I don't like travelling that heavy.
This is the problem with the tripod for sure. I generally don't pack my flash. And I use my 70-210mm so seldom than I'm not sure why I bother with that either.
It's called a blaster, Will, a word that tends to discourage experimentation. Now, if it were called the Orgasmater, I'd be the first to try your basic button press approach.
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megan walker - Jun 25, 2008 11:50:18 am PDT #6779 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
DCJensen - Jun 25, 2008 11:50:48 am PDT #6780 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
I gave up on the conversation, I was copying a file off a failing HDD, and it was sucking down processing power.
You guys were all doing a good job, anyway.
ION, now that I am free to post...
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meara - Jun 25, 2008 11:52:18 am PDT #6781 of 25501
What I really have found I need is a camera that will let me take good pictures of things that are happening on stage, well lit on stage (and likely moving around quickly on stage), when I am in a crowd, in the dark. AKA "I'm at a drag show". What the heck camera and setting do I use for THAT?
meara - Jun 25, 2008 11:52:27 am PDT #6782 of 25501
What I really have found I need is a camera that will let me take good pictures of things that are happening on stage, well lit on stage (and likely moving around quickly on stage), when I am in a crowd, in the dark. AKA "I'm at a drag show". What the heck camera and setting do I use for THAT?
Ginger - Jun 25, 2008 1:07:00 pm PDT #6783 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
My only complaint is manually focusing; I hate that.
I miss that. My little Canon digital is pretty versatile, but I can't convince it I want the leaf and not the flower.
§ ita § - Jun 25, 2008 1:07:24 pm PDT #6784 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Couldn't tell you which camera (which camera), but you want to have the film speed (or digital equivalent) set as high as possible, the shutter speed as fast, and the aperture as large as possible. That will maximise the light and the light sensitivity.
eta: Oh, and don't forget bracing as firmly as possible.
tommyrot - Jun 25, 2008 1:14:09 pm PDT #6785 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Anyone know a simple way to convert a date in US format (eg: "11/2/2007") to English format? (eg: in dd/mm/yyyy instead of mm/dd/yyyy) using XSL?
I mean, aside from writing code that deconstructs the date and reconstructs it into the English format - is there a built-in conversion for this?
NoiseDesign - Jun 25, 2008 1:15:37 pm PDT #6786 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
meara, you'd do best with a DSLR with an image stabilized lens. I've been able to take handheld shots with very slow shutter speeds with mine. It's gained be probably two stops, I've had luck with handheld shots as slow a 1/6 of a second shutter speed.
Tom Scola - Jun 25, 2008 1:25:21 pm PDT #6787 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Anyone know a simple way to convert a date in US format (eg: "11/2/2007") to English format? (eg: in dd/mm/yyyy instead of mm/dd/yyyy) using XSL?
XSLT 2.0 has built-in regular expressions. If you don't have XSLT 2.0, your particular vendor might include some kind of non-standard regexp extension. Otherwise, you'll have to futz around with substring-before, substring-after, and concat.
tommyrot - Jun 25, 2008 1:41:02 pm PDT #6788 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
XSLT 2.0 has built-in regular expressions. If you don't have XSLT 2.0, your particular vendor might include some kind of non-standard regexp extension.
How do I tell what version the servers are using? Is the easiest way just to specify 2.0 in the XSL and see if it errors?
So in this line:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:rs="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset" xmlns:z="#RowsetSchema" version="1.0">
the "1.0" is the XSLT version no.?