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Comment by Don posted on Venturing into the World of primes at 08/09/2010 - 17:45
Yes it is fun to imaginate the "I Wishes I hadz"....
but I work with the "I gotzes"
I gotz an iphone, a macbook, and Pentax cameras...
I do the best I can with what I gotz.
Comment by Don posted on USB flash drive instead of memorycard? at 08/09/2010 - 16:13
Anvh wrote:
If you're going to take a storage device than the iPod/iPhone/iPad isn't the way to go because they cost a lot for just storage
It's better to get extra SDHC cards.
For the price of the iPod touch 64GB you can almost get 3 Sandisk Extreme III 32GB cards.
And if we compare it to a Western digital 2.5" 1TB USB hard-disk you can get 2 (and a half).
So if a camera can do the transfer you would have great bang for you bucks in term of storage.
unless you're me, an you already got an iphone and a mobile me account...,,,Don wrote:
Ipod/ipad camera connectivity kit... if you got an ipod/pad
But you still need to take with an extra device for than Ipod/ipad camera connectivity kit... if you got an ipod/pad
If you're going to take a storage device than the iPod/iPhone/iPad isn't the way to go because they cost a lot for just storage
It's better to get extra SDHC cards.
For the price of the iPod touch 64GB you can almost get 3 Sandisk Extreme III 32GB cards.
And if we compare it to a Western digital 2.5" 1TB USB hard-disk you can get 2 (and a half).
So if a camera can do the transfer you would have great bang for you bucks in term of storage.
then you can upload your photos to your mobile me account from just about anywhere, and have them pop up on the tv screen at home, via the apple tv.....
synched to your mac at home via i disk...
loaded up to aperture and a web page published for a client via Automater actions....
all from the phone (when I'm not packing a laptop that is)...
but you are correct, the cards are cheaper, but it is difficult to COPY your images as backups without some other device....
Comment by Don posted on USB flash drive instead of memorycard? at 08/09/2010 - 02:22
Anvh wrote:
I agree with your second point though but it would be great if you could connect an USB hard-disk to your camera and transfer the photos from the card on to that, it would mean for example that you don't need to carry a laptop on vacation or several cards
Ipod/ipad camera connectivity kit... if you got an ipod/padpolchraine wrote:
The camera is a USB slave device and as such cannot directly communicate with another slave device. If the was a master then it would not be able to communicate with a PC.
Is there no way to switch?The camera is a USB slave device and as such cannot directly communicate with another slave device. If the was a master then it would not be able to communicate with a PC.
I agree with your second point though but it would be great if you could connect an USB hard-disk to your camera and transfer the photos from the card on to that, it would mean for example that you don't need to carry a laptop on vacation or several cards
Comment by Don posted on USB flash drive instead of memorycard? at 08/09/2010 - 01:02
I've used these.
they are surprisingly sturdy and work well.
they are surprisingly sturdy and work well.
Comment by Don posted on USB flash drive instead of memorycard? at 08/09/2010 - 01:00
ignore it.
I'm sure it will shut up and go hide in the storage shed, behind all the other dusty fitness equipment, if you ignore it long enough...
I'm sure it will shut up and go hide in the storage shed, behind all the other dusty fitness equipment, if you ignore it long enough...
Comment by Don posted on Just bought a Nintendo Wii and Wiifit board at 07/09/2010 - 14:38
rparmar wrote:
It is completely irrelevant if there are workarounds or if it doesn't fit your personal working methods. It is a limitation pure and simple.
You guys really are trying way too hard to rationalise this defect. Isn't it time to move on?
A) I was being sarcastic when I said 70++ although I think there's a canon that does...Don wrote:
you pre-focus and wait for he subject before snapping the shutter, or focus lock and re-compose, or you put it on auto and machine gun it...
The blinking lights actually tell you what the camera is doing so you don't work blind. It's called visual feedback and it's rather important in UI design. Which is why every other DLSR on the planet has this feature and every review of note has marked the K-x down for it.you pre-focus and wait for he subject before snapping the shutter, or focus lock and re-compose, or you put it on auto and machine gun it...
It is completely irrelevant if there are workarounds or if it doesn't fit your personal working methods. It is a limitation pure and simple.
Don wrote:
70++ little red squares lighting your viewfinder up like it was the fourth of july fireworks
You might want to learn a few things about the K-x before spouting nonsense. This camera does not have 70 focus points.70++ little red squares lighting your viewfinder up like it was the fourth of july fireworks
You guys really are trying way too hard to rationalise this defect. Isn't it time to move on?
which brings me to my second point...
B) I know enough about cameras to make a good decision BEFORE I buy. Unlike some that spend foolishly then complain for ever that they didn't get what they wanted..
For crying out loud, there were k200's, k20's and k7's all still available when the kx got released, so why cry about what the kx ain't got?
here is one other reason to ditch the pentaprism and mirror box...
say you're samsung, and you have a ff sensor, and Pentax k mounts...
you take pentax sr system, and mount the whole sr and sensor on a rail that you can move forwards and back in the space that used to be occupied by the mirror... you use it with the af in the lens, af and also move the sensor for focus (that has been done before, Contax for eg)... so using both the sdm and sensor movement to do the af....
move the sensor forward (cropping the sensor in effect) and add an adaptor to use the nex lenses, move the sensor backwards and a ff kmount lens or aps c lens....
say you're samsung, and you have a ff sensor, and Pentax k mounts...
you take pentax sr system, and mount the whole sr and sensor on a rail that you can move forwards and back in the space that used to be occupied by the mirror... you use it with the af in the lens, af and also move the sensor for focus (that has been done before, Contax for eg)... so using both the sdm and sensor movement to do the af....
move the sensor forward (cropping the sensor in effect) and add an adaptor to use the nex lenses, move the sensor backwards and a ff kmount lens or aps c lens....
Comment by Don posted on new model speculation at 05/09/2010 - 19:58
well the 10 or so mm difference only matters if there is a new line of lenses to push on the consumer....
which is a stupid move for Pentax to do right now while there are buyers jumping brands over the ff/slow af issue... re-badging a Samsung evil makes sense... and for Samsung orphaning it's d-slrs and making another line of lenses for a ff model wouldn't fly too well either... so thier ff sensor either comes with a k mount, a nex mount (not really possible) or goes into a non interchangeable lens camera.
which is a stupid move for Pentax to do right now while there are buyers jumping brands over the ff/slow af issue... re-badging a Samsung evil makes sense... and for Samsung orphaning it's d-slrs and making another line of lenses for a ff model wouldn't fly too well either... so thier ff sensor either comes with a k mount, a nex mount (not really possible) or goes into a non interchangeable lens camera.
Comment by Don posted on new model speculation at 05/09/2010 - 19:20
"There is a document somewhere that discusses this. In short, lenses are typically designed to have no field curvature at the focal plane. But the Limited lenses retain small amounts of field curvature so that they may completely correct astigmatic difference in both meridional and sagittal subject planes".
And there you both lost me completely !!!!!!!!!
To paraphrase Donald Sutherland as Oddball in Kelly`s Heroes............" I don`t know how they work - I just ride `em "
Tony
I'm working on something fro a promo for Halloween...
I a computer, a camera and a projector.
I don't know much of the witchcraftery/voo-doo involved in making computer vision...
But I am getting some success in making a video image interact with people...
link
makes a copycat ghost image out of fire....
what do you guys think?