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Reviews (9)
10 January 2014
Save Your Money and Get Something Else - Critical Design Flaw to Start
3 of 4 found this helpful There's a reason why there are so many repair services for the motherboard of this and the full spectrum of HP DV6000 to DV9000 laptops made by HP/Compaq. These motherboards and/or the laptops should have been recalled by HP. They do not dissipate heat well and the GPU often requires a complete re-solder (reballing or reflowing). Short of buying a new replacement board (not a good idea either even if you can still find one), I recommend avoiding these few models. Here are some of the issues with these laptops:
1. LAPTOP POWERS ON, BUT NO DISPLAY SEEN ON SCREEN
2. LAPTOP SOME TIMES TURNS ON, MOST OF THE TIME WILL NOT BOOT
3. WIRELESS NOT WORKING & IS NOT DETECTED BY MOTHERBOARD/DEVICE MANAGER EVEN WITH NEW REPLACEMENT PARTS
4. LAPTOP GENERATES A BEEP BEEP SOUND WHEN POWERING UP (You could live with that if that's all it did!)
5. LAPTOP RUNS TOO HOT AND SHUTS DOWN BY ITSELF.
Save your money and get something not prone to breakdown and malfunction. Wish I'd known this before buying one as well. There are bunches of videos on how to fix these laptops on YouTube but why should you start investing in complicated repairs or replacement parts when the initial product is way below average. If you own one, I hope you beat the odds and you don't see a breakdown. This is just throwing money away by attempting to resolve a critical design flaw to begin with.
29 March 2008
Nikon D80 - Potential Not Completely Realized
10 of 11 found this helpful Having waited quite a while for this camera to finally hit the market I was interested in finally getting something with a larger CCD (sensor) and with an image processing engine that could rival the D200 without the expense. Unfortunately, I have been somewhat disappointed. As a former pro photographer with a huge inventory of Nikon lenses and film-based bodies, I was teased into the purchase of the D80 for the high resolution, compatibility with older AI and AIS Nikon lenses and the 10.2 megapixel count which I realized (megapixel count) was not all there is to digital imagery. Having begun my introduction to digital imagery with the fine and reliable Fuji S2 Pro I was expecting a plethora of major advantages in the new and affordable D80. What I found on the positive side was; terrific battery life with the EN-EL3e batteries, wireless flash integration via built-in hot shoe and compatibility with Nikon TTL flash and fill-in flash perfection with the following Nikon flash units: (SB-22-28 and SB-800 and SB-600 and auto aperture coupled metering with the CPU lenses with the SB-800 only), RAW (NEF) camera format images with high quality JPEG's and the Nikon F mount which could handle my older manual and newer autofocus lenses, auto-focus lock features, exposure compensation (bracketing), rear curtain flash sync (great fill-flash effects) and a built-in eye piece diopter adjuster. The downside was; high digital noise at low ISO settings (400 or above!); slow continuous shutter speed execution when using large file size JPEG's or RAW-only images (the D200 makes this look like a learning model in this respect). Can't shoot tethered or wireless to a laptop or monitor display for instant review but that's a feature you buy the D200 or D300 for. In hindsight I'd recommend either purchasing a used D200 or D300 (if you can find one!) or saving your scheckles for at least a new D300. If you had it to do completely from the start and weren't bound-down by the ownership of legacy Nikon lenses, I'd probably have purchased a Canon. Better imaging system and lens feature compatibility (only with their newest lenses however). If you're looking for superb imaging and the ultimate in color rendition, I'd recommend a Fuji S5 for the most in extended dynamic range images. For sports Canon goes way fast and makes fast long focal length lenses accordingly (as does Nikon) but you pay a higher premium for the Nikon without getting any better optics or performance. That's my two-cents!
Flash Shoe Adapter Swivel Light Stand Mount Umbrella Holder Bracket E Type
07 June 2018
Lightweight Swivel light stand is too light to adequately hold a speedlight
Might be of good quality materials for the base but the cheap clamp used to mount the base of the speedlight to the light stand adapter was too cheap to do the job adequately. After tightening everything off the stand in what appeared to be hand tight tension for the little aluminum screw and mount, it promptly let go of my speedlight which crashed to the floor and shattered once attached to the stand. Don't scrimp on something like this it's not worth it. It needs to be totally precision made to grab the base of the speedlight. This is NOT.