Recent content by Hodders

Paint three sides grey, 3 sides white. That way you can have a all white or all grey box depending on which way you angle them. A camera can never see more than three sides of a cube (unless there are mirrors/reflections).

I imagine that the cameras are both focusing and then taking the picture when you press the trigger. The result is as others have said the camera shutters going off at the wrong time. Taking the easy option. Just use the 5d3 record raw to BOTH memory cards one of you gets the cfflash, the...

I would suggest getting a piece of non-reflective framing glass at A3 and a piece of plywood the same size. Use that to hold the image flat and wait until you have a overcast sky on a dry day. Put the image outside sandwiched between the ply and the glass. Use a tri-pod for the camera (ideally)...

1st thing - if the array is rebuilding then performance will be SLOW. So that explains that. The causes for an array rebuild are many, if the PC shut down unexpectedly that would cause it. The benefit of raid 1 is that the information should be duplicated on both drives. You could try...

I have a four roll support system in the studio. It works really well and makes changing backdrop a breese. BUT the rolls will sag unless you put them on a metal tube that will not bend under the weight. I have even tried rotating each roll every day I go into the studio, but they still sag...

Laptop was on mains. my i5 is quad-core, the i7 was octo-core. The only thing I can think of is the memory bandwidth/disk bandwidth. But I thought those were exactly the things that had improved on laptop chipsets....

This is kind of what I was expecting. But I was surprised that a more modern CPU and chipset was so much slower. Exporting raw images from my 5d3 the laptop was twice as slow as the desktop. Really surprising....

By brother has just bought a Haswell i7 laptop with 8GB of ram and a ssd/hd disk setup. Pretty top of the line stuff. I run lightroom a lot and really like the idea of moving away from my desktop. So last weekend we ran a set of tests on the same set of images. In each case my desktop was...

What flash are you using (speedlites or strobes). They all seemed to have stopped the motion really well. My studio heads would have had blur on quite a few of these. I really want to try some of the new IGBT flashes for teh really fast t0.5 times.

sianigar. It sounds as though you have really jumped in the deep end. You need to understand the basics of how a camera exposes a subject. How it reacts to flash etc etc. Google strobist101 and start reading - it is an awesome blog

The CC model at 8.78 for LR and PS is great value - but there ability and right to raise the price after the 1st 12 months is what scares me. You are being held to ransom with a product for which there is no viable, compatible alternative. Acetone also makes an interesting point about the...

You lose access to all the post processing, crops, key wording. Given that light room is all non-destructive, that represents A LOT of stuff to lose. Sure I backup my images, but I also backup the light room catalogue. The latter is what I stand to lose if I ever decide to stop being held to...

So great I can get LR5 and PS-CC for 8.78 per month. But Adobe can raise the price any time after the 1st 12 months. At which point I can pay it or cancel. Cancel means lose access to all my back-catalog of image or I can pay the increase FOR EVER until they raise it again. Sorry - but a...

perspex will scratch really fast. If you are trying to get the whole whole floor down then there are better alternatives http://www.multipanel.co.uk/multiPanel/multipanelthelux.asp for example

Yup - 1 SSD drive as primary, then a big SATA drive as a data drive. I run 2 2TB drives in Raid 1 on my main studio PC. This is *not* to serve as a backup just to protect me from a single disk failure. Backup is to rotated external disks that sit in caddies allow hot swapping. I would tend to...