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RAW is better – but only if you have the ability to use it. From what you’re describing, it’s not appropriate for your uses, so save yourself the conversion time and shoot. Jpgs

if that was directed at me i’ll take it in the spirit it was intended. and no PS7 won’t handle NEF. but the Gimp will so there. it’s one of those things where the “costs” of doing something are negligible and the benefits outweigh them.

There’s a free codec pack from Microsoft for Windows 7 for viewing Canon and Nikon RAW files, but it’s only for 32-bit systems,

says you. i can’t get it to work on my win7 64 bit machine. oh wait. anyway UFRaw (a plugin for the Gimp) works if i need a viewer other than the Nikon View NX2.

And disk is pretty cheap these days.

what you said. both capture disks and HDDs. i have a 1 TB storage HDD installed and a 1.5 TB external for backup.

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i shoot RAW/NEF to fit in. all you guys were going on and on about how much better it is so i now do it.

to be a bit more serious i have only been using my photos for farktography for the last couple of years. post processing is maybe a crop and “save for web”. now there are times i’ll play with curves and or really work on one before printing but that’s rare. given the vast array of monitors and color rendition i really don’t see much sense in spending more than a few minutes making an image look good here. hell even my dual monitor setup has a big shift in color/contrast.

also since card capacities got bigger and prices dropped it makes sense now to shoot at the setting that gives you the most use later.

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well that is interesting. while shooting some other tests i decided to just go ahead and try the NEF + jpg fine and while it does take up some card space other than that is good.

an 8 GB SanDisk SDHC card will hold 330 images in NEF and 235 uisng NEF + jpg fine. now a third less images might be a problem but since i usually shoot less than 235 on any given day, and i carry extra SDHC cards ……… for the time being i’ll use the in camera convertor.

speaking of tests this camera has a “macro” setting. it isn’t. all it does is slow the shutter down to increase the f stop. what a gyp. although i don’t really know just what i expected 🙂

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good luck lokisbong.

on a personal note i got nothing for tonight. my stats must be totally screwed by now but i ceased to care. and am a better person for it. 🙂

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sure am glad this is next week. my ideas aren’t’ finalized yet.

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that is really cool stupido. and even if it’s not yours it’s still cool.

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hey paid work is paid work and builds the portfolio and resume.

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i have voiced my opposition to the new/two vote thing repeatedly, anywhere and everywhere i could.

so i am very happy that a change is being considered.

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so i’m sitting at this art fair/flea market with my photos displayed for all the world to see and this woman walks by and i hear her say: “i’ve got one just like that”. her friend makes her point out which one and i know beyond a shadow of a doubt that whatever she has it’s not even close to my print.

what she meant was she had a snapshot of a similar subject. i did not either yell at her: “THE HELL YOU DO” or otherwise create a scene but i did realize that i needed a new venue to sell in.

ennuipoet did you see The Gates in central park (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gates) when it was up? and if so what did you think of it. to me this is more of the same kind of thing. art is in the eye of the beholder and IMO this iPhone shit isn’t art.

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i currently have a samsung A167(?) flip with piss poor camera. $35 a month for 250 minutes, no internet, no text, no data, no whatever. ran out my old AT&T contract and bought a go phone and slipped the old sim card in the new phone. i use <10 minutes a month on average.

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hey i resent that.

oh wait i’m over 60, have three printers and a dry mount press and still don’t print that often.

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i had a couple of nokias and liked them. of course if the market was driven by me .. well you guys would be whining and crying like crazy. crappy flip phones with crappy cameras no internet and no text — FTW.

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Whoa, f/45?

well with a shutter speed of 25. or even 50. OTOH the film speed must have been in the single digits in those days.

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HA — in talking with her some more we narrowed it down and she found hers. so maybe it was just her’s we remembered. anyway she now has something to enter.

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a friend and i both remember me taking photos post katrina of a handicap parking spot. it was poinenet because the parking lot/spot was obviously abandoned. and while we remember shooting the area and can find other shots in that area we think were the same day the shot in question — nothing.

however i do have three others to wow the voting public with.

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