Recent content by Porsupah

I'm not sure I'd bother with a TC, to be honest. Even with as excellent a lens as the Nikkor 300mm f/4D AF-S, you're losing a little sharpness to the TC, and as high resolution as the D7200's sensor is, I'm not confident (having tried such a combination for several months) that it pays off...

I've been a programmer on a variety of embedded, gaming, and video codec research projects, and the last desktop I had was an Acorn Archimedes A310. ^_^ I did feel the need for more RAM on one project, but that was sometimes unavoidably very memory hungry, to the point where one bug pointed out...

Just a little update.. ^_^ http://www.wanderlust.co.uk/magazine/photography/wanderlust-photo-of-the-year-competition-2016-amateur-categories/wildlife-category-runner-up-momentary/2900 (Each of the four categories had three winners: category winner, a runner up, and a highly commended entry)...

Thank you, everyone. ^_^ It's amazingly exciting. I'm going to have to go along and see it up on display for myself, to convince myself it's all real. ^_^

If I might be permitted to toot my own trumpet briefly.. ^_^; Wanderlust, a travel site/magazine ran their photography competition last year, across four categories: travel icon, people, wildlife, and landscape. And.. I'm a finalist - one of around ten or twelve - in the wildlife category, with...

I've never been in this position of anticipation before. ^_^ Do dealers (whether magnificent creatures like Grays, or the more routine, like Jessop's) tend to get demo units in any earlier than the broad release? I'm itching to see how the AF system really compares - rabbits are a special...

Having encountered that once or twice before, I might also suggest trying excluding some large directory trees at first, then reintroducing them one at a time, after each new backup has completed - you may well find that more space is required on a temporary basis for the backup to complete. Of...

Yep - a fair few possibilities on LinkedIn, but none that really seemed to check out on examination, and friends report no luck on FB. I do have a couple photos, though - it certainly couldn't hurt to try running them through a Google Images reverse search. Thanks for the idea!

This is, I know, a very long shot - but I'm trying to get back in touch with a friend of yore. I've long since lost contact with them, so none of my old contact details are valid. So why am I posting here? Well, one of the brothers, James, was (hopefully, is) quite an accomplished hobbyist...

FWIW, this Nikon guide says "no" for the 80-400mm f/4-5.6. Just for clarification, the D7100 and later are, thankfully, also in the ranks of the f/8 autofocus club.

If you want to find out exactly what the maximum RAM for a given MBP (or any other computer from the fruit factory) is, your best bet is to locate the model's listing over on EveryMac, although there's also a dedicated page listing all the capacities for all the "Unibody" MBPs; more or less...

Just to quickly chime in with a couple points: (a) I'd also consider a used D90. The sensor isn't as new as some of the options presented, but it remains a very good performer nonetheless, at a sensibly low price, and offers two control wheels - very handy for some styles of photography. (b)...

It's remarkably unprofessional of Yahoo, whatever their purported focus. I have no need of their tags. When I upload to Flickr, I'm quite diligent in tagging the species, time, season, year, and other particular characteristics that would help me or anyone else to find the photo later on. I...

At the risk of hijacking the thread (eep!) - do you know if the D800 writes to both cards literally simultaneously, when configured for "send everything to both cards", or is it like the D7x00, where it will write to one card, then the other, thereby taking twice as long? (Of course, the time I...

As noted above, the end result depends on both the card and the body. In the 70D's case, you apparently run into a ceiling at about 36MB/s, with the Extreme Plus and Extreme cards faring virtually identically. http://www.cameramemoryspeed.com/canon-70d/fastest-sd-cards/