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chrisbet
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A while ago there was a debate over the future of this forum.
While posts are few in number we do have reasonably healthy visitor stats -
I am happy to continue hosting the forum for free - the only cost involved is the domain name registration fee. We are paid up until 7th December 2023 when the domain will be due for renewal at £22 for the next year.
Anyone happy to make a SMALL donation - if the 7 regular users contributed £3.15 each, the fee would be covered!
I was browsing the Nikongear site the other day, they have enormous running costs and Birna reckons they need 150 subscribers to keep it going at 20 Euros per person per year!
If they decide to close then there will be a hard core of their users looking for a new home ...
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Eric
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Done.
I think if we can find more new subject matter …like Grahams AI and Gerts Z8 appraisals it would be more interesting and stimulating. I just wish other members would engage more.
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chrisbet
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Thanks Eric - the donations button works fine!
I agree with your comment about more engagement - I hope to be able to do something about the gimbal once I work out how to use it!
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novicius
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I am still battling with Studio NX...and both my sons have moved out ,busy with career and such ,so there went my computer knowledge....and no-one here seems to use it...which I do Not understand ,why pay Dearly for something that is not as good as propietary software which is Free of use ..there are tuitions, but learning this sort of thing via yootoob and such is easier said than done..
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chrisbet
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The problem with Studio NX is it doesn't run on Linux systems ....
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novicius
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I have been looking at DXO , as I have heard rumours that those developers also made the Nikon software and therefor know all Nikon protocols,so no back-engineering...(do I say that right )?...but 140,-euro !!..that hoits..
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chrisbet
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getting back to the subject of numbers of posting members and new material - do any of you belong to camera clubs?
It may be worth doing some market research amongst club members to see if they use fora and if so what ones? If there are any features they would like to see and would use that are not provided for?
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novicius
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..thought I was on topic...I am on Four (4) other fora like this one..and two on FB,..the most succesfull,as in different people posting often is exactly about the use of software, and hints & tips, it is tedious to talk about " ahm,is a 24 2.8 ai-s better than the af-d version or is auto-focus better "...etc.,..yet talking about the ol`D of yesteryear performing better in the shadows when doing the this or implementing a piece of free-ware or better / costlier using f.ex. DXO like I mentioned , gets the attention.
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Eric
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Graham still has a hand in a camera club and may be able to get some insight.
I gave up camera clubs when I started using my camera professionally as I felt it gave me an unfair advantage ( finance & opportunity ) when it came to competitions and I haven’t really rekindled that interest since retiring.
Maybe I should ask myself why…given we are questioning why others don’t use the forum?
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novicius
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Thru` an FB site where the mod. actually has a photo club in England , as in organizing model-shoots ,with lighting equipment, some strobes and flashes,Most of the talk is about software, nothing major, as in ,brighten this up a bit,fiddle with color-balance,soft focus ...unfortunately it is mostly with Adobe ,..it is a 1 man operation assisted by his brother, and his site has been running for several years now,....and in the Ol` days when it was magazines and such, it was mostly about Developing and Darkroom Equipment..translates into nowadays Software ,computers and such......that shows where people`s main interest is at.
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chrisbet
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Just took a quick scan round the net for photography/camera fora - it that is what it takes to be popular then I think we are better off being unpopular! I have never seen such a lot of meanignless babble - mostly from the US!
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chrisbet
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To try and raise our profile I have set up a facebook page for the forum - it just links over here to redirect people onto the forum - though it will be interesting to see if anyone posts there too.
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novicius
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Yes, let us see what happens then, `tho what I do like about our little forum , is that we do not have any experts here...as compared to other fora.....so refreshing.
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jk
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Donated for a couple of years ahead!
Check your PayPal.
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chrisbet
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Thanks JK
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Eric
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novicius wrote:
Yes, let us see what happens then, `tho what I do like about our little forum , is that we do not have any experts here...as compared to other fora.....so refreshing.
I believe the legal definition of an expert is ‘someone who has practised their skill for more than 7 years.’
On that basis, ALL the contributing people on this forum are expert photographers. 
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chrisbet
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I think he meant "experts" - those who have read a little on google and incessantly broadcast it..... one of the reasons I dropped off the MG fora, the "experts" knew nowt and I got fed up correcting them!
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novicius
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But to stay on topic....I have succesfully installed Sandisk Xtreme Pro 128 GB CF cards in both the D3X and S...they work like a charm...Yes !...that is OneHundred andTwentyEight GigaByte !!....now,if only a D6 would show up with ,say,a thousand clicks on the clock for a Hundred quid.....but I do n`t see any..wonder if the z7 showed up too early stopping photogs. from getting a D6..I wonder.
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Iain
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Donate button is not working for me it takes me to PayPal but that’s it. Who/where do I send the money.
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chrisbet
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Hi - I disabled the donate button as I found that Paypal were ripping off fees on the donations - I have now found out that we can use a paypal.me link , so I have updated the button.
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Iain
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Thanks Chris and donation sent.
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chrisbet
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Ta
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Eric
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Chris
My donation seems to have been refunded. Do I need to re send it ?
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chrisbet
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Hi Eric, Yes - I put a message on the paypal refund - Paypal were taking fees off the donation and I found out that they send it without fees via Paypal.me, so I have amended the donate button to go directly to my "me" page.
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Eric
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chrisbet wrote:
Hi Eric, Yes - I put a message on the paypal refund - Paypal were taking fees off the donation and I found out that they send it without fees via Paypal.me, so I have amended the donate button to go directly to my "me" page.
Done
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chrisbet
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Thanks - very generous!
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chrisbet
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Despite the paucity of contibutors, the site continues to get more traffic, this weeks report -
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