mph, but I'm guessing we only got up to about 130 mph or so on our short 80-mile trip. The ride was amazingly smooth and quiet, and, being Japan, the train was immaculate. No litter or graffiti anywhere in sight on the train or in any of the stations.</p><div></div>

<p>I don't have very much I need to encrypt, but I use AxCrypt for the nuclear launch codes and such. It works on the fly and is unrelated to the Windows OS. It wouldn't stop Edward Snowden, but it would stop a lot of people. And the FBI would just blame North Korea anyway.</p>

<blockquote> <p>The new iMac is available with a 4K monitor. A 4K TV might be good for viewing, but can't be calibrated, nor conform to the usual color space conventions.</p> </blockquote> <p>There are ways to calibrate an high-def TV (sorta), so I assume it can be done for a 4k TV as well. It's not nearly as precise as what we photographers think of as calibration, but I calibrated my TV and the picture looks better. Basically, you play a DVD and adjust the TV settings. Like I said, not nearly as precise as using a Colormunki or Spyder, but better than nothing.</p>