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Comment by Tyr posted on CS5, Lightroom 3.2 or both? Any Suggestions please. at 17/03/2011 - 20:29
The DA*50-135 is an amazing lens. I don't think the 18-135 will come close and you lose 2 stops on the aperture!
I wouldn't trade mine for the 18-135.
Difficult to say on the long end. I have the DA*300 and sometimes find it is not quite long enough. Most of the time it is rather good.
It depends how much you want to carry. Some of the big zooms are very heavy.
I wouldn't trade mine for the 18-135.
Difficult to say on the long end. I have the DA*300 and sometimes find it is not quite long enough. Most of the time it is rather good.
It depends how much you want to carry. Some of the big zooms are very heavy.
Comment by Tyr posted on A few musings, after a glass of wine with a hint of LBA. at 17/03/2011 - 19:55
So I might as well export to PSD or TIF and work on the copy then?
Comment by Tyr posted on CS5, Lightroom 3.2 or both? Any Suggestions please. at 17/03/2011 - 19:42
johnriley wrote:
The idea of a project is sound. The ADAPS Year Book, for example, is now in its fourth year and we hope it will build up into a permanent record of what members were producing over a long period of time. Otherwise, there's no trace of people after a very short time indeed.
Websites are fine, but eventually they will not be maintained and paid for and will disappear to be replaced by others. A book or a print may have a longer life.
There are many happy hours to be had looking at old family prints, but there's going to be a gap now that digital has arrived. Virtually no-one will try to look at what's on an archive CD or DVD, even if they can still read it.
Indeed, that is a very good reason to print. Who knows if you'll even be able to read the disks in future. Once you have a print there is a fairly long lasting record and it can be scanned if the original data is lost.The idea of a project is sound. The ADAPS Year Book, for example, is now in its fourth year and we hope it will build up into a permanent record of what members were producing over a long period of time. Otherwise, there's no trace of people after a very short time indeed.
Websites are fine, but eventually they will not be maintained and paid for and will disappear to be replaced by others. A book or a print may have a longer life.
There are many happy hours to be had looking at old family prints, but there's going to be a gap now that digital has arrived. Virtually no-one will try to look at what's on an archive CD or DVD, even if they can still read it.
Comment by Tyr posted on Do you make photo books? at 17/03/2011 - 19:41
I'm surprised it took 26 mins!
Comment by Tyr posted on FS : Pentax FA 50mm f1.4 at 17/03/2011 - 18:32
Sorry, Purple Fringing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_fringing
Unfortunately very hard to correct for and once you know about it you will see it everywhere. It is incredibly common on TV broadcasts from documentaries to news reports where they don't have much control over lighting. Studio stuff tends to be fine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_fringing
Unfortunately very hard to correct for and once you know about it you will see it everywhere. It is incredibly common on TV broadcasts from documentaries to news reports where they don't have much control over lighting. Studio stuff tends to be fine.
Comment by Tyr posted on WTB Pentax fast autofocus prime - 35mm or 50mm at 17/03/2011 - 18:32
I have to say I've had a good experience with my Airport Extreme and Express. Sadly retired now as we are not in a cable area. The wife loves her iPhone and had an iPod previously. I just think some of their pricing is a bit off. Not so bad over the pond but 1:1 currency conversion from USD to GBP is silly, same as with Adobe.
Comment by Tyr posted on Grindingly Slow Laptop! at 17/03/2011 - 18:28
You can't really say that given that Apple fell prey to the nVidia substrate fiasco with some of their GPUs.
To cut a long story short nVidia engineers used the wrong kind of substrate to attach the actual chip to the chip housing. As they heated up and cooled they slowly became disconnected from within as the two chosen materials did not expand and contract at the same rate.
This was right up to the 9400 series GPUs! They have a rather high failure rate and a short warranty period.
Same components affecting PCs and Macs.
The biggest difference is hardware standardisation that means stability because you don't need 10000000000000+ different drivers. That is the real boon of a Mac. but if you build your own PC you can get it just right.
I still want to get a Mac though. Need a portable work machine.
To cut a long story short nVidia engineers used the wrong kind of substrate to attach the actual chip to the chip housing. As they heated up and cooled they slowly became disconnected from within as the two chosen materials did not expand and contract at the same rate.
This was right up to the 9400 series GPUs! They have a rather high failure rate and a short warranty period.
Same components affecting PCs and Macs.
The biggest difference is hardware standardisation that means stability because you don't need 10000000000000+ different drivers. That is the real boon of a Mac. but if you build your own PC you can get it just right.
I still want to get a Mac though. Need a portable work machine.
Comment by Tyr posted on Grindingly Slow Laptop! at 17/03/2011 - 17:11
Don wrote:
Ok after five pages, this thread is still going strong...
It needs to be said.....
hit the power button...
if at any point during the start up you happen to see anything resembling this:
then your computer is obviously infected with some form of the dreaded windoze virus.
Throw it out and buy a mac.
Problem solved.
Not everyone can go out and dump wads of cash at the shrines of Steve Jobs. If I could I'd probable get a MacBook Air.Ok after five pages, this thread is still going strong...
It needs to be said.....
hit the power button...
if at any point during the start up you happen to see anything resembling this:
then your computer is obviously infected with some form of the dreaded windoze virus.
Throw it out and buy a mac.
Problem solved.
I say go Ubuntu!
Comment by Tyr posted on Grindingly Slow Laptop! at 17/03/2011 - 16:49
I have to say that content aware heal saves some time but it doesn't get it right anywhere near as often as I'd like. I get better results with spot removal abuse in Lightroom.
The clone stamp in Photoshop is a complete pain though where as the spot removal tool in Lightroom is much easier to use.
The clone stamp in Photoshop is a complete pain though where as the spot removal tool in Lightroom is much easier to use.
Comment by Tyr posted on CS5, Lightroom 3.2 or both? Any Suggestions please. at 17/03/2011 - 16:46
I was just hoping CS5 might save me having the extra file.