Recent content by Nawty

Thanks chaps, on closer inspection the headland is planted with flax so that makes perfect sense.

I wondered that, but there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of red on any them. Could be all female I suppose? I’ll try to spend a bit of time there and get a better photo, only hassle is I misplaced the charger in a move and the battery is almost dead!

Can anyone identify these? They have been sitting on a power line above a field that has seed flowers planted in the headland; I reckon there's around 3-400 of them flying around together, generally either down in the seed, on the wire or flocking around in an almost murmuration. I've been...

MacOS has a tendency to set all printing to Airprint, even if the printer doesn't support it. Can't remember how to find it but there is a setting somewhere in the printer profile in MacOS that lets you select something other than Airprint, try that.

Nike is an interesting one though as if you were talking about the Greek goddess of victory, the company's namesake, Nikee is correct in English (and others).

The “natural” angle of view thing derives from the focal length being the “same” as the diagonal of the image sensor (or film). Reality is that on FF would be closer to 43mm but of course there is some tolerance so could be from 35-55mm ish. Coincidentally this is one way of understanding...

Standard refers to the focal length in relation to the sensor size so the definition can’t really have changed. I think one of the key drivers to wider is mobile phone cameras which seem to be around 28mm. I don’t get the fascination with ultrawide, very very few circumstances fit their use...

I agree with @Craigus, looks fine to me it’s just that your subject is ‘dirty’.

That's pretty condescending and besides, 16" Macbook is about as new as they come...

I’ve had a twitchy finger over an m1 mini to replace my 2015 iMac but think I’ve managed to persuade myself to wait for whatever happens with the bigger MacBook or iMacs.

Even just a year ago I would have said 8GB RAM was sufficient for me (as per my 2017 MBP) and somehow these days I keep looking at the 16GB in my 2020 MBP and think eek!

But are you eating into swap files? if so then you don't have enough RAM, which could be the problem. I would have thought sending .TIFF files (which are huge) to Photoshop would require more than 8GB Ram,

The most annoying thing about Big Sur is that they’ve removed the calculator from the side bar :mad:

Another point is that a 15” laptop isn’t particularly portable, a 13” with a 1440p screen would be good (4K at that size isn’t necessary, or even useful). I use Mac and a second hand MacBook Pro would be ideal, or even one of the new ones with Apple silicon, which look mighty impressive. Even...

You can smoothly run Lightroom on a low spec laptop, slower processors mean bulk actions take longer but in general editing most things are powerful enough to run smoothly. The most important thing, I think, is a good screen and that laptop only has 1080p resolution which on a 15" isn't enough.