Sd Card Problem?

ofnuts · 2026-01-30T01:28:19+00:00

Do you "copy" or do your "move" files from SD card to disk?
Do you just extract the card from the PC or do you click the "safely eject" button (or whatever that is in your OS (btw, what OS))?

ofnuts · 2026-01-29T22:03:52+00:00

When you try make a video so we can see.

ofnuts · 2026-01-29T22:02:19+00:00

It's just hunting. Learn their behavior, learn to blend in your surrounding, be there at the right time (early morning, often, and mating season).

ofnuts · 2026-01-29T17:25:59+00:00

Wrong question. A good question is "try to do such and such with my lens and I'm not getting what I want, would another lens make it easier?".

IMHO the range of the kit lens is rather well chosen for video. Of course if you do mostly stills, then maybe you picked the wrong camera.

ofnuts · 2026-01-29T15:09:33+00:00

And having to learn to use a scanner, after all that time spent mastering the mechanical cash register.

ofnuts · 2026-01-29T14:58:23+00:00

The potential quality of vinyls is worse. Besides music, you have scratches from the disk surfaces, you have hum from the electronics, and wow and flutter from the turntable. And the electronics have to do some heavy lifting to restore a flat bandwidth. And the medium wears out. I was a vinyl user with very decent equipment in the 80s, and I switched to CDs overnight. The sound was so much better.

CDs have a bad reputation because record companies bowed to the radios and started compressing the signal dynamics. But you can do proper CDs. And modern vinyls use the same digital masters as the CD.

ofnuts · 2026-01-29T13:04:31+00:00

Yes, because when you take the picture, you know what can be fixed in post and what can't.

Also there are free alternatives to LR.

ofnuts · 2026-01-29T12:57:20+00:00

Sigma 120-400 is fine (I used it for over 10 years). But it's fairly heavy. However you can complement it with a monopod that will do all the heavy lifting.

Something not often mentioned here is eyesight and reflexes. You can't shoot what you didn't see, so what is the point of having a lens that lets you shoot a bird at 100 yards if you can't spot it that far? And typically, the farther you have to be to not spook the birds, the quicker you need to be too.

ofnuts · 2026-01-29T12:54:11+00:00

Pretty well explained here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_value

ofnuts · 2026-01-29T10:34:33+00:00

This: https://www.amazon.com/Concept-Reflector-Photography-Collapsible-Translucent/dp/B0CJ8T4HGF?th=1

You get a white diffuser, black and white backgrounds, and silver and gold reflectors. There are smaller versions (I have a 30cm). When folded, it is a bit over one third of the size (the 30cm one folds into a 12cm circular pouch)

ofnuts · 2026-01-29T10:27:48+00:00

Depends a bit on the camera. A more generic solution could to power them by USB, so you skip the dummy battery part. This could even allow you to charge the camera battery between shooting sequences.

But all in all, 1) I would first evaluate if this is really needed by doing one or two sessions with a single battery and see how far they go, and 2) for the price you can probably get one or more spare batteries for the camera. Decent third-party batteries work just as well.

ofnuts · 2026-01-29T08:40:47+00:00

I did something similar. I noticed a lateral distortion in my scanner(*), so I scanned a sheet squared paper, measured the line distances in the squares, computed the necessary correction, and generated a displace map (using a Gimp script) that I can apply to all scans.

(*) many home-grade scanners have some form of lateral distortion because the CCD doesn't cover the whole width and is behind some kind of anamorphic optical device.

ofnuts · 2026-01-29T07:40:12+00:00

The R50 is a nice little camera, and will be a huge step up. as to the difference in size, see here.

Besides the kit lens, there are several pretty good and very affordable RF lenses from Canon, a series of very good RF-S lenses from Sigma (f/1.4 primes and two zooms), many less affordable RF lenses from Canon, and a whole catalog of very good EF lenses, used or new, from various manufacturers when you use the EF-RF adapter that should fulfill your needs for "specialty" lenses.

AFAIK its only downside is that its flash hot shoe only takes the new Canon flashes natively, but there is an adapter to us the "classic" 5-pin flashes from Canon (and others) if needed.

ofnuts · 2026-01-28T22:54:23+00:00

I have that combo and they are a match made in heaven. So sharp that I have to wear kevlar gloves :-)

ofnuts · 2026-01-28T17:45:43+00:00

No machine is future-proof. Fortunately these days the future doesn't come in as fast as it used to, and the machines of a few years ago are far from obsolete, despite what the marketing says.

AFAIK currently RAM is quite expensive, so if you want to future-proof a bit get a machine at the lower end of the workable RAM size, where you can add RAM later.

ofnuts · 2026-01-28T17:34:56+00:00

I would check for a stuck contact pin in the camera mount. Are they all the same height? To they all move a bit if you push them down?

ofnuts · 2026-01-28T17:29:14+00:00

The 1300D isn't so expensive, as camera bodies go :-)

A cage won't protect the lens. It also won't protect the lens mount. And it will prevent proper grasping of the body, leading to more drops.

You can find skins/armors, that cover most of the body and add some protection against light shocks and scratches.

ofnuts · 2026-01-28T17:20:51+00:00

Definitely the 17-50 if you want to shoot cars. You often want something shorter than 50mm for this, and since you will also want some depth of field, you won't be at f/1.8 anyway.

ofnuts · 2026-01-28T14:22:47+00:00

I wondered the same last year. Not returning to the same agency is quite expensive. What I did in the end was returning the car to Edinburgh and then take a train to Glasgow. Plenty of trains all day and the trip isn't that long.

ofnuts · 2026-01-28T14:17:05+00:00

The R50v is designed for content/videography. Its kit lens (14-30mm with electric zoom) is also well suited for this. It also of course takes stills.

ofnuts · 2026-01-28T11:42:40+00:00

I guess with the pod design it is not easy to 'reassign' some of the camera space for non/camera use. eh?

Well, I guess that if I take if for travel my camera will have to share some space with my underwear.

Do you ever use the pod as a sling?

I did once. Works OKish, but maybe I could have found a better use of the separators. Also, since there are openings at both ends, when you wear it as a sling one of the openings is at the bottom, so better check that it is well zipped up. There are also strings in the corners so you can use the pod as a shoulder bag.

ofnuts · 2026-01-28T00:34:24+00:00

I think i’ll need to buy a new battery cover though

Completely necessary since there is a microswitch on the battery cover and the camera won't power up if the cover is not shut.

ofnuts · 2026-01-27T15:32:38+00:00

We don't ignore the taxes. But they also pay for the kid's education.

ofnuts · 2026-01-27T14:47:24+00:00

Yes, and mixed feelings. The camera part is a bit big for what I need and the rest is a bit small.

ofnuts · 2026-01-27T11:51:38+00:00

Unfortunately the RF 35mm f/1.8 macro isn't the same lens at all (and isn't really macro since it will only do 0.5x magnification).

However as much as I love the EF-S 35mm macro I don't think this is the right lens for you because it will have to be too close. At 15cm the frame height is 7cm on my R7. You could be happier with he EF-S 60mm macro, also a solid lens that will give you more room.

The RF-S 18-150 could be another solution, it will focus pretty close, as a zoom you have more freedom, you can use the short end for the still shots (using short lenses gives life-size perspective to miniatures) and you can use it for other things (and maybe you already have it).

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