On Dec 4, 2010, at 9:57 AM, Kenton Brede wrote: > Hi, I've been lurking for a few days here. I'm from the Midwest. I > bought my first DSLR about two weeks ago, a K-x with the 18-55mm, > 55-300mm lens kit. I've got a 50mm M f/1.7 on the way, as well as a > polarizer and graduated filter. I also picked up a cleaning kit with > rocket blower and a manfrotto tripod and head. No one told me the > peripherals were going to cost so damn much. I feel like I'm > hemorrhaging money. LOL It's sad but true.
And you haven't yet discovered LBA: Lens Buyer's Addiction. Welcome to the fold. My favorite photography book is Light, Science and Magic by Hunter, Biver and Fuqua. I've been using Linux since '93 (Yggdrasil running the 0.99 kernel) and bought a mac for photo processing. I was running Bibble on Linux a few years ago, but eventually switched to a lightroom on a mac for processing photos. The Mac UI is a bit confusing, but you can always pop up a terminal and get to the nice intuitive bash prompt. The other problem that I ran into with linux was calibrating monitors, which is possible in theory, but difficult in practice as the companies that make the calibration tools want people to pay extra for the software to use them. If you have any friends or family that work at Adobe, the employee discount is definitely the way to go, lightroom is $25. The catch being that they only get a limited number of licenses each year at that price. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
