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Post by calnorth on Jan 27, 2016 9:13:24 GMT
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Post by calnorth on Jan 26, 2016 16:47:30 GMT
Although I do use CCleaner I also use torrent sites to get my (free) anti virus/security from. What's you guys view on this practice? I don't use torrent sites, although my son does for anything? The Anti Virus developers usually let a basic version out for free. I just looked...they stopped and that was: Comodo Avast There might be others? At present I rely on Windows 10 firewall and security. So far I have not had a problem. Used to do it with Win7 also. Its more a case of spotting an email title that is BS and not opening its attachment or links. I get: Paypal threats Apple threats Begging from Nigeria (George in Phone jacker) I seem to have multiple bank accounts around the world. I've got millions of bucks somewhere? What most of that comes down to is the selling of email addresses acquired from unprotected PCs (like mine?). I sold a lot on eBay, so I deserve what I get I suppose? Now stopped using the business email so much, but the spammers like to use that as I wait for them. However, if you follow whats in the email header you can spot where an email has come from and whose server has been hacked. Mainly retail outlets and the odd idiot solicitors. The language used is poor anyway. I enjoy emailing the header data to paypal and the banks, occasionally the FBI. Dunno what happens? Inadvertently downloading stuff thinking is ok can be a nightmare. I'm an occasional risk taker on that one.
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Post by calnorth on Jan 26, 2016 13:49:36 GMT
Pictures now added - divide prices roughly by 10 to get GBP£ Is that the Canon in action or a phone?
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Post by calnorth on Jan 24, 2016 18:19:54 GMT
Well i probably bought the wrong thing - but got a Canon IXUS 160 - with a spare battery fo around £100 - point and shoot - no stabilisation though - but 720 vid and takes a 64Gb card - so with the spare battery that should do. Would have spent a bit more but without being sure if Spinfuel will chip in.... Had a compact of theirs 3 years ago...battery guzzler was an understatement. Canon say yours is: "Flexible, fun and small enough to carry with you everywhere, this stylish 20 Megapixel IXUS with Smart Auto makes shooting beautiful Canon quality photos and HD movies simply effortless for everyone".....and so it might?! Amazing that Stab is present in the £50 action cams and not a little further up the line? In my Nikon DSLR all Stab is performed in the lens bodies. Samsung DSLR Stab was performed by the camera body. Either way all or something singular screws up...then it suddenly gets it right? No Stab will impact on video badly unless the camera is on a tripod. And at 200mm odd equivalent zoom it'll be terrible if not mounted and steady. Panning around might be a problem. On stills and with very good light a digital camera on Auto will configure the aperture to near pinhole diameter and shutter open/close speed very fast. Thats very forgiving of most things except focus. Auto focus can get lost working out a focal point (differencing on scene component edges) in low light despite all claims to the contrary. Flash guns solve a lot of things, but stupidly some DSLRs will refuse to fire a flash unless its got the focus agreed(?). Anybody would think its the old film days with bulbs...pop! Anyway..best test it in all sorts of light states and shooting from the hip etc.
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Post by calnorth on Jan 22, 2016 12:21:39 GMT
Much appreciate all the help and advice calnorth - still awaiting what Spinfuel's preferred specs might be - but the Xaomi might be an option. Be good to show folk what the roads are actual like over here - cos seeing is definitely the only way folk back home would believe it! I'm a basic point and click multiple times, and hope one good'un turns out kind of photographer - whereas the Chinese are Selfie mad! Much better with an old style view finder than a screen to - but not that that is an option really these days Just looking at one of Spinfuels vids and is 720p or selectable down to 144p. The former is HD as opposed to Full HD (1080p/i) on our TVs (Smart et al). The 144p is worse than old 405 line TV but guess its for mobiles? The little action cameras will do 720p easily and still pics won't be a problem unless wielded by hand too much. What should be ensured is that: video is straight with good illumination (runs about 20mins). Steady slow scene scanning, not jumping about much. sound is good I'll shut up now! No doubt they can cut it to add/remove stuff.
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Post by calnorth on Jan 22, 2016 9:50:00 GMT
Like i said - i'm a doodler with words - the tech spec of photography is definitely more of a hobbiest/professional gig - and so i hadn't really thought about it, let alone budgeted for it. My Note 3 will have to do if i can't find anything worthwhile - something like the Xiaomi Yi might be ideal - but probably won't have time to get to know it before i need it - which won't be until next week now! Interesting you mention Xiaomi. Its on Amazon UK and I forgot about those new mini actioncam types www.amazon.co.uk/Xiaomi-Yi-Action-Camera-recorder/dp/B00UL2654CI have similar...mounted on my car windscreen and is from Hong Kong. Originally aimed at the mini chopper flyers: www.mobius-actioncam.com/That has full english language and user(s) support with free PC software to manage it. The picture quality of these cameras is excellent as is video. The camera is internally stabilised, so mounted in a car shows no road bounce/rumble etc. Sound is not bad either. Waving it around in your hand will be a problem though. On a cheap £10 tripod would be good. Video resolution...1080p which is HDMI as in TVs. I use a lesser resolution (720p) which is good enough on the road and creates smaller PC files. Mine has to be configured on my laptop/PC...no external controls. Its very, very good though for about £50 This youtube link describe/demos my Mobius...and others: (if u can get at it?) Again...light is all important.
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Post by calnorth on Jan 22, 2016 8:57:19 GMT
I missed camera shake (DT effects).....so a camera needs to be on a tripod and should be controlled remotely. More money!
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Post by calnorth on Jan 22, 2016 8:53:55 GMT
Its likely too late to comment. All cameras suffer from inadequate scene lighting. Focus and exposure impacted badly. A flashgun or flash head built in helps in some situations....awkward results sometimes. I can often get v. good pics and particularly vids from a current £60 Windows phone (Nokia) than my new Nikon 3300 (£260). Both are point and shoot, the latter has to be selected to Auto. The Windows phone has no flash which is a problem under low light...daylight quality is good with fingers? Where your work requires high quality I'd have to test a few cameras in budget and that should be done in good lighting conditions. For the ordinary person I don't think there is any so called "low light camera". example: I had a £450 Samsung GX10 (10 megapixel digital) for my business still pics which needed to picture cables and small electronic units with some very close up. Pics were usually taken indoors under common room lighting conditions + flash. So got some old power flash guns and have over time gained five. Three of them are off camera hammer heads...like old press camera flashes...not bulbs popping type. It was a real hit and miss game. www.photographyattic.com/product-2389I'd have been better off with mains powered building site flood lighting I think...and cooked myself slightly? Close up work calls for special lenses and I didn't go there much. Silly money. It often requires the use of camera editing software to get round common photo problems, but won't correct for poor focus and exposure effects. Its all about light really. And its useful to take at least 5 shots of the same subject and hope one is usable.
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Post by calnorth on Jan 21, 2016 15:49:30 GMT
Two signed up here...seems thats all we do these days (petitions). Need to do one for a job with D. Trump
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Post by calnorth on Jan 19, 2016 9:11:15 GMT
I am certainly interested to know about that. Confidence abounds, because I have 2 orders with them....no yet delivered as used free snail mail.
Am considering the TC 60W with plug in battery. Don't need any soldering iron action on this stuff really.
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Post by calnorth on Jan 18, 2016 10:34:22 GMT
Anybody seen the security warning about UKFlavours on Google today? I have emailed their Webmaster.
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Post by calnorth on Jan 15, 2016 8:33:45 GMT
Amusing watching Nigel Farage the other day debating the Welsh First Minister. They were on about Welsh businesses loosing if Brexit. Farage mentioned he had visited a small business in Wales recently blah..blah. It was a vape company he said. I think the handwringers in the audience kicked off there.
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Post by calnorth on Jan 13, 2016 15:38:25 GMT
Crikey...these 44 pages show some varied stuff. Very useful for new folk I would think, and the collector/gatherers here.
Brilliant!
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Post by calnorth on Jan 13, 2016 11:41:40 GMT
I suspected the cheaper stuff might be an obstacle. I can understand the protected/secure need...but only just.
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Post by calnorth on Jan 13, 2016 9:30:17 GMT
the 4 different machines I have currently all required uefi to be disabled before dual or multi boot options were available, that might be down to how newer version of windows exit and then reload on boot but I found I required multiple hdd's, in the end I just sacked the project and set up vm's within windows to host the file systems for the other os's I wanted to use / Case in point - this morning at 08:00: New PC (6 month old AMD 64/ASUS MB self build) with Samsung SSD 250GB and Win10 PRO. At PC power switch on, POST appears to complete but Win10 OS fails to start. Thats a black screen with the ASUS boot logo and a spinning microsoft white circle. I thought (hoped) the SSD had a problem in one of its two partitions (UEFI/OS) stopping Win10 executing. Got to Boot menu via F2, selected CDROM boot and inserted Ubuntu 14LTS image for AMD Is it hardware, firmware or OS software? Ubuntu loads faultlessly to GUI desktop, so its a mess with the SSD configuration. At least I can Google stuff. Defaulted ASUS UEFI Bios page, which the software did not do as it stated it was already default. Then invoked EFI which threw the machine into self diagnosis for about 10 mins. PC self restarted and Win10 commenced properly. This indicates to me that the PC will boot to Linux with a faulty UEFI dependant device resident. No hang ups for the user/owner thankfully. Will try same Linux distro on an HD if it happens again. This is the second time I have seen Win10 fail on cold start in about 3 months. The 1st time was on my Thinkpad 2 months ago and I attributed that to bad power control in old drivers (powerdown) having taken Microsoft online upgrade path to Win10. Lenovo did not update all drivers from Win7 to Win10 I note. And some of the RealTek LAN drivers were totally wrong. The problem with the AMD here occurred after a correct and normal power shutdown the night before.
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