I remember learning in high school that the Civil War was originally about state’s rights, and the North didn’t try to stop slavery until several years into the war. At work on lunch, can’t check sources, but it doesn’t seem quite that black and white to me. The defining issue BECAME slavery (so please don’t…

Right, because the contract has the cost subsidizing built in; they get it by that point. But if they're required to service the phone because you bought it from them subsidized, they have to guarantee that something the user did wasn't outside the use cases.

*obligatory comment reminding that if you paid the "on-contract" price, you don't own the phone as you're still subsidizing the cost across the life of the contract*

So, how do I differentiate from .jif? (Crappy internet here at work, or I'd post a link to the wikipedia article... this page took fifteen minutes to load.)

By your logic, 5K would be five times 1920x1080. I promise you, this is not the case.

I still have to use the kit lens for when 50mm is the wrong lens to use (I have the 18-55 kit, 55-250 kit, and this bad boy), like when in tight rooms or whatever. The bokeh this little guy gives off is incredible, though.

QTF. This is an amazing lens for the price, and for video it performs nearly identically to the Leica glass at f1.4. Stills, of course, still are a different story, but it's a wonderful little lens.

Just came here to weep over the abomination Herbie has become. That is all.

Har har. VFX artist clearing off an entire shoot's worth of RED files. No porn here.

Ummm... last I checked Shift + Delete just deletes it while skipping the Recycle Bin.... I use it for large video files all the time when I'm done with them and I don't want to move them to the Recycle Bin first. You won't be able to paste using that without changing some sort of setting.

It CAN be as good.... if you install Magic Lantern to open up the rest of the sensor's options. They're intentionally limited on the Txi series, even though it IS the same sensor on the 7D. Without ML, you are limited to ISO in 100x increments, very basic, rough color temperature options, etc. Even with ML, most of…

Not bad, though I think the interval was too long in between.

That Seagate 3TB doesn't work on OSX, FYI. Learned that the hard way. Thankfully it was a work computer that failed... I much prefer my Windows machine at home, but it was an inconvenient surprise.

I was also quite fortunate that each drive lasted long enough for me to get my mission-critical data off of them. I cannot extol them enough.

Western Digital has been QUITE good to me. I had two hard drives of theirs fail on me (I can't say for certain, but it might have possibly been a power supply issue, so no failing on WD's part potentially... but asked and they said go), and they made things right. They replaced my 1TB Black with a 2TB black (believe…

I think he should have said "adverbs"; I only see one example up there of an adjective: "gnarled". "Swiftly" and "slowly" modify verbs, not nouns.

Look up color temperature. Depending on the look you want, any bulb can be used. The higher the wattage, though, the better.

"The YouTube description says that the player had his friend direct the enemy jet toward him for the chance of taking the shot."

Expert or not, these look phenomenal. I love the one from Kanazawa (excepting the people... people don't look as good surreal'd).

THIS. What most people think of as HDR is the super-baked stuff with halos around everything. What InveterateFiend is likely referring to. HDR done "right" means you don't even notice it.