the blue collar workers nowadays. In the old days it were only coal miners, poor factory workers. But nowadays its the IT too. Not very high pay, long working hours. Very seperate sitting place, never included in most normal activities. Always stick together, etc etc.
I think going into IT was the worst decision I could have ever made.
I tried it, but whatever I used, it looked really strange and very "Mac OS 9" like. Very non intuitive interface and I just gave up and created my photoshop action instead...
Except Image programs. I have not yet found a program that is similar to IrfanView in Windows. A program that can easly batch convery images with certain flags given (eg rotate, etc). Nothing, nada. I tried a lot, free, share, whatever...
At the end I have a long list of Actions in Photoshop... kinda lame... but well:(
It's horrible slow. At least on Mac. In Photoshop you can actually edit, move around curves and see the result live, in Gimp you can literally see how the screen builds up. And I talk about a G5 2.5 PowerMac with more than enough RAM...
I invested in Photoshop at the end, and there is no way back at the moment.
5 kids? in Japan? Thats... expensive. And I just hope they all go to public schools, and will never ever think of going to a private University... Good luck with that;)
from another guy living in Japan, but definitely staying single
I also shoot RAW and with this its very easy to do any fix on the exposure, or to recover highlights. I am often surprised how much information there actually is and pity those who should JPEG on such a dSLR.
And none of those results are scientific. This is more a personal matter, what you like, etc...
I am myself kind of a film freak, especially because there is no viable alternative for Rangefinder cameras. Either they are ridiculous overpriced (Leica) or really have a too small sensor and are overpriced (Epson).
Well from my understanding as digital sensor fills up its "holes" the brighter it gets, the faster it is full. So I learned to rather underexpose a shot and then fix it and have all the detail there, than correctly exposing it and loose all the data because off over exposure. Again, this seems a problem with Canon cameras. They love to overexpose a lot, it seems to be some problem with APS-C / full frame and film / digital difference. Same thing doesn't work everywhere.
I have the originals at home, so if you are interested I can send them to you for some more accurate compare.
Well, I read the page above, and I actually agree with those results. Thing is, I scan in the negative as a TIFF (16bit) and compare it to a TIFF (16bit) from the RAW file. So almost apples and apples.
There are some shots where I took the same scene from my apartments window and on the negative ones (in this case Fuji Natura 1600) has way more visible dynamic range than the 30D shots (also ISO 1600).
But perhaps the built in lightmeter from my Bessa is much better than the one from the 30D? The Canon ones like to make everything too bright and with digital, if it is too bright, there is no way to get any data back...
Its just my personal experience, that when I shoot digital, I really know I have to be careful which dark to bright areas, negative film is so much more forgiving for doing light measure errors.
Well, it probably depends on the sensor size. Because my Canon 30D definitly has a smaller dynamic Range than any negative Film I use (Fuji Reala Ace, Fuji Pro 400, Kodak Porta).
I can extract a lot more data than from any slide film on the other hand. But you need to use a good RAW converter for this, or else you throw away a lot of good information.
Yup, just read that in the wikipedia Article. But as I live in Japan, I am happy that I still can get in country development and do not have to wait so long...
The only thing I want to comment here. A negative film has still much more dynamic range than a digital Camera. But I agree that nowadays top digital cameras have a wider dynamic range than even the best slide film.
I personally shoot film, because I enjoy it. But professionally I would not do it anymore. Development, scan, spot cleaning. Thats a big hassle. And you can avoid this all with a digital camera.
But for a private guy like me, who does only hobby shooting, Film is the only way to get Medium Format. I really cannot, nor want to invest into any digital back. Getting and old Rolleiflex, Hassleblad, Bronica or something like this is way cheaper.
No, Ektrachrome is still the standard Kodak Slide film. What you were talking about is Kodachrome. Which is slowly phased out. In Japan you can get development until the end of 2007. Its really sad to see this one go. Probably had the best color accuracy of _all_ slide films.
(and I dear cling to my small stock left in my fridge;)
So true. If you own a dSLR and do not post process your shots, and just use straight out of the camera JPEGs, its most of the time just a big waste of money.
But on the other hand, there are not many small digital cameras that can keep up with the high ISO Quality of dSLRs...
1) Merge accounts - only whines will care. The rest just merges and moves on
2) only 3000 contacts - if you have so many, you are anyway like myspace and thats useless. Seriously, what meaning has it to have 3000 contacts if you don't do anything with it. How do you want to follow up on pictures or anything.
3) only 75 tags - again, who needs so many tags. It is just no real limitation.
So overall it is just something people who love to whine, can whine about.
how much? 3 users 300? 3000? I doubt it will be many. There will be a lot of whiners and they will be happy to get some more attention, because they stand up The Man. But the rest will just shrug and move on.
Seriously, thats just really stupid behaviour of people. People love to whine (it seems). Always reminds me of Matrix, the happy one never worked:)
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the blue collar workers nowadays. In the old days it were only coal miners, poor factory workers. But nowadays its the IT too. Not very high pay, long working hours. Very seperate sitting place, never included in most normal activities. Always stick together, etc etc.
I think going into IT was the worst decision I could have ever made.
I tried it, but whatever I used, it looked really strange and very "Mac OS 9" like. Very non intuitive interface and I just gave up and created my photoshop action instead ...
Except Image programs. I have not yet found a program that is similar to IrfanView in Windows. A program that can easly batch convery images with certain flags given (eg rotate, etc). Nothing, nada. I tried a lot, free, share, whatever ...
... kinda lame ... but well :(
At the end I have a long list of Actions in Photoshop
Yes I know, because it is really fast on Linux on any architecture. But well, it wont change anytime soon, and I cannot wait for it.
It's horrible slow. At least on Mac. In Photoshop you can actually edit, move around curves and see the result live, in Gimp you can literally see how the screen builds up. And I talk about a G5 2.5 PowerMac with more than enough RAM ...
I invested in Photoshop at the end, and there is no way back at the moment.
5 kids? in Japan? Thats ... expensive. And I just hope they all go to public schools, and will never ever think of going to a private University ... Good luck with that ;)
from another guy living in Japan, but definitely staying single
I also shoot RAW and with this its very easy to do any fix on the exposure, or to recover highlights. I am often surprised how much information there actually is and pity those who should JPEG on such a dSLR.
...
And none of those results are scientific. This is more a personal matter, what you like, etc
I am myself kind of a film freak, especially because there is no viable alternative for Rangefinder cameras. Either they are ridiculous overpriced (Leica) or really have a too small sensor and are overpriced (Epson).
Well from my understanding as digital sensor fills up its "holes" the brighter it gets, the faster it is full. So I learned to rather underexpose a shot and then fix it and have all the detail there, than correctly exposing it and loose all the data because off over exposure. Again, this seems a problem with Canon cameras. They love to overexpose a lot, it seems to be some problem with APS-C / full frame and film / digital difference. Same thing doesn't work everywhere.
I have the originals at home, so if you are interested I can send them to you for some more accurate compare.
Well, I read the page above, and I actually agree with those results. Thing is, I scan in the negative as a TIFF (16bit) and compare it to a TIFF (16bit) from the RAW file. So almost apples and apples.
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There are some shots where I took the same scene from my apartments window and on the negative ones (in this case Fuji Natura 1600) has way more visible dynamic range than the 30D shots (also ISO 1600).
But perhaps the built in lightmeter from my Bessa is much better than the one from the 30D? The Canon ones like to make everything too bright and with digital, if it is too bright, there is no way to get any data back
Its just my personal experience, that when I shoot digital, I really know I have to be careful which dark to bright areas, negative film is so much more forgiving for doing light measure errors.
Just for compare:
Fuji Reala Ace: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gullevek/380595985/i
Canon 30D: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gullevek/335142975/i
Fuji Reala Ace: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gullevek/380595878/i
Canon 30D: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gullevek/335142775/i
of course I could have boosted the dark areas via the curve tool in CaptureOne, but I would have introduced more "noise".
Well, it probably depends on the sensor size. Because my Canon 30D definitly has a smaller dynamic Range than any negative Film I use (Fuji Reala Ace, Fuji Pro 400, Kodak Porta).
I can extract a lot more data than from any slide film on the other hand. But you need to use a good RAW converter for this, or else you throw away a lot of good information.
Yup, just read that in the wikipedia Article. But as I live in Japan, I am happy that I still can get in country development and do not have to wait so long ...
The only thing I want to comment here. A negative film has still much more dynamic range than a digital Camera. But I agree that nowadays top digital cameras have a wider dynamic range than even the best slide film.
I personally shoot film, because I enjoy it. But professionally I would not do it anymore. Development, scan, spot cleaning. Thats a big hassle. And you can avoid this all with a digital camera.
But for a private guy like me, who does only hobby shooting, Film is the only way to get Medium Format. I really cannot, nor want to invest into any digital back. Getting and old Rolleiflex, Hassleblad, Bronica or something like this is way cheaper.
No, Ektrachrome is still the standard Kodak Slide film. What you were talking about is Kodachrome. Which is slowly phased out. In Japan you can get development until the end of 2007. Its really sad to see this one go. Probably had the best color accuracy of _all_ slide films.
;)
(and I dear cling to my small stock left in my fridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodachrome
So true. If you own a dSLR and do not post process your shots, and just use straight out of the camera JPEGs, its most of the time just a big waste of money.
...
But on the other hand, there are not many small digital cameras that can keep up with the high ISO Quality of dSLRs
the Postgres speed was true until the release of Version 8. There it might such a huge jump, that was just unbelievable. You should give it a try.
Surprised? The Government need control, and what else helps it to do than TV? So of course they are more than willing to spend money on it.
Woho! You are the first person that recognises it :)
In my opinion, the CC overrules this, and I do hope that I am not wrong. I do not want my pictures to be used for any commercial use.
But the only way to prevent this, is actually not uploading them.
1) Merge accounts
- only whines will care. The rest just merges and moves on
2) only 3000 contacts
- if you have so many, you are anyway like myspace and thats useless. Seriously, what meaning has it to have 3000 contacts if you don't do anything with it. How do you want to follow up on pictures or anything.
3) only 75 tags
- again, who needs so many tags. It is just no real limitation.
So overall it is just something people who love to whine, can whine about.
how much? 3 users 300? 3000? I doubt it will be many. There will be a lot of whiners and they will be happy to get some more attention, because they stand up The Man. But the rest will just shrug and move on.
:)
Seriously, thats just really stupid behaviour of people. People love to whine (it seems). Always reminds me of Matrix, the happy one never worked
yeah, but dumb, that you can tag all your pictures with the CC. And that overrules this one quite fast.
FUD all over again.
Shocking, I didn't even know my own countries (Austria) laws.
in which country? thats BS.
Forbidden is showing NAZI Symbols, Uniforms, etc.
Yup, get your gun when you are four, but the booze you wont get until you are 80 and with your parents.
Yes, and you have been around 10.000 years ago and you will be around in 10.000 years to actually see a "radical" climate change.
GW is business, you can make money, you can make people afraid and if they are afraid they will buy anything, give money and do anything you want.
"Fear will keep the local systems in line". As dumb it might be to quote a movie here, as true it is.
As much global warming might be true, there is too much BS going around it, as it is real threat to all the tiny islands around the world.