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I didn't mean to ignore you yesterday evening, mate. I was trying to console the anak.

Yeah it was derived from NextStep it's been highly customised for quite a while.

The thing about the home users is that they have mostly largely realised that all they need is a tablet or a phone or a Chromebook or a Smart TV, the browsers of the world only need a 'Browser' UI and many of them are just doing that on a phablet phone these days, the home market is dying compared to what it once was.

As for me I can't load Visual Studio on a Mac running Mac OS and I can't run Borland Delphi on Mac OS, I can't run SQL Server on Mac OS and I doubt I could run the latest version of Oracle either, I make my living with these tools in the Windows ecosystem. And as for personal use my hobby is photography and Apple apparently had a good native tool in Aperture which they then killed, so the choice would be Lightroom vs Lightroom for the Mac, everything else that I do with a computer works pretty well and very cheaply on my ThinkPad's running Windows.

Yeah but your Mac hardware is more expensive than your Windows hardware for comparative capabilities, peripherals are more fussy on the Mac.

RAD Studio won't run natively on a Mac, but you can generate native applications written in Delphi's Object Pascal for the Mac, SQL Server is easier to manage than Oracle although I have to admit I've not spent a lot of time with Oracle recently, I too prefer Oracle simple things like named sequences which we finally only got in SqlServer 2012 and even then the implementation was not great, however Oracle really needs a DBA whereas you can go a long way with SqlServer without needing a specialist DBA. PL/SQL vs T-SQL well they are both capable languages, orthodoxy these days has it that stored procs are bad so many people don't use either but personally I disagree with the orthodoxy in this case and where appropriate SQL and it's procedural variants should be used in applications when they are the right tool for the job in hand.

Canon 1Ds mk II is my main full frame, I have an old Canon 1D APS-H and a Canon 40D APS-C, I had a Canon 5D (first version) but it got drowned.

We clearly won't convince each other either way, but personally I see no real reason to switch to a Mac, amongst other things I would never get used to the keyboards after a lifetime with 'Home' and 'End' keys

What have I unleashed...............????????????????????????????????????

I've thought about a 7D mk II to replace the old 1D, more reach and as good an autofocus system, the 1D original despite being over 14 years old still has a frighteningly good autofocus system and it has a CCD sensor rather than CMOS which makes for interesting features like 1/500th flash sync and 1/16000th of a second fastest shutter speed.

Only 4 megapixel the old 1D but I still love it

My son in 2008


And mummy

Yeah sorry Dom, drifty drifty

A nice looking kid on a bad hair day............

James was only 2 years and 10 months when that was taken, he still has spiky hair

The Cyan cast is a feature of the 1D CCD sensor and it's one that I quite like plus our walls really are that colour so that tends to accentuate it.

They will have been processed slightly in Lightroom many many years ago but I can't remember the settings without going and looking them up, I check later.

Reason for posting was simply to illustrate what you could get out of a 14 year old 4 megapixel CCD sensor on the top of the range Canon at the time.

There is a pilot on dpreview who has been shooting (photographing ) American fighter jets for many years using the original Canon 1D he gets some fantastic results, of course with the lack of pixels your framing has to be good to start with as you're not going to be able to crop much.

Checked the shots, the second one had no processing at all apart from the update to the 2010 process (ACR profile).

The one of James was only cropped and updated to the 2010 process.

They were an accurate rendering of the lighting conditions at the time so I didn't mess with them.

I'd have to check again and the Lighroom catalogs are back in the office at the moment, at that time it would likely have been either the 24-105 f4 L or the 50mm f1.4, ah just checked on Flickr the shot of James was taken on the old 50mm f1.4 which is not a bad portrait lens on APS-H and the one of Ana was on the 24-105 L.

She delivered my daughter 11 hours after that photo was taken, and I mean delivered, we were on our way to the cinema via a quick stop at Tokyo-Tokyo 9 hours after that picture was taken, just as the food arrived she decided it was time to go to the hospital that was about an hour before she delivered Janna (oh and we had to have the food converted to a takeaway no leaving it behind ) .

My 24-105 got drowned as well and I have been using the 24-70 f2.8 L since 2011, I do miss the 24-105 though it was very versatile and not far behind the 24-70 in quality, still thinking about getting a new one as it does not look like Canon are going to replace that lens soon.