I like your "investments". But let's probe a little deeper on the
computer if you've decided you're not going to upgrade the machine.
What version of Windows are you running... I know it's XP but what
service pack do you have installed? Does the machine have a USB 2
port... not just USB but USB 2.0.
Chuck Norcutt
Brian Swale wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks very much for all the info and comment.
>
> I won't be buying a new computer any time soon, for a variety of reasons
> including the many programs I have so painstakingly installed on the present
> machine.
>
> The sole reason I need more GB is for image storage; not least due to
> having bought an E-510. And if I take this to the extreme and start shooting
> RAW, I'll need even more storage ...
>
> My investment lately for goals that are at least in part photographic include
> a
> red (wash your mouth out Brian) SUV that should be able to take me over
> hilly / mountains and off-road places especially when it is snowy.
>
> See it here in an image taken from the auction site
> http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=316914&l=b74de&id=1027725807
>
> 12 years old, and at a tad over $7,000 NZ, I saved $120,000 (that I didn't
> have then) by not buying it 12 years ago. It's called recycling (which is
> what I
> do to computers).
>
> Next, I have sent a 30-years old Schneider Super Angulon 90mm lens to
> Australia to have a custom made 6 x 17 body with focussing helical, fitted to
> it.
>
> Remember this?
> http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~razzle/Obsession_617/obsession_617.html
>
> It should arrive in Melbourne this week, if it has not arrived already.
> Recycling, again :-))
>
> And I have just bought a Koni-Omega 180 f/4 lens on the Bay, and sent one
> of my KOM bodies to Greg Weber in Fremont NE for servicing.
> More recycling ...
>
> It's all go, I tell you !
>
> Brian Swale.
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