I take lots of photos, so I have a second hard disk in my main computer dedicated to photos and videos. The other day I noticed that the 2 TB drive was down to only 9 GB free! That was a shock, considering that’s well less than one 32 GB card in one of my DSLRs.
Upgrade time. I had to move those 189,330 files in 2,523 folders onto a larger drive.
I have plenty of drives around that I use for backup in a couple of HD “toasters” — USB 3 docks that you can hotswap SATA drives in and out of. So I popped a 3 TB drive into a dock, and copied all those files over to it.
That done, I opened up the tower computer, pulled the old 2 TB D: drive and installed the new 3 TB drive. I used the Disk Management tools to rename the new drive to D:, so that my photo programs find it.
Worked great, and I now have nearly a TB of free space.
I have two NAS (networked attached storage) devices but use them only for backup. I like having my photos on a secondary internal HD for fast access.
I had a frosty patrol for spawning salmon on Byrne Creek in SE Burnaby, BC. A two-hour ramble didn’t turn up any fish alive or dead. Methinks mayhap this year’s run is done.
Backlit art in the bus shelter on Southridge Dr. just above the pond
Shifting the POV a foot or two results in much different light
I upgraded two DSLRs to the latest firmware today. One was just one version out of date, the other was three versions behind!
Firmware updates can solve glitches with some functions, improve functionality, and add features. Just Google your camera model + firmware update, and see what’s available.
It’s not that hard to upgrade, the key is to read the instructions for your model carefully, and follow them exactly.
I keep forgetting that I have a couple of 40-year-old Nikkor manual lenses that do work on my D7100 DSLR. This 105mm/2.5 would effectively be about a 155mm/2.5 on this body. It’s said that lenses this old are not optimized for digital (though this lens was renowned for sharpness back in its day).
But this ought to make an excellent portrait lens with its f2.5 max aperture. If it is a bit soft compared to modern designed-for-digital glass, so much the better.
I scoured Byrne Creek in SE Burnaby, BC, for spawning salmon this morning but saw none, dead or alive. There could possibly be a few hiding in the shadows of the sediment pond — the sun is so low on the horizon that even on a sunny day it can be hard to see into the pond.
It appears that this year’s salmon run may be drawing to a close on Byrne Creek. Volunteer streamkeepers occasionally see them through the end of November, and rarely into early December. It’s been a decent year for this creek, with a combined total of chum and coho approaching 40 fish.
On the way back up the ravine I took advantage of the post-rain sunshine to get some nature shots along the trail.
