Recent content by JohnMcL7

As mentioned above, Windows creates the file for each drive (including network drives) so they shouldn't be deleted and they're not taking up space or resources on your system.

I think this is definitely worth considering, It has a good feature set and is capable of fantastic image quality which sounds like it will do what the OP needs, if they find they really need something better they can upgrade later or if they're happy with the body they can spend the money...

I'd really echo this advice - I've seen people trying to choose between two cameras then try them out in store and buy something completely different they weren't originally considering because they liked the feel of it best. The main advantage of the Z8 is its high speed capabilities but...

I saw someone posting a deal for an Asus Rog Z13 tablet with 128GB ram for £2400 and the worrying part is I briefly considered it until I noticed it only has a 2230 slot for the NVME drive which really limits the storage.

This isn't correct and hasn't been for a long time at least for many mirrorless cameras. What you're describing is Contrast Detect AutoFocus (CDAF) but mirrorless cameras now also use Phase Detect AutoFocus (PDAF) using embedded components within the main sensor, the same as DSLRs so they no...

At the moment it's looking like it's going to be a long time if ever that prices will come back down to the levels they were before now companies are seeing how much more people will pay for the parts, There's also considerable damage being down to other hardware like motherboards because...

I can't help like you're being a bit conservative with a 1.2 million pound budget. I decided to spec up a Dell Pro Precision 9 T6 desktop for just £370,000 with some pretty decent specs: - Xeon 698X (336MB cache, 86 cores) - 2TB ram (£200,000 upgrade) - 5xNvidia RTX PR0 6000 96GB's (£81,000...

You're absolutely hitting the nail on the head here. I think the short trial is another fun side effect of subscriptions because you can cancel at any time so you can have as long as a trial as you want without committing to a large sum of money. I'm certainly not paying for an Adobe sub and...

It does work with raw files and it can stitch them but that's as far as I could get, the design of the software isn't intuitive and I spent a long time unsuccessfully trying to then do basic processing to the image. I gave up and came to the conclusions it's aimed at stitching the image and...

Depressing how out of control these RAM and SSD prices are these days, I remember when you used to be able to get a decent spec machine and still have change from a million

The tool are all focused on image manipulation rather than post processing and I found the latter extremely clumsy, just feels like an after thought tagged on. With Lightroom not just do you have the post processing tools readily available but they're the only ones available so there's nothing...

I did try Affinity but it's not really a post processing tool, it's more a Photoshop alternative. Similarly PTGui only seems to really do the stitching and the only way I could find to process the images were to export them another application like Lightroom. Capture one on paper seems the...

Does anyone use Capture One for stitching panoramas and if so how well does it work? The usual recommendations for panorama software is PTGui or similar which only does the stitching but I'm looking for something to replace Lightroom 6 which does the stitching and post processing. I noticed...

I've used many laptops and never had one last as little as three years old. I've had a few issues with graphics cards not lasting, one dual GPU laptop failed after a while and I had a little Dell XPS with the faulty batch of Nvidia cards. I have an eight year old gaming laptop which I still...

The rules are the same for e-bikes in the UK although I dislike the term 'illegal e-bike' because e-bike is a specific term for a certain set of specifications so if a bike doesn't meet this then it's not an e-bike at all and an illegal motorbike. I've certainly noticed a lot more illegal...