Thanks, Paul.
I'm going to scour the bargain bins a bit to see what I can come up
with. I'm seriously strapped at the moment -- still don't have a car
after mine burned! So, I'm even holding back a bit on buying that K1000
with the 50mm prime for $40 I found in a classified ad yesterday. :-\
I've got a line of people who are "gonna" have me do family portraits --
but, they've been "gonna" for a long time. I've been trying to beat the
bush to see if I might be able to sell some photos to publications, but
haven't had any luck there either. Things are just progressing very
slowly, so I'm just not able to invest much of anything into photography
at the moment.
Hopefully, something will come up soon.
-- Walt
On 11/26/2010 2:09 PM, Paul Sorenson wrote:
OfficeMax seems to have the best price at $55. Amazon is $65 and
OfficeDepot is $75. All prices for Elements 9.
-p
On 11/26/2010 12:28 PM, John Francis wrote:
The latest version of Elements is available for around $50 until
the end of the month (special pricing from Adobe, reflected in the
price shown at a lot of on-line sellers).
Almost all earlier versions of Elements will probably support DNG;
until I upgraded to Elements 7 I was still using Elements 3, and I
was able to read DNG files from within that (just download the free
update to the Camera Raw plug-in when a new camera joins your bag).
That said; I wouldn't suggest going back to really old versions of
Elements, and if you can find anything later than version 4 or 5
it's probably going to be as expensive as the current version (9).
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 12:13:03PM -0600, Walter Gilbert wrote:
Hmm ... I'll check into that. I wonder if I might even be able to
find a slightly less-recent release of Elements that handles them.
Thanks for the info, Godfrey.
(I bet the "Adobo" release is even cheaper, still!)
-- Walt
On 11/26/2010 12:06 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
The current version of Photoshop Elements will allow you to use the
latest version of Camera Raw, and has more capabilities than Photoshop
7. It's about $80-90.
There's no comparison to how much editing freedom you have when
editing raw files vs JPEGs, and with Photoshop Elements vs Picasa.
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Walter
Gilbert<[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks! Although, to my infinite consternation, I've
discovered there's
no way to get Photoshop 7 to handle DNG files, and I can't afford
to plunk
down the requisite cash for any of the more recent Adobo
releases. They're
a tad spendy.
Picasa 3 will handle them, of course, but then I'm stuck with some
pretty
limited options with regard to editing. I suppose I could use
Picasa to
export them in .jpg format, but I wonder how much I'll be giving
up by using
it to do the conversion.
Any (extremely affordable) suggestions?
-- Walt
On 11/25/2010 6:14 PM, Bob W wrote:
Enjoy!
Well, y'all finally shamed me into shooting in DNG. Up
until now,
I've been
shooting almost exclusively in JPG. The few raw shots I have
taken were
throw-away shots I simply discarded out of hand. But, tonight,
I decided
to
check try out the DNG + JPG function while taking shots of the
family
Thanksgiving feast.
You see, quite a few of the reviews I read before buying my K-x
lauded
its
jpeg engine, stating that you don't really give up much at all
by using
it
instead of RAW. So, in the interest of conserving relatively
scarce
storage
space and computer resources, I never really bothered.
Well, I'm here to say -- and feel free to pass this along to
anyone who
ever
wrote a review of the K-x making that claim -- that they're huge
liars
(I'm
looking at YOU dpreview!). I'm quite simply astonished at the
difference,
and kicking myself over the fact that it took me over
7000 clicks to realize it. Of those 7000 shots, I shudder to
think how
many
were deleted that could have easily been salvaged.
Ah, well ... live and learn. But, damn ... so many shots. (sob)
-- Walt
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