Thanks guys,

 Good input. CD sir you are right I owe you a beer. But don't forget the other end of the lens as well. Keep shooting.

Bet,
AVAVA

Is there still a place in downtown Seatle that serves (Widmer Hepa*&&%*&^* spelling??) on tap. Good beer!!! 

I only say that because I noticed a difference going from 13 mp to 21mp. I would imagine going to 45mp would be quite a jump in magnification. Same reason you need better glass with the larger cameras because they look like sh***t at 100% 

Its the same thing with audio and extremely high sample rates. Not much margin for error because you can hear everything.

I am wondering if a monopod might be necessary to get sharp images at 45 megapixels. Mistakes are magnified that much more at 100% crop, true/false??? Not that you can't get sharp images handheld but your normal percentage might drop a bit which could be frustrating. With that said, I hate using the monopod 

Mucho appreciated everyone 

Thanks guys!
Using your wife as a model can be difficult sometimes. I often wonder who is running the show..haha!!

She does have a photogenic "single" younger sister (BTW). She lives in the UK.

The main part of the lightning seems way to thick. The strike looks like it is the size of a house.  The scaling is off.

GeoPappas,
Thanks for your input. I'm sorry I wasn't more clear about the cd drive, its actually a DVD lightscribe device. The cables are the same as SATA hardrives.

As Tubed mentioned above there are no jumper settings to adjust on SATA drives.

The dead computer beeps once when fired up and then quickly dies after that. I'm not worried about saving the old computer. Sometimes its better for me mentally just to move on..haha!!

The C: drive did have some files on it that I wanted to recover. Nothing too important though. I also have an IDE hard drive from 6 years ago that I want to recover. External drive case sounds like it might work 

Thanks Rob,

I will probably try the linux thing, thanks for the tip 

I think its the mother board because its had some processor overheating problems in the past and it does get power just won't boot.

Its amazing how much cooler the new computers are running now.

dbvirago,
Thanks! no network, not sure if I'm computer savvy enough to use your advice without destroying the new computer. I thought maybe I could just switch a jumper or something so the computer would recognize it as a slave drive. Funny thing, I don't see any jumpers on the sata drives, haha! I'm guessing you have to switch it in bios??? is that right?

Might have to just take it to the shop..hmmm.


Jonathan dude, lol!!
Nope, I'm an idiot!! not the first time. Just extremely unorganized and carefree, some stuff backed up on external drives, some not   I'll never learn.

I'm not even sure whats on the drive exactly other than programs and misc. bs. (Its a pc btw) I was hoping for the quick press the botton dummy fix but seems unlikely. Lucky for me the important stuff was on the 2 drives I was able to save. I tried to keep the OS drive just to run programs.

USC should be fine against those hippies up north..haha

Quote from: Freezingpictures on November 06, 2008, 07:40

If they want to protect their revenue they should make the best match favour the best images not the exclusives, because they have to pay more to the exclusives and customers are likely to prefer the best images at the top wether or not exclusive images.

I would disagree. Even though they make a bigger percentage that image most likely is also at a dozen other sites. This increases the chances of it being purchased somewhere else instead of IS which for IS decreases its download volume, file revenue, and overall value.

Exclusive files increase value for IS as a whole. The more they have of something that someone can't get anywhere else the less influence the competition has on them. They then have more control on their operations and pricing.

If you have the exact same thing that everbody else is offering, what's your competitive advantage? Service or price. And since service really isn't a big factor in micros ("we're the micro with the best service" So what, who cares?) you're left competing on price. And competing prices only go lower.

This makes a lot of sense to me. There must really be a problem with people shopping on Istock and buying at say... Fotolia for peanuts unless contributor is Emerald. Why advertise a file that can be bought cheaper elsewhere. Takes business away and maybe they don't come back?? hmmm??

Obviously not true in all cases but maybe its happening enough to change things around somewhat to see if it makes a difference.

I have no idea how much of a difference 64 bit makes over 32 bit, not an expert. But, I will say that I don't find myself waiting for things to happen like my 32bit dual core system, mainly with mark III files,  5d worked fine.

Everything moves much faster with very little lag. It gets pretty anoying when you are zoomed in trying to paint levels or something and there is lagtime to see what you've just painted. Its hard to work like that.

Anyone that does a lot of photoshopping and is considering buying the new 5d, be aware that you might need to upgrade your computer also.

Since cs4 was designed with 64bit in mind, I would bet there will be some benefits to running 64 bit instead of 32bit. Just have to wait and see I guess.


edit:
I just did the same test on 12.9mp 5d files and it took 23 seconds..

Hoping things change here also. It will be important to see what happens from here. Will files that get downloaded move up the best match? Or will it just stay as it is? I don't see any movement at this point.

I would like to think they would let the files that are selling the most drift back to the front. Heavy weighting by views seems a little silly. Hopefully they are just mixing up the order a bit as a starting point.