Tony
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RandyDSok
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Got a new lens for my camera on order, should be here on Monday. This will be a Samyang 14mm f2.8 wide angle fully manual lens. This is also sold under the Rokinon and Bower brand names, same lens just a different name on them. The reviews I've read really praise this one... it's relatively cheap ( $265 ) and typically compares as sharper than either Canon's ( $2100 ) or Nikon's ( $1900 ) that have auto focus features, so I'm pretty stoked to get it. It should be a great landscape and night sky lens ( think Milky Way shots and similar ).
I hoping to get a good chance to use it next weekend when I'm taking my folks out to see my Mom's cousin or aunt for a BD party. They live out by Black Kettle National Grasslands just this side of the Texas border. Hopefully I'll find a nice spot with a tree, some hills or abandoned building. Unfortunately it will probably be in the afternoon ( not the best sunlight ) so I'm hoping for a few clouds to help make it more interesting.
I hoping to get a good chance to use it next weekend when I'm taking my folks out to see my Mom's cousin or aunt for a BD party. They live out by Black Kettle National Grasslands just this side of the Texas border. Hopefully I'll find a nice spot with a tree, some hills or abandoned building. Unfortunately it will probably be in the afternoon ( not the best sunlight ) so I'm hoping for a few clouds to help make it more interesting.
RandyDSok
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They make it with a Canon mount ( and many others ) also but it doesn't include the AE chip on that one. Another nice thing is made for full size sensor camera's ( and obviously works fine for crop sensors like ours ), so if we ever go full frame ( not likely for me with my budget ) it can still be used.
D.O.G.
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That's awesome rdsok. The wife and i love your photography, especially the wife. She's into all that stars, meteor showers, lunar/solar eclipse. She still waiting on the little green or gray men from another planet to visit lol. Can't wait to see the pictures with the new lens. Enjoy!
Tony
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Went out today to purchase me some new work boots and a new pair of sunglasses. Came hope empty handed. The boots, no one makes a good set of work boots anymore. Either they are steel toe and seem good or they are composite toe and look horrible and fit horrible. I'm tired of steel and will only wear composite. So crapped out there. The glasses, dudes straight up lied to me two weeks ago and went back on their word today. I'm done with that company and have destroyed their credit card. I will shop online from now on for my glasses. Not a good day, not in a good mood, where the hell is my bottle!!!!
Tony
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Nope, my computer is under my desk. This is my server (thanks to @rdsok for giving it to me!!!) that I use to play around with. I had all of the drives on top of it inside it so that I could play with ESXi and mounting drives and such. But, the drives were getting hot since they were all in the top slot and the fan was in the bottom slot and I had to do some cable management to get them lower down where the fan is.
I am thinking about taking ESXi off of it especially now since I have no idea what drive was the boot drive lmao. I can always reinstall it if I need to. I'm sure I had a lot of bloat in there. This was also my practice VM where I had Plex running, but only had one season and a few movies in it. Now, I have another server setup for Plex so I don't need it on this one anymore.
I would like to find another CPU and cooler for this server though. It only has one in it now. And I'm also running 16GB of ECC memory in here as well. Has worked perfect!!! But it pulls about 1.5 amps while running and just under an amp at idle. Need to work on that if I want to keep this on as a full time server in my house.
I am thinking about taking ESXi off of it especially now since I have no idea what drive was the boot drive lmao. I can always reinstall it if I need to. I'm sure I had a lot of bloat in there. This was also my practice VM where I had Plex running, but only had one season and a few movies in it. Now, I have another server setup for Plex so I don't need it on this one anymore.
I would like to find another CPU and cooler for this server though. It only has one in it now. And I'm also running 16GB of ECC memory in here as well. Has worked perfect!!! But it pulls about 1.5 amps while running and just under an amp at idle. Need to work on that if I want to keep this on as a full time server in my house.
Tony
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This server is the HP Proliant ML150 G5 with the Xeon E5410 CPU. The CPU is pretty cheap at only $20, it's that cooler that kills it lol. They range anywhere from $40 to $150 just for the cooler. And sadly, I have this thing maxed out on RAM at 16GB. Wish I could add more, DDR2 is cheap!!! lmao
Oh, and it is a 771 socket. Very odd lol.
Oh, and it is a 771 socket. Very odd lol.
RandyDSok
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Dang... I should have charged you double what I did for that one... LMAO
I'm pretty certain I don't have any Xeon 771's lying around unless the workstation I got in the other day has one ( unlikely but I'll look Tues ).