Until 2003, Fujifilm was shipping their line of Frontier digital laser imagers with NT 4.0 SP5 as the underlying OS. So wherever you see a Fuji printer (in most Walgreens actually), there's an NT 4.0 install with no compelling reason to migrate. The system is turnkey, with no easy (for your average photo lab tech) way into the underlying OS...it boots up and comes online. Simple as that. If it doesn't, there's a ghost CD that the tech can use. Now they ship their new Frontiers with either Windows 2000 or XP Pro.
I have a hybrid CD/DVD disc already. I got it about 4 years ago. One side is a CD audio mix, the other side is a DVD-Video mix.
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It is an import (if you are in the US) though, so maybe that has something to do with it.
The quality off of the X3 chips are decent, check the DPReview website, for the reviews.
What is hobbling the Sigmas is the fact that they are a blip on the camera body scene...everyone has Nikon or Canon glass...I think Foveon would have done better to fit their sensor to a Nikon or Canon body...we'd see true 10 megapixel X3 sensors by now.
That's true. Most pros I know, have decent (i.e. a Canon 10D, 1D, 1Ds, Nikon D1, D100, D1x...)digital rigs already, or are getting them.
The fine art photographers are holding out, since their media forms their art, much like a painter with paint...
Some fashion photographers, usually the ones who shoot catalog in MF, are still on film due to the high cost of MF digital, and since they're used to their workflow and apparently their clients will pay for it...but more and more, catalogs are demanding a full digital workflow, to cut their own costs and decrease turnaround time. During the day, I work as a digital tech in a local pro-lab, and many a client comes up and asks about digital bodies, since their clients are demanding digital. There's one guy who is an analog holdout, even though he shoots catalog...he has a happy clientele, so he's going to remain that way, even though he's cautiously experimenting with digital.
Photojournalism is largely digital, catalog is going that way, and commercial/industrial photography is already there...i.e. forensics and such. Fine art probably won't be digitally dominant, but digital will be a method of producing fine art photography. The adult industry, at least on a "tasteful" level, is largely digital too, most porn shooters I know are totally digital now, with the few holdouts only being involved with Playboy.
The article in question was shot with a 5 MP Nikon D1X, which is their highest-resolution digital SLR to date. Now for the size of the Geographic, the camera's resolution was just fine.
I like to consider myself a "real" photographer. I take photos and get paid for it. I use digital, in the form of a Canon 10D digital SLR, with various lenses. Straight out of the camera, the prints up to 11" x 14" that I have done have been more aesthetically pleasing to the eye...significantly less grain at equivalent ISOs, and more apparent sharpness. Film may technically be sharper than my 6 MP DSLR, but the sharpness is offset by the grain, which obscures fine details in most cases.
I'd dare to say in the photojournalism field, film is dead. Every event I shoot, everyone is digital. Film is eventually going to be a fine-art medium exclusively...not to say digital isn't (there's a few notable exhibits out there where the images were captured digitally...i'm unsure of the name, but one US-based female photographer produced a book entirely from a now-antiquated Nikon 990..), but film will be relegated exclusively to the fine-art area.
Or less. Most high-end nightclubs will have this as part of a standard DJ booth. I give it a year in top DJ/club/dance music cities such as Miami, New York, and Los Angeles. Probably in 2 or three, second-tier cities like Atlanta, Houston, and Seattle.
You'll see demo units in action during the 2004 Winter Music Conference in Miami at various locations. I can only imagine the possibilites of this device when coupled to a movable video projector like the HighendDL1 or Catalyst system.
I wouldn't say digital's quality is totally crap compared to film.
It all depends on what you shoot with. In the digital world, the camera factors in way more, obviously. Even a seasoned pro would have a bit of a time generating something decent from a 2MP Fuji Finepix.
Of course, that's where the $$$ comes in. To get that film-equivalent quality, you have to lay out major bucks...a Canon 10D is considered near-35mm quality (maybe more so due to lack of grain/noise up to ISO 1600), but will set you back $1500. Nevermind the 11.1 MP Canon 1Ds, which according to most tests, outclasses 35mm film in perceptual resolution and sharpness...the 1Ds costs $8,000 for the body alone.
Stock houses won't accept an image from this camera, more than likely. The sensor is very small in physical dimensions and will more than likely have noise issues that will become readily apparent at large print sizes...Sony doesn't mind though, since the camera is not targeted at pros, really...
Newspapers, at least the ones I work with, usually have a higher tolerance, the one i shoot for asks for 150-200 DPI...which my 6.3 MP Canon 10D does with ease up to 11" x 17".
who cares what the format is? It's a viable application. The implementers are probably just dance-music enthusiasts, is all...i can think of worse music to stream...
The one thing I can't really wait to see is how long printers such as the Epson 9000 and 10000 last...when you spend 7 or 8 grand on a printer, you probably want it to last for quite a long time, at least 5 years or so. I know people with Epson 7000 series wide-format printers that are still going after 3, so it looks good for them..
Of course when you get into the LightJet and Lambda class, the things last forever, but not without a $20K a year service contract...:)
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Well, being a computer geek myself, I still do know when to say when. By day, I'm a digital imaging technician, by night, I'm out and about on best nightlife scene in the country. I bring a camera along, so check out the galleries on this website for evidence of my lifestyle.
A 75 hour week is too much for me. I try my damndest never to work more than 50 or so. Grant it, there's the occasional "week from hell", but any job has that. I usually don't waste my time at sporting events because I believe they are too expensive, the only time I will go is if I'm comped, and usually on those times, I make money by showing up. I'm not sedentary either, I try to hit the gym a few times a week, and just doing what I do tends to keep me active to a point. Yeah I've got the early stages of CTS, but that comes from not following the rules of typing I guess, not overuse of a PC. As far as girls go...gee I live on South Beach, need I say more?
I'm friends and more with girls who would make your seriously cute ones look like Rosie O'Donnell by comparison.
I could have easily gone into an engineering field. I know my way around a PC, can install and use many variants of Linux, and other OSes, as a matter of fact, one of my specialites happens to be computer networking and hardware. But my education is in motion picture production and fine art photography. Why? Because I wanted to. I have no desire to be stuck in a lab or an office for 18 hours a day. Just not my thing. Don't automatically assume all arts majors are incompetent morons, just because of our choice of education.
I'd love to see a place that would ban people with children. I'm trying to enjoy my meal, and I can't do it with your spawn hollering about how disgusting something is!
I work in digital imaging. A client came in today and was not satisfied with the quality of a print I turned out from the company LightJet. I don't tweak out files unless people pay retouching fees, so I took what he gave me on a CD, and merely dumped it into the queue.
So I did step two, which is to sit down with the client and tweak the file out to his specs, since he was willing to pay *now* for the 'expert eye'. I asked just out of curiosity about what he used, and he said a "4 MP Fuji"...acting as if the amount of megapixels was all that mattered.
It comes down to the quality of the CCD itself, which is why a 6 MP Nikon D100 costs 2300, and a consumer 6 MP camera costs maybe half that.
Why was this modded down? His opinion is a valid one as the rest of ours. Some people want the sticks, some of us want bright lights, beef jerky!
Miami wouldn't be a good place for a research hub though. The state may promise x amount of dollars, but the local banana republicans will use it to put new rims on their Jaguars or buy a nightclub so they can get laid.
Speaking from experience. Though I thrive on the corruption!
I grew up in the region. During the good times, it really was no different than the bad times.
Talk about boring, too..nothing to do with your leisure time except plant a garden or something.
2 AM is the closing time for any bar, so forget about nightlife..you're looked upon funny if you are out past 9 PM.
Public education is horrid, most of the people whom I went to high school with were, and still are frighteningly ignorant.
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Here's where I can interject an actual comment.
Clubbing is my profession, I shoot for a local nightlife guide...
A lot of top DJs use CDs, since they get a lot of new material that way...some of those tracks you hear are on CD, because the artist cannot afford to get vinyl pressed at the moment..also, consider Tenaglia, who does 15 hour sets on average..can you imagine toting around 15 hrs worth of vinyl?!?
Certain other DJs, notably Erick Morillo and Steve Lawler, use the CD player as a sampler of sorts, carrying all their samples and noise on CDs...crobar South Beach just got equipped with CDJ-1000s, and with their response time and effects banks, they are quite akin to a true sampler from what I can see.
Vinyl has it's merits, certainly. Real clubs demand it. Your average "clubgoer" in Buttfuck, MI is not 'educated' enough to care, but in a big city with a true nightlife, vinyl, as well as a sophisticated CD deck like the 1000, is not only expected, but is demanded...
The best hi-res printers on the market.
The LightJets combine digital printing with the archival quality of printing on true photographic paper.
Of course, you have to have $200K lying about to get one:)
Serial ports are still used if you have the Martin LightJockey DMX lighting control software installed and use the 2532 interface, which goes in through the serial port....basically LJ sucks without a 2532, so it's kind of a necessity.
Though LJ doesn't need the latest and greatest PC for operation, I've seen it run just fine on a P-II 333.
The D30 has a similar MP to the Sigma SD9. No Canon digital body has a 6MP sensor...well except for the DCS-540, but that is a body-by-Canon, digital guts by Kodak joint venture...
I was under the impression that the phone line had to be able to at least provide 911 service and the ability to call the phone company, by law?
In other words, you can opt out of having to pay the local ILEC/CLEC/whomever for voice service, but the line must be on so you can at least call 911 in case of an emergency.
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Until 2003, Fujifilm was shipping their line of Frontier digital laser imagers with NT 4.0 SP5 as the underlying OS. So wherever you see a Fuji printer (in most Walgreens actually), there's an NT 4.0 install with no compelling reason to migrate. The system is turnkey, with no easy (for your average photo lab tech) way into the underlying OS...it boots up and comes online. Simple as that. If it doesn't, there's a ghost CD that the tech can use. Now they ship their new Frontiers with either Windows 2000 or XP Pro.
I have a hybrid CD/DVD disc already. I got it about 4 years ago. One side is a CD audio mix, the other side is a DVD-Video mix. Click here to check it out It is an import (if you are in the US) though, so maybe that has something to do with it.
The quality off of the X3 chips are decent, check the DPReview website, for the reviews.
What is hobbling the Sigmas is the fact that they are a blip on the camera body scene...everyone has Nikon or Canon glass...I think Foveon would have done better to fit their sensor to a Nikon or Canon body...we'd see true 10 megapixel X3 sensors by now.
That's true. Most pros I know, have decent (i.e. a Canon 10D, 1D, 1Ds, Nikon D1, D100, D1x...)digital rigs already, or are getting them.
The fine art photographers are holding out, since their media forms their art, much like a painter with paint...
Some fashion photographers, usually the ones who shoot catalog in MF, are still on film due to the high cost of MF digital, and since they're used to their workflow and apparently their clients will pay for it...but more and more, catalogs are demanding a full digital workflow, to cut their own costs and decrease turnaround time. During the day, I work as a digital tech in a local pro-lab, and many a client comes up and asks about digital bodies, since their clients are demanding digital. There's one guy who is an analog holdout, even though he shoots catalog...he has a happy clientele, so he's going to remain that way, even though he's cautiously experimenting with digital.
Photojournalism is largely digital, catalog is going that way, and commercial/industrial photography is already there...i.e. forensics and such. Fine art probably won't be digitally dominant, but digital will be a method of producing fine art photography. The adult industry, at least on a "tasteful" level, is largely digital too, most porn shooters I know are totally digital now, with the few holdouts only being involved with Playboy.
The article in question was shot with a 5 MP Nikon D1X, which is their highest-resolution digital SLR to date. Now for the size of the Geographic, the camera's resolution was just fine.
I like to consider myself a "real" photographer. I take photos and get paid for it. I use digital, in the form of a Canon 10D digital SLR, with various lenses. Straight out of the camera, the prints up to 11" x 14" that I have done have been more aesthetically pleasing to the eye...significantly less grain at equivalent ISOs, and more apparent sharpness. Film may technically be sharper than my 6 MP DSLR, but the sharpness is offset by the grain, which obscures fine details in most cases.
I'd dare to say in the photojournalism field, film is dead. Every event I shoot, everyone is digital. Film is eventually going to be a fine-art medium exclusively...not to say digital isn't (there's a few notable exhibits out there where the images were captured digitally...i'm unsure of the name, but one US-based female photographer produced a book entirely from a now-antiquated Nikon 990..), but film will be relegated exclusively to the fine-art area.
You'll see demo units in action during the 2004 Winter Music Conference in Miami at various locations. I can only imagine the possibilites of this device when coupled to a movable video projector like the HighendDL1 or Catalyst system.
I wouldn't say digital's quality is totally crap compared to film.
It all depends on what you shoot with. In the digital world, the camera factors in way more, obviously. Even a seasoned pro would have a bit of a time generating something decent from a 2MP Fuji Finepix.
Of course, that's where the $$$ comes in. To get that film-equivalent quality, you have to lay out major bucks...a Canon 10D is considered near-35mm quality (maybe more so due to lack of grain/noise up to ISO 1600), but will set you back $1500. Nevermind the 11.1 MP Canon 1Ds, which according to most tests, outclasses 35mm film in perceptual resolution and sharpness...the 1Ds costs $8,000 for the body alone.
Stock houses won't accept an image from this camera, more than likely. The sensor is very small in physical dimensions and will more than likely have noise issues that will become readily apparent at large print sizes...Sony doesn't mind though, since the camera is not targeted at pros, really...
The 1Ds shoots at 3 fps, the 1D at 8. The 1Ds is slower due to the large file size.
Newsweek, Time, etc usually ask for 300 DPI.
Newspapers, at least the ones I work with, usually have a higher tolerance, the one i shoot for asks for 150-200 DPI...which my 6.3 MP Canon 10D does with ease up to 11" x 17".
who cares what the format is? It's a viable application. The implementers are probably just dance-music enthusiasts, is all...i can think of worse music to stream...
The one thing I can't really wait to see is how long printers such as the Epson 9000 and 10000 last...when you spend 7 or 8 grand on a printer, you probably want it to last for quite a long time, at least 5 years or so. I know people with Epson 7000 series wide-format printers that are still going after 3, so it looks good for them..
Of course when you get into the LightJet and Lambda class, the things last forever, but not without a $20K a year service contract...:)
A 75 hour week is too much for me. I try my damndest never to work more than 50 or so. Grant it, there's the occasional "week from hell", but any job has that. I usually don't waste my time at sporting events because I believe they are too expensive, the only time I will go is if I'm comped, and usually on those times, I make money by showing up. I'm not sedentary either, I try to hit the gym a few times a week, and just doing what I do tends to keep me active to a point. Yeah I've got the early stages of CTS, but that comes from not following the rules of typing I guess, not overuse of a PC. As far as girls go...gee I live on South Beach, need I say more? I'm friends and more with girls who would make your seriously cute ones look like Rosie O'Donnell by comparison.
I could have easily gone into an engineering field. I know my way around a PC, can install and use many variants of Linux, and other OSes, as a matter of fact, one of my specialites happens to be computer networking and hardware. But my education is in motion picture production and fine art photography. Why? Because I wanted to. I have no desire to be stuck in a lab or an office for 18 hours a day. Just not my thing. Don't automatically assume all arts majors are incompetent morons, just because of our choice of education.
The quote should be attributed to Milhouse :)
I'd love to see a place that would ban people with children. I'm trying to enjoy my meal, and I can't do it with your spawn hollering about how disgusting something is!
So I did step two, which is to sit down with the client and tweak the file out to his specs, since he was willing to pay *now* for the 'expert eye'. I asked just out of curiosity about what he used, and he said a "4 MP Fuji"...acting as if the amount of megapixels was all that mattered.
It comes down to the quality of the CCD itself, which is why a 6 MP Nikon D100 costs 2300, and a consumer 6 MP camera costs maybe half that.
Why was this modded down? His opinion is a valid one as the rest of ours. Some people want the sticks, some of us want bright lights, beef jerky!
Miami wouldn't be a good place for a research hub though. The state may promise x amount of dollars, but the local banana republicans will use it to put new rims on their Jaguars or buy a nightclub so they can get laid.
Speaking from experience. Though I thrive on the corruption!
Talk about boring, too..nothing to do with your leisure time except plant a garden or something. 2 AM is the closing time for any bar, so forget about nightlife..you're looked upon funny if you are out past 9 PM.
Public education is horrid, most of the people whom I went to high school with were, and still are frighteningly ignorant.
Clubbing is my profession, I shoot for a local nightlife guide...
A lot of top DJs use CDs, since they get a lot of new material that way...some of those tracks you hear are on CD, because the artist cannot afford to get vinyl pressed at the moment..also, consider Tenaglia, who does 15 hour sets on average..can you imagine toting around 15 hrs worth of vinyl?!?
Certain other DJs, notably Erick Morillo and Steve Lawler, use the CD player as a sampler of sorts, carrying all their samples and noise on CDs...crobar South Beach just got equipped with CDJ-1000s, and with their response time and effects banks, they are quite akin to a true sampler from what I can see.
Vinyl has it's merits, certainly. Real clubs demand it. Your average "clubgoer" in Buttfuck, MI is not 'educated' enough to care, but in a big city with a true nightlife, vinyl, as well as a sophisticated CD deck like the 1000, is not only expected, but is demanded...
The best hi-res printers on the market. The LightJets combine digital printing with the archival quality of printing on true photographic paper. Of course, you have to have $200K lying about to get one :)
Serial ports are still used if you have the Martin LightJockey DMX lighting control software installed and use the 2532 interface, which goes in through the serial port....basically LJ sucks without a 2532, so it's kind of a necessity. Though LJ doesn't need the latest and greatest PC for operation, I've seen it run just fine on a P-II 333.
The deleted scenes are usually editing workstation files that haven't been mastered and such yet.
The D30 has a similar MP to the Sigma SD9. No Canon digital body has a 6MP sensor...well except for the DCS-540, but that is a body-by-Canon, digital guts by Kodak joint venture...
I was under the impression that the phone line had to be able to at least provide 911 service and the ability to call the phone company, by law?
In other words, you can opt out of having to pay the local ILEC/CLEC/whomever for voice service, but the line must be on so you can at least call 911 in case of an emergency.