Quite magical when I bought one many decades ago as a mechanic!

Is the lens a fixed Aperture, or variable? Variable Aperture telephoto lenses reduce the Aperture at the longer ends, which would require an increase in ISO or a reduction of shutter speed to compensate.

A fixed Aperture lens would not require the drastic changes as you zoom.

I tried posting to Dreamtime sometime back - very picky as to what gets approved/accepted. Be prepared to submit lots of images, adhere to their requirements concerning copyrighted material, or perhaps potential copyrighted material, noise & artifact levels, and keyword extensively.

If you get lots accepted, you may make a little money, but it may be too much work for the payback.

Of course you can easily magnetize & demagnatize tools using opposing magnets, if that is your need.

https://www.grainger.com/product/GENERAL-Magnetizer-Demagnetizer-3ZH19

Have had one of these for over 35 years, works everytime.

They are tough little buggers to get shots of!

Not to get too technical, BUT, cameras use pretty much USB 1 or 2...computers today can have USB 3.0 or 3.1.

There is a tremendous speed difference between USB 1 & 2 and USB 3.x

Depending on what you are downloading there will be a huge difference between 500 41 MB raw files vs 500 6 MB JPG files when using a USB connected camera vs doing the same with a USB 3.x card reader.

I have been transferring images by use of a card reader for many years now, shoot only raw, and will say, yes, the card reader option is definitely faster, way faster.

Uncool! I would be a little upset if an update did that to me!

Nice catches!

Have not been to Conowingo for a few years now - looks good.

I can say from my years using TB1 & 2 I have not seen any issues. I have a mix of TB and USB 3.0 drives connected 24x7 and do not see any problems.

You can also get a Tb3->TB2 adapter so your TB 2 devices can still connect to a TB3 port. $49.00 on Amazon, Apple or other sites.

https://www.amazon.com/Apple-Thunderbolt-USB-C-Adapter/dp/B01MQ26QIY - I ordered one of these to accompany my new iMac as I want my 2nd display over TB to continue as well as my TB1 & 2 drive docks.

FWIW - I use a WD Duo drive that connects via TB1, a OWC dual sata dock that connects TB2 holding a pair of sata SSD's and an old 27" imac used as a second display connected via TB2, but the old imac is TB1. My TM disk is in a Mediasonic probox that holds 4 drives and connects USB 3

All my images are stored on the WD Duo drive with the most current 3 years worth on the OWC dock on SSD. The other SSD in the OWC dock is my start up disk.

My reasoning for the 2020 imac was the faster internal PCie ssd, and an 8GB vram card... of course a few more cores can't hurt either ;)

Edit: Just ran across this article about Apple and TB on new apple silicon....https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2020/7/8/21317980/apple-silicon-intel-thunderbolt-arm-macs-support-usb-c

I know that Apple discontinued the Thunderbolt Display - but Thunderbolt ports are still alive and well on current models of iMacs. I recently ordered a 2020 iMac and it comes with 2 Thunderbolt 3 ports in USB-C style connectors.

Perhaps the Thunderbolt ports will go away after Apple replaces INTEL chips soon.

BTW - I have yet to have an issue with Thunderbolt on my iMacs. I have been using TB2 on my current iMac for connection to external SSD's and SATA drives, and TB1 on my old iMac as a second screen.

I have shot raw with several Nikons over the years, the last 2.5 using a Canon - I shoot raw 100% of the time. I have used Lightroom since 2014. I export as JPG when needed, all files are converted to DNG on import from NEF, CR2 or CR3. I do not store JPG's unless they are originals from my devices.

All my flicker posting of course are JPG's exported thru Lightroom.

I have never run across an issue as decsribed.

Looked at the first one...that ASUS had a built in nvme drive plus a built in sata and hard drive bay...the adapter being used is a nvme to sata converter. Btw - converting nvme to sata may also reduce the speed quite a bit.

Many old Dell’s used the CD/DVD/ floppy drive bay to allow a 2nd hard disk to be installed, again, already room inside and a connector inside the laptop.

The videos that show installing a 2nd ssd into a pc are pretty much dependent again on drive bay space and connectivity, but much easier than squeezing something into a full laptop.

Perhaps a really old laptop might have room for a standard size drive for that adapter, but it would be like one of the first laptops made probably.

Last hard drive in an old laptop I had was more like a credit card size with connector pins built in that fit tightly into a slot.

Nicely done!