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Having made a similar discovery when I tried using a tripod with my M645j, besides a max shutter speed of 1/500 vs 1/1000 on the 1000S, the M645J doesn't have a a mirror lock-up. Both are pretty compact, light and enjoyable 645 SLRs, The prism AE finder helps enormously with handling...

It's a little more nuanced than a simple price increase. The £/$599.00 base model M4 Mac Mini with 256GB of storage (which had been selling like hot cakes) has been discontinued, leaving the 512GB model as the cheapest available with the price unchanged at £/$799.00. But yes, supply is...

If you want / need a hardware solution using a cable and not a wireless connection to an app, get a portable external display and connect it via HDMI Something like this https://www.amazon.co.uk/VILTROX-Monitor-Portable-Battery-Waveform/dp/B0DBPCD2D5/ref=sr_1_3_sspa I'd test it first with a...

It's one way of complying with data retention policies :)

LR Catalog is stored on the internal drive of my MacBook Pro M1. Recent (last six months or so) RAW files are held on the internal drive also, After that, the RAWs cascade to a fast-ish 4TB NVMe SSD in a Thunderbolt enclosure, then onward to a slower 2TB Samsung T7 SSD and finally to 6TB...

Still there, I understand View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2msZjmYenA

According to PetaPixel (and a couple of other sources I've seen) it's because the D5 performs exceptionally well at high ISO https://petapixel.com/2026/04/06/the-10-year-old-nikon-d5-dslr-really-is-the-best-camera-for-artemis-ii/ NASA are also famously conservative in qualifying equipment for...

I’m not sure you need a particularly fast lens These were taken when we had auroras exceptionally in London a couple of years ago, using an A7III, 24-105 f/4 and a 35mm f/2.8 For both I stopped down to f/5.6 and f/8 for 20 to 30 second exposures View: https://flic.kr/p/2pQnnRj View...

I have one of these and it's very compact, especially with the less traditional design of the hood that you can leave on all the time.

Not a PlusNet customer but FWIW. I was in a similar position last year (ISP I had a domain and email hosting with for 30+ years was closing their Mail service). I’ve never been keen on letting Google or Microsoft get at my personal email data, so I’d rather pay for my own. I ended up with...

I’m an old crank who has some cameras that require stop down metering, which only makes sense when it is adjusting the aperture, not the shutter speed :)

Yes “I stopped down to f/.5.6” ✔️ “I took the exposure down a stop by changing the shutter speed to 1/500” ✔️ “I stepped down to 1/500” ✔️ “I stopped down to 1/500” ❌

For myself, at least, I would never use it to mean anything other than changing the aperture

My collective opinion about using cloud based AI like ChatGPT to edit photos is that just encourages the companies buying up all the memory and storage being manufactured for the next couple of years, leaving nothing for the rest of us

That’s not far off the position Levis took with grey market imports in a landmark case in 2002 , while another 2017 that found Grey market importers can be prosecuted under the same criminal law as counterfeit goods when in breach of a trade mark...