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Comment by El Dingo posted on Do you like Pentax colour? at 13/07/2010 - 13:31
However, my amp is very much current tech. A Denon with built-in pre-amp for the deck.
I have a few albums on both vinyl and CD, and to be honest prefer the 'clean' sound from the CD.
Comment by El Dingo posted on Do you still play LP's? at 09/07/2010 - 13:27
Colour is, IMHO, one of the strenghts of Pentax. My recommendation is don't over-think it and you'll be fine.
sRGB (both camera and Photoshop)
Daylight setting (to preserve the variation in natural light)
Switch off the variable setting for WB and change to fixed value
Natural
+1 sharpness, everything else neutral.
JPEG best possible quality.
That's where I am and it's working for me.
John, is there any reason that I should use sRGB over AdobeRGB?
Thanks.
Comment by El Dingo posted on Do you like Pentax colour? at 07/07/2010 - 20:46
Comment by El Dingo posted on Being prepared at 05/07/2010 - 19:21
For the cat lovers, this is our latest batch.
From left to right, Cherry Pie, Jaffa Cake, & Chocolaté.
And we have to leave our cars in the road now because they love to sleep in the engine bays. We still check under the bonnet every time we go out though.
Comment by El Dingo posted on Any cat owners or veterinarians in ? at 01/07/2010 - 20:44
They don't always agree on the point of focus either...
I haven't tried the KatsEye (too rich for me!), but found that manual focussing has been more consistent and accurate with the original screen than the cheap split prism I bought.
Comment by El Dingo posted on To the people who love manual focus... at 19/06/2010 - 18:56
The quality of the screen is also not ideal - but then you get what you pay for!
I ended up putting the original screen back in for now.
Comment by El Dingo posted on Where can I get an OEM K-m focussing screen? at 11/06/2010 - 13:20
http://www.sniffpetrol.com/
Comment by El Dingo posted on Digital photographers are more boring at 26/03/2010 - 13:13
You can get rid of "suggested sites" from IE, and I don't even know what "web slices" are. It's actually quite customisable.
However, there is still a non-removeable button embedded in the 'favourites/history' side-bar that invites you to turn it on again, which I can't get rid of, and someone in my household kept clicking on...
Comment by El Dingo posted on Bing search, get rid of it!! at 17/03/2010 - 13:47
I just want to browse, so my Firefox installations are 'light'.
However, I've been playing around with a Firefox add-on called 'Ghostery'. It's amazing to see how much one is being tracked when browsing... AVG Anti-virus also picks up a huge number of tracking cookies.
Comment by El Dingo posted on Bing search, get rid of it!! at 12/03/2010 - 13:36
John, is there any reason that I should use sRGB over AdobeRGB?
If you mix Adobe RGB and sRGB in your workflow you will get weak colour in your images. Whatever you do, check that the camera and Photoshop are both set to the same colour space.
There are possible reasons for using the wider gamut of Adobe RGB but I don't find it necessary.
I've actually set AdobeRGB in both the camera and Photoshop Elements (version eight), as most of my 'output' is via an Epson 1400 printer. In this case should I stay with that, or change to sRGB?
(Edit - that's annoying. I typed in v.8 in brackets and a smiley appeared!)