Recent content by Dryce

It's always a dilemma. I'm a fan of the Fuji 90mm F2. I think the UK price is a bit high. It's gone up a lot since I bought mine a few years ago, And the grey market differential also makes UK pricing looks depressing.

I'm a bit out off date on these things as it has been a while. So the error you are seeing is from FastMail. It's not an error report from Zen. FastMail is trying to send the 'logout' command to the Zen iMAP server and either has had an internal error - or the connection to Zen has...

I think cheaper ... possibly. 'better' is subjective. Some of the criticisms of what AI generates in the way of code will in part being down to modern coding and deployment practices. The last 20 to 25 years have seen more and more bloated and inefficient and slower software. If the AI is...

I find that's my main use .... feels very mundane. But I think it's useful. Usually doing something like taking a 3:2 and extending it to a 5:4 or 4:3 for actual final use. I think AI can also sometimes useful to help with masking,

There's a twilight zone where you apply for VAT registration and issue VAT invoices before it's finalised. It's not well explained by HMRC in my opinion.

On the X-H2 when hand holding I find I mainly use the screen inverted to face the camera - and use the EVF for just about everything. I don't like an active touch screen when using the EVF. It's convenient when switching to tripod that I can just flip round the screen and the touch screen is...

Yes. I do believe it. I wasn't actually referring to large customers. Apart from the comment about Windows 7 Pro which would encroach into large enterprise procurement conservatism. Lots of small companies are now being tied into paying subscriptions for software. Accountancy software is...

Or in the case of Adobe with Windows 10 a few years back - the application can effectively scupper your old retail OS. You stull have to pay the subscription but you don't get the benefits of updates. (Though interestingly they were able to provide support for Windows 7 Pro for commercial...

If you were to draw a curve of major tangibly beneficial features in software applications over the last 35 years then there was a relatively steep curve though the mid nineties that then would have flattened off by the mid 2000s. From the mid 2000s software application vendors were struggling...

Journalists come in different flavours. And the there are the flavours we think they have. You can talk to one group and they wouldn't trust the BBC because it is 'right wing'. And then talk to another a group then they wouldn't trust the BBC because it is 'left wing'. There's something oddly...

I'm going to be quite strident. In the real world there is almost no tangible advantage. Hobbyist or pro. And even in parts of the pro world where FF might be needed for client work the client that would demand it probably doesn't actually need it. There is no 'far exceeds'. There is at best...

Well even that can be debateable. I would suspect that 99% of people who think they need FF probably don't.

In the real world it's irrelevant for most people. The internet makes people worry about this sort of stuff.

Depends on the motorbike. Generally I find that a bicycle transmits a lot more shock and vibration through the frame than any larger motorcycle I have ridden. I'd never put my camera into a bag that was mounted to the frame of my bicycle. In the past I was quite happy to stick my camera in...

The area affected extends over the sprocket holes. That would tend to suggest a problem during film manufacture or processing.