fra: Herb Chong [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dato: 2005/11/29 ti AM 03:16:09 CET
til: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
emne: Re: Close to Zero IQ (was Shoot now, focus later)
i go on vacation and come back to this. has it occurred to any of you to
work out how much it costs Frank to shoot each year doing
In a message dated 11/28/2005 6:17:40 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Frank's $6000 figure was
disingenuous posturing for not going digital. my system didn't cost $6000,
including the *istD. if he had just stayed with just saying he didn't like
digital or didn't want to
On 29/11/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED], discombobulated, unleashed:
Unsharpness in one of the reasons why I still use film, especially
medium format.
Mark!
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Windows and Mac utilize memory differently. Photoshop CS may work well on
a Mac with the memory you've described, but it may not run well on a
Windows machine with similar memory - and then again, it might. Depends on
how the memory, scratch disks, paging file are configured.
Shel
You meet the
I know. The previous PC I used at work had the same data, but chrashed each
time I tried to load pictures larger than 40MB
DagT
fra: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Windows and Mac utilize memory differently. Photoshop CS may work well on
a Mac with the memory you've described, but
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 11/28/2005 6:17:40 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Frank's $6000 figure was
disingenuous posturing for not going digital. my system didn't cost $6000,
including the *istD. if he had just stayed with just saying he didn't like
On Nov 29, 2005, at 5:04 AM, Adam Maas wrote:
...Regular low costs are an easier burden than a high up front cost
even for someone not on a fixed income. ...
Sorry, i run my finances a little differently. At the peak of my film
photography, I was spending $2800/year, more or less, on film
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Herb Chong wrote:
then the camera. if you pay attention to what Frank posts, you'll see that
sharpness isn't especially important. neither is high resolution since he
doesn't go beyond 8x10 often. he can get a more than adequate camera that
will take 80% of the shots he
CS2 runs fine on my 900mhz, 512mb Winblows box. Of course I am not used
to running anything on a high-end gaming machine so my expectations are
probaby lower than most. I find it adequate for most things; it seems
that some where around there performance-wise things became adequate
unlike
with such a PC, just use win2000 instead of XP to lost less power.
So, I would say that a decent 1000mhz, 512mb, machine with as much
harddrive space as you can afford is all that is needed (as opposed to
wanted) for photography.
i go on vacation and come back to this. has it occurred to any of you to
work out how much it costs Frank to shoot each year doing what he does
today? how many rolls do you think he shoots in a year? you can figure that
out just by counting the times he posts and his discourses on the rolls he
I'd disagree about the camera costs. With what I've seen from Frank, he
seems to shoot spur of the moment grab shots, with an emphasis on
quickly getting the shot, which a 4MP consumer PS will not do due to
shutter lag. He's either looking at a high-end PS like the Canon G6 or
a DSLR unless he
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