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    Borrowed a friends eye-fi card

    I managed to get it working. I had to reformat the card in the camera. There must have been something on there which the card firmware wasnt liking. The card seems to work but I cant do much more without registering it which will wipe my friends data so I am not going to do that. It works in...
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    Borrowed a friends eye-fi card

    I have a Canon 600D and I have borrowed a friends eye-fi pro x2 card and I cannot get it to work. I put it in my camera and set it to store raw+jpeg and took a photo so there was data on the card. The display shows the wifi symbol and 'off'. If I go into the settings and then the eye-fi...
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    Canon PowerShot SX50 HS

    I had a look at the reviews as I was considering getting it as a second backup camera. The sx40 was well regarded and the sx50 got good reviews. Such a large zoom range will never be as good but what it suffered from most was CA beyond about half zoom. That's good as its the easiest distortion...
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    Fox getting closer on my on going project

    Have you tried placing down a dog biscuit and then backing away to see if she will come closer?
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    Intruder Alarms

    Good wireless ones like the Yale are very good. They are virtually maintenance free just needing battery changes every year or two. The main unit and external bell box (if you have the solar charging type) need batteries changed every 5 years or so but they won't be more than about £20
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    Canon Batteries

    The discharge time would be a better indication. When charging you don't know what the charger is doing. If the temperature sensor in the battery is off for example then it might be charging more slowly giving a false impression the battery is better than it really is.
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    Gaming and Photo PC

    That shouldn't be the case. You can monitor the SMART information on the drive and it will indicate the remaining life of the drive based on rated write and read cycles. They also tend to fail in read only mode and the drive itself will map out these and give another sat on the amount of free...
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    Gaming and Photo PC

    This is what I have specked up so far :- Chillblast Fusion Scout Cooler Master CM-690 II Lite Dominator Case Intel Core i5 3570K Processor Overclocked to up to 4.5GHz Akasa Nero 3 Ultra Quiet CPU Cooler Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Paste Asus P8Z77-V LX Motherboard 16GB Corsair PC3-12800...
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    Gaming and Photo PC

    Things like minecraft but I may well use it to play newer games instead of using the Xbox.
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    Gaming and Photo PC

    I don't mind building my own and that is what I did with my current desktop. I am not sure you get a better deal doing it that way any more. I am not going to be over clocking or water cooling it so don't need any specific components.
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    Gaming and Photo PC

    I currently have a 4 year old Dell laptop and although it has a dedicated graphics card its only a mobile version and its struggling playing some less graphics intensive games and mostly it seems to be the CPU maxing out. So I am looking to replace my very old desktop as I tend to use my ipad...
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    Canon 600D Official Owners Thread - Anything 600D Related

    I have taken over 500 photos with the battery still showing full at the end. I think the quoted battery life includes a percentage with the flash on.
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    Black rapid strap alternative

    I have the carry speed strap which is very good. I like the bracket which doesn't have to be removed when using a tripod and the second clip to support the camera when it's attached to a large lens.
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    changing colour settings on 550d?

    If you did have the feature it would only work when shooting in jpeg mode I would guess. My 600d has very basic editing but not when shooting in raw. If you are shooting in raw what are you using to process? If you have Lightroom then it's easy to paint the area you want in b&w and then reduce...
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    changing colour settings on 550d?

    How well does it work though? I can imagine if you are doing it on a beach for example and there is a boat with some blue on it then you could have issues. It's difficult choosing the threshold. Much better to do it in post processing so it comes out exactly how you want it to.
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