PM sent, no worries if you've changed your mind about it btw.

[edit]I just point the camera at things and press the button, so I need one that focuses for me and all that.

Oh yeah SD cards.

Is there a big benefit in the SDHC cards over SD cards, WTF is class 4, class 6? Is that the speed.

David Bellamy

You typically need to be David Bellamy to outshoot your card's transfer rate, the only time it's likely to ever affect you is transferring pics off the camera.

You mean David Bailey?

You typically need to be David Bellamy to outshoot your card's transfer rate, the only time it's likely to ever affect you is transferring pics off the camera.

Those ratings are rather out of date and due to be resolved. There's plenty of cards around that are quite a bit faster than the Class 6 designation. I bought a Sandisk Extreme III on the grounds that, whilst I might not need all that extra performance, it wasn't so outrageously expensive that I should look harder for other deals.

If I shoot RAW+JPEG I'm using almost 20Mb a picture. If I'm using the 3fps motor drive mode, that means I'm writing 60Mb/sec to the card -- well above most card transfer speeds. In practice, in RAW mode with the motor drive on the slower 2fps setting, I can shoot about 8-10 in a row before some internal buffer overflows.

Those ratings are rather out of date and due to be resolved. There's plenty of cards around that are quite a bit faster than the Class 6 designation. I bought a Sandisk Extreme III on the grounds that, whilst I might not need all that extra performance, it wasn't so outrageously expensive that I should look harder for other deals.

If I'm using the 3fps motor drive mode, that means I'm writing 60Mb/sec to the card -- well above most card transfer speeds. In practice, in RAW mode with the motor drive on the slower 2fps setting, I can shoot about 8-10 in a row before some internal buffer overflows.

It always puzzles me that compacts shoot raw and JPEG together when it's commonly accepted that most cameras internal JPEG processing isn't very good so if you're shooting raw then surely you'd have some post production software that will do the job better.. I'm sure there's a reason, but it does bother me that it does this.

How often have you outshot the buffer?

It also bothers me that dSLRs seem to use SD cards in their lower end models - is it that much of a money saver? I've never had a problem, ever, with any of my CF cards, but have had problems with SD cards on numerous occasions.

Also, on a slightly unrelated note, I see CS5 premium package is available for preorder for the jaw-dropping amount of just under £1800! PS on it's own is nearly £800.

It always puzzles me that compacts shoot raw and JPEG together when it's commonly accepted that most cameras internal JPEG processing isn't very good so if you're shooting raw then surely you'd have some post production software that will do the job better.. I'm sure there's a reason, but it does bother me that it does this.

In my case, I've turned it on so I can bung the SD card reader into things like TVs and people's computers and have it make sense of them. I don't usually use it though.

Occasionally when trying to get shots of my dogs running (a decent picture of which has so far eluded me). Not often, admittedly.

Ouch. How much is it in the US, given Adobe's track record of fucking over the UK market?

So the camera won't be that much of a hindrance as you imagine, more the number of frames you shoot unless you get lucky.

Ordering a D5000 (with kit lens) tonight from Currys. Good time to buy as they're one of the cheapest online plus if I order before tomorrow evening I get an extra 5% off, and I'm still within time to get the £50 rebate back from Nikon.

CS4 is absolutely fine for most things

I still use CS1.

It always puzzles me that compacts shoot raw and JPEG together when it's commonly accepted that most cameras internal JPEG processing isn't very good so if you're shooting raw then surely you'd have some post production software that will do the job better.. I'm sure there's a reason, but it does bother me that it does this.

Unless you've got something like Lightroom that'll batch process all your photographs, it's a bit of a pain in the arse to have to manually convert everything just to have a first flick through to chuck away the rubbish pics.

Also, my mac can read raw files in the Finder. Is this built into the OS or is it something utilising plug-ins from LR or PS?

It's built into the OS, although it's the same set of capture drivers used by iPhoto and Aperture.

And notably, it doesn't support all cameras, seeing as how RAW isn't actually a file format. Until the release of Aperture 3.0.1 (and an accompanying system update), no part of Apple's software could make sense of the RAW files from my GF1.

Speaking of RAW. Is there a way of seeing my RAW .CR2 files as thumbnails in Windows 7 64 without paying for third-party codecs yet? I think this is going to rely on Canon releasing their own x64 codec, which as far as I can tell they have yet to do.

So how different is RAW to TWAIN then? Sounds like a similar thing going on between the device and computer.