my car sounded awful trying to start the other morning - whrhrhhrhrhrhrhrhrhrhrhrhrrhrhrhrhrhrhrhhrhrhrhrhrhhrhrh instead of brrrtschoom as it should be. Yeah, OK, it was -5, but still. And this one's three years old, so it's done its duty (!!!).

got to get a charger for the DEFA system, I think, along with a timer and then we are seriously cooking with charcoal.

In other news, I'm beginning to get used to the 7D and now need a very good excuse to get a K5 before I find even more reasons to move to the dark side.

And finally... we've hit -10 Part of me expects -15 by morning.

Bret

It's Europe-wide now. And it should be €75 or £10 / €15 tax, something of that ilk.

Bret

spam.

^^ DVI is the white one, VGA the blue one.

Look on the back of the monitor, it should give you a model number. Throw that at google, it should tell you the resolution. Should be something like 1650x1080 or 1440x900....

Bret

good photos make PP a lot easier... try to get as much as possible right in the first place and add minimal PP if necessary.

Bret

ok, the footage is crappy. Maybe I can salvage two minutes out of it. Or maybe not. Ahh, this is worse than starting photography! I expect to understand these things and I still make simple mistakes like focus... it's a bit like a completely, purely manual cam in Video mode. ARGH!

Bret

I find 28 to be a wierd length. I can understand its use in video completely, but I have a hard time seeing it in my mind's eye in stills.

24 is great because of the "both eyes" view. I don't see the point in chopping this and found 28 restrictive at times on a zoom, which is why I went 24-70. OTOH, this is on a crop sensor and film, by definition, is not crop.

Looking from a field of view, 18mm on a crop is the "same" as 28mm on a FF. I'd find that to be way too wide angle, but that's me. 24 is as far as I need to go unless I want distortion, then I unpack the 10-24. 40 would probably make sense for me for what and who I shoot. Though it is pretty close to 50mm. Maybe try and find a 24-50 zoom?

Bret

no beer here, just lots of footage to try and edit. Couple of hairy moments on the road, too, which was... nice?

Car was shiny for ... ooh, at least ten minutes. But that's now the second coat of Collinite, so the muck should come off easier now.

Bret

Hmmm. I will ask some friends that are in California at the moment to take a look-see.

Right now, the numbers I see say:
- Adorama £900
- Germany €1194 (£1026) - Cashback of €80, so £958
- Finland €1190 no cashback but no discussions opened either
- Malaysia implies £800 (If this really is the case, I'll be asking a colleague to pick one up)

Black Friday may see some improvement on the US prices, but I doubt it. Stock seems to be sparse, still, so I see no reason for a drop this early.

Bret

I saw that the 7D one team uses at work shoots RAW+ small JPEGs. That, I think, is an excellent solution. We're talking 2MP of JPEG, where you can decide to spend time on the RAW or not.

For my own use, I use RAW all the time unless there's a very specific need for JPG. I have the computing power to deal with it, so I do.

Bret