Re: DVDs

2006-01-02 Thread George Sinos
Marnie - Yeah - it's easy to recommend an expensive solution. But the key is to have at least two copies. If the two copies can be different types of media all the better. In it's simplest form, it can be a working copy on your hard drive with one or two sets of DVD's as backup. One can be

Re: Canon 1Ds MarkII Test Drive

2005-12-29 Thread George Sinos
Only slightly off topic. I saw a firewire/USB comparison on the television show Call for Help. The results were interesting. I don't remember the exact details, but they used firewire and USB to transfer about 10 Gbytes of data. They did the test on an apple and on a dell. Here are the

Re: Survey: How do you use the Histogram/Blinkies?

2005-12-27 Thread George Sinos
Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...clip... However, the histogram (and apparently the blinkies as well) in the *ist cameras describe the jpeg image. When shooting RAW, some highlights that might shown as off the scale can actually be accommodated. ...clip... I agree with Paul, and

Re: PESO Shit happens...

2005-12-27 Thread George Sinos
Hey look - When you hold a Pentax up to the mirror it looks like Nikon On 12/27/05, Albano Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.flaneur.albanogarcia.com.ar/2005/12/27/operado/ I'll be out of business for about 3 to 4 weeks. I got a simple surgery on my hand due to a

Re: Semi-OT (but photography): Some Family History

2005-12-21 Thread George Sinos
Responding to the conversation on family photos - I'm in the middle of a similar family project. I thought the scanning would be tedious. Other than time consuming, it's not that bad. The part I don't enjoy is taking the photos out of the various album pages that the family has used over the

Re: Samsung GX-1L?

2005-12-21 Thread George Sinos
My guess it will be a huge hit at the big box electronics stores like Best Buy and CompUSA. gs On 12/21/05, Joseph Tainter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if it will be sold without the lens. Given the fierce competition in the DSLR field, who does Samsung think will be the market for

Another DAM book

2005-12-18 Thread George Sinos
Not really, this is a new book devoted to Digital Asset Management from the viewpoint of the photographer. http://thedambook.com/ I picked it up yesterday at the local Barnes and Noble and have been using it as an excuse to not finish those Christmas Cards. Chapter 1 is downloadable from the

Re: Digital file numbering?

2005-12-01 Thread George Sinos
Given the number of good ideas here, it's probably not a bad place to mention photo organization software. Google offers Picasa at www.picasa.com. This is free software and is a good inexpensive way to see what this type of software can do to help you out. My current organizer is imatch

Re: OT: help with WORD and Publisher - question

2005-11-13 Thread George Sinos
Ann - I use publisher quite a bit and have wondered about this myself. If you get an answer let me know. Thanks, gs On 11/13/05, Ann Sanfedele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok I have MS word _ I used tables to make pages in a engagement calendar format but word doesnt let me put something to the

close call with disaster

2005-11-13 Thread George Sinos
Short version - The hard drive on which I store my photos crashed. I restored the backup copy and didn't lose anything but time. At the same time I discovered a hole in my backup process and plugged it. Long version - Late last Saturday afternoon I returned from a surprise party. The family

Re: close call with disaster

2005-11-13 Thread George Sinos
Godfrey - Just a couple of questions. Do you disconnect the backup drives when you're not using them? and Do you take anything off site? GS

Re: Sent My Brother to the Dark Side

2005-10-31 Thread George Sinos
On 10/31/05, graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on the complexity of digital point and shoots cameras and the less than useful, extremely large manuals. Graywolf I've mentioned before that I teach a how to use your new digital camera class at the local community college. The requirements are to

Re: OT kinda - making PDF files with Photoshop (elements hopefully)

2005-10-23 Thread George Sinos
Ann - Have you used the free Open Office software suite? It's the free alternative to some of Microsoft's office products. Among other things the latest version included their take on Word. What will make it helpful for your needs it can output your document directly to PDF format. You can

Re: Picture Window Pro. Was: PESO - Memorial

2005-10-13 Thread George Sinos
to the reasonable price, it's pretty much a win-win situation. And thanks to the link to the Koren site. Plenty there to while away the idle hour! John On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:44:30 +0100, George Sinos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Don't know about the manual, but had to toss my two cents

Re: Picture Window Pro. Was: PESO - Memorial

2005-10-12 Thread George Sinos
John Don't know about the manual, but had to toss my two cents into the conversation on Picture Window Pro. I used Picture Window Pro at home and Photoshop at work up through Photoshop version 7 and never felt the need to spend the money on Photoshop for my hobby photography. In fact, I felt

Re: Digital Primer?

2005-10-09 Thread George Sinos
Cotty wrote, requesting info on a digital camera primer. Cotty - I teach a couple of non-credit courses at the local community college. The materials at this site http://www.shortcourses.com/ seem to work very well for beginners. In particular a short course in choosing a digital camera and a

Re: Setting Up a Web Site

2005-10-05 Thread George Sinos
Shel - My Photo site is hosted at Smugmug. They offer an excellent product for a reasonable price. Go to http://www.smugmug.com and click on help. The bottom line is for $29.95 per year you get unlimited storage space. At that level I think you get 4 gigabytes/month of bandwidth. It's hard

Re: PESO - The Morning Drive

2005-09-28 Thread George Sinos
A few folks wondered about the lens, etc: The car was at a dead stop, so I opened the window and held the OptioMX steady on top of the side view mirror. The OptioMX has a 5.8mm-58mm zoom lens, f2.8-f3.5. The exif data says the exposure was 1/750 second at f/8, ISO 100, 7mm focal length. I

Re: OptioMX snapshots

2005-09-28 Thread George Sinos
We held belt sander races at last year's woodworkers picnic. Here's a link: http://georges.smugmug.com/gallery/170694/1 The belt sander shots are near the end of the gallery. See you later, gs http://www.georgesphotos.net

OptioMX snapshots

2005-09-27 Thread George Sinos
These photos were taken with the 3 megapixel version of the OptioMX. I've had it for over a year and am still surprised by this odd little camera. It has a nice combination of size and features and is great for those times when you don't want to carry anything very large. Here are a few

PESO - The Morning Drive

2005-09-27 Thread George Sinos
Here's my morning drive. http://Georges.smugmug.com/photos/37815932-M.jpg Eastbound traffic goes straight into the morning Sun. See you later, gs http://www.georgesphotos.net

Re: Pentax repair turn-around time?

2005-09-26 Thread George Sinos
Don - I'm one of those guys that went to autofocus because it's almost impossible to focus quickly with my bifocals, so... take this question with a grain of salt. Because of the bifocals I fiddle with the diopter correction more than I'd like. I always focus on something at the far end of the

Re: Pentax repair turn-around time?

2005-09-26 Thread George Sinos
Kostas - That certainly clarifies it. (Sorry about the pun.) gs On 9/26/05, Kostas Kavoussanakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, George Sinos wrote: My guess is the correction has more to do with the distance from the focusing screen to the eyepiece than anything else

Re: DS Noise

2005-09-25 Thread George Sinos
Just adding my two cents on evaluating noise on the screen vs. prints. I agree with Paul. I've noticed that my ink jet prints show much less noise than I would have been led to believe was there by the screen rendition. I don't know if this is a side effect of the printer's conversion software

Re: *ist-D raw files compressed: results

2005-09-25 Thread George Sinos
I convert my raw files to DNG, then make a set of reasonably sized jpegs. Everything gets mirrored to another external hard drive. Once a month all the new stuff goes to DVDs. Storage is relatively cheap and getting cheaper. It's certainly cheaper than processing the equivalent amount of film.

Re: green button wars (again)

2005-09-18 Thread George Sinos
JCO - I agree with you in concept. But, in the end, no matter how many folks write to Pentax about their old lenses it's just not going to make any difference. I'm one of the guys with an old screw mount Spotmatic and a few lenses. It served me well from 1968 through 2001 when I bought my 5n.

Re: Some Posting Suggestions

2005-09-13 Thread George Sinos
Replying in general to long URLs... You can include a long URL as long as you surround it with these long url in here Most popular mail programs will correctly interrpret anything between the 's as a single URL, even if it spans more than one line. See you later, gs

Re: Fried Highlights

2005-09-09 Thread George Sinos
There are a lot of differences between CS and CS2. Of these there are a few I use often: You can straighten and crop an image in Camera Raw, these changes are non-destructive and are stored in the DNG file. The major camera raw sliders all now have an auto setting. For most of the stuff I

Re: Fried Highlights

2005-09-09 Thread George Sinos
Shel - I bought Elements 3 to get the updated version of Photoshop Album. I don't use the Elements part of it much these days. Here's a link to a screen shot of the single PE3 raw converter screen and five shots showing the CS2 raw converter with each of it's five tabs selected.

Re: Optio S40 ???

2005-09-04 Thread George Sinos
Hi Marnie - I bought S40's for my kids last Christmas. (What a grandfather will do to get pictures of the grandkids!) The cameras work well and I am being supplied with lots of photos. The camera is well suited to their needs. Lithium AA's last a long time. Photos are relatively well exposed

Re: DS Test Shots 1 2

2005-09-03 Thread George Sinos
Shel - Which raw converter are you using? gs On 9/3/05, Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, i did something like you suggested, and the final results were better, although for the purpose of putting the images up I wanted to show them with no adjustments. I was hoping you'd

Re: Am I an Ignorant Klutz ....

2005-09-03 Thread George Sinos
Shel - have you tried formatting the card with your pc? I'm willing to believe the Ds has a problem, but I'm more willing to believe you have a bad card. That little switch on the SD cards it pretty tiny. It's the thing I like least about SD cards. See you later, gs On 9/3/05, Shel

Re: Batteries for istDS?

2005-08-30 Thread George Sinos
Shel - I have to throw my vote in with the Lithium AAs. On the D, I'm getting about 1000-1200 shots per set of four. A 4-pack is $9.99 at target. The CR-V3's perform better but are as much as twice the price. I seldom use the built-in flash. When I feel the need for flash I use an external

PESO: Billionaires and Smugmug maps

2005-08-28 Thread George Sinos
Just a couple of semi-related items: Warren Buffet and Bill Gates recently ate a local restaurant when Gates visited town. I snapped these shots of the Restaurant's tongue-in-cheek marquee. http://georges.smugmug.com/gallery/763341 Not great art, just a fun snapshot. After you're checked out

Re: you guys will like this

2005-08-11 Thread George Sinos
Amita - After taking a quick look at the two manuals on the Pentax website, I think you have the relative functionality of both cameras nailed. The two cameras are aimed at different audiences, but they both have an adjustment for exposure compensation. That's a feature I wouldn't want to be

Re: First attempt with auto focus

2005-08-07 Thread George Sinos
Shel - The answer to this is actually quite simple. A flash system is approximately 1.5 times the price of a simple flash. It's also very likely that it will have a couple of extra buttons that you'll never remember how to use. Guys from our generation probably referred to them as fancy flash

Re: digital milestone

2005-07-25 Thread George Sinos
Frantisek asked for a clarification of the calculation It's more of a tongue-in-cheek rationalization than a real calculation (as I suspect of your analysis...) I converted the total number of digital shots to the equivalent number of 36 exposure rolls of film and multiplied by the current

digital milestone

2005-07-24 Thread George Sinos
After updating my records and checking my very scientific calculations, I have discovered that I have passed the point where the cost of my digital equipment is less than the cost of processing an equivalent number of film frames. I am now 42 cents (U.S.) ahead of the game. I think I'll go shoot

Re: Wow, maybe film *is* dead!

2005-07-15 Thread George Sinos
Just yesterday, Brooks Jensen's audio blog was a comment on film. http://www.lenswork.com/lwb.htm Click on the link, scroll down to the July 14th entry and pick the appropriate link for your connection speed. I don't always agree with Jensen, but he always makes me think a bit. See you later,

Re: I'm Getting an Auto Focus Camera

2005-07-14 Thread George Sinos
Shel - I have a 5n with the kit 28-80 AF zoom and a Tamron 70-300 AF zoom. Most of the time both work fine. It can hunt in some low light situations, but if you switch to spot focus so it only uses the center AF sensor it reduces that behavior significantly. A couple of situations where I've

Re: Photoshop CS Book

2005-07-02 Thread George Sinos
Check the Barnes and Noble website. http://www.bn.com They list the CS and CS2 version of both books. Both titles are very good. If you're purchasing CS2 make sure you get the CS2 version of the book. There is quite a bit of added function in CS2. The replacement of the browser with the

PESO: Oklahoma City National Memorial

2005-07-02 Thread George Sinos
I recently visited the Oklahoma City National Memorial with my two sons. Here are are some photos and a couple of video clips. http://georges.smugmug.com/gallery/618589 This is the memorial to those who were killed in the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in 1995. Not knowing what to

Re: Digital MZ-5n

2005-06-05 Thread George Sinos
Dario - The shutter speed wheel is the closer of the two to the shutter button. On 6/5/05, Dario Bonazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3) I'd standardize the two aperture/shutter speed wheels in any mid- to top-range camera. And , please, please, the aperture wheel must be on the front

Re: Test of RAW Converters

2005-05-29 Thread George Sinos
Russel Brown has updated his website with several demonstration videos specifically on the CS2 Raw Converter and the Bridge. They are pretty big downloads, but once you get them to your computer you can play them with Quicktime. The three most interesting were CS2 Bridge Workflow, CS2 Camera

Re: PS CS2 ACR was Speaking of exposure....

2005-05-23 Thread George Sinos
Responding to the comments on CS2 - I've been working with it this weekend. It's going to be a while before I get a handle on just how much more powerful this program may be. There are a couple features in ACR that haven't been mentioned. One is the crop tool, so you can crop before you do the

Re: PESO - Sunlight and Shadow

2005-05-22 Thread George Sinos
Marnie - I notice you have an aol email address. I don't remember the specifics, but AOL, by default, compresses graphics to speed up response time. You can turn the compression off. My guess is it only kicks in when you're using AOL's built in browser and probably is ignored when you use an

Re: Simple screwmount lens question

2005-05-14 Thread George Sinos
I'm just curious, Alan. Why do you want to do that? GS On 5/14/05, Alan P. Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a couple of SM lenses with the little push rod arrangement for stopping the lens down. Is there a simple solution to keeping it pushed in when using the lens with a screw to

Re: PAW: Alexandra and her mom

2005-04-23 Thread George Sinos
Amita - This is a great shot and your friend will love it just as it is. It might be fun to experiment with the lens blur filter to try blurring the background a bit. You might be able to throw some of the distracting items out of focus. See you later, gs

Re: The Decline and Fall of the Photograph

2005-04-14 Thread George Sinos
Over on the luminous-landscape http://luminous-landscape.com/ they sell the Video Journal, a DVD magazine. One of the segments on issue 11 that I found most interesting was an interview with Ctein. He made a statement that every technological advance in printing had brought improvements in some

PESO: More Loco Photos

2005-04-10 Thread George Sinos
-- George Sinos Papillion, NE e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://georgesoptions.net Photos: http://georgesphotos.net --

Re: PESO: More Loco Photos

2005-04-10 Thread George Sinos
Hi Mike - Here's one of the links, but I don't think it will do you any good. It will just take you to the page you can already see. Try the option that's in the fine print below the spot where the video should be. It says: If you'd like to save this movie, right click this link The words

Re: Pentax PC35AF

2005-03-25 Thread George Sinos
I thought that model number rang a bell. When I saw the photo I recognized it immediately. I had one of those for several years in the 80's. It was a great snapshot camera for the family. If I remember correctly it was some sort of hybrid mechanical/electronic exposure system. Compared to

Re: Focusing Screens for the D Cameras

2005-03-25 Thread George Sinos
Paul - Thanks for the tip. I ordered an LL-60 a few days ago and it was delivered today. The 16-45 is a great lens, but at the wide end it's pretty easy to tilt the camera and get some extreme perspective shifts. This screen should help out a bit. Thanks, gs On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:57:22

Union Pacific Big Boy on the Move

2005-03-20 Thread George Sinos
location. The stills were taken with an istD and the videos were shot with an OptioMX. http://georges.smugmug.com/gallery/443099 See you later, gs -- George Sinos e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://georgesoptions.net Photos: http://georgesphotos.net --

Re: Union Pacific Big Boy on the Move

2005-03-20 Thread George Sinos
It was impressive. The videos are mpeg 1, so they should play on just about anything. They are between 4 and 8 Mb each, so they can take a bit to download. Worst case, right-click and save them to your pc, then play them locally. See you later, gs On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:25:35 +, Cotty

Re: Union Pacific Big Boy on the Move

2005-03-20 Thread George Sinos
Replying to several - First, thanks for the compliments. I had a lot of fun with this one. On the videos - I changed the gallery format to one that may be a bit more friendly to videos. In this format, Smugmug (the host for my photo site) has a few hints under the videos. The best bet, if

Re: Color space

2005-03-06 Thread George Sinos
Replying to several comments on color space - Mark Roberts posted this link to Dry Creek's web site with an interactive 3D model that let's you compare color spaces: http://www.drycreekphoto.com/Learn/color_spaces.htm Playing with the model a bit has pretty much convinced me that I'm not losing

Re: Color space

2005-03-03 Thread George Sinos
In response to several comments on color space. Converting back and forth between color spaces isn't a good idea. You'll degrade things a bit every time you convert. Perhaps an oversimplification, but true. All the more reason to shoot and store the raw images. You can convert the raw to any

Re: pentax-discuss-d Digest V05 #145

2005-01-29 Thread George Sinos
. There are also predictions from execs of Olympus, Delkin, Konica-Minolta, Canon, Kodak, and Sony. See you later, gs -- George Sinos e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://georgesoptions.net Photos: http://georgesphotos.net --

RE: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2004-12-31 Thread George Sinos
would have ordered a set of files on a CD. I'm not sure which order is more profitable for the seller. Where does the photo center make it's money these days? Is it sheer volume? Just curious. See you later, gs -- George Sinos e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: safe Flash Sync Voltages

2004-12-21 Thread George Sinos
predictability. These old units are workhorses and are still being sold because they work so well. See you later, gs -- George Sinos e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://georgesoptions.net Photos: http://georgesphotos.net --

istD Lithium battery vs. NiMH

2004-12-12 Thread George Sinos
might be tempted, when on short trips, to just carry two or three sets of the lithium batteries, and not carry the battery charger. Is this consistent with what others have experienced? See you later, gs -- George Sinos e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web

Re: Camera Raw Question

2004-11-24 Thread George Sinos
that profile to match your camera. Fraser describes the calibration method using an image of a Macbeth color chart. Once fine tuned, you can safe these profiles for each of your cameras. Photoshop Elements 3.0 does not have this feature. See you later, gs -- George

Re: *ist DS versus *ist D for the Digital Newbie

2004-11-23 Thread George Sinos
author. There are several other interesting white papers on the same page. Here's the link to adobe white papers: http://www.adobe.com/digitalimag/ps_pro_primers.html See you later, gs -- George Sinos Papillion, NE e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web

Re: Boxes for batteries

2004-09-11 Thread George Sinos
selection of these items. Their prices seem to be reasonable and service is good. Here's the link: http://thomas-distributing.com/ See you later, gs -- George Sinos e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://georgesoptions.net Photos: http

Re: raw files

2004-09-03 Thread George Sinos
Processor 2.0. Download the huge tutorial and watch it. Then download the free processor and try it out. See you later, gs -- George Sinos e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://georgesoptions.net Photos: http://georgesphotos.net --

Subject: Changing photo market (was It's over, Ilford in trouble, digi snappers)

2004-08-29 Thread George Sinos
on each. See you later, gs -- George Sinos e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://georgesoptions.net Photos: http://georgesphotos.net --

Re: Smugmug questions

2004-08-09 Thread George Sinos
Earlier Amita Guha [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked about Smugmug Amita - I've used Smugmug since May of 2003. You may recognize the link: http://georgesphotos.net I've posted it before. It's mainly a site for my family photos. I also use the site to post the photos from the monthly meetings of our

Film vs Digital, Large vs Small Format, (was Re: Pentax is Dying?)

2004-07-18 Thread George Sinos
Earlier Bill Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Antonio wrote: Not to mention the poor quality of those digital prints. Here I must disagree. A properly printed digital print is equal in quality to an average film print, up to 8x10 at least. Above 8x10 and for severe crops I'll agree with you. Our

Re: OT: Slide Dilemma

2004-06-19 Thread George Sinos
Earlier Dr. Shaun Canning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote of his slide scanning situation. Shaun - I recently went through the same thing. I may have written here a few weeks ago about scanning several hundred slides taken by my late father in the late 50's and early 60's. My mother had found these

Re: Epson 2200

2004-06-18 Thread George Sinos
Earlier Tom C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But that's what I'm trying to avoid... maybe I don't get it. I can stomach doing adjustments to the image as seen on the monitor, but once I get it 'right' on the monitor, I want the print to be a 'best match'. Otherwise it's purely guesswork about how

Re: canon vs pentax

2004-06-17 Thread George Sinos
Earlier John Mustarde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what did she buy for an upgrade from the ME Super? Canon Rebel. Kit... Now, a couple of years later, she has added the Digital Rebel as her primary camera, which came with an 18-55 kit lens. Since part of this thread talks about lens

Re: Film and Development

2004-06-12 Thread George Sinos
Butch and all you other guys that run labs: I've received some pretty dirty stuff back from the local discount place, but never anything optically fuzzy. I've since moved my business to another place. Help me understand, since I've only developed black and white negs and color slides at home.

Re: What I asked for

2004-06-06 Thread George Sinos
Earlier Herb Chong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote my *istD's shutter release fires even when the memory card is full. in response to my earlier statement that my *istD's shutter locks when the card is full. Herb, I took a quick glance at the manual to see if any of the custom functions controlled

Re: Darkroom or Digital for beginners

2004-05-26 Thread George Sinos
Earlier Kevin Waterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked if there was a compelling argument that would sway his child's principle to teach photography using a darkroom. Kevin - Regardless of our many opinions and experiences with in the darkroom, I think you are wasting your time, and missing a chance

Re: Holga

2004-05-18 Thread George Sinos
Several posts on the Holga peeked out from between all the weird messages of the day. It's probably only a coincidence that I was looking at this web site today: http://www.lensbabies.com/ Somewhere on the site they say that a pentax mount will be available in the next week or so. I don't know

Re: Image stacker and *ist D

2004-05-16 Thread George Sinos
the image stacker in Picture Window Pro? See you later, gs -- George Sinos Papillion, NE e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://georgesoptions.net Photos: http://georgesphotos.net --

Re: Reichman and DXO

2004-05-12 Thread George Sinos
I get a kick out of Reichman. I think he's a nice balance to the technical review sites. A few months ago I subscribed to the dvd's. He has an assignment competition on each dvd where the prize is a free one year subscription renewal. On a whim, I submitted this photo for the assignment theme

Re: Bit selection for Pentax RAW file?

2004-04-22 Thread George Sinos
A number of people have commented on 16 or 8 bits with respect to RAW file conversion: The current issue of Photo Techniques Magazine has an excellent article written by Norman Koren on getting the most from a RAW file. While the article is not available on line, here is a link to the

USB Definitions (was: Firewired...)

2004-02-24 Thread George Sinos
Several people posted confusing definitions of USB and USB Hi-speed. The real story can be found here: http://www.usb.org/info/usb_nomenclature Extremely abbreviated version: The USB Hi-Speed logo indicates the device ...supports the Hi-Speed USB data transfer rate of 480 Mb/s... The USB

Re: Do Smarter Cameras make Dumber Photogs?

2004-02-16 Thread George Sinos
Earlier Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only thing about moving to the istd is that I'd probably want/need to upgrade Photoshop to CS ... Shel - I don't have an alternative is you want to upgrade Photoshop CS, but I'm pretty sure you don't need to make the upgrade. My bargain

Re: Do Smarter Cameras make Dumber Photogs?

2004-02-16 Thread George Sinos
Earlier Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a few things about various software Shel The PS Raw plug in is great, the only drawback is you need Photoshop CS, and CS requires Windows XP or one of the later Mac versions. I can't remember which. Good excuse to upgrade though. Asset

Re: megapixel equivalent of 35mm

2004-02-13 Thread George Sinos
Earlier Bruce Dayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked for pointers towards sharpening methods that can be used with Picture Window Pro. Bruce: If you're using the latest version of Picture Window Pro you'll have the Advanced Sharpen function on the Transformation menu. Go to http://www.dl-c.com/ -

Re: extended warrantees

2004-02-03 Thread George Sinos
Earlier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote They have been around for a long time as a vehicle to build retailer margins... Don't ever purchase them! On the other hand, I bought my son a pretty good laptop computer just before he left for college from a major mail-order computer maker with a 3 year

Snow photos - optio and *istD

2004-02-01 Thread George Sinos
. Getting to work tomorrow should be interesting. See you later, gs -- George Sinos Papillion, NE e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://georgesoptions.net Photos: http://georgesphotos.net --

Re: Snow photos - optio and *istD

2004-02-01 Thread George Sinos
was more easily seen. Not fine art, just snapshots for the curious. As I write this it's snowing again. Another 8-12 inches is predicted over today and tomorrow. Getting to work tomorrow should be interesting. See you later, gs -- George Sinos Papillion, NE e

Re: digital image management tools

2004-01-29 Thread George Sinos
Earlier Rob Studdert asked which image management tools apart from ThumbsPlus maintain a readily accessible thumbs library of off-line media (is stored CDs etc), and which of these companies have announced that they will support the Pentax native RAW format in the near future. Rob - I've

Re: PUG.ORG (was:Re: ONLY - PUG January is on my website)

2004-01-24 Thread George Sinos
On the topic of a home for PUG Perhaps www.smugmug.com should be given consideration as a home for pug. There are several advantages. Storage is unlimited at all subscription levels. Bandwidth allowances are as follows: 2 gigabytes per month at the standard $29.95 per year level. 4 gigabytes

Re: Some *istD questions

2004-01-10 Thread George Sinos
Earlier Herb Chong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CS doesn't support PEF format. they are rumored to be supporting in an update... It's a bit stronger than a rumor. A representative of Adobe said it will be in the next update to the Raw Converter. It's expected sometime in early 2004. This is

Re: version 1.1

2004-01-10 Thread George Sinos
Earlier Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main purpose i use the preview screen on my 10D for whilst shooting is to check for blown high lights (they flash black and white). and Robe Studdart wrote: It's not a loss of skill, it's a new set of tools. And I think that's the evolution. First we

Re: Working with adjustment:was Monitor latitude

2004-01-10 Thread George Sinos
Just replying to the thread in general. There seems to be a bit of confusion on profiles, color spaces and color management, in general. No surprise. The topic is complex and most of what is written in the popular press doesn't help much. Here are three resources that may help, the first two

Re: Down off my high-horse... with a thump.

2004-01-06 Thread George Sinos
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/essays/vanRiper/index.htm Here's a link to this week's Washington Post Photography column by Frank Van Ripper. He's responding to another news story where Wedding photographers were called one of the top ten overpaid professions. See you later, gs

Re: Picture Window Pro v Photoshop

2004-01-04 Thread George Sinos
Earlier Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote that he had downloaded PWPro 3.1. Shel - PWPro 3.5 added quite a few features. The advanced sharpening was a big one. There were also a lot of improvements to the browser that let you compose album pages. I think the sticky settings option was

Re: Picture Window Pro v Photoshop

2004-01-03 Thread George Sinos
Earlier Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked for comments on Picture Window Pro vs. Photoshop 7.0 Shel - I've been using Photoshop and Picture Window Pro for a while now. Both have their pros and cons, but I'm going to make my comments from the viewpoint of a Photoshop user wondering about

Re: AP liked the *ist 35mm best

2004-01-01 Thread George Sinos
On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 22:00:00 + (GMT) Kostas Kavoussanakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am open to suggestions for something better. If PC is your style, we could go disabled-mount. If you like the lack of backwards compatibility, we can try calling them perfect-mount, way of the future-mount

Re: Pentax's dSLR future?

2003-12-31 Thread George Sinos
On: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 23:48:20 -0500, Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In its present configuration its still a snapshot camera., referring to the istD. Paul - I use my istD for snapshots, but it's a heck of a lot more than a snapshot camera. I'm not sure what you meant by the above

Re: Pentax's dSLR future?

2003-12-31 Thread George Sinos
Rob Studdert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote that he didn't see the concern about CF card slot or the AA batteries used in the istD. Frankly, I think most of the negative comments that I've read are a testament to the fact that there is not much to complain about on this camera. The CF card tightness

Re: Just curious ... Related questions

2003-12-28 Thread George Sinos
At 10:40 PM 12/27/2003, Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone said: Everything is on the computer now. Can't imagine using the real darkroom again. Other than e-bay or a garage sale, what are you guys going with your old darkroom equipment? No, everything is not on the computer

Re: Just curious ... Related questions

2003-12-27 Thread George Sinos
Graywolf asked related questions: Related questions: 1. who on the list currently has a darkroom. 2. is it a permanent darkroom, or do you have to set it up each time you use it? 3. do you do BW, or color, or both? 4. who besides TV has junked their darkroom for digital. I can't believe I

Re: out-of-camera white balance

2003-12-27 Thread George Sinos
Jerome asked about correcting white balance after the fact. Jerome - The easiest way is to shoot RAW format and correct it in conversion to your desired format. If it's too late for that, try the Color Balance transformation in Picture Window Pro from Digital Light and Color. I've worked

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