Recent content by StewartR

That seems like a bizarrely long shutter speed. Why would you not want to use a "normal" shutter speed like 1/100th or 1/25th or whatever you get indoors with a sensible ISO and a sensible aperture?

I'm going to turn my last 30-ish years of family photos into 30-ish photo books. I made one a few years ago with Bob Books and was very happy with the outcome; it's a 12" square lay-flat hardback book printed on semi-gloss photo paper and it looks and feels great. I'm going to adopt that style...

OK, understood. Ta.

What is a "shared" catalog in this context?

I recently moved all my photos onto a NAS. But I'd like to be able to access them via Lightroom using two PCs - my big desktop and my laptop. How best do I go about this? Currently my Lightroom catalogue is on the desktop PC. My inclination is to synch that with a cloud service such as DropBox...

I recently moved all my photos onto a NAS. But I'd like to be able to access them via Lightroom using two PCs - my big desktop and my laptop. How best do I go about this? Currently my Lightroom catalogue is on the desktop PC. My inclination is to synch that with a cloud service such as...

That's interesting. My wife uses Sharepoint and Teams at work, so I had already asked her how it works and concluded that it wasn't a solution for me. She says that Sharepoint stores local copies of your documents on your computer and syncs them in the background. That's the same model I get...

Good point! I assume encryption is optional. I'd make sure it was switched off. But with a RAID 6 array I can't retrieve the data without putting all the disks into a new unit, so that's pretty much the same position anyway. Or am I missing something? I guess it would, but it seems a bit of...

So the server (a QNAP 4-drive NAS) in the office died. Of course I have the data (around 1-2TB) backed up so no issue there. But I'm pondering what to do for a replacement. I think I have 3 options: Buy another 4-drive NAS. Buy a 2-drive NAS. Go cloud-only. 1. Buy another 4-drive NAS. In...

Let's all try this together. It's. Not. The. Lens.

I can answer that one for you... The organisers announced the cancellation of the March show on 9th March, and the revised September dates on 11th March. However the September dates were for a different (and considerably less suitable) location within the NEC, so the floor plan needed to be...

This is a bit of an unusual problem. My next-door neighbour is 88 and he's been shielding at home since the pandemic started. He has a large family (including some great-great-grandchildren, how about that!) and initially he had no way of seeing them - he doesn't have a broadband connection or...

Do you have a backup regime, or is that 8TB for data and 8TB for a mirror?

I love the names that SpaceX have given their drone ships: Just Read the Instructions Of Course I Still Love You A Shortfall of Gravitas For those who don't know, they're a homage to the Culture novels by Iain M Banks.

Surely that joke is "borrowed" from Spinal Tap? View: https://www.youtube.com/embed/H7vk5keNbRc