Recent content by Phil N

Again thanks for the replies. Daz B, I tried your tip and was able to see light bulbs through the filter so it is my settings that have to be adjusted. Luckily the eclipse is relatively slow so I should be able to try a variety of settings. Just have to hope for clearish skies tomorrow :-)

Thanks for the replies. I posted my question from my phone and somehow managed to post it in the beginners section and put iso 100 instead of iso 800! I guess it'll be a case of trying various settings tomorrow and upping the iso higher than 800. StewartR thanks for the link. Hopefully that...

Hi there. I made a filter using the Baader solar film, to take shots of the solar eclipse tomorrow. I tried taking some test shots of the sun but they are all completely blank. I'm using a 5D mk3, 70-200 f4 is and a 2x convertor. The first settings I tried were iso 100, f8 and 1/4000th...

Mike, cheers for the link. Laptop gave up the ghost at the weekend so have had to set up an old PC. I've found a company the custom builds laptops (PC Specialist) and have ordered one with the following spec: Chassis & Display Genesis IV: 15.6" AUO Matte 95% Gamut LED Widescreen...

Mike & Neil, I'm not very technically minded but I thought the computer would see the additional HDD in the same way it sees an external HDD (which is the way I was going to treat it, SSD for Windows & program files and the HDD for photo files etc). Is it easy to do the 'new volume bits'...

OK, cheers Neil. Many thanks for the quick reply.

I'm needing a new laptop and have been checking the Dell/Sony outlet sites. Quite a few of the laptops come with SSD instead of the usual hard drives but their capacity is below what I'd want. I've seen that the optical drive can be removed and replaced by a HDD to increase capacity (I'm...

Thanks for the welcome folks. Really looking forward to getting some inspiration and knowledge from this forum. Phil, good to hear from someone local(ish). Maybe get a chance to do some shooting with you sometime.

Hi there, Have just found out about this forum (while reading another forum!) and am impressed with what I've seen so far. First post was to enter a photo in the calendar competition (please vote for mine - July monoski ;) ). I suspect that I'll get more out of this site than I will be...