Sean Nelson

I don't know if the RX100 does this, but on the RX100M2 you can press and hold the "play" button and the camera will turn on in play mode without trying to extend the lens.   From there you can go...

There's an old saying that "you get what you pay for".   If you're paying less than what it costs for the vendor to provide you with the connection, servers, storage and manpower to store and...

Which camera are you talking about? Although both formats use the same H.264 codec, the camera may use different profile levels for each. If, for example, MP4 is recorded using a lower profile...

It's because some of us try to keep things as vanilla as we can while others are always pushing the edge of what's possible. Over long years as a system administrator I've learned not to go out on...

It does in the sense that you can't use the current version of their product without them having your credit card on file.   I like the old model where my retailer gets my credit card but...

Mine came from Sony Canada via London Drugs in Vancouver and had no factory (or any other) tape on the cardboard box.

I'm not sure I'd call it "fun", but I do enjoy using the camera.  I find the ability to customize the buttons and dials makes it quite easy for me to adjust EV and the exposure program, which are...

I think there's little difference in practice.   DVDs have a somewhat more sophisticated ECC scheme, and their physical structure makes the recording layer a little more resistant to damage (the...

http://www.raid-recovery-guide.com/raid5-write-hole.aspx Enterprise-class storage installations usually avoid the issue by using UPS power to eliminate (in theory) power failures that can result...

I'd have a bit more faith in this statement if Canon was innovating at the same rate as Panny and Olympus - but it isn't even close. What Canon has right now is momentum.   But coasting isn't an...

I normally think optical disc backups are a poor choice because they require too much handling for the amount of data they hold. Hard drives are far easier - plug it in, start the backup, and let...

My observation is that this is a lot less critical for footage shot and viewed at 60fps than it is for slower frame rates such as 24 or 30fps.   I have a lot of difficulty distinguishing...

The secret is to use a neutral density filter to slow down the shutter speed into the multi-second range and then use something to hold the shutter down while in continuous shooting mode.  No...

If you set the camera's drive mode to "continuous shooting" of still pictures and hold the shutter button down, it shoots at something like 3-4 still frames per second as it fills the buffer.   But...

I don't have a GX7, but most other cameras I use which have settings like this allow you to turn the dial to the left to "wrap around" from the leftmost end of the scale to the rightmost.   Is this...

I think that you mean they're readable on a standard BluRay drive.   BluRay disks are read using a blue-light laser and can't be read by the red laser used to read DVDs. The DVD standard comes from...

This is why NoScript for FireFox is such a terrific add-on.

My experience is that the camera can continuously shoot and save JPEG-only images just as fast as RAW-only images.   The JPEG processing doesn't seem to be any worse a bottleneck that writing the...

They contain EXIF info, but unless I'm mistaken they don't contain the ITPC fields that I use to tag my images.   Those go into a sidecar file, don't they?

I shoot RAW+JPEG for several reasons: I often shoot very casual shots for which I don't really give a hoot about the image quality. For example, I recently shot a sign listing my doctor's office...