So you agree with me that the trial lawyers need to be stopped?;)
No I don't. Those who are negligent, make bad decisions, or practice bad medicine need to be stopped. On the contrary, lawyers who help the injured need to be encouraged to go after bad actors. If it wasn't because of the ability of victims to sue those who injured them, and lawyers willing to take their case without knowing they will be paid, a business would have gotten away with injuring me leaving me with a disability and almost killing me. After I was hit by a driver working while driving his employer's vehicle my medical bills alone was more than $120,000. Add to that more than a year of therapy which cost thousands of dollars more. When I was last in therapy it cost $100 an hour and I had 15 hours of therapy a week. I eventually had to stop before my therapy was compleat because I could not pay for it. Now life is a struggle for me.
These prefixes have had meaning for *far* longer than computing existed for,
While the prefixes have had meanings before they were used with computers, they are not older than computers. The oldest computer, although mechanical, is almost 2100 years old.
You'd be lucky to get that amount of detail out of the film; grain size is going to be an issue, but the optics of the scanner as well.
Ce depend, er that depends. Different films have different grain sizes even discounting film speed or ISO. Fuji Velvia for instance has bigger grain than some film but finer than others. As for my scanner, as I said it can optically scan 6400 dpi, interpolated resolution is 12,800. Still scanning at 4800 dpi still generates a good sized file, especially at 32 never mind 48 bit colour depths. And yes Photoshop can work with those depths, unlike GIMP which only works at 8 bit depths.
But then we're back to the "do you really need to store an image at that size?". See the quality concerns up above and in my previous post. Assume you would, some day, actually print this..
And I dealt with both of these in previous posts. If you want as high a quality as possible you want large files and for print it matters.
Note that this is typically a combined value. E.g. 16bits for red, green, and blue (16+16+16 = 48). 16bits isn't bad, by the way.. 16bits is good.. 16 bits is great! 32bits is even better but not even the film (movie) industry deals with 32bit very often.
I don't know what colour depths movie studios use a lot but CinePaint is used by studios a lot and it works with 32 bit colour depths. Of course the problem that neither of us has mentioned yet is that software and storage isn't the limiting factor when talking about high bit colour channels, the limiting factor are monitors and graphics cards that drive them. A monitor I was thinking I'd like to get, when I could afford it, was the HP DreamColor LP2480zx, however some comments aren't good.
Well that's the thing though, isn't it... if you're going to be using it in the very near future, then you'd have to find a way to get a bigger drive to begin with..
Oh, that's my plan. I want to start working as a photographer and as finances allow I'll upgrade my hardware. And maybe software, but I want to try FOSS programs first. Because buying Photoshop CS3 never mind CS4 would put a strain on my finances, I'm on disability and unemployed, I've been thinking about installing Ubuntu Studio which includes the afore mentioned CinePaint to edit photos. That's what I like about microstock websites, I can start with what I have now then if, with as many others using them a big if, and when I start to make money I can roll the income into better equipment.
if your tool of choice is Photoshop, then setting the quality to highest/100 will do. If you use The GIMP, there's several options there you can use to specify the exact JPEG encoding to have as little loss as possible.
If Film GIMP, CinePaint, doesn't do what I'll want then I'll try to get Photoshop.
Shooting (near-)IR with an 87 filter can be fun, yes, and it's certainly a lot easier and cheaper to do with a point-and-shoot.
I shot 35mm IR film before, but that was a long tyme ago. Having a digicam that has the ability would be easier. The "Make" article I said I read mentioned some cameras that were good for IR photography. I wonder what the photos would look like shooting astrophotography, one of the areas I want to shoot, in IR. I have, though haven't tried it yet, the Meade ETX80 telescope and camera mount for my camera.
Good luck with the developing - E6 shouldn't be an issue but I'd certainly pay attention to people there who have done it before as it -can- be finnicky.. and requires way more patience than I was ever will
Nobody is asking for a handout, just what is rightfully, and justly owed.
You ARE asking for a handout and what is not rightfully yours, a monopoly. Information in not owned by anyone. If you feel you'll miss out by sharing your ideas then don't share them. Once you do share them you still have them, but so do others.
At which point he's put in at least as much effort as you did (reverse engineering is hard).
Does that mean bank robbers deserve the money if they can penetrate the 20-inch vault door of a bank? Because penetrating that door is hard.
This is an asinine comparison. With copyright infringement the patent holder has suffered no damage and still owns the patent. The bank robbers have wrecked the bank and have stolen other people's money.
No, patents protect specific implementations not ideas. In a case brought by i4i against Microsoft a Texas jury ruled in favor of i4i saying MS infringed on a patent. The judge issued an injunction against MS that gives MS "two months to pursue an appeal, craft a settlement, or implement a technical workaround that removes the technology found to be infringing." Notice the clause "implement a technical workaround".
Since slashdot like car analogues I'll use my own. Open the hood and examine all the part of the engine. They all have brakes, most have alternators and starters as well. Now look at those parts closely, many have plates with patent numbers. A starter in a GM car will have patents that are different than a starter from a Ford. Yet they do the same thing, the only thing different is the implementation. The general principles are the same only the implementation is different. I rebuilt the 4 barrel 350 ci V8 in my old Monte Carlo, and after that I could have done the same with someone's Ford Mustang.
"My point is that, while my bird feeder is patented, there is no patent on the idea of a bird feeder. Just on the way this one works. Birds are not starving due to this guy's patent."
"If this were software, they would be. Software doesn't just protect code, but the idea of what the code is trying to do. So software patent holders try to hold up whole swathes of technology progress, and as we saw in the RIM case, they sometimes get away with it."
If you simply sit by and wait, then copy (steal) something innovative created by your competitor
That is not stealing, the owner still has his or her patent. All that is is infringement.
If X is the new innovative piece of code within a program, a competitor can buy the program, fire up a debugger, and look at the disassembled code for X. Once he understands how it works (reverse engineering), he can then recreate that code in a higher language, say C. Copyright does not work here.
Copyright is enough. With first mover advantages if you can't make enough money to stay in business that's your fault. So what if a competitor releases a compeating program, either you innovate and provide a better product, offer a lower price, or you go out of business. You are not owed a living only an opportunity to make a living, opportunity not outcome is a right.
The only ones I could see supporting software patents are some patent lawyers.
Well, then we are screwed, because tort reform of any kind certainly isn't in the interests of the current political party that happens in be in power in Washington.
Let me first get this out of the way, I don't consider patent reform as being anything like tort reform. And I certainly don't want to make it easier for someone to get away with messing up a person's life. Because of someone's recklessness I was left with a disability when I survived an injury I wish I had died from.
On second thought, I'm too angry to recall what I was going to write so there is no follow up.
FOSS. There are more than 200,000 software projects on SourceForge alone. Freshmeat has thousands more. Now I'll admit I bet most of them are abandonware or are little used but software was being programmed before patents were ever issued on software.
Patent rights are significantly stronger than copyright, which is one of the reasons they're time-limited.
Both copyrights and patents were originally issued for 14 years with one 14 year extension possible in the US. It's only because politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, were in the pockets of the MPAA and RIAA that copyright terms were lengthened. The industries now have a friend as the Vice President, Biden.
Innovation doesn't happen by itself, people have to spend time and money on it. And patents ensure they get paid for their efforts.
I will not spend tyme, money, and effort to develop software if I fear I will be slapped with a patent infringement lawsuit. Nor will some small businesses and individual programmers. When companies take out software patents purely as a precautionary measure that holds up progress as well as adds costs.
On the other hand FOSS has shown programmers and software businesses can make money without software patents.
My understanding is that the main argument in favor of medical patents is that the cost of FDA approval is so insanely high compared to the production cost once things are approved.
While the research and development to bring a drug to the market may be expensive, pharmaceutical businesses spend more on marketing and sales than on research.
This is a sore spot for me, the National Cancer Institute spent $183 Million to develop Taxol yet Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) only paid $35 Million for exclusive rights to Taxol. By 2000 it "achieved global sales of almost $1.6 billion". BMS was saying the wholesale price for Taxol was $6.09 per milligram yet a generic maker was able to make it for $.07 per milligram. That is more than $6 per milligram profit.
do you really expect rational arguments in favor of the public good to be of any help against entrenched interests in this matter?
What interests are those, the interests of software companies like Microsoft? "Microsoft to pay $60 million to settle patent-infringement, antitrust claims". "Jury rules for Alcatel in Microsoft patent case". As TFA say, some businesses take out software patents as a means of legal defense, someone sued them over infringement and they may be able to use their own patents as a club, "you sue us and we'll sue you."
The only ones I could see supporting software patents are some patent lawyers.
I don't recall if it was Bill Gates who once asked who would ever need more than 512K of RAM. I still recall 64K being a lot of memory and cassette tapes were used for mass storage.
That quote is overused. At the time, 640K seemed like plenty for DOS programs.
Yet you missed the reference to memory being measured in units of multiples of 1024 not 10. It goes like this: 1 Kilobyte = 1024 bytes, 1 Megabyte = 1 Kilobyte X 1024, 1 gigabyte = 1 Megabyte X 1024, and 1 terabyte is "a unit of information equal to 1,099,511,627,776 bytes or 1024 gigabytes".
Why is it dictionaries can get the right but some slashdotters can't?
It is a bright side, because now you don't think you have more storage than you do - you actually think you have what you bought.;)
No, i have less not more. A Terabyte is a gigabyte X 1024.
Seems the rest of this is a troll so I'm ending here.
If you say so. I've heard mac fanboys (like yourself) tell people that a power PC processor was worth 2x an intel processor for years. Which makes your comparison of apples to oranges null.
And professional photographers, with their asinine practice of archiving RAW files, are some of the most pitiful wasters of disk space on the planet.
First, what's one person's waste is not to another person. Do you complain about the mpg of SUVs? Or about those who use 75 watt light bulbs when a 15 watt CFL puts out just as much light? Then, I and many others still shoot film.
Definition of Kilo: 1000 times.
Definition of Byte: 8 bits.
Definition of Kilobyte: noun, 1024 bytes.
Definition of megabyte: noun, a unit of information equal to 1,048,576 bytes.
Definition of gigabyte: noun: a unit of information equal to one 1,073,741,824 bytes or 1024 megabytes.
And definition of terabyte: noun: a unit of information equal to 1,099,511,627,776 bytes or 1024 gigabytes.
storage. If you honestly -fill- that 1.5TB that you purchased in such a short amount of time that you do not have the budget to purchase another 1TB, 1.5TB, 2TB drive (etc.) at the end of that time, then you need to reconsider either..
- what you store (do you -really- need to save all the pictures you're saving now?)
- how you store it (do you -really- need them in RAW/TIFF format?)
I save all my film and all I have scanned so far is low res images, when I've turned in my film for development I ordered a CD of the photos as well. However I plan on rescanning my film with the scanner I got, which scans at higher resolutions than most film developers offer.
The 5D Mark II 21.1MP is NOT 21,100,000 pixels. It's only 21,026,304. Did you know that?
Complain to Canon then, the specs say "Total pixels: Approx. 22.0 megapixels" and "Effective pixels: Approx. 21.1 megapixels". However medium format cameras, I'd like to get a 645 with a film back to use until I can afford a digital back for it, use larger film for larger digitized images. Doing quick calculations a 6mm X 4.5mm film, which my scanner can scan, is 2.4" X 1.6". My scanner optically scans 6400 dpi so a frame of 645 film would generate a file bigger than 150MB. And that's not counting colour depth, my scanner can scan 48 bit colour depths.
Of course by the tyme I'd need space to store those digitized images I should be able to afford multi-terabyte raid storage. However going back to my original reply, just because some people can't imagine needing terabytes of storage doesn't mean it won't be used by anyone.
There's 8 bits in a byte, so... 1,009,262,592 bits / 8 bits = bytes. That's the RAW data in bytes. That's nowhere near 500MB.
That depends on how "near" is defined. 126,157,824 divided by 1024, 1 Megabyte = 1 Kilobyte X 1024, equals 123,201 MBs. That tymes 4 equals 492.804 MBs. That raw file is more than 100 MBs and 4 of them use almost 500 MBs.
That's not even counting compression
And if you don't want to lose details you don't compress. Especially if you're opening, editing, and resaving the photos. Every time a jpeg is opened, edited, and resaved the photo degrades.
Honestly, that article brings up a heck of a lot more issues about Alamy than just the MB vs MiB thing;
The only reason I provided the link to the article was to highlight the issue, because it is an issue, of whether a megabyte is 1 Kilobyte X 1024, 1 Kilobyte X 1000, or 1 byte X 1,000,000 and the same with terabytes. There was no other purpose of posting the link, whether you agree or disagree with those in the thread.
P.S. Love that you do film;
I grew up on film, I don't even have a cheap point-and-shoot digicam. I thought of getting one that's easy to modify to shoot infrared though. "Make" zine had a good article on converting cameras to shoot IR.
I like the dynamic range of film much better than digital
Although not the best, the Epson V500 scanner I have has a DMax of 3.4.
if you already have the film rolls it doesn't burn money so much anyway (developing still costs, of course).
Yeap, I have film. I have some C41 negatives but I shoot mostly E6 slides now. As for costs of developing, there's a local organization, IFP, I plan to join that has darkrooms members can use. I've got that Epson scanner so I can digitize my film so when I join IFP I'll have access to a darkroom as well. I'll need to learn to develop slides though, all I've developed so far is B&W and C41 film. That is if IFP has the chemicals for E6. If not I'll have to pay someone else to develop my film or use C41 negatives again.
Yes, that was a problem with windows ME. Have you tried anything recent? (Including new fanboy arguments?)
Like this fanboy argument?
As a matter of fact, the first tyme I used XP it froze while booting up. After about 5 minutes I had to do a hard shutdown, I pressed and held in the power button until it shut down. Now Vista may be more stable, and I've heard Windows 7 rocks, but that does not change the fact there have been problems with Windows.
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They already made that James Bond movie
Before "Die Another Day" there was "Moonraker".
Falcon
So you agree with me that the trial lawyers need to be stopped? ;)
No I don't. Those who are negligent, make bad decisions, or practice bad medicine need to be stopped. On the contrary, lawyers who help the injured need to be encouraged to go after bad actors. If it wasn't because of the ability of victims to sue those who injured them, and lawyers willing to take their case without knowing they will be paid, a business would have gotten away with injuring me leaving me with a disability and almost killing me. After I was hit by a driver working while driving his employer's vehicle my medical bills alone was more than $120,000. Add to that more than a year of therapy which cost thousands of dollars more. When I was last in therapy it cost $100 an hour and I had 15 hours of therapy a week. I eventually had to stop before my therapy was compleat because I could not pay for it. Now life is a struggle for me.
Falcon
These prefixes have had meaning for *far* longer than computing existed for,
While the prefixes have had meanings before they were used with computers, they are not older than computers. The oldest computer, although mechanical, is almost 2100 years old.
Falcon
You'd be lucky to get that amount of detail out of the film; grain size is going to be an issue, but the optics of the scanner as well.
Ce depend, er that depends. Different films have different grain sizes even discounting film speed or ISO. Fuji Velvia for instance has bigger grain than some film but finer than others. As for my scanner, as I said it can optically scan 6400 dpi, interpolated resolution is 12,800. Still scanning at 4800 dpi still generates a good sized file, especially at 32 never mind 48 bit colour depths. And yes Photoshop can work with those depths, unlike GIMP which only works at 8 bit depths.
But then we're back to the "do you really need to store an image at that size?". See the quality concerns up above and in my previous post. Assume you would, some day, actually print this..
And I dealt with both of these in previous posts. If you want as high a quality as possible you want large files and for print it matters.
Note that this is typically a combined value. E.g. 16bits for red, green, and blue (16+16+16 = 48). 16bits isn't bad, by the way.. 16bits is good.. 16 bits is great! 32bits is even better but not even the film (movie) industry deals with 32bit very often.
I don't know what colour depths movie studios use a lot but CinePaint is used by studios a lot and it works with 32 bit colour depths. Of course the problem that neither of us has mentioned yet is that software and storage isn't the limiting factor when talking about high bit colour channels, the limiting factor are monitors and graphics cards that drive them. A monitor I was thinking I'd like to get, when I could afford it, was the HP DreamColor LP2480zx, however some comments aren't good.
Well that's the thing though, isn't it... if you're going to be using it in the very near future, then you'd have to find a way to get a bigger drive to begin with..
Oh, that's my plan. I want to start working as a photographer and as finances allow I'll upgrade my hardware. And maybe software, but I want to try FOSS programs first. Because buying Photoshop CS3 never mind CS4 would put a strain on my finances, I'm on disability and unemployed, I've been thinking about installing Ubuntu Studio which includes the afore mentioned CinePaint to edit photos. That's what I like about microstock websites, I can start with what I have now then if, with as many others using them a big if, and when I start to make money I can roll the income into better equipment.
if your tool of choice is Photoshop, then setting the quality to highest/100 will do. If you use The GIMP, there's several options there you can use to specify the exact JPEG encoding to have as little loss as possible.
If Film GIMP, CinePaint, doesn't do what I'll want then I'll try to get Photoshop.
Shooting (near-)IR with an 87 filter can be fun, yes, and it's certainly a lot easier and cheaper to do with a point-and-shoot.
I shot 35mm IR film before, but that was a long tyme ago. Having a digicam that has the ability would be easier. The "Make" article I said I read mentioned some cameras that were good for IR photography. I wonder what the photos would look like shooting astrophotography, one of the areas I want to shoot, in IR. I have, though haven't tried it yet, the Meade ETX80 telescope and camera mount for my camera.
Good luck with the developing - E6 shouldn't be an issue but I'd certainly pay attention to people there who have done it before as it -can- be finnicky.. and requires way more patience than I was ever will
not in the software patents intrinsically.
No, the problem is in software patents.
Knowledge and intelligence should not be patented or patentable. I'm not sure about specific implementations, but certainly not general information.
Falcon
Nobody is asking for a handout, just what is rightfully, and justly owed.
You ARE asking for a handout and what is not rightfully yours, a monopoly. Information in not owned by anyone. If you feel you'll miss out by sharing your ideas then don't share them. Once you do share them you still have them, but so do others.
Falcon
All patents do is ensure the inventor, the person giving the benefits, is adequately compensated for his work, that's all.
Those functions are covered by copyrights therefore software patents are not needed!!!
Falcon
At which point he's put in at least as much effort as you did (reverse engineering is hard).
Does that mean bank robbers deserve the money if they can penetrate the 20-inch vault door of a bank? Because penetrating that door is hard.
This is an asinine comparison. With copyright infringement the patent holder has suffered no damage and still owns the patent. The bank robbers have wrecked the bank and have stolen other people's money.
Falcon
not how it's implemented
No, patents protect specific implementations not ideas. In a case brought by i4i against Microsoft a Texas jury ruled in favor of i4i saying MS infringed on a patent. The judge issued an injunction against MS that gives MS "two months to pursue an appeal, craft a settlement, or implement a technical workaround that removes the technology found to be infringing." Notice the clause "implement a technical workaround".
Since slashdot like car analogues I'll use my own. Open the hood and examine all the part of the engine. They all have brakes, most have alternators and starters as well. Now look at those parts closely, many have plates with patent numbers. A starter in a GM car will have patents that are different than a starter from a Ford. Yet they do the same thing, the only thing different is the implementation. The general principles are the same only the implementation is different. I rebuilt the 4 barrel 350 ci V8 in my old Monte Carlo, and after that I could have done the same with someone's Ford Mustang.
As Dana Blankenhorn writes in the article "A modest proposal on patents":
"My point is that, while my bird feeder is patented, there is no patent on the idea of a bird feeder. Just on the way this one works. Birds are not starving due to this guy's patent."
"If this were software, they would be. Software doesn't just protect code, but the idea of what the code is trying to do. So software patent holders try to hold up whole swathes of technology progress, and as we saw in the RIM case, they sometimes get away with it."
If you simply sit by and wait, then copy (steal) something innovative created by your competitor
That is not stealing, the owner still has his or her patent. All that is is infringement.
Falcon
If X is the new innovative piece of code within a program, a competitor can buy the program, fire up a debugger, and look at the disassembled code for X. Once he understands how it works (reverse engineering), he can then recreate that code in a higher language, say C. Copyright does not work here.
Copyright is enough. With first mover advantages if you can't make enough money to stay in business that's your fault. So what if a competitor releases a compeating program, either you innovate and provide a better product, offer a lower price, or you go out of business. You are not owed a living only an opportunity to make a living, opportunity not outcome is a right.
Software patents are not necessary!
Falcon
The only ones I could see supporting software patents are some patent lawyers.
Well, then we are screwed, because tort reform of any kind certainly isn't in the interests of the current political party that happens in be in power in Washington.
Let me first get this out of the way, I don't consider patent reform as being anything like tort reform. And I certainly don't want to make it easier for someone to get away with messing up a person's life. Because of someone's recklessness I was left with a disability when I survived an injury I wish I had died from.
On second thought, I'm too angry to recall what I was going to write so there is no follow up.
Falcon
[Citation needed].
FOSS. There are more than 200,000 software projects on SourceForge alone. Freshmeat has thousands more. Now I'll admit I bet most of them are abandonware or are little used but software was being programmed before patents were ever issued on software.
Patent rights are significantly stronger than copyright, which is one of the reasons they're time-limited.
Both copyrights and patents were originally issued for 14 years with one 14 year extension possible in the US. It's only because politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, were in the pockets of the MPAA and RIAA that copyright terms were lengthened. The industries now have a friend as the Vice President, Biden.
Falcon
Innovation doesn't happen by itself, people have to spend time and money on it. And patents ensure they get paid for their efforts.
I will not spend tyme, money, and effort to develop software if I fear I will be slapped with a patent infringement lawsuit. Nor will some small businesses and individual programmers. When companies take out software patents purely as a precautionary measure that holds up progress as well as adds costs.
On the other hand FOSS has shown programmers and software businesses can make money without software patents.
Falcon
My understanding is that the main argument in favor of medical patents is that the cost of FDA approval is so insanely high compared to the production cost once things are approved.
While the research and development to bring a drug to the market may be expensive, pharmaceutical businesses spend more on marketing and sales than on research.
This is a sore spot for me, the National Cancer Institute spent $183 Million to develop Taxol yet Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) only paid $35 Million for exclusive rights to Taxol. By 2000 it "achieved global sales of almost $1.6 billion". BMS was saying the wholesale price for Taxol was $6.09 per milligram yet a generic maker was able to make it for $.07 per milligram. That is more than $6 per milligram profit.
Falcon
Remember the Cato-speared attempt by Bush to privatize Social Security?
Was Social Security privatized? I don't think so.
And who do you think is spearheading opposition to public health care at the moment?
CATO is but one cog in the machines opposing socialized medicine.
Cato's got the ear of a whole lot of Republicans.
And those Republicans don't alway listen, whereas others who are not Republicans listen to CATO as well.
Falcon
do you really expect rational arguments in favor of the public good to be of any help against entrenched interests in this matter?
What interests are those, the interests of software companies like Microsoft? "Microsoft to pay $60 million to settle patent-infringement, antitrust claims". "Jury rules for Alcatel in Microsoft patent case". As TFA say, some businesses take out software patents as a means of legal defense, someone sued them over infringement and they may be able to use their own patents as a club, "you sue us and we'll sue you."
The only ones I could see supporting software patents are some patent lawyers.
Falcon
There is nothing about storage based on powers of 2. Storage is not a series of gates.
A byte isn't 8 bits? Or are bits not on or off, ie base of 2?
Falcon
I don't recall if it was Bill Gates who once asked who would ever need more than 512K of RAM. I still recall 64K being a lot of memory and cassette tapes were used for mass storage.
That quote is overused. At the time, 640K seemed like plenty for DOS programs.
Yet you missed the reference to memory being measured in units of multiples of 1024 not 10. It goes like this: 1 Kilobyte = 1024 bytes, 1 Megabyte = 1 Kilobyte X 1024, 1 gigabyte = 1 Megabyte X 1024, and 1 terabyte is "a unit of information equal to 1,099,511,627,776 bytes or 1024 gigabytes".
Why is it dictionaries can get the right but some slashdotters can't?
It is a bright side, because now you don't think you have more storage than you do - you actually think you have what you bought. ;)
No, i have less not more. A Terabyte is a gigabyte X 1024.
Seems the rest of this is a troll so I'm ending here.
Falcon
If you say so. I've heard mac fanboys (like yourself) tell people that a power PC processor was worth 2x an intel processor for years. Which makes your comparison of apples to oranges null.
Fanboy who won't face reality.
Falcon
And slow at compression.
Falcon
bzip2 "is known to be quite slow at compressing".
And professional photographers, with their asinine practice of archiving RAW files, are some of the most pitiful wasters of disk space on the planet.
First, what's one person's waste is not to another person. Do you complain about the mpg of SUVs? Or about those who use 75 watt light bulbs when a 15 watt CFL puts out just as much light? Then, I and many others still shoot film.
Falcon
Definition of Kilo: 1000 times.
Definition of Byte: 8 bits.
Definition of Kilobyte: noun, 1024 bytes.
Definition of megabyte: noun, a unit of information equal to 1,048,576 bytes.
Definition of gigabyte: noun: a unit of information equal to one 1,073,741,824 bytes or 1024 megabytes.
And definition of terabyte: noun: a unit of information equal to 1,099,511,627,776 bytes or 1024 gigabytes.
Falcon
What you really mean is that, after installing it, you realized that 1.5TB = 1.36TiB.
No, 1TB is 1 Kilobyte (1024 bytes) X 1024 X 1024 X 1024, not 1,000,000,000,000 bytes just as 32 KB is 32,768 bytes and 64 KB is 65,536 bytes.
Falcon
storage. If you honestly -fill- that 1.5TB that you purchased in such a short amount of time that you do not have the budget to purchase another 1TB, 1.5TB, 2TB drive (etc.) at the end of that time, then you need to reconsider either..
- what you store (do you -really- need to save all the pictures you're saving now?) - how you store it (do you -really- need them in RAW/TIFF format?)
I save all my film and all I have scanned so far is low res images, when I've turned in my film for development I ordered a CD of the photos as well. However I plan on rescanning my film with the scanner I got, which scans at higher resolutions than most film developers offer.
The 5D Mark II 21.1MP is NOT 21,100,000 pixels. It's only 21,026,304. Did you know that?
Complain to Canon then, the specs say "Total pixels: Approx. 22.0 megapixels" and "Effective pixels: Approx. 21.1 megapixels". However medium format cameras, I'd like to get a 645 with a film back to use until I can afford a digital back for it, use larger film for larger digitized images. Doing quick calculations a 6mm X 4.5mm film, which my scanner can scan, is 2.4" X 1.6". My scanner optically scans 6400 dpi so a frame of 645 film would generate a file bigger than 150MB. And that's not counting colour depth, my scanner can scan 48 bit colour depths.
Of course by the tyme I'd need space to store those digitized images I should be able to afford multi-terabyte raid storage. However going back to my original reply, just because some people can't imagine needing terabytes of storage doesn't mean it won't be used by anyone.
There's 8 bits in a byte, so... 1,009,262,592 bits / 8 bits = bytes. That's the RAW data in bytes. That's nowhere near 500MB.
That depends on how "near" is defined. 126,157,824 divided by 1024, 1 Megabyte = 1 Kilobyte X 1024, equals 123,201 MBs. That tymes 4 equals 492.804 MBs. That raw file is more than 100 MBs and 4 of them use almost 500 MBs.
That's not even counting compression
And if you don't want to lose details you don't compress. Especially if you're opening, editing, and resaving the photos. Every time a jpeg is opened, edited, and resaved the photo degrades.
Honestly, that article brings up a heck of a lot more issues about Alamy than just the MB vs MiB thing;
The only reason I provided the link to the article was to highlight the issue, because it is an issue, of whether a megabyte is 1 Kilobyte X 1024, 1 Kilobyte X 1000, or 1 byte X 1,000,000 and the same with terabytes. There was no other purpose of posting the link, whether you agree or disagree with those in the thread.
P.S. Love that you do film;
I grew up on film, I don't even have a cheap point-and-shoot digicam. I thought of getting one that's easy to modify to shoot infrared though. "Make" zine had a good article on converting cameras to shoot IR.
I like the dynamic range of film much better than digital
Although not the best, the Epson V500 scanner I have has a DMax of 3.4.
if you already have the film rolls it doesn't burn money so much anyway (developing still costs, of course).
Yeap, I have film. I have some C41 negatives but I shoot mostly E6 slides now. As for costs of developing, there's a local organization, IFP, I plan to join that has darkrooms members can use. I've got that Epson scanner so I can digitize my film so when I join IFP I'll have access to a darkroom as well. I'll need to learn to develop slides though, all I've developed so far is B&W and C41 film. That is if IFP has the chemicals for E6. If not I'll have to pay someone else to develop my film or use C41 negatives again.
Falcon
Yes, that was a problem with windows ME. Have you tried anything recent? (Including new fanboy arguments?)
Like this fanboy argument?
As a matter of fact, the first tyme I used XP it froze while booting up. After about 5 minutes I had to do a hard shutdown, I pressed and held in the power button until it shut down. Now Vista may be more stable, and I've heard Windows 7 rocks, but that does not change the fact there have been problems with Windows.
And to make full use of Vista requires high hardware requirements. The requirements for OS X 10.5 Leopard is:
And the basic requirements for Vista are:
Vista's hardware requirements are higher than Leopard's.
Falcon