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Comment by beakynet posted on Pentax Announces Availability Of Designer Pouch at 11/07/2012 - 13:02
Of course this does allow Pentax to boast that on continuous you can keep shooting jpegs until the card fills. Some achievement.
Comment by beakynet posted on K-5 Sloooow Lo Speed continuous shooting at 11/07/2012 - 12:54
Comment by beakynet posted on FS: Sigma 120-400mm APO DG HSM at 11/07/2012 - 01:00
I use one of these: Archos 48 with one of these: Battery dock and a USB SD Card adaptor!
Works well for me!
TBH carrying several SD cards and backing up at home seems to work well enough for me.
The device has proved invaluable and also (due to the 500GB hard drive) acts as a 3rd line of backup for my photos and video!
Comment by beakynet posted on Backing up - is there a small mobile device out there? at 10/07/2012 - 13:21
Then just reverse the hood or worst case scenario - don't take it at all !
Grisha - your 77 is 423mm and the 70-200mm is 385 - 1,100mm ... on a Q
My point was that you need to think about it and measure the lens fully extended as I am sure that security will be scanning the crowd!
Comment by beakynet posted on Olympic games at 10/07/2012 - 13:14
Works well for me!
Comment by beakynet posted on Backing up - is there a small mobile device out there? at 10/07/2012 - 12:32
Thanks tro veryone for the advices
You're both right It doesn't make sense to bring the flash
Now, only FA 77 or Sigma 70-200 (I think is on the size limit) ? I'm not very far on both events but I almost don't have photographic experience in indoor sports
Comment by beakynet posted on Olympic games at 10/07/2012 - 11:45
Haven't you got enough SATA ports?
I can't imagine backing up stuff over a wireless network ... Life's too short.
USB 3 is fast, very fast! Key criteria when I upgraded my PC kit.
Comment by beakynet posted on A question for fellow RAW shooters at 10/07/2012 - 01:00
I generally file negatives in a separate sub directory from the JPGs. Everything is backed up to an external drive. Since you can buy drives of several TBs, and connect them to a wireless router as a network drive, you have lots of storage options avaliable. Also a 1TB hard drive is only about £60-£70.
Comment by beakynet posted on A question for fellow RAW shooters at 09/07/2012 - 17:09
The K7 was the model released before the K5, it has video but does not perform in low light as well as the K5 but is a great camera, fast and responsive. I would expect you would be able to find one second hand for a good price, they even come up occationally in the Classified section on this forum.
One point to note is that the DSLR crop factor for Pentax is 1.5x. What this means is that the FA 50mm 1.4 will give the same pictures as a 75mm f2 lens would on your ZX-5. i.e. there is both a 'magnification' factor and a depth of field factor.
Comment by beakynet posted on Need help on choosing a Pentax DSLR at 05/07/2012 - 14:01


Protection from what? Certainly not rain, or falls - perhaps it's form envious glances