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Site Information / Forum Down Briefly for Maintenance

« on: May 01, 2013, 04:54:03 PM »

We apologize for the interruption due to maintenance of the forum.  I'm hoping it won't happen again, but there are more things that need attention.

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Pricewatch Deals / J Colwell Used Lens Price Database

« on: April 29, 2013, 01:34:09 PM »

J Colwell has a excellent database of used lens prices.  For those who want to know values, check it.

http://www.jcolwell.ca/photography/lens$db/Lens$db-v23.pdf

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Software & Accessories / Re: What external 'scratch' disk setup do you use/recommend?

« on: April 24, 2013, 02:56:05 PM »

When you say "scratch disk", I think of the setting for scratch disk in photoshop.  It needs to be very fast and if you use a external disk, USB and Firewire are painfully slow.

You might be better off getting a large fast SSD, a 960GB Crucial SSD costs $600.

http://www.crucial.com/store/listmodule/SSD/~983040~~M500~/list.html

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Lenses / Re: Rubber Seal 24-70 f2.8 L

« on: April 24, 2013, 11:39:45 AM »

1.   Call Canon directly.  They will sell parts to owners.  Its best if you have a part number, but they will try to help.

2.   Call a third party authorized distributor like Midwest Camera, Precision Camera, ...

You can Google for Authorized Canon Camera Repair Depot

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PowerShot / Re: SX50 outperforming 5DIII +100-400mm

« on: April 18, 2013, 07:54:32 PM »

Funnily enough I was in Best Buy yesterday and saw the SX50, it is tiny!

When compared to which point & Shoot??

Compared to a 5D MkIII and a 1200mm lens! 

Its tiny compared to the pile of cash needed to buy the Canon EF 1200mm lens!

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Site Information / Re: Minimum CR Forum IQ?

« on: April 11, 2013, 09:22:25 PM »

What happens to the people who don't meet the minimum IQ? Do they have to go post on Nikon sites?

I thought it was obvious, we become admins

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Site Information / Re: Love or Hate Canon Rumors Forum

« on: April 04, 2013, 05:51:51 PM »

I stopped reading for awhile.  But to be honest, there seems to be a bit of an upswing in the quality of some of the threads.  So I have been reading more often for awhile now.  Ironically, it seems that the fewer "rumors" the better the content of the forums.

+1


Things tend to go south when there are new model announcements, lots of flaming and arguments about how disappointing, and then the name calling. 

I think some members just stay away for a few days when that is going on.

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Ankorwatt goes to angkor wat

« on: April 04, 2013, 01:10:19 PM »

Seeing the images in this thread, shot by a thirty year pro photographer, just makes me realise it has absolutely nothing to do with the gear, just get out there and shoot. Reading your acceptance of Mikael's latest persona on face value makes me realise time spent arguing here is largely wasted.

The mods are aware of the alternate user name, Mikael has a lot of knowledge and experience. 

We are hoping that things go better than in the past.


Lets all post some photos.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon EOS 7D L Announced, Shipping in May

« on: April 01, 2013, 11:00:03 AM »

Although a tad awkard it's possible to use a battery-gripped body lefthanded , flip it so both shutters point up It's a bit tight between the thumb and forehead, but hey 

I'm left handed, but I have so many years of holding a camera in my right, I probably would feel awkward with it.  However, I did hold my TLR in my left hand, so maybe I'd try it.

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Site Information / Re: Moderators: Accidental ban of whole subnet

« on: March 25, 2013, 11:32:40 AM »

Have you tried implementing a question -> response registration type? (Not sure, been a while since I last registered here)
I had a similar problem on my page a while back and none of the CAPTCHAS worked. So I created a custom field on the registration page where I asked a question stating where the answer can be found. (Must be on a different page, on the top of the Help page should work) It's very easy for real humans to answer the question (open a new tap and voila) but bots will have a very problem going around that one. You can even easily generate a new Q&A every day making sure that the answer is nor being spread around or guessed easily.

On my page the amount of spam accounts went from daily to pretty much zilch. (Haven't had a bot in months)

Yes, there is a response question.  However, the nature of SEO spamming is changing as well.  Now, there are large rooms full of people who work for a few cents a day manually creating accounts and going thru the login procedure.
 
 
There are still lots of robots, but the manual process is more successful.  They even post some text that may or may not be relevant, but its always obvious to readers.
 
 
We get maybe 3-7 spams thru a day, and these are handled pretty quickly.  Thanks to those who report them.  Those who pay SEO companies to do this are usually clueless, or they do get results and don't care.  Even a big Fortune 500 company got caught hiring a shady SEO Spammer a couple of years back.

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Site Information / Re: Moderators: Accidental ban of whole subnet

« on: March 24, 2013, 12:18:38 AM »

We see different countries depending on the type of spam or post.  We occasionally see spam from compromised University servers, but not a great deal.

Sometimes they hide behind proxy servers, but those domains can be banned as well if they become a issue. Anonymous IP's can also be blocked.

Members are good about reporting spam, and it usually gets removed quickly. 

SEO Spam is the biggest issue, its almost 100% blocked now, but they will eventually figure it out and we will do something else. 


We strongly discourage people from posting links to questionable sellers, Google and other search engines scan this site frequently, and such links boost the scam sellers.

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Site Information / Re: Moderators: Accidental ban of whole subnet

« on: March 23, 2013, 12:39:37 PM »

yep..... you are right.

thank god for proxys.

banning is stupid and useless anyway.... as if you could not make a new account in 1 minute.

We have had a few stubborn ones, after two or three new user names, we plugged all their holes. 

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Site Information / Re: Moderators: Accidental ban of whole subnet

« on: March 23, 2013, 12:34:01 PM »

It should be fixed now.  It was me. 
 
The boss has already let me know!!
 
Send me a private e-mail if its still not working.
 
 

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EOS Bodies / Re: 1Ds III

« on: March 21, 2013, 02:19:41 PM »

We ban buying and selling on the forum, it is in the forum rules.

We do not have a way to screen buyers or sellers, and allowing it will attract scammers.


Please do not post a offer to sell or to buy a camera on the forum.

It would be nice if we were able to allow it, but we would have to charge a fee to pay for some sort of minimal screening and buyer / seller rating software.

Thanks for understanding.

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Site Information / Re: My previous account just disappeared

« on: March 12, 2013, 01:22:12 PM »

What do you mean "don't show in the user list so they were deleted"? Shouldn't that be the other way around? What are your criteria for deleting usernames? I definitely don't fall into the categories "CR Backup Admin" has mentioned. I can still search for my old posts. Yes, I'm the 100th person to register for this forum after the reformat. But I was already very active even before there was even a forum and we all just commented below the actual article. That is why I chose that username, it was an in-joke during those times before there was a forum (old-timers here would know the "joke" ), same with my signature (another in-joke, used by another poster in an article comment thread then ).

If you are not in the user list, your account is gone, that's what he means.  When a user is deleted, there is no entry in the list.  Posts from the user may remain, but his name is shown in black, not red to show that he is no longer a user.

What was your old user name?  Can you post a link to a recent post if there is one.  If you have posted recently, I might be able to find out what happened, but the history disappears pretty fast from the logs with thousands of entries a day.

It seems very unlikely that a moderator or administrator removed you without some good reason.  I'm sure that one of the mods would have mentioned it by now if they recall anything.