Have a nice day, today Gwyn.
You of course take your camera with you or not?

Yes dates are a disaster with me, but maybe today was a better day then in May. It would atleast have a history behind it.

The good thing is we all know that they have stolen our Sinterklaas for Santa Claus

Oh yes but the problem is that all his other lenses focus fine except the tamron, so if he use the software to get the focus right for the tamron all his other lenses would be out of focus.

Matt, I will take your word for it.

Looked a bit for myself and found this.
- mirrors on all SLR and DSLR cameas are semi-transparent. If you lift the
mirror slowly up, you'll see another smaller mirror underneath, at 45
degrees, and AF and exposure sensors below, where these are located ever
since invention of SLR system.

- the fact that mirror is semi-transparent has nothing to do with live
preview - shutter curtain is still closed until you press the button.

- DSLRs have short lag because of the fact that CCD and CMOS (respectively)
are precharged and ready to capture.

- most consumer cameras have no mechanical shutter to speak of, they use
aperture iris for that function. That's why there is a big lag. When you are
looking at live preview, CCD is constantly refreshed, and iris open all the
time. When you press the shutter, iris closes COMPLETELY for a split second
to allow CCD to pre-charge, only after that iris opens to pre-measured
value, and image is captured. There is none of that process in DSLR, all
measurement regarding AF and exposure is done by external devices.

Thank you Peter, that explains it a bit but not what the part is that fails when they wear out.

I do know now that the habbit of me reformatting the card instead of deleting the photos is a bad one

The Panasonic G1, which is close to a DSLR can do 60 - 1/4000 seconds so don't think that's an excuse to use them.
Also mechnical parts are slower then simply stopping the electronic signal.

The only thing I can think of is because it's there to protect the sensor, might be handy to keep the dust and such out.

Hmmm, it might depend on the language maybe. I just don't know.

Looked the web and found this. I'm not saying you're wrong, since I don't know for sure what's right or not but this what I though was right though.
Quoted from LEO

OXFORD Dictionary

Yes Peter, you are right, sorry for the mistake.
I only wonder why they are still there, they aren't needed so far as I know since you can simply cut off the sensor when the time is over. The Panasonic G1 works without one for sure. Does the K20D also still has them?

Glad you found the problem Rob, you hardly ever need HS mode mostly only on sunny days and you want to use the flash. The UK can't be called a sunny place I believe

The NAND flash simply wears with use.
I'm no expert about it but we studied electronics on school so need to check the books if you want a real answer.

As far as I can recall it's about the transistors.

Yes, it is but he said it correctly

Edit: Added a capital letter and comma just for Peter.

No you might be wrong there, like Gwyn said "Probably because it is a soft 's' so people assume it must have an e after it (like cleanse)."
I really make the most stuppid mistakes sometime only because I write what I hear, that's why words with a C or X are quite difficult for me, also D and T are a problem sometimes. It's not the lack of education but the lack to see it really.

Although I don't think that the number of people with dyslexia has exploded so much in the last past years. Those teens hardly read any books anymore and are using those MSN languages all the time that they just don't know how to spell it anymore.
It's the same with my handwriting, it simply sucks only because I hardly write anything since we have a computer.

You haven't even tried our language, English is piece of cake

It might be an idea if we only would talk in our native language for a day just to see what will happen to the forum