Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 10:35:41 -0500
From: Jack Subject: RE: EOS Interesting portrait setup
I'm a little afraid of using the micro-drive cards because I have dropped my CompactFlash cards once or twice. That was an annoyance but doing the same thing with a micro-drive could be a disaster.
I dropped the whole camera with the MicroDrive being busy writing the buffer away to disk. The camera steel chassis ruptured (750 USD repair, ouch), but the MicroDrive was absolutely unimpressed.
Yes, one should not provoke it, but the things are much more rugged than one would think. Just make sure you don't press it together too much, hold it at the side rails rather than applying the grip of death to the flat sides. This is after using it in a Nikon the most probable reason for defects.
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 08:59:52 -0700
From: Ken Durling Subject: Re: EOS Interesting portrait setup
The whole conversation was a very interesting insight into the "dark
side of digital." He loves the D60's quality, but the day before he
had taken school pictures of something like 150 kids, for which
parents are paying about $15-20 each, 3 poses a piece, and then he
said not only was he having trouble with his card reader, but his
computer crashed!
That is the problem. Man ypeople go digital without really having the professional competence in IT aspects. Budgets stop at the point where they find out that backups done properly cost more than the complete computer alone. Which is also where businesses might stop in the case of data loss.
I'd really have to think
about what demands I'd be putting on a digital darkroom when
processing 300-400 very large files.
That (400) is approximately 3 GB in raw files, and over 14 GB when converted to 16 bit tiff, altogether 17 GB for 400 shots.
(how big IS one D60 image? more than 20MB I imagine). =20
Raw files are between 6 and 7 MB, 8 bit tiff is 18 MB, 16 bit tiff is 36 MB, Jpegs are between 3.5 and 5 MB.
How many images does a pro photographer walk away from a wedding with?
Depends on the wedding, but something between 250 and 700 shots have all been in my ballpark.
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 11:42:12 -0500
From: Jack Subject: RE: EOS Interesting portrait setup
A RAW image is under 7MB and its TIF conversion is 18MB. But I can't think one would use RAW on this kind of shoot - rather, large or medium JPG would
work fine.
If you have to process and print on the spot - yes. If not, RAW gives you an extra edge in quality that might be vital in postprocessing. I only shoot Jpeg in emergency situations when memory starts running low and I have no more cards on me and no laptop near to pump away images.
It sure would take some time to process a large number of images.
Yep. But here the same thing applies as back in the days of film. If you expose to the point, with as little deviations from one shot to the next, you don't have to do much in levels or corrections. The better your initial files are, the better the output. If you are off the spot, the old IT rule of processing data counts: garbage in -> garbage out.
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 11:57:45 -0500
From: "Ed Svoboda" Subject: RE: EOS Interesting portrait setup
The D60 is an interesting option until the bride wants a 20x30.
Can't second that, especially not for candids at speeds higher than 100 ISO. What you get out of the D60 @400 ISO with good glass cannot be gotten from a film based camera with 400 film.
IMHO, it does not give good enough quality when pushed to that size. There's a big
difference between acceptable and great.
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