POTN Aussie Club #3: This one's going straight to the pool room.

JustinLawrence wrote in post #6302066
How do the skyport triggers compare with Pocketwizards?

I have no idea as I've never used Pocketwizards. Skyports are considerably less expensive and I chose the Skyports for the savings and from the research I did, they will more than meet my needs. I also like that they are very small and unobtrusive.

aaronactive wrote in post #6302249
dunno if everyone heard about this as its a few months old..but its certainly interesting haha..was reading some reviews of a nvidia GTX 2xx series cards and saw this about Photoshop taking advantage of these graphics cards...

Also, a nice example. Adobe took a 442+ Mpixel photo (which alone is 2 GB in file-size). Now they started zooming in and out real-time ... with no effort at all. As if this was an easy task to do for the PC. Again assisted and empowered by the GPU. A regular CPU would drown here -- literally your PC would die a horrible death. Pretty much panning, zooming, and rotating via GPU hardware acceleration worked on the fly. Now let me just state that this was an example shown, there's nothing definitive of an implementation like that in the next version of Adobe's software. Pure and merely an example. Though I for sure am keeping my fingers crossed. That's really exciting stuff to see, guys.

Wow, impressive stuff. Maybe my next video card purchase will be based on more than just PC gaming benchmarks.

kja wrote in post #6302274
I have no idea as I've never used Pocketwizards. Skyports are considerably less expensive and I chose the Skyports for the savings and from the research I did, they will more than meet my needs. I also like that they are very small and unobtrusive.

Cool, ill keep them in mind when i cross the RF triggering bridge. Cool photo btw, i think it would look better if he had a beer in his hand

aaronactive wrote in post #6302249
dunno if everyone heard about this as its a few months old..but its certainly interesting haha..was reading some reviews of a nvidia GTX 2xx series cards and saw this about Photoshop taking advantage of these graphics cards...

Also, a nice example. Adobe took a 442+ Mpixel photo (which alone is 2 GB in file-size). Now they started zooming in and out real-time ... with no effort at all. As if this was an easy task to do for the PC. Again assisted and empowered by the GPU. A regular CPU would drown here -- literally your PC would die a horrible death. Pretty much panning, zooming, and rotating via GPU hardware acceleration worked on the fly. Now let me just state that this was an example shown, there's nothing definitive of an implementation like that in the next version of Adobe's software. Pure and merely an example. Though I for sure am keeping my fingers crossed. That's really exciting stuff to see, guys.

Interesting to see. The CAD application I use (MicroStation) uses DirectX for all of it's graphics now for the last two versions. It complicates the install a fair bit as you have to make sure the PC has all the necessary bits from Microsoft before it'll run. The plus side is the graphics are simply awesome, zooming and panning about 3D models is a breeze.

The gaming industry seems to be the big driver for all of this. The graphics cards needed to run the latest games have no problems with the simple requirements of CAD or Photoshop.

aaronactive wrote in post #6302249
Also, a nice example. Adobe took a 442+ Mpixel photo (which alone is 2 GB in file-size). Now they started zooming in and out real-time ... with no effort at all. As if this was an easy task to do for the PC. Again assisted and empowered by the GPU. A regular CPU would drown here -- literally your PC would die a horrible death. Pretty much panning, zooming, and rotating via GPU hardware acceleration worked on the fly. Now let me just state that this was an example shown, there's nothing definitive of an implementation like that in the next version of Adobe's software. Pure and merely an example. Though I for sure am keeping my fingers crossed. That's really exciting stuff to see, guys.

GPU's are one of the next big things in High-Performance Computing (the game I'm in). NVidia have released a bunch of libraries that you can compile your source-code against and these hand of a bunch of processing to the GPU. With the right code, optimised for these things, you can get a 10 - 20 X speedup on program execution. Average is about 7 X for general code. Cheaper than chucking a whole lot more iron at your problem, that's for sure !

NSWESP wrote in post #6295991
Going to sell my Domke F7AF to clear up some funds, Dont use it much since i got the TT roller bag and smaller Domke Satchel. Hardly used, great condition, $200AU new roughly so how about $165 shipped with extra inserts?

Posting here before i make a proper add.

You missed the Victoria and WA threads

::John:: wrote in post #6303247
You missed the Victoria and WA threads

They are mush less active and most visit here and brissie anyway

Tangcla - What was that utility you used to put the task bar on the bottom of the second screen?

::John:: wrote in post #6303283
Tangcla - What was that utility you used to put the task bar on the bottom of the second screen?

Ultramon?

Thanks Aaron. I thought it may have been that, too, but when I was googling around looking for a method to do it, several threads said Ultramon was something you had to buy (which fits Tangclas MO more than mine) and several posts said it wasn't very good - and we all know Tangcla sells stuff off that doesn't work for him...

tangcla wrote in post #6055966
A little program called UltraMon.

yup - Aaron - you were right - thanks

4 days and 25 pages or so... lol catching up is hard work

Nice work Dan with your photo getting put in the paper!

Infrared shot.

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tangcla wrote in post #6304008
Infrared shot.

Hah! Sweet

nice clarence! was that shot with a filter or did you get a camera converted?

boucha wrote in post #6304145
nice clarence! was that shot with a filter or did you get a camera converted?

He's got my converted 10D.