It's like that on mine too. IMO the slidey card door and the ease of getting the cards in and out is a real design weakness of the K-5 compared with the 10/20.

Shame, since more or less everything else is so much better.

If it's reproducible, is it also reproducible with another SD card?

It's a good question. If I was doing a thought experiment, I might imagine that the camera was clever enough to notice the subject tracking across the AF points, as its distance from the camera changes.

Then it could predict where the subject was going to be by the time the shutter opened, and put the focus there, rather than the last point it detected that was in focus.

In that scenario, I could imagine that the more AF points it had, covering more of the frame, the better it might be at the prediction.

So how does predictive AF work?

A few from today... getting used to the replacement Bigma (the AF packed up on the first one, a few weeks after I got it). More practice required, clearly, but I think I'll make friends with it yet.


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Even SandyBridge, with its dynamic underclocking can realise substantial savings.

My i7 2600K idles at a mere 1.6 GHz, consuming about 8W (according to CoreTemp) when I'm not using it.

Plus about 4x10W for the disks, and about 30W for the 8800GT, plus the inefficiency in the PSU, can't be much more than 100W at idle.

I keep meaning to get one of those power meters that you plug between the appliance and the socket, that measure actual power.

Shaky, how did you measure or calculate your 300W?

If you really want a new computer, then +1 for SSD.

I have Windows 7, Photoshop, Visual Studio and Office installed on mine - these are my most frequently used large applications, and it makes an enormous difference to boot and load times. But although I wouldn't go back, it's more a nice-to-have than an essential.

With the price of hard disks as they are, and will be for a while, RAID0 and RAID1 means four drives, and potentially a substantial cost, unless they're very small in which case there's no point.

I've had RAID before (0 and 1), but I don't bother any more except on my company's servers. IMO, for home use it's a cost with little benefit, unless perhaps you're spending all day every day working with huge panoramas.

However, external, and preferably off-site as well, backup is very important, much more so than RAID. Everyone I know lets this slide, loses data, and then tightens up on it.

You definitely do not need an expensive (and noisy!) graphics card. Here's an article from the Adobe knowledge base. Mine is about 4 years old - I didn't bother replacing it when I built my latest computer (which is, incidentally, an overclocked i7 with 16 GB RAM - but that's not because of image editing!)

OpenGL support has been around for years and years, and I bet that the newer AMD processors that include a GPU will work just fine.

+1 for Dr Jeff's comments, too.

We all know you want us to say that it's the one in the short skirt on the right, but it's obviously not, since she's wearing tights.

I reckon it's the one who's accidentally punched through his drum. And stabbed his arm, possibly...

It's only a "feature" if your technique is rubbish.

I think the appropriate word here is 'character', not 'bloody annoying'.

A springtime bump. Now asking just £235 including RMSD. This lens is as new.