Re: [CGUYS] Digital future

2007-09-15 Thread b_s-wilk
The main reason I keep my old SLR cameras -- Pentax and Canon -- is to shoot and print breathtaking photos. I used to do posters and print them in a friend's studio [he was a National Geographic photographer]. There isn't an affordable digital camera that can come close to the quality of the

Re: [CGUYS] Digital future

2007-09-15 Thread Tom Piwowar
I've had one recent project that quickly filled up 500 GB, but the bottleneck with this project turned out to be the ability of the computer to process so many bits. It is really hard to work creatively when simple tasks have to run overnight and medium-size tasks can take a week or more. So

[CGUYS] Digital future

2007-09-14 Thread chad evans wyatt
Tom - Time for something a little more cosmic from you. Give us some words about Stuart Parkin's idea of racetrack storage. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/technology/11storage.html My abiding disappointment in adjusting to digital DXcapture is the utter weak soup that it is, compared to