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Professional Photographers Using Linux?
thesun asks: "I'm a freelance writer and photographer and I'm wondering what Pro Photographers have done in regards to color matching and scanning under Linux, especially when going from slides to digital. I just can't get anything close to a good image when I scan a slide. They're blurry and the colors are so off that doing anything with my thousands of slides is proving to be prohibitively time-consuming. Are other Pros (or talented amateurs) having similar problems? Are there solutions out there I haven't found? (Sorry, I can't dump thousands into a piece of hardware---I'm looking for a way to make the most of my Epson Perfection 2400 with transparency adapter)."
it's sort of irritating that you answer every single computer related question with the stock answer, "why not switch to mac?"
Its even more irritating as a Linux user for over 10 years to see people still "trying to get it to work, but not trying enough to use something like google".
Would there be an ask.slashdot.org article saying "Professional Photographers Using OS X"?
No.
Why not?
As I have said, I've used Linux for over 10 years now. I get paid to admin it, I know enough about it to leave it in the server room.
Maybe for an embedded app like a mythbox or on my Linksys router, but wake me up when there is a real GUI and real working applications and a packaging system that works.
The reason that people say "why not switch to a mac?" is becuase its the best advice that people are asking for. A mac is UNIX now. It has (IMHO) the best terminal application in the business. It comes with ssh. Every day I do:
ssh linuxbox
and it works just like it did when I had linux on my desktop, but now I can do things like run Office if I want (*shutter*) run photoshop, have good looking fonts, have an installer that works, have hardware that works, have an OS that works, have a GUI that works, printers that work, network configurations across multiple LANs that work, more than one browser that works, etc, etc. Then there is stuff that other OSes can't touch, like Expose. And things that just "think different" like Quicksilver. I really, really like my Mac more and more every day. I was the same way about Linux, but a better mouse trap has come along. Trust me, its really that good.
I laugh all the time when people suffer with Linux on their desktop. Its very late '90s and pictures of it are starting to show its age.
"Linux is only free if your time has no value"
Yes. And Windows is only 300 bucks if your time has no value.
What's your point?
Gary (-;
I work for a professional photo lab and there are more than a few of our clientelle who would like to acheive top-notch quality at Goodwill prices. Just doesn't work. I would also voice another vote for "Don't use Linux." Of our hundreds of clients, not one uses Linux. I doubt most have even heard of it. There is also a large portion who go out and spend shit loads of cash on new systems and cameras with the full expectation that that will make them a "Professional Photographer," and then blame the lab for poor results. We are not allowed, alas, to tell them if you give us shit, you get shit back.