Hey guys, seeming as my thread keeps stuffing up and can't get to the correct page number, ive decided to start a fresh thread.

Just to update, my external harddrive Maxtor 320GB shit itself about 2 weeks ago now, and all my photos are on it from when i started taking photos on my phone. Hopefully sometime towards the back of this week i will be able to get to the coast for a shop to hopefully retrieve my data.

Recently just did the antenna mod on the ebay triggers, and so far so good. Put 1x550EX mk2 outside my house and ran about 150m down the road with the normal trigger (i have 2) and tried to trigger it, and didnt see any flash, did this a numerous times, no flash fired. Put the antenna modded trigger and fired 4/4 times which im happy with.

Any questions on mod ask me in here and ill post up the sites, (vid tutorials) soon!

Thanks...

Here are 3 Images...

1st one is a 1st shot with the off camera flash setup, using 1 flash to the left of the can - Vivitar 285 at minimal power, will do a better shot of it using another flash to the back on the right hand side

2nd one is just a muck around shot i shot last night of my brother

3rd shot is my trigger that is modded fitted with a 433/mhz 1/4 wave whip antenna. Used 1 580 mk2 on the right shooting through umbrella at +0 ev, and one vivitar 285hv shooting through a umbrella on the left at lowest power.

niceee photos, new gear must be working a treat

haha luke shut ur mouth

thats shit....... i can take better ones......

Lets see man

hes joking bowie, don't worry

where's that info on the antenna's cas, very intersted.....

here they are mate.

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Recently took my external hd to Ontrack Data Recovery located West End.

Took it there early last week to get an evaluation which was 99$ which includes them looking at the harddrive and seeing what is recoverable and how long it will take and also a full quote.

Got the reports back early this week on monday with a good result with everything recoverable 199GB's of data, the cost wasn't very exciting but im glad i got it all back, if you ever have a hd fail go to these guys they are located all aroud Australia and are excellent.

Will be updating soon, also Autosalon this weekend, should be ok.

That's some good news man. Ill be wondering around at Salon on the Saturday aswell, have to help set up tomorrow night.

how much for the recovery ?

1558$

Sounds about right

90% of the time you can just do it yourself to save the pain of paying that sort of moola!

wouldn't even think of doing that sort of stuff myself

take apart the harddrive and a tad of air gets in it, its gone

Yes, there is no way you'd be opening the casing and exposing the platters, but there are many other methods you can try before that

the harddrive was dead, wasn't spinning at all

it was fudged pretty much only thing i 'could' do, anyway got my stuff back so its all good.

Now I hope you've learnt to always have a backup!! And also to stay as far away from maxtor/seagate as possible!!!

Had a Maxtor 320GB and opened it up and it was a Seagate.

1. I No longer trust 'Maxtor' as it wasn't a 'Maxtor' HDD

2. Seagate died on me

'Lacie, WD' ftw

Maxtor was bought out by Seagate sometime ago. So they are still producing Maxtor branded products that have Seagate drives inside.

Well they suck

3 storm ones from last night...







what you think? 1st time taking lighting shots..

looks fucken awesome!

Last one came up really good man!!

Other two are over exposed, but It's pretty tricky when it comes to lightning! How many shots did you take in total? I didn't get a chance to have a good crack at the strom... only caught the ass end of it

its hard alright, first time taking them took probably about 20-30ish not to many, camera was getting owned by rain

Umbrella FTW.

fuck the lightning, look at the houses/your front yard! you rich mofo!

what suburb do you live in?

nice shots btw, last one is clearly the best.

I live in egypt you will stalk me if i tell you!

thanks mateyyy

hahaha. no probs

Few from Brisbane Autosalon 2008

And just one of my 17 35 with nifty 50!













17 35

mmm, loving the 17-35.. good shots there Casey!!

3 Images From Sundays Storm...







Casey

nice pics. thought u was changing the watermark so it didnt look so much like mattmead.com ?

all good speak soon

Yeah dave I am, will be tomorrow (already spoken to matt)

If your data is that important that your willing to spend 1558 recovering it i would highly recommend you invest in a Drobo.. They are amazing!

Yeah it is, its my whole portfolio, what is Drobo...

http://www.drobo.com/Products/Index.html

I don't see how it's different than every other NAS out there...

ps. http://www.drobo.com/Products/BeyondRAID.html

Ok that is why. I'd be interested to see if it's all it's hyped upto be!

I jsut run 2x 1tb hard drives, leave one at work and one at home, and i back up every friday.

im just going to buy 2 new ones every year and continue to do that. unless i get a mac

I myself run a NAS with 2x320gb drives in RAID1. Backup to a 1TB external once a month as well as an offsite backup hosted in the states

i shoot 1 tb every 3 months ... try backing that shit up

Lol thats alot of shooting...a normal track day is about 40gb worth of images as i keep the orginal raw files as well as full size processed shots... how do you back up dave??

F that with a big stick!! Collectively over 5years I've only taken like 40gb worth of images

i have a few tb drives

In 1 year I've shot 68gig of shots... but now they are gone... yay for gay computers...
Looks like im goign to start investing into a backup method!

My e peen is bigger than yours....
I buy new memory cards for each new event and never erase them..

Got money kyl3?

I shot a formal today, was quite fun, got to use my strobes

P.S > noone is commenting my photos

Cause i comment in your MSN ya prick

Pics from formal looked nice

More photos of cars using the umbrella thingies are needed

how bout u post more up Casey

yeah might post some formal photos soon...

My Equipment that goes in my bag:



Includes:

- Rocket Blower
- 2 PT-04 Triggers, 1 Is modded with 433 Mhz 1/4 Whip Wave Antenna
- 6 PT-04 Receivers
- 2 x 580EX mkII's (with stofens)
- 2 x Vivitar 285HV's
- Sensor Cleaner
- Sensor Cloth
- Sensor Brush
- Sensor Buds
- 3 x San Disk Cards
- 1 x Ultra II 1GB
- 1 x Ultra II 4GB
- 1 x Ultra III Extreme 4GB
- 50 f1.8
- 17 35 f2.8 L
- 70 200 f2.8 L IS USM
- Canon EOS 40D Body

Doesnt Include:

- 4 x Impact Light Stands
- 4 x Impact Light Heads
- 4 x Impact Strobe Umbrellas
- Manfrotto 055XDB
- Manfrotto Mini Ball Head

(Which are sitting under my bed)

Cooooooool!, wish mine i was like that... lol, very soon i'll upgrade