GKPE: General Ramblings thread

Nzshrimper wrote in post #2194099
oopps and he went offline...

I have a copy of how to win freinds and infulence people. I got a new copy at work "How not to make frends and infurate people" Its worked really well with the teachers
They all leave me alone which gives me time to read about photography and edit my photos.

tag141 wrote in post #2194143
[Suspicious nature] Why? [/suspicious nature]


It's all good after all we are both in this hemisphere now but imagine calling a Kiwi an Aussie. You'd have to wash your mouth out with XXXX.

hey i know that feeling being Irish with an English accent..

tag141 wrote in post #2194016
If they don't I might be able to lend you bigma and even a 2x TC. Manual focus with the TC on though. It does take a fine picture...

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That's your "naughty" photo

tag141 wrote in post #2194143
[Suspicious nature] Why? [/suspicious nature]

It's all good after all we are both in this hemisphere now but imagine calling a Kiwi an Aussie. You'd have to wash your mouth out with XXXX.

Oh I am just being nosey. nothing major. what you fail to understand is that at some point when I have asked you a thousand questions one of then would be

"what's your visa card #"

and then I would have a new camera to play with.

Mark, got you PSD working yet? I'm having trouble getting the hard drive formatted.

nzl-g3user wrote in post #2194207
Oh I am just being nosey. nothing major. what you fail to understand is that at some point when I have asked you a thousand questions one of then would be

"what's your visa card #"

and then I would have a new camera to play with.

You dont need a new camera just some desent glass
Hey did you do any of those lens tests?

Hey dads we havnt seen any baby pics for a while
How are the little ones?

OK, part 3:

I ran into some issues formatting my hard drive for use in the Storage Bank. The device is only compatible with Fat drive formats, and my disk was formatted as NTFS. You can use it as a portable hard drive in NTFS format, but it will not copy from the card reader to hard drive unless the drive is FAT of some description. Now that’s fine, but Windows XP has issues formatting a FAT32 partition over 32Gb and my drive is 40Gb. The cd supplied with the PSD has a utility which is supposed to format FAT32 partitions bigger than 32GB, but I couldn’t get it to work. I couldn’t create a partion smaller than the whole drive in the PSD either. Eventually I put the drive in another usb enclosure, created a 32Gb partition, and formatted it as FAT32, reinstalled the drive in the PSD, and that seems to be working. I can live with the smaller capacity, but will have more of a play later to see if I can get back the other 8Gb.

To test performance I dumped 187 RAW images onto a CF card and timed a download. That’s 1.48Gb. So far it has been running almost 15 minutes and I am going to bed.

More testing tomorrow, but it is not looking good at the moment!

NordieBoy wrote in post #2194191
That's your "naughty" photo

Yes it is.

nzl-g3user wrote in post #2194207
"what's your visa card #"

4929 46...ah I see what you mean.

Part 4.

To test performance I dumped 187 RAW images onto a CF card and timed a download. That’s 1.48Gb. It took around 30 minutes. (I say around because I got tired of waiting and left the room, when I came back it was finished.) Thats slow. I'd say a full 2Gb card would take around 40 minutes at that rate.

Battery life doesn't look too hot either. I doubt if you would get through 2 2Gb card before the battery runs out.

So, in conclusion, I would not recommend this device for "in the field" downloading of CF cards. It is just too slow, and battery life is unsufficient. If you wanted to make 2 copies of a 2Gb CF card to be safe it would take over an hour and you would probably run out of battery before the second copy was finished.

The 32Gb limit is a bit of a pain, but if I can find a Win98SE/WinME machine, apparently I can format the whole 40Gb disk with it.

I'm going to keep the device, because since I got my 2Gb CF I have not filled up both cards (1Gb + 2Gb) in a day out. And where this device will be usefull to me is when I am away for a couple of days or more with no computer, but access to power. I'll be able to download my pics overnight and have fresh CFs the next day. I'm going to try to get a cigarette lighter adapter for it too.

So if you already have a 2.5" HDD lying around, want a basic PSU, and can live with these limitations, for $25 why not? But if you want something to download in the field, and need something fast, save your money and get something else.

scotttnz wrote in post #2195954
Part 4.

To test performance I dumped 187 RAW images onto a CF card and timed a download. That’s 1.48Gb. It took around 30 minutes. (I say around because I got tired of waiting and left the room, when I came back it was finished.) Thats slow. I'd say a full 2Gb card would take around 40 minutes at that rate.

Battery life doesn't look too hot either. I doubt if you would get through 2 2Gb card before the battery runs out.

So, in conclusion, I would not recommend this device for "in the field" downloading of CF cards. It is just too slow, and battery life is unsufficient. If you wanted to make 2 copies of a 2Gb CF card to be safe it would take over an hour and you would probably run out of battery before the second copy was finished.

The 32Gb limit is a bit of a pain, but if I can find a Win98SE/WinME machine, apparently I can format the whole 40Gb disk with it.

I'm going to keep the device, because since I got my 2Gb CF I have not filled up both cards (1Gb + 2Gb) in a day out. And where this device will be usefull to me is when I am away for a couple of days or more with no computer, but access to power. I'll be able to download my pics overnight and have fresh CFs the next day. I'm going to try to get a cigarette lighter adapter for it too.

So if you already have a 2.5" HDD lying around, want a basic PSU, and can live with these limitations, for $25 why not? But if you want something to download in the field, and need something fast, save your money and get something else.

Thanks for that one Scott! Looks like I was lucky with my TM purchase for a PSD case... then again, I only have 20gb on it which is quite sufficient for a 2 month trip...

scotttnz wrote in post #2195954
Part 4.

To test performance I dumped 187 RAW images onto a CF card and timed a download. That’s 1.48Gb. It took around 30 minutes. (I say around because I got tired of waiting and left the room, when I came back it was finished.) Thats slow. I'd say a full 2Gb card would take around 40 minutes at that rate.

Battery life doesn't look too hot either. I doubt if you would get through 2 2Gb card before the battery runs out.

So, in conclusion, I would not recommend this device for "in the field" downloading of CF cards. It is just too slow, and battery life is unsufficient. If you wanted to make 2 copies of a 2Gb CF card to be safe it would take over an hour and you would probably run out of battery before the second copy was finished.

The 32Gb limit is a bit of a pain, but if I can find a Win98SE/WinME machine, apparently I can format the whole 40Gb disk with it.

I'm going to keep the device, because since I got my 2Gb CF I have not filled up both cards (1Gb + 2Gb) in a day out. And where this device will be usefull to me is when I am away for a couple of days or more with no computer, but access to power. I'll be able to download my pics overnight and have fresh CFs the next day. I'm going to try to get a cigarette lighter adapter for it too.

So if you already have a 2.5" HDD lying around, want a basic PSU, and can live with these limitations, for $25 why not? But if you want something to download in the field, and need something fast, save your money and get something else.

Interesting. Can't beat the price though! My two year old X's Drive does 1GB in 5 minutes, and a verify in another 5 minutes, battery life is good for at least 8 1GB downloads. It can format the drive too getting around the 32GB limit, however it costs $120US without postage and drive.

Would still work really well for holidays, esspecially where you have a mains supply, just do the download when you get back to the room at the end of the day, at that price you could get two for DR (BTW I am serious here, what happened if your drive got stolen/dropped/crashed on the last day of a holiday with several 1000 images on it?). Better than lugging a laptop around.

Cheers Scott!
If its safe to carry around while its down loading, then you could just let it run while you keep shooting, and power it off an external battery.
But I don't know a hell of a lot about lap top HDD's or how shock resistant they are.

Does anyone want a Nifty?
I think Glam is trying to increase their value in the market:

Used: http://www.trademe.co.​nz …/Listing.aspx?i​d=76027381
New: http://www.aucklandcam​era.com/product.php?id​=10237

Hmmmm, which would you buy?

Moppie wrote in post #2196489
Does anyone want a Nifty?
I think Glam is trying to increase their value in the market:

Used: http://www.trademe.co.​nz …/Listing.aspx?i​d=76027381
New: http://www.aucklandcam​era.com/product.php?id​=10237

Hmmmm, which would you buy?

That is odd. Graham normally prices his lenses quite reasonably... well maybe if not on TM...

weka2000 wrote in post #2194254
You dont need a new camera just some desent glass
Hey did you do any of those lens tests?

Nope I haven't done any tests yet. the closed focus point of the lens is 1.8m so I would need to print a big version of that test page.