Recent content by phil-t

I have had to recover 5 HDD's from family and friends in the last 3 years.. Ranging from drives with the click of death to accidental formatting.. It's usually the failing HDDs that are the worst ones.. I sometimes try anything and everything to get a HDD to just spin up for enough time to get...

The Pixel Soldier's you've linked work well for me, certainly they perform better at 1/250th then my previous cheapo Yungnuo RF602's.. Basically when it comes to sub £50 for a RX/TX pair, it's either Yungnuo or One of the Pixels..

I popped an answer in the other thread.. But basically you should use direct mode, that way you don't need a wireless access point, the eye-fi card acts as one, and your laptop's wireless connects directly to it.. You also need to set it up not to sync to the eye-fi online service, or...

I use a 8Gb ProX2 and it gets 1MB/sec, so an 8-9MB 24MP JPEG takes 8-9 seconds (Direct mode to a laptop).. So 3-5 seconds is achievable if your camera's JPEGs are 3-5MB in size (depends on quality settings/MP etc) I think you have to disable it from syncing photo's to the cloud.. I use mine...

I've a set of DLite4's (No skyports in mine though) and Lastolite Lumen8's, and the digital nature of the DLites is a real bonus, you can move between settings so easily when it's digital.. But VFM wise, I'd really look at Lencarta.. My choice would be the UltraPro300's (£199 each), or...

I've read the various threads going around about the DR issue, and I don't quite get the 'alarm'.. If it was widespread, we'd know by now, people have been checking serial numbers on eoscount and it seems this is quite isolated.. Things happen to the most legitimate companies, I've been sold...

back OT for me, I like the idea of the lightening shot, effectively a very long exposure capturing many strikes, however, on a technical level it fails to hit the spot for me, too much ambient exposure and general low contrast to things. The boat lights indicate to the viewer that this is a...

What a result!!! The A700 ergo's are really nice, it's a joy to use!

The train its much cheaper if bought with hilite, it's very heavy duty vinyl which is cleanable, and fits perfectly. If bought separately, it is expensive, but it is shaped correctly and joins with Velcro to they hilite, so you'd have to make your own to the same dimensions if you want a good...

You should be able to get away with the 2s, you'd easily be able to light it at f/11 to f/16 with two of them. But if you are using the train, you need to light the join where it meets the hilite, as well as your subject. For a perfect setup, they use 6 lights in total, however with careful...

I'd be doing some complaining.. 10 weeks is unacceptable, and they do state they can replace if they can't repair (and I'd argue for that, since a replacement would likely be the A57).. When I got my A77, they wouldn't budge much on price, but they threw in a warranty and filters/bag etc.. I...

I'll be intrigued to see the images once you get them up. The normal rule of thumb for white backgrounds is that you want the background illuminating 1/2 to 1 stop more then the foreground, and with your flash set to 20Ws, I wouldn't be surprised if the continuous lights where therefore easily...

"Retina Defintion" - LOL :D, that's an apple marketing idiocy, and considering the iPhnone 4's awesome retina display is only 960*640 for a 3.5" display, 1024*768 for the viewing size/distance of the A77 EVF is actually perfectly fine. Imagine-Resource had this to say about resolution.. The...

Most cheap ebay kits for around £100 with backgrounds are continuous light, not flashes.. I'd echo the above, if your aim is to progress further as you learn, I'd start by buying either Yungnuo Flashes and stands/modifiers, these are a popular cheap way into proper studio lighting.. Or, as...

Thanks Paul! I've seen so much variance in camera/trigger sync reliability being shown around the internet, I can see why 1/125th is actually still a good rule of thumb starting point!