Recent content by miker

That's great if you only need 16TB, but if you were buying 16TB drives to build into an array... less useful. RAID0 is living a bit close to the edge for most corporate purposes. Some variant of RAID5 is much more palatable. Also, RAID arrays of spinning disks are great for sequential read and...

I use these quite extensively (and similar ones) in my day job (corporate filming/talking heads/green screen). They are quite good for single person, news style standups, where the main aim is lifting the subject or throwing some light into a dark background. They also work well when you have...

Does your network/contract support tethering?

I wouldn't even bother looking to yongnuo for the 50mm when the canon one is so cheap! Can pick nearly new ones up for £50

I work in the print industry, and several press manufacturers I know of print their press mech drawings out 1:1 and stick it to the wall behind where they build the press. These machines are often 2m high and 20+m long. Admittedly, they do it in sections!

For what you're looking at, a decent 500W - 550W will be absolutely fine. This is beased on experience rather than maths. As an example, i have a 550W PSU. I also have an overclocked i5-2500k, 2 r9 270X GPU's (also overclocked at the time), 2 SSD's, 8GB Ram, many fans (3*140 & 4*12), use my PC...

That's pretty close to my setup. C Drive - 120 gb SSD (samsung 840 pro) with windows and ALL software on it E Drive - 240 gb SSD (Crucial m4?) With my onedrive folder, which contains all photos, LR catalogue, documents, other files, etc. Server - 3TB with Image of the C drive, backup of e...

I suspect the lag in loading photos is due to them being on a mechanical HDD. All my local storage is solid state and it flies. as an alternative, you could use smart previews on the SSD? Habing said that, having an i5 2500k and not overclocking it is a waste! Mine is running at 4.4gHz on...

RG6 is fine and generally what VM use anyway. Probably best to buy a pre-terminated cable as crimp on plugs require you to buy a crimper, and screw on plugs can be unreliable. You'll also need a coupler to join the two cables. You could get virgin in to do it, but they may charge and the...

I take an image of my C: drive periodically that is backed up to my NAS. All my photos, music, films, tv and documents live in onedrive, that is running on both my pc and NAS, this ensures I have 2 onsite copies. I then use robocopy to copy the onedrive folder to an external HDD

This may be harsh and slightly unreasonable, but you've not got much of a hope. You either need more light or a way to maximise the available light. So flash or fast lenses. On camera flash is very difficult to make look good, and fast lenses require buying or hiring more kit. You can wind up...

Assuming wireless, There are a range of tiny wifi routers out there. The TP link WR-702N is one of them. THe HooToo tripmate nano is another. The hootoo has a USB port that you can plug a usb drive into, as a kind of micro NAS device.

If soft ground then a few tent pegs could go a long way.

The majority of people just see "big camera" = SLR, end of. I get accused of being a photographer with my 650d and kit lens. Little do they realise I'm mostly clueless!

I'd look at going down the route of a cheap windows/linux box (heck even a raspberry pi would work). Set them all up to view the images from a network source (which could be a shared folder on your main imac). Then just get an image viewer that always shows the filename in one corner.