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Comment on smallpt by Brian

Brian — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:41:51 +0000

I discovered smallpt yesterday and I have been experimenting with it a little. It took me a little while to get it running on my mac.

Try: “export GOMP_STACKSIZE=32000″ before executing in OSX. This will raise the default stack size for the worker threads.

Comment on Lessons Learnt from Shooting at Supanova by Chris

Chris — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:07:08 +0000

Actually, I’ll disagree there – for head+shoulders only portraiture, 50mm works pretty well.

I’m currently thinking of picking up a 28mm f/1.8 USM for the next major event. The benefit there being that the 28mm f/1.8 USM does report focal distance for ETTL-II shooting. I’ll probably pick up at the 35mm f/2.0 at some point however.

Also planning to rent a 24-70mm f/2.8L for the next major event so I can get a feel for how it performs before laying down the cash for one.

Comment on Lessons Learnt from Shooting at Supanova by VirtualWolf

VirtualWolf — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:31:55 +0000

“50mm is too long on an APS-C body for the tight quarters shooting at Supanova, but should be about right on full-frame.”

Aye, we bought the 35mm f/2 for our 7D for exactly that reason… 50mm is just too long on APS-C (even regardless of what you’re shooting, IMO).

Comment on Lessons Learnt from Shooting at Supanova by Peter

Peter — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:35:06 +0000

“People seem to assume that the grip fitted camera and large flash means you’re a professional…”

This can be both good and bad. :-)

Comment on Dear Game Publishers… by Athlonite

Athlonite — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:25:03 +0000

I agree whole heartedly my friends and i still have great fun fragging and Racing each other via Quake 3, RA2, NFS HP2 and a LAN and we all use win 7 x64.. the games these days are just crap because they don’t have any LAN play except via the Internet which here in New Zealand can really suk getting Ping times as slow as 500ms or more leads to crappy gaming

Comment on Finally Shooting in Digital by VirtualWolf

VirtualWolf — Sun, 02 May 2010 04:55:33 +0000

Woo! Excellent. :D

I can quite recommend the 35mm f/2, that’s the only lens we actually have for the 7D at the moment. Sure it’s a bit old and the auto-focus mechanism isn’t USM so it’s noisy, but I love it. The field of view (56mm equivalent) is just perfect.

Comment on Finally Shooting in Digital by Chris

Chris — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:42:10 +0000

Already was my plan, along with the 35mm prime (to counter the APS-C lens crop to get framing closer to a 50mm lens on a 35mm format).

Once I’ve got those, then I’ll look into a decent EF-S zoom, followed by a real EF tele. And that’s pretty much the limit of my plans.

Comment on Finally Shooting in Digital by Peter

Peter — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:00:42 +0000

Get yourself a 50mm prime. The F1.8 lenses are very cheap and ridiculously good quality. But if you can afford it, splash out on a 1.4.

Comment on Back behind the viewfinder by Peter

Peter — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 03:39:21 +0000

Sweet! The 300 is a nice body. Shooting fireworks is hard – good luck!

Comment on Dear Game Publishers… by Daedalist

Daedalist — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:13:54 +0000

Blizzard’s early games are another great example of goodwill and enduring fan base. How many games are still being sold on a daily basis, ten years after release?

The community’s love of StarCraft, Diablo and Warcraft have everything to do with non-Battlnet LAN play.