I trust you are downloading the RAW images direct from your camera to your external drive via the PC and not doing any processing on the camera/card 😮 first.

USB drives are laboriously slow. Is the Maxtor 500 IDE (PATA) or SATA? If SATA I would invest about £20 into a dual USB2/eSATA enclosure [click], then you’ll have the best of both worlds. If PATA I would mount it internally for the best copying speed, if at all possible

If your PC doesn’t have an eSATA socket, you can get PCI cards that will provide the functionality – probably from the same place.

That should increase speed somewhat – but you can also get eSATA card readers, and they should give an improved copy speed too.

Of course all that’s a load of b*ll*cks if it’s a laptop, very few have eSATA, and none can take a 3.5″ drive internally!

Forget about printing dimensions – when copying from your camera you want to copy the entire file, thus image print size isn’t relevant at this stage.

Always keep the original file copied direct from the camera (work on a copy) – you might want to go back and have another go at getting the image “just so” as your image manipulation techniques improved.

I think it is the ugliest aircraft I’ve ever seen – but that doesn’t detract from it’s ability to do the tasks it was designed for.

I don’t believe I’ve seen one since my days at Lossiemouth, where Ark Royal’s 849b flight nested in the mid ’70’s.

It certainly deserves a second life.

Sunday, July 27th 2008?

In my experience, the facts and news have but a nodding acquaitanship.

There he is again. Who is that guy?

Whatever the truth, whether the earth is cooling or warming doesn’t really matter.

What matters is that we try to keep our impact as low as possible. Burning fossil fuels obviously releases elements that the earth had stored away, and it did perfectly well without them.

On the other hand, our scientists are charged (or should be charged) with developing energy solutions that don’t have byproducts that will alter our environment.

But an airshow designed to bring understanding to aviation, and how it can aid and protect us, has far more pros than cons, in my view.

And I doubt there are sufficient revived historic machines about to make any significant environmental impact one way or the other.

Understanding “dirty” technology, and the history surrounding it, is both a marker towards improving technology, and instruction on how not to make the mistakes of the past again.

Plus, watching and operating those machines is immensley satisfying – which is pure gravy.

And those who can’t stand up?
Simon:cool:

I’ve bought a garden chair (the ones you see around garden tables), it is higher and much easier to get out of than the canvas or directors chair types. I don’t dare sit in any chair that’s too low these days, it would take a team of horses to get me back on my feet!!!

I even have a higher bed, at home, than most people would be used to. A futon would be impossible.

How on earth did you manage to get that awful logo plastered all over your pics?

The copy in my post is sourced from exactly the same place. I simply right clicked on the unmolested copy on the web-page you initially linked to and selected the properties and select/copied the URL shown, which will work without *******ising your images.