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Why NIKON is King
Ken is now commercialised. With that, his raw technical dialogue has suffered. Some years back, I was intrigued with his articles. They were a refreshing change from the stuff I saw in some of the "too many" photographic magazines. Regards
Posted by K10D on 01/07/2010 - 16:29
Why NIKON is King
Ken is now commercialised. With that, his raw technical dialogue has suffered. Some years back, I was intrigued with his articles. They were a refreshing change from the stuff I saw in some of the "too many" photographic magazines. Regards I think this echoes what I touched on above. Some of the...
Posted by robbie_d on 01/07/2010 - 16:43
Why NIKON is King
I think more is spoken about him that too him. He is a character. Regards No, he is not. He is an idiot. His website is successful simply because so many people in the world are able to identify with him. G (I don't mean to include you in that "many" by the way, though I am bemused by yo...
Posted by K10D on 01/07/2010 - 19:20
Why NIKON is King
At least I said they are of the highest order! G It was not missed George. Brings to mind the T-shirt of "Old Age and Cunning will always...." An old farmer in Georgia had owned a large farm for several years. He had a large pond in the back, fixed up nice with picnic tables, horseshoe cou...
Posted by K10D on 01/07/2010 - 23:14
Making people smile / prepare them for a picture
Wasn't that why Pentax brought out all those funny colours off the K-X? I'm surprised they haven't slipped the trendy new "smile detection" system into the Kx, it would be an obvious fit for the multi-coloured market. Maybe the algorithms aren't available to be licenced, or the processor isn't capab...
Posted by flossie on 02/07/2010 - 09:41
Making people smile / prepare them for a picture
How about at a more formal, yet non-jovial event such as a wedding? I.e. fund raisers, black tie dinners, university reunions, etc. Candids work best, or as I said get them to do their camera smile and sneak in another one when they relax. Or tell them they don't have to smile - they will usuall...
Posted by Gwyn on 02/07/2010 - 12:01
Making people smile / prepare them for a picture
I agree with Gwyn. I use my 300mm and stand well back. If people are not aware tha you are photographing them then the results are usually good.
Posted by alun on 02/07/2010 - 23:50
Digtal Image Storage
Alright, I know you've either all been here, or are currently here now. My digital image library is getting horrendously big. I'm not even sure how many photo's I have, but it's probably 50k+. So there has now come a point where I'm asking myself two things: FIRST: I just changed back from a MA...
Posted by whelmed on 01/07/2010 - 16:12
Digtal Image Storage
This is along the lines raised when I asked Mike P if he kept his files or deleted. Being old school, I keep everything. As you say, it's so cheap to do so. I never cut out individual neg's from a roll or strip to bin bad shots. I don't delete digital either. Hard drives have expanded way more...
Posted by K10D on 01/07/2010 - 16:23
Digtal Image Storage
FIRST: I just changed back from a MAC to a PC - this means that all the work I did in iPhoto for my personal photo's has been lost. This pisses me off to no end. Do you folks make permanent changes to your photos? . Do you still have the Mac? If so export the photos from iPhoto! If not, do you...
Posted by Unlocker on 01/07/2010 - 18:53
Hard disk structure for organising photos
I have a top-level of folders organised by year (going back to 1997!) with sub-folders for different events (i.e. specific jobs, holidays, etc). Which was fine...until I got the Kx and started going A Bit Mad (tm)! Now I let Lightroom auto-import them, which sorts them into individual folders for...
Posted by flossie on 02/07/2010 - 18:02
Hard disk structure for organising photos
Well, many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this thread. Spent the weekend reorganising, have settled on a structure which has a top level of year, and below that folders with the year-month-date plus a basic description. This dovetails pretty nicely with how Lightroom imports from SD ca...
Posted by robbie_d on 05/07/2010 - 12:29
I'm glad I've not got a Canon ;-)
If I were to go back to film, I'd use the MX and a Z1-P which I still have. The great thing about the Z1-P is that it has the hyper manual mode via the wheels and is very similar to a digital in use. I paid a lot for mine but they go for very little nowdays. The 110 never really interested me alt...
Posted by Algernon on 04/07/2010 - 11:47
I'm glad I've not got a Canon ;-)
That's interesting, but from what little I know about 4/3 they seem to have noise problems above 400 ISO and I would think Canon FD's would make that worse, so I can't see me ever buying a 4/3 system. Though the same fact could be used to draw the opposite conclusion: that because 4/3 has noise prob...
Posted by Algernon on 04/07/2010 - 18:17
I'm glad I've not got a Canon ;-)
So I won't get an f/1 lens for a tenner :lol: Canon FD 135mm f/2.5 for £19.70 :shock: You see the Pentax ones going for £150-£200 :( The Pentax is better :P That baseless fanboy remark aside (I have never used either lens, nor even read other people's opinions of the FD), Canon FD lenses wil...
Posted by MrCynical on 05/07/2010 - 22:54
Wacom Intuos4 Users?
I had one briefly earlier this year. I found it quite good, but for my usage a little expensive/over specified. More seriously, there was a big bug in the then current Windows driver, that meant it had to be reinstalled after every restart - not exactly productivity enhancing! I sent it bac...
Posted by Shaky on 24/08/2010 - 16:02
Grad filter sizes
Matt I can't really follow you? What does size have to do with the transition from the transparant to the dark part, if you want a real line instead of a controllable ND you just take one with a hard-edge transition right? Do reverse ND grads get darker toward the bottom rather than the top? L...
Posted by Anvh on 06/07/2010 - 13:39
How much is enough (or too much?) (Digital Processing)
I would recommend Photoshop Elements 8, it will do everything you want and a lot more besides. The Organiser is very good and as your back catalogue increases you will find it invaluable.
Posted by gartmore on 06/07/2010 - 11:50
Bibble pro
Anyone used this that can tell me how it compares to Lightroom? I used to be a linux user but moved back to windows becouse of my photography. Would love to move back to linux and i am now thinking this could be good enough to allow me to do so. http://bibblelabs.com/
Posted by ripstar74 on 06/07/2010 - 12:10
Printer for colour / b&w up to A3
Hi guys, Current printer (which was pretty poor for photos) died today, so looking to replace it. Would like to get something which can print decent photos in colour and b&w, and will allow me to print up to A3 when required. I've had a casual look at things like the Canon Pro9000 and Epson...
Posted by robbie_d on 06/07/2010 - 17:06
