If you are running a windows operating system, a good way to quickly check how your computer is handling the work load you are giving it is to open Task Manager and select the Processes tab while your computer is running doing a task and seems to be slowing it down. You can quickly check what percentage of your CPU and memory capacity are being used.

How many of the incidents claiming police racism were improperly or just selectively reported by a liberal media that jumped to an incorrect conclusion because it fit their prejudice? Ferguson is an example. When the evidence was evaluated it proved that the officer was justified and the whole “hands up don’t shoot” narrative was a fabrication. Mean while rioters were looting and destroying their own communities. In my State, you are legally allowed to use deadly force in defense of yourself if you reasonably believe you you are in imminent danger of serious bodily harm or death. The attacking party doesn’t have to have a gun or even a knife to inflict serious bodily harm. Sufficient disparity of force can result in death. The cop in Ferguson that had his life turned upside down by the media’s false reporting was justified in his actions. Later, after they had done their damage, the media even voted their own reporting of Ferguson as the false story of the year!

I’m using a windows based computer with 32 gig of ram and a liquid cooled, over clocked I7 cpu. I have two fast Solid State Drives in the computer and use NAS for photos not actively being worked on. The I7 seems to be the bottle neck, but speed of file handling did decrease noticeably when I went from a D500 to a D850.

My wife and I often photograph the same event yet come back with very different photographs. We spent several days visiting Goblin Valley yet even though we were in the same place and usually at the same time, our photos were different because we see visualize the same places differently. You may go to the same place as others, but as your art and your craft develop your photography will start to express your unique vision.

I still have two Olympus cameras...an XA and a TG4. Great cameras. The XA went with me on many back country horseback rides and the TG4 on many canoe camping trips. The TG4 gets used whenever conditions prevent me from opening the water proof case the Nikons are in.

I’ve never stopped to ask a furniture maker what type of saw he used. It’s the photograph not the tool the artist used to create it. Photograph qua photograph.

He has good camouflage. I bet it would be easy to walk by and not notice him.

Quite a change and not for the better.

I photographed an event a week ago where some of my photos were with the D850 and 200-400mm f/4. Checking through the RAW images and viewing at a 1:1 crop, they are sharp, including those at 400mm. Generally, I was using a tripod, F/4.0, 1/160, @ ISO 3200. (You have to love digital and exif data. I'd never have remembered the precise exposure data.)

I haven't needed to, but have you tried fine tuning the focus?

Sony may be something unique and different, but I’ve used Recuva to recover files from cards and hard drives that had been formatted. If you want to prevent recovery you have to wipe the card or disk. All a simple format does is erase the directory that gives the address of the file. A deep scan with Recuva looks for the actual file and that file is recoverable if it hasn’t been over written with a new file.

Thank you. Photographing dogs is fun.

I once talked to an inexpensive shoot and burn wedding photographer who was unable to balance strobe and available light. As we talked it came out that she didn’t know what an f stop was! She had a camera, set it on “P.” called herself a wedding photographer, and gave customers a disk of her ‘photographs.’ She was friendly, cute, talked a good line, and photographed a lot of weddings. Buyer beware.

When the cake is gone and the flowers wilted the photo album is what is left to remind of the day.

I recently needed to recover a couple of files from a recently formatted XQD card. I had Recuva do a deep Scan and was able to recover almost all of the files on the card. A couple had been partially overwritten and weren’t usable but almost all were in perfect shape. At least with a Nikon, formatting in the camera appears to only erase the File Allocation Table but does not wipe the card so a file is recoverable until the camera writes another file on top of it.

Did you do a deep scan?

DOW at first said, ‘impossible.’ They investigated and paid up. We had some unusually large cougars in the area.

I used to buy my film in 100’ rolls and load my own cassettes. PanX preferred, but was willing to use PlusX if I really needed the extra speed of 125 ASA from my Nikon F. I still have my Simon-Omega D2V With a Schneider Componon lens. :-)