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March 11 COBA meeting at Smugmug
We had a great turn-out at the February meeting! Hope to see you all again in March. Details follow. jc Everyone: This is a reminder that the March 2009 meeting for the Camera Owners of the Bay Area (COBA) user group will be held this Wednesday, March 11, 2009, at SmugMug headquarters in Mountain View from 7:30 pm to 10:00… -
Re: Photoshop Scratch Disk...
Very few that I know of... and with IDE, you'd want to span the drives across several channels anyway, so the odds of finding a hardware raid solution that isn't absurdly expensive is pretty low. (Adaptec has a really nice sata raid card if you're looking for hardware raid... 16 ports, lots of features, 64bit/66mhz pci… -
Re: Why is smugmug so slow???
Connection slow last few days Speed test result: Tracer route: Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\Rich>tracert www.smugmug.com Tracing route to hera.smugmug.com [63.81.134.23] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 8 ms 10 ms * cpe-71-67-160-1.neo.res.rr.com… -
Re: AlbumFetcher - Download multiple galleries w/ embedded captions and keywords
Greg, I downloaded and tried AlbumFetcher 0.2.1 this weekend. It works great except for these two problems that I ran into: 1) It crashes with the following message when downloading some large panorama images:Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Runtime Error! Program C:\Program Files\Miscellaneous\AlbumFetcher.exe… -
Re: Nikon D80 or Canon 450D
I suggest you look at the total system costs before making a final decision. You mention that your brother has Nikon and that you might be able to borrow lenses, which might be great depending upon the lenses in question. Do you know what he has? If considering the Nikon system it would be hard not to mention the Nikon… -
Re: canon 5DmkII or canon 7d?
Hi Sam, Few sites do exacting comparisons at both normal illumination and correct exposure and low light levels and correct exposure, forgetting and forgiving sensor sensitivity differences. Cameras will respond differently in these different circumstances and different still if the latent RAW image needs to pull or push… -
Re: Andy/Baldy - feed me
No problem Ann. I have no doubt you know more about it than most and certainly way more than I do. Just wanted to answer the question you brought up. I agree with you proof is better than theory. From what the book says it sounds like it's still theory instead of a proven fact but he does make reference to many papers on… -
Re: Minimum photo gear for motorcycle vacation?
In order to facilitate the added size and weight of my D700 as my road trip camera verus the comparative "compact" size of one of my old D70 bodies as a road trip body, I am going pro in focal length but amateur in speed, construction and weight to facilitate the full frame camera body. The D700 ability to provide… -
Re: Backpacking and photography
i've got a monopod, but my biggest thing is what should i take... and should i even take my camera? i really wanna take it, i think i could get some sweet photos. but at what risk? it'll be 67 miles in 11 days, where am i gonna put it? the monopod can work as a walking stick, i supposed i could just leave my camear there,… -
Re: Lesson Learned??
Sid, Bears are dangerous creatures, Black Bears though are probably the least dangerous of the bunch, they ALMOST never attack humans. And personally, I have never heard of an attack on a human where the bear wasn't provoked or backed into a corner. Very seldom will a black bear even attack in defence of cubs. I agree it…
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