The same discussion on Photonet back in 2008. Maybe they have become safer now? Is it worth the risk?
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Stan Chang , Mar 21, 2008; 07:02 p.m.
I prefer to stick with the manufacturer's batteries. I bought some generic batteries and extra generic charger for a camcorder. I had it charging in my bedroom. A few hours later, I heard a POP!, ran into my bedroom don't know if it was a bad battery or the charger, but the battery overheated and exploded, throwing burning plastic and hot metal film over a 4 ft radius setting small fires in my carpeting. Hot metal burned/melted thru the nylon carpeting down to the backing. Fortunately none landed on my bed. $600 replaced all the carpeting in my brand new condo. So, lesson learned. All my batteries are branded by the manufacturer of the equipment. 1 in a million chance occurrence, but I won't roll the dice again.
Brooklyn-Camera wrote:
Bet you that the batteries were over a year old and you left them in the charger more than 24 hrs. at a time. Just a guess.... If not I shall apologize ahead of time. LOL... I write the date on the batteries, after one year I dump them, price is so cheap it doesn't matter at all. By the way I have the Canon T-3 1100D Rebel.
My D-80 is now about six years old & the same two factory batteries are still working great. The shot counter is at 41xx having rolled over once. Seems cheaper than buying batteries every year. Generally you get what you pay for!
jerryg wrote:
So what always happens is I buy the cheap knock off and then end up buying the original from Canon. In that way the stuff costs me 150%. Don't bother with knock offs is my opinion.
Goes the same with many auto parts. Have gotten stranded when knock offs failed rather quickly.
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I'll second that. I've bought bad off-brand Nikon batteries and then bought Nikon's. I put an off-brand fuel filter in my F250. 7.3 They are a fraction of an inch too long & it shorted out the fuel pre-heater which blew a fuse which shut the truck off as I was pulling out of the driveway. Had it been a few minutes later on the highway it could have caused an accident. They don't handle too well without power steering and brakes.
Welding Teacher wrote:
Here is what I started with in the morning which had more content on the left. The image in the original post did seem heavy on one side after I read your statement but not sure that is unappealing to me.
IMO: The first was very good, this one is a winner! Don't do anything to it.
I'm not a pro. photographer, but I've made my living with art since the early 70's and started using a darkroom in the 60's. I like it as it it is. Leave the little rocks in. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to stop working on it.
Funny as usual, but the zoo keeper is purely urban legend from a fake newspaper article.
bsprague wrote:
Windows 7 has a Snipping Tool under Accessories for making .jpg files of screen shots. Three example .jpgs included below.
Thank you very much! I was trying to figure out how to do this a couple of weeks ago & didn't know about the "snip" tool.
boberic wrote:
I would rather have a good surgeon with a dull pen knife than a med student with a 10 blade. ( a scalpel is the tool that holds the blade)
They called them scalpels long before replaceable blades showed up. I'll take a photo of some for you. :-)
"a small straight thin-bladed knife used especially in surgery"
I'd rather have a good surgeon with a sharp scalpel.
A camera is just a tool. Some tools are better than others and some have different uses.
Give a pro a pinhole camera and he can take a great photo of a bridge, but maybe not of the eagle flying over it. An amateur with
a new phone camera can maybe get a better shot of the bird.
In the end, the photographer's skill and his equipment is what makes the photo, good or bad. What he uses as his tool is usually determined by what he's shooting. It's not about expensive equipment, it's about what will do the job better.
I don't see what the argument is about.
dooragdragon wrote:
I ask the mechanic how much to replace the muffler bearing on my 7 yr old truck...
Does just buying the tools make him a better mechanic ?
Again the key word here is misconception .
It makes him a more 'capable' (and honest) mechanic. One can only replace so many "muffler bearings" (aint no such thing) with a pipe wrench before the police show up and close the shop. ;)
Is a surgeon better, or more capable with an expensive high quality sharp scalpel versus a dull pen knife?
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Funny thing, I bought an out of date Mac just to get a SCSI card just so I could run an OLD ENOUGH operating system to run the OLD software that runs my $15,000 Flextight Scanner
I use Vuescan by Hamrick.com. I've been using his Vueprint program for many years and love it. It's is free now! Vuescan costs a couple of bucks, but has drivers for many if not all old scanners. I don't know if it supports a Mac though. I have a PC.
Victor