So its been a while and well... I've been rather busy recently. Nevertheless! Here's an update on what have I gotten and or been up too, Depends on what I remember. So recently I got my SSD from Amazon and well... A picture is worth a thousand words?
Package from DHL
Whats inside
The contents
So yea, its a Corsair Force 3 180GB SSD. The guy who sold it on Amazon didn't format it and I could see his files, I don't know what to say about that but I just let it be. Sadly... A piece of the drive broke up, it still can be used, just that I have to be more careful when I insert it.
Broken piece
Also, I've decided to upgrade my laptop and I got myself an ASUS G73JH! So I removed the Western Digital Caviar Black from my ASUS F8Sn and used it as a secondary drive for my G73. I used the Corsair SSD as my main hard drive.
Installing the hard drive
Installing the OS
So my laptop's battery is completely dead and I read that to revive the battery, put it in the freezer, so its been in there for a couple of days, will take it out next week and hopefully it works! I love the G73, its been pretty good. Pretty fast with huge screen! I got a new bag to go with the laptop since my Lowepro Compurover is falling apart and apparently it doesn't hold the G73 very well.
My new laptop bag
Targus Citygear Backpack
Will write my review for both the SSD and the bag on Amazon soon. Also, recently my previous office got 4 foam boards, kinda sad since on all 4 of them, both sides are white. But I guess I hardly ever really need to flag light so it'll do for now, else I'd probably just paste black paper or something on it.
V-flats (poorly taped, I know, but it works!)
My colleague as my test model
As can be seen, it works pretty darn good. Most likely will be sticking to it for full body shots since we used hot shoe flashes and I've decided not to get studio lights for now since I have to study and I hardly use it, will use more hot shoe flashes first.
So recently I've been shooting with the Nikkor 80-200mm AFD with the D3 and wondered why it was out of focus quite often. I did a test last night and determined that there is focus misalignment when the lens is paired with my D3 but since I'm getting a 70-200mm f2.8 VRII in May (for sure!), it doesn't matter whether the 80-200 works well in the futre.
So Corsair recently just released the Accelerator series and I'm waiting for June to arrive so I can get it provided there are good reviews for it. I just saw that the software also had some updates which claim to solve problems that the OCZ Synpase had but since I don't have any, I can't verify. I can only base on the experience of others and review sites before I decide if I should get the Corsair Accelerator SSD. I can't wait as my desktop is seriously slow in starting up as compared to my laptop now though my laptop has the best technologies in my home at the moment. I seriously hope all will go well and I can boost the speed of my desktop! =D
That's all for now, will post another entry when I have more stuff to talk about as I don't remember what else has gone on so far. Have a good day everyone!
