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RE: Toys-R-Us
July 14, 2016 at 9:59 am
(July 14, 2016 at 9:53 am)Bella Morte Wrote: Always wanted a high-end 15" rMBP but they are a little over £2,500.
What is an that thing you wrote?
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RE: Toys-R-Us
July 14, 2016 at 10:00 am
(July 14, 2016 at 9:59 am)Alex K Wrote: (July 14, 2016 at 9:53 am)Bella Morte Wrote: Always wanted a high-end 15" rMBP but they are a little over £2,500.
What is an that thing you wrote?
MacBook Pro with Retina Display.
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July 14, 2016 at 10:04 am
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I personally am toying with two things right now. I have a Lenovo X220 Laptop-Tablet, and it is getting old and me annoyed with its limited screen real estate (it had low res even for back in 2011 when I got it). So a new, lighter laptop with built in Wacom digitizer would be nice.
The other is less work related. I have two refractors, a fast 4" and a fast 6" achromat, both not excellent optics. I'm getting tired of the chromatic abberation and short focal length. I am seriously considering getting a classic scope, the C8, or the new field corrected version, the HD 8.
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July 14, 2016 at 10:15 am
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soooobad......the rotor wash gets the spray up under the foliage.
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RE: Toys-R-Us
July 14, 2016 at 10:24 am
My current amateur astronomy equipment is limited to a Nikon D810 digital SLR camera, a 70-200 f/2.8 lens and a tripod, plus a couple of binoculars. The camera can do ISO 12800, which in combination with f/2.8 is adaquate for reasonable trail-less night sky photography. The camera uses software enhancement to fake a maximum ISO speed of 51200, but the resulting image is too grainy and full of processing artifacts. I would like to get a 200-500f/5.6 lens, but that would only work for the moon, and is too slow, requiring to much exposure time, for deep sky objects since I have to tracking mounts.
Pentax just released a camera which has built in GPS, and a sensor shift capability which Pentax used to allow the camera to track stars internally during long exposures by moving the sensor. The camera also has much higher stated ISO capability. I am looking forward to testing that camera.
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July 14, 2016 at 10:35 am
I'd love to create a home cinema system. A good-quality consumer projector, screen, surround sound system, all run off one of those nifty micro PC's that plug straight into the HDMI port. That'd be awesome :3
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July 14, 2016 at 11:09 am
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Boss RC-300 Loop Station. I've been using my old RC-50
for years now - mainly for jamming, writing/arranging songs, making loops and sound effects for my recordings, rarely for live performance - and it's been a great tool, but I think it's time to upgrade, especially if I can manage to get one relatively cheap - second-hand, B-stock, or something.
I mean - it's RC- 300. That's clearly 6 times better, than RC- 50.
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July 14, 2016 at 11:15 am
I will not feel complete until I have a subwoofer for my home theater.
However, I'm saving to have air conditioning installed in my house.
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July 14, 2016 at 11:24 am
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Hey Nutter, I've got an old Art effects rack and foot controller from the mid 90's. An Art SGE Mach II and X-15 foot controller. I bought it new at the time but soon gave up playing the guitar even though I had been playing for many years previously since the age of 13. I was wondering whether it's completely obsolete now or whether I could still use it for home recording. I used it at the time with a Fostex 4 track.
I can't really bring myself to part with my guitar equipment. I have a Marshall JCM900, and two Fender Jap strats (HM and 62 reissue). If I had loads of time and money I'd buy a Fender amp. Although last time I went into a shop to buy an all-valve Fender amp I came away with a really crappy looking and ancient hand-wired all valve bedroom amp that was the perfect sound that I had been looking for all these years and yet another pink strat. The amp was a precursor to a Vox AC30 although not made by Vox.
A couple of years later I met a man who is now my husband and he has a couple of Jap Strats as well. Between us we have three pink strats (and three 62 re-issues).
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RE: Toys-R-Us
July 14, 2016 at 12:21 pm
I've always wanted a green 10 or 12 in my rep area - Santa will eventually come through.
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