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Whilst LensPens and SensorPens work brilliantly on lenses, sensors and mirrors of DSLRs, do not attempt to use one on the focussing screen (the translucent white area above…
For over 10 years I’ve been concerned and then frustrated that the UK (state) school system appears to regard teaching Computing as simply running a series of Microsoft…
From an evening spent messing around with Custom Function (CFn) settings on the 5D and 430EX, here’s a summary of behaviours: 5D 1st curtain (CFn.15=0) 5D 2nd curtain…
After plenty of frustration trying to upgrade my {LinkStation} box to a newer version of {Debian}, I gave up and tried {Gentoo} as per the nas-central guide, and…
I probably should have started my 5D blogging with this post, but it’s only just dawned on me that it might not be a common thing for people…
I was intending to mention the dealers I bought the second hand gear from, mainly because the descriptions and packaging were excellent and they deserve to be credited,…
I’ve recently become the (very happy) owner of a second hand Canon EOS 5D, and despite the camera being 5 years old this year the difference between it…
Well this was well buried in the normal media: European Court rejects Home Office appeal, Section 44 found illegal – British Journal of Photography. Excellent news, and not…
I’ve been running an ntpd server as part of the UK pool since 2007 but since upgrading from {OpenSolaris} 2009.06 to snv_129, I’ve had a very poor score….
Tweak the Info.plist if required in order to remove or reduce the CPU MHz limit, and then open up /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/Aperture file in 0xED and jump to the offset…
Oh dear. “You have failed the practice citizenship test. Questions answered correctly: 13 out of 24 (54%) Time taken: 02 minutes 46 seconds “ Life in the United…
After getting so excited about figuring out what was up with the upgrade to 2009.06 I ran into another, more sticky problem. I rushed into reattaching the zones…
New {OpenSolaris} release: Yay ! Updater fails on beadm create, and manual attempts also fail: Boo ! After a lot of grumbling Googling down plenty of dead-ends it…
A friend at work has recently moved to Cambridge, and given that the weather has been improving a bit I put together a few things that might be…
I’m a huge fan of CSS and intelligent use of it such as removing images, background colours and scaling down font sizes for print, but some things need…