How Ebay profits from software piracy Recently I was looking for a newer version of WinDVD for my PC. Of course I know that I could take a quick trip to the seedy side of the internet and get a free version or a crack for the trial version that would probably not contain too… Read More »
CompactDrive PSD PD7X Serial Review Part 3 of 3 So now we have the hard drive properly formatted and installed (see parts 1 and 2), and it is time try it out! Here is the drive from the front, and below is the Compact Flash card. And here we see the one drawback. The Compact… Read More »
CompactDrive PSD PD7X Serial Review Part 2 of 3 Ok, all ready to go. I turned it on, and… Uh oh. Frowning face and an error #10. I look this up in the manual. Appearently the CompactDrive PSD PD7X can’t format a hard drive, the drive has to be formatted before installation, and the drive… Read More »
CompactDrive PSD PD7X Serial Review Part 1 of 3 280 pictures may seem like a lot. That is how many images my Maxxum 7D will store on a 1 Gig CompactFlash card at top JPEG resolution. 80 is a lot less; that is how many RAW images it will hold. For those days where I… Read More »
Is Genuine Fractals worth it? A Photoshop CS vs Genuine Fractals 3.5 showdown at 6 megapixels At $140 the program is not cheap. The question is, is it worth it? Especially when Adobe Photoshop CS has such a good tool for upresing files with Bicubic Interpolation. So I bought a copy and decided to do… Read More »
I got a Maxxum 7D yesterday. I’ve been with Minolta since I got my first camera, an X-700, in 1993. I went through several manual bodies before switching over to AF in 1999 with an HTsi+, eventually settling on two 600si’s. I sold all my MF gear and got a range of AF lenses, using… Read More »
The term refers to a condition in older cameral lenses, when oil on the aperture blades congeals over time, causing the blades to close slowly or not at all. This is a problem because on a camera the aperture is always wide open until the moment the shutter is pressed, and then the aperture is… Read More »
Old “Circle and Needle” metering manual cameras (Minolta SRT’s among them) were built to run on a 1.35 volt mercury battery. Mercury is very poisonous, and mercury batteries are now illegal. The replacement alkaline batteries in those same sizes are all 1.5 volts. The extra voltage makes the light meter oversensitive, and all the pictures… Read More »
Q: It looks like Imight have to start photographing some old buildings, and since I’ll be traveling/walking a lot, I’d like to carry a single lens. I don’t want the buildings to look any more crooked than they actually are! Any suggestions? I don’t know if this is possible, but… Try to get a ways… Read More »
Glass is the most important part of taking pictures (well, aside from the photographer). Everything else just supports it. The 9 won’t get you better pictures (in all but a few, extreme circumstances). The 200 2.8 will, especially 8×10 inch prints.