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Please accept my apologies for recent downtime and overall slowlyness. I’ve just finished another site migration excercise and hope that it will improve overall performance. If you noticed any errors or problems – please let me know, I’ll appreciate your help.

Above is a Wilpena Pound in Flinders Ranges, South Australia, consider it as a teaser for upcoming posts :)

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As you probably noticed, I’m back from Christmas and New Year holidays and busy processing new photos. Lots of material. I estimate that I’ll publish new images and descriptions of some great places at least twice a week from now on – so stay tuned, or, alternatively, subscribe to RSS feeds.

BTW, I’ve improved feed for the latest images, now you don’t need a looking glass for it. Thumbnail images are a bit larger now.

Another way of getting updates is to add me as a contact on Flickr, I cross-post all images from this site to my gallery there. 

I don’t say that I’m surprised, but processing RAW files form the 5DMarkII takes a bit more time. 25-30Mb RAW files require a bit more processing power, comparing to RAWs from my old Canon 20D, especially for panoramas. Previously, it took minutes for PTGui to stitch an HDR panorama. Now, for huge TIFFs, produced by 5DMkII, it takes hours.

All of this is happening on QuadCore 2.7Ghz,  8GB RAM and separate HDDs for data and temporary files. As CPU and RAM are almost never 100% utilised, it seems that HDDs are creating this bottleneck. Or, it can be Vista … hmm.

I didn’t see anything exceptionally interesting over the last week, so I’ll skip regular Weekly Links for today. I’m sure that there was something, but I probably missed it.

Instead, I’d like to wish to all of you – Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

We’re heading to South Australia for the next 2 weeks, so you can expect some outback, desert and coastal photos from that region early next year. So, please, don’t forget about this place and come back.

Once again, have a great holidays!

See you next year,
Yegor

– Last week, Chuck Westfall came up with his tech tips again, and provided some information about AF microadjustments. 

To summarise this topic here are couple more interesting links:

– Nikon D70 focus test chart and how to use guide, by Tim Jackson
– Camera AF Microadjustment, by Keith Cooper