Recent content by jonhowell

I'm off to Silverstone in a couple of weeks for the F1 and I want a top loading camera bag as I find my lowepro backpack a bit cumbersome I'll be taking a 7D with a 70-200 f4 and a couple of cards and filters. If I could squeeze my tamron 17-50 in there too that would be great Any suggestions...

I've changed a setting on my 7D and can't work out which one The buttons on the top by the small LCD screen used to activate the rear LCD screen for me to change settings as well This doesn't happen any more, can someone tell me what I have done! Thanks

I've been in the exact same dilemma for a few weeks now, any information seems to be a little out of date but I went non-VC just in case My hope is that that sort of shots I'll be taking with that lens will not require much stabilisation, if I find I am too much of a shaking stevens then I...

I bought a filter step up ring to attach my welding glass to, cost me about 2 quid

Yep what Andrew says made perfect sense as soon as I read it, at least it isn't me doing something wrong as such

What a great opportunity, shame I live a million miles away and have to work on Friday!

I've got a 13" Macbook, the screen is not as bad as you might think, doesn't feel small

sounds like the circuit board might have given up Usually they are just a hard drive in a box, you might be able to take it out of the plastic case and plug the drive directly into your PC if you feel confident doing that?

I found 'Understanding Exposure' as mentioned above a great help and I haven't even finished reading all of it yet

I was using burst fire on these shots, what you say does sound possible though

Yeah I think I understand, the back of the car doesn't really move around so much but the front will, maybe from suspension going up and down on the rumble strip and a bit of steering? I'm very happy with the image as it is only my second real go at panning and I was sat in the top of a...

Took some pictures at Silverstone at the weekend at the Renualt World Series I got this picture of a Clio, can someone explain why the front of the car seems a little soft but the rest is sharp? Is that just how it is with motorsport and I need to select my focus spot differently or is it my...

How does that work? In simple terms!

Yeah you are well covered there but I get a bit irritated with some USB drives that offer loads of space because they are RAID 0. At least with any other type of RAID you don't lose everything as a result of a single drive failure

If you are using USB or NAS drives make sure they are not RAID 0. If you have a single drive in the device fail you lose everything on it without using complex recovery routines