Where do you get these FREE SSD's.

RAMDisks are used for temporary work and because they get wiped clean when you shutdown there's no cleaning up/housework to do and on re-boot it's nice to have a completely clear disk to say dump a load of files to. Examples look through the contents of ZIP/RAR files or if you have a K-5 dump a load of JPG's extracted straight from the M-JPEG video file that the K-5 produces. Then pick out only the JPG's you want and copy to HDD. Doing this on any other drive would quicly wear it out.

I also use mine if I want to post a screen grab to the web. I have a Grab program that copies the grab to RAMDisk and all I have to do then is send it as an attachment. Hard to get it wrong because it will be one file on a blank disk.

You can set the RAMDisk to save itself and reload on the next boot if you want to.

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The NEW Tokina(Pentax) 50mm f/1.4 rotates one way for Nikon and the other way for Canon

Some excellent old lenses had the aperture scale the other way as well such as this 100mm f/2.8 beauty (I've got it with Derek Gardner branding).....

http://forum.mflenses.com/chinonflex-100mm-f-2-8-in-m42-mount-t18348.html

The distance is the right way round. Aperture wrong way, but some had both

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Most Photoshop stuff just uses a single core. A lot of the code is probably quite old plus the work can't be split up. I don't do video, but if I did, I'd look up what is needed to offload some of the processing to the GPU it's supposed to save some time. I think Intel do something.

For any PC a RAM-DISK is a big boost and last time I looked I found a free one that was OK for up to 4GB. You have to buy it for over that.... only $22 so quite cheap.

The free version now seems to be just max of 1GB still plenty for one off edits, zips etc.
http://memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk
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The salesman is actually spot on. Photoshop doesn't need a very expensive processor. Intel used to be the best, but AMD got their act together and just a quick scan of these benchmarks shows the £170 Ryzen 5 2600 (Amazon) is only 9% slower than the top £550 CPU stitching a large Pano. On general use and Premier it's about 50% slower but most normal editing doesn't take long anyway.

Video conversion is about 15% slower.

I didn't look at the price of the other CPU's so that might not be the best buy.

Mouseclick on the graph bar of each CPU to see percentages. The one you click is set at 100%.

https://uk.hardware.info/reviews/8267/3/amd-ryzen-5-2600-review-the-most-interes...


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The funniest review I've ever seen has to be AP's review of the Nikkers Z7. They gave marks for eight sections each scoring between 3.5 and 4.5. Had three quite serious items in the Against column....... Loads of complaints from users etc. So what does that average out at???..... Why 5 STARS OF COURSE

I never trust any review


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Over on Depressing Review the Pentax K-1 is the Highest rated interchangeable lens camera and that includes mirrorless

https://www.dpreview.com/products/slrs/statistics/highestrated

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Amazingly sharp Mine is actually the FA 50mm Macro which is supposed to be the same optically except the D FA had improved 'ghostless coatings'.

Some old tests show how much better than the other 50mm lenses the FA was...
http://www.takinami.com/yoshihiko/photo/lens_test/pentax_normal.html

More recent Photozone test of D FA
http://opticallimits.com/pentax/906-pentax50f28macro?start=1

Samples of Flickriver ...

http://www.flickriver.com/search/Pentax+FA+50mm+macro+f2.8/interesting/
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The 50mm Macro price is unbelievable. One of the best lenses ever made.

Don some good lens reviews on this youtube channel....
https://www.youtube.com/user/christopherfrost/videos

A few are Sony and some 3rd party.

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This seems a very secretive/dark thread

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