Selling a DA15
Perfect with one exception, there is a nick in the front cap. Shipped with front and rear caps and its bag.
Optically perfect.

£390 includes shipping so lens is actually £370 + p&p + Paypal fees.
No offers, Thank You. I'm not cash strapped just having a focal length realignment










A couple of samples from this lens:

Day before yesterday, outside The Bulman pub in Kinsale




Middle of summer

Forgotten I had this
Needs a new home.

No front cap but will ship with the filter it arrived with and a no name front cap, very minor brassing around the front leading edge. Glass is fungus free, can see a bit of dust. Aperture blades oil free and stop down in alignment.

P&P normally around £7.50 from Ireland. So looking for £50 for lens and a £10 to cover shipping and Paypal fees.

Xmas party, near the end of the night.


Niamh




K-5, 77Ltd @f/1.8, 1/50s, ISO640

If you can find 830s at a good price go for them. The 840 Basic is a bit slower in larger file writes but quicker in smaller file writes and the 840 Pro just blows both away but costs 25% more.
You pays your money and take your choice.
Personally I ordered 2 128GB 840 Pros for my own machine if that helps.

OCZ Technology.
To be fair though, I had a failure last year and the RMA took 5 weeks, the most recent one took 2 weeks. Practice makes perfect!
I'm moving to Samsung's now.

Depends on the flash used I think. Most of us will be using the cheaper stuff instead of the nice longer lasting enterprise class stuff
Anantech has a good synopsis. There was a lot of noise a couple of years ago when the manufacturing of flash dropped in size from 32nm to 28mn and with it a drop in lifespan. Most of us won't actually get to wear out an SSD, they actually die of other causes before that , I speak from experience, in the last 6 months I've had to RMA 3 ssd drives , which is a complete PITA if you have 4 in RAID 0, I've become quite adept at backup, recovery and restoration live by the sword...

In reality John, it's permanent enough. Imagine you bought a 60GB ssd and all at once filled it completely. Now wipe it. Do that 8000 times! Vast majority of ssds sell with more installed memory than advertised, I.e a 60GB will have 64GB or with cheaper drives they format down to lower, a 60GB becomes 50GB,this is to allow the controller chip to level wear rates on the memory cells.
Speed wise, a set of ssds is the biggest improvement you can make to any pc with a reasonably newish spec.

Hi Lu,

I would throw in more memory and forget about a scratch disk altogether. Adobe Memory

Scratch disks only come into play when Photoshop does not have access to enough memory to complete a process.

However, if you really do want to get a small SSD, using it for that purpose should not really effect its lifespan more than usual. Each memory cell in a SSD should be good for 8,000 refreshes. Pick up a 50GB or 60GB model, format it into 25GB or 30GB and let the drive controller handle the memory cells in use, it will map them the cells in and out according to its algorithms for lifespan and speed.

Some info on Trim, Garbage Collection, Drive Provisioning

Sold!

Nope. Not critically sharp enough
Saying that, I managed to get nice shots out of it that look sharp enough to me.