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Around The Horn
14 March 2016
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at parfocalness, lithium batteries on commercial flights, a rig only a journalist could love and how to speed up Time Machine.
- In Mythbusting: Parfocal Photo Zooms, Roger Cicala explains why no zoom stays in focus while changing focal lengths.
- In The Real Lithium Story, Thom Hogan addresses reports that "lithium batteries will be restricted on passenger planes starting April 1." Only 160+ watt-hour batteries are banned. A Nikon EN-EL15 is 14 watt hours, for example. Here's the Lithium Batteries as Cargo in 2016 Update III official update as a PDF.
- Speaking of journalist rigs (as he was last week), Kirk Tuck details A Workable Rig For 'Man in the Street' Interviews. The Sony RX10 II with a Rode Reporter microphone and a Beachtek D2A to bridge the audio to the camera. He's going to test it today at SXSW.
- Unix systems prioritize tasks and Time Machine modestly takes a low priority. In Massively speed up Time Machine backups, Mac Kung Fu reveals a one-line command to prevent the utility from assuming a low priority and thus finish the task quicker. If you step away from the keyboard during backups anyway, this may make you dance right back.
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