I agree with this. I work as a "creative" (commercial photography) and I keep nothing but the specific software I need on my machine's. All work files are kept on SSD's while in the field and dumped onto a RAID at the office. The computers themselves are kept clean free of anything that might degrade performance.
I recently sent an old Mac Book 7,1 to my mother-in-law. Ram upgraded to 6gb, solid state drive and OS X 10.10. It works great for light browsing, email and FaceTime.
If you're not making money off it, a 3000 series epson is a better buy (and much smaller foot print). 4900 will last longer and be cheaper to operate in the long term, but you're looking at $3000-4000 in start up costs (at retail). You'd have to make a lot of prints, way more than 100's, to justify it. 3000 series can be had for $1500-2000 in start up costs.
Food shots are retouched. But (at least here in the US) there are truth in advertising laws. So if you see a shot of a McDonalds hamburger, it made from the same ingredients and materials that you would get at the restaurant. The difference is that what you get at McD's has been slapped together by a line worker, while the photo-ed one was assembled by a food stylist who took their time and made it look edible (or as edible as a McDonalds burger can look).
Photojournalism and commercial photography are two completely different beasts. Without getting into any theoretical arguments about what is photographic truth, photojournalism tries to convey the facts of an event where as commercial photography want to convey an idea. Reality and truth don't matter. After over a decade in this business, more and more I think of it as image making through photographic processes.
And for the record every, and I mean EVERY photo you see in an ad, editorial spread, billboard etc... has been manipulated. This has been true since the dawn of photography. Even Ansel Adams would quite literally move boulders to get the shot he wanted. How is manipulating the scene before hand any different than doing it after.
The MPAA makes no provisions anywhere for backups. The 'point a camcorder at your tv' method is their recommended way to create fair use clips for educational purposes. They don't intend it for the whole movie.
Stupid TW. I used to live in NJ and had Cablevision. Never had a problem, very good tech support (though I only had to call once). Moved to Queens, TW only. Cablevision is based out of the Bronx, but only services a limited part of NYC due to the TW cable monopoly in most of the boroughs.
I'm also on a Mac, so I only ever seen the Silverlight version. But right away I thought the quality was awful. Full screen is worse, half the time it's 'jumpy' and the resolution only barely watchable.
Hulu's video is great looking and it's free, I pay for Netflix and it looks like youtube. They need to make improvements on this and quick. Especially given their recent statements about moving more heavily into online only packages.
The author poses a hypothetical question that he knows will get the fanboys riled up: "Did make a mistake?". And the disputes his own question saying "No they didn't".
This whole "article" is a troll and should be ignored.
I think you missunderstand the purpose of DNG. It contains no color space of its own. I suppose that RAW is RGB because the sensors are (RAW is essentially a sensor dump), but you can output the color in any color space, RGB, CMYK, LAB. It's up to you. In your work flow, the DNG would replace the PEF file not the PNG. DNG is just a unform wraper for RAW files, not a delivery format.
This has huge advantages. First, the individual camera manufactures use their own snarky implementaion of RAW even though they're all basically the same at the core, even within the manufatures the formats change. For instance a Canon CR2 on a 5D, 30D, and Mark 2 are all different and not interchangable. You don't know if the camera manufacture will suddenly drop support for a particular implimentation, leaving your older files in a lurch. You might not be able to get your photographs. DNG will be supported longer and more thoroughly then PEF in the future.
Second, from a workflow it's great. If you use multiple, different cameras, it provides unformity. It contains all of it metadata internaly, whereas many formats (all that I've encountered so far) produce side car files, giving you extra things to have to orginize.
My workflow goes something like this:
RAW>DNG (general color correction and cropping done here) DNG>16 bit PSD (all photoshop done here) PSD>8 bit TIFF & JPG (final flatened format, given to clients)
Anywhere from 40 to 100 images go through my hands this way every day. Each transition step (ie DNG to PSD) is automated and does needed sizeing, sharpening, or anything else that does not change image to image.
It think that the love triangle was because some marketing guy or producer said "We need a love story to attract a broader audience and more female viewers". So the writers said, "Sure we'll write a love story. The shittiest, most contrived piece of drivel you've ever seen. And then when the ratings fall we'll go back to making a good show".
Your joke has a lot of insight to it. About 3 months ago I called apple care, which used to be the best damed tech support around, and the guy on the other end gave me so much obviously wrong information that I have doubt that knew anything at all about the Mac. On a brand new Quad (I was having monitor problems) he suggested that I didn't have the right video card to run a 23" screen, and suggested I install an older video card that wouldn't even fit in the PCI Express slots. I was flabbergasted at his handling of the problem, he paid no attention when I informed him that his solution would never work. Not only did I file complaint through the normal channels, but my reseller filed a complaint through their Apple rep.
Worse tech support experience ever. I've had better service with ISP support.
But that's the brilliance of Lex Luthor. Superman is the Strongest, Fastest, Bestest person ever. You can't really match him in a simple physical brawl. Luthor doesn't fight him on a physical level, but on a more sophisticated machiavellian one. That an ordinary human could constantly frustrate Superman made Supes more human and more relatable.
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I agree with this. I work as a "creative" (commercial photography) and I keep nothing but the specific software I need on my machine's. All work files are kept on SSD's while in the field and dumped onto a RAID at the office. The computers themselves are kept clean free of anything that might degrade performance.
I recently sent an old Mac Book 7,1 to my mother-in-law. Ram upgraded to 6gb, solid state drive and OS X 10.10. It works great for light browsing, email and FaceTime.
If you're not making money off it, a 3000 series epson is a better buy (and much smaller foot print). 4900 will last longer and be cheaper to operate in the long term, but you're looking at $3000-4000 in start up costs (at retail). You'd have to make a lot of prints, way more than 100's, to justify it. 3000 series can be had for $1500-2000 in start up costs.
Oh man, I just watched the trailer for it. Looks soooooo bad.
I always found the phone support was great. And on the two occasions I needed parts, they had them to me the next morning, all covered by apple care.
Neither.
Food shots are retouched. But (at least here in the US) there are truth in advertising laws. So if you see a shot of a McDonalds hamburger, it made from the same ingredients and materials that you would get at the restaurant. The difference is that what you get at McD's has been slapped together by a line worker, while the photo-ed one was assembled by a food stylist who took their time and made it look edible (or as edible as a McDonalds burger can look).
Photojournalism and commercial photography are two completely different beasts. Without getting into any theoretical arguments about what is photographic truth, photojournalism tries to convey the facts of an event where as commercial photography want to convey an idea. Reality and truth don't matter. After over a decade in this business, more and more I think of it as image making through photographic processes. And for the record every, and I mean EVERY photo you see in an ad, editorial spread, billboard etc... has been manipulated. This has been true since the dawn of photography. Even Ansel Adams would quite literally move boulders to get the shot he wanted. How is manipulating the scene before hand any different than doing it after.
The MPAA makes no provisions anywhere for backups. The 'point a camcorder at your tv' method is their recommended way to create fair use clips for educational purposes. They don't intend it for the whole movie.
American Association of Cosmetology Schools?
Stupid TW. I used to live in NJ and had Cablevision. Never had a problem, very good tech support (though I only had to call once). Moved to Queens, TW only. Cablevision is based out of the Bronx, but only services a limited part of NYC due to the TW cable monopoly in most of the boroughs.
I alway thought it was great that they kept updating the Be OS version for so long too, way after Be OS left the market.
I'm also on a Mac, so I only ever seen the Silverlight version. But right away I thought the quality was awful. Full screen is worse, half the time it's 'jumpy' and the resolution only barely watchable. Hulu's video is great looking and it's free, I pay for Netflix and it looks like youtube. They need to make improvements on this and quick. Especially given their recent statements about moving more heavily into online only packages.
Build a MAME out of it.
The author poses a hypothetical question that he knows will get the fanboys riled up: "Did make a mistake?". And the disputes his own question saying "No they didn't". This whole "article" is a troll and should be ignored.
By speculating the owner of the fiber, is the implication that this was an attack on the network?
It needs to go at least 300 miles or else it's irrelevant for anything but commuting, and I gave up on commuting by car a long time ago.
This is so lame on Dells part, I don't even know where to start.
I think you missunderstand the purpose of DNG. It contains no color space of its own. I suppose that RAW is RGB because the sensors are (RAW is essentially a sensor dump), but you can output the color in any color space, RGB, CMYK, LAB. It's up to you. In your work flow, the DNG would replace the PEF file not the PNG. DNG is just a unform wraper for RAW files, not a delivery format.
This has huge advantages. First, the individual camera manufactures use their own snarky implementaion of RAW even though they're all basically the same at the core, even within the manufatures the formats change. For instance a Canon CR2 on a 5D, 30D, and Mark 2 are all different and not interchangable. You don't know if the camera manufacture will suddenly drop support for a particular implimentation, leaving your older files in a lurch. You might not be able to get your photographs. DNG will be supported longer and more thoroughly then PEF in the future.
Second, from a workflow it's great. If you use multiple, different cameras, it provides unformity. It contains all of it metadata internaly, whereas many formats (all that I've encountered so far) produce side car files, giving you extra things to have to orginize.
My workflow goes something like this:
RAW>DNG (general color correction and cropping done here)
DNG>16 bit PSD (all photoshop done here)
PSD>8 bit TIFF & JPG (final flatened format, given to clients)
Anywhere from 40 to 100 images go through my hands this way every day. Each transition step (ie DNG to PSD) is automated and does needed sizeing, sharpening, or anything else that does not change image to image.
It think that the love triangle was because some marketing guy or producer said "We need a love story to attract a broader audience and more female viewers". So the writers said, "Sure we'll write a love story. The shittiest, most contrived piece of drivel you've ever seen. And then when the ratings fall we'll go back to making a good show".
But they did bring back Aunt May.
I think that Zemo is back. They even brought back the Red Skull after 10 or 15 years.
I can't say I know anyone here in NYC who uses a PC at home.
Your joke has a lot of insight to it. About 3 months ago I called apple care, which used to be the best damed tech support around, and the guy on the other end gave me so much obviously wrong information that I have doubt that knew anything at all about the Mac. On a brand new Quad (I was having monitor problems) he suggested that I didn't have the right video card to run a 23" screen, and suggested I install an older video card that wouldn't even fit in the PCI Express slots. I was flabbergasted at his handling of the problem, he paid no attention when I informed him that his solution would never work. Not only did I file complaint through the normal channels, but my reseller filed a complaint through their Apple rep. Worse tech support experience ever. I've had better service with ISP support.
But that's the brilliance of Lex Luthor. Superman is the Strongest, Fastest, Bestest person ever. You can't really match him in a simple physical brawl. Luthor doesn't fight him on a physical level, but on a more sophisticated machiavellian one. That an ordinary human could constantly frustrate Superman made Supes more human and more relatable.