You can use folders with Lightroom, even manage folders and the pictures in them. Just use the Folders tab in the Library module. Its on the left under Find and above Collections.

I use Lightroom. I especially like the way it doesn't touch the original files. I dunno about the framing and stuff, my friend uses Photoshop for that, but he already uses that for his work. Kinda overkill just for that. Probably some free program that can handle that. I just checked Irfanview and it doesn't look like it can.

Quote from STROBE :

Indeed, but how many steps do you need to do to change the flash type? Or focus mode? Or colour profiles, sharpness, etc? Thing is, you can change all your shooting options with that dial using the same process - turn, select, enter, done. I find it totally intuitive, so I'm a little surprised people can find it such an issue.

All of those work the same way, just pushing a different button(metering hit left, WB hit down, AF type hit right, etc.). Except the flash. The flash controls are in a menu. The menu remembers what option you were on when you go back to it though. And since the AF and IS are in the lens those options are right there next to your left hand which is already on the lens.

Maybe I was a little out of line calling it a piece of junk. But the interface is definitely clunky, the AF is noisy, and personally I hate the sound of the shutter (ku-klunk). And it costs about 100 bucks (USD) more than the XTi.

About 35-40mph down a long but slight hill. My new bike doesn't have a speedo, but its a slacker bike, making it much more stable at high speed, so I felt much more comfortable slamming down that hill on my way home from the trail.

That 2nd dial on the a100 is what makes the interface so annoying. On the XTi all the buttons and dials you need to adjust stuff while shooting are on the right side of the camera, leaving your left hand free to keep the camera ready to shoot.

For example, to change the ISO on my XTi I hit up, and then up or down to the ISO setting I want, and then half press the shutter. All that is done with my thumb and index finger on my right hand. Barely changing my grip, I don't even need to lower the camera. On the a100 I have to turn the left dial to ISO (good luck doing that without looking) with my left hand, press the little button on the top of the dial (again, left hand), then with my right hand use the up/down buttons to choose the ISO, and then half press the shutter.

The a100 does feel better in your hand, but once you realize you should be supporting the weight of the camera with your left hand its pretty much a non issue.

I have an XTi/400D, and it is a wonderful camera, I don't know what some of you are on about. My dad got a sony a100, and that thing is a clunky piece of junk. It feels like cheap plastic, is loud, focuses slow and has a really annoying interface.

In body IS is okay...I guess. Photographers have been taking pictures without IS for a hundred years, it isn't that big of a deal really. It is only useful for taking pictures of still things. When there's action you need a high shutter speed and that makes IS unnecessary. And don't forget to turn it off when you use a tripod.

Most of the pictures on the first page here were taken with my XTi.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stregone/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stregone/2133101369/

My first decent bird shot. Used my new 100mm macro lens

I got a rebel XTi for my birthday/christmas (they are close together so I can often fanangle a big combo gift ). The weather has been pretty crappy since I got it, so I'm pretty much only taking pictures of my snake.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stregone/2129736465/

You guys have the rest of the forum to talk about LFS, and I don't think any of us need any convincing as to LFS's merits.

I just got the wheel today and its pretty decent. Just came across a new track config in career mode:
http://img165.imageshack.us/my ... za2handler451a37fbmr3.jpg
http://img154.imageshack.us/my ... za2handler4519a2a1zx5.jpg

I gotta agree that the music was way too sappy. It almost seems like you are dedicating it to the devs because they are dead, not because they kick ass.

The new one for the DS is probably going to be my first. I was looking around for the last one on the GBA but I can't find it anywhere.

I have an mp3 of Ozzy covering Stayin' Alive. Its pretty good

You can also use google. Type this into the search box: 24 GBP in USD

Quote from Scawen :

Maybe I can choose colours that are more distinguishable for colourblind people... it's quite a common thing.

I'd be interested to know a set of colours you find easy to see the difference between, then I could take your colours and ask some other colourblind people which ones they find easy, then choose ones that I like and change the small map triangles to match them, so they are ok for everyone.

Check out the color blindness article on wikipedia. Scroll down to the bottom to the external links section, there are some links that could help you out with testing to see if something is usable for a colorblind person.

Quote from mrbogeyman :

veery nice a proper DH rig compared to mine What travel is on that? You have single crown Fox's...I get 140mm on mine.

170mm in back(almost 7 inches), the fork is a Fox 36VAN, 160mm. Whole thing weighs only 35 pounds or so. Pedals up hill pretty well for such a 'big bike' (its my only ridable bike atm, and for the foreseeable future). I hate the paint job though. This year for their 'extreme' bikes specialized made some really stupid paintjobs. Oh well. I can get it anodized without voiding the lifetime warrantee sometime down the road.

Quote from evilgeek :

heh, thanks. the sad thing is that my mountain bike is worth more than my car, and my car is a bmw!

gotta get my priorities sorted one of these days.

My bike is the same way. This isn't a pic of mine because I can't afford a digital camera after buying this beast

Looks like he managed to plow into the only solid object in the lot.

I've been working on a sk in in inkscape and found a handy trick to make things less tedious when testing out a skin. Inkscape only exports png files, so I need to convert them to jpg before I can see them in LFS. Irfanview can batch convert from the commandline.

First make a .bat file. Right click in your skin folder, select new>text file. name the file whatever you want, but remove the txt and put bat.

Next open up the bat file in notepad, I have XP and when I right click on the file and select edit it automaticaly does this. Type in:

Quote :

"C:\Program Files\IrfanView\i_view32.exe" "C:\<enter path>\XFG WIP.png" /convert="C:\<enter path>\XFG_WIP.jpg"

"C:\Program Files\IrfanView\i_view32.exe" This should be the path to the irfanview program, if it isn't change it to what yours is.
"C:\<enter path>\XFG WIP.png" This is the path to the file you want to convert.
/convert="C:\<enter path>\XFG_WIP.jpg" This tells irfanview what to convert the file to (based on the extension) and what to name it, and more importantly where to put the file. Make the path your skins folder.

Now, save it and close notepad. Export your drawing from inkscape (as the filename you put in the batch file) and double click the .bat file you made and then open up LFS and check out your skin.

Fight the adult tyranny!

What a great video. It had a little bit of an old school sega vibe to it, which is awesome. Keep up the good work! I also love that you left the in-game sound.

Quote from PCCD :

Anyone else been having problems with the speedometer giving false readings when braking from high speeds? I've braked down to what I thought was 100KM/PH only to find that I'm actually doing 120KM/PH when entering a corner and end up in the grass as a result

Apparantly the old speedo gave you readings like a GPS unit. It told you exactly how fast you are going. Now it tells you how fast you are going based on how fast the wheels are actualy moving, like a real car.

Forget that site, all it is testing is bandwidth. I think I found my problem, and it may be the same for most or all of us having problems. http://www.dslreports.com/routerwatch My ISP is verson, so scroll down to the verizon sectiona nd noticed all of the RED Basicaly my isp's routers are dropping packets like crazy.

Go here and test your connection quality http://www.dslreports.com/linequality You need to sign up but its worth it. Mine showed 58% packet loss with a medium bandwidth stream. I'm guessing LFS falls under that.

I'm having very bad lag problems as well. I haven't played LFS in some time, and just started playing again. Its a constant jarring lag every couple of seconds. All the cars disappear and reappear off and on off and on,a nd eventualy I lose connection to the server. I used to be able to play online with NO trouble at all, no hardware has changed, but I have gone from win2k to winXP(firewall is off).