Brian Moffitt
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I have no practical experience with TimeMachine, though most of the folks I know who use Apple products love it.
Mike,
Should have mentioned in my first post, on your backup drives (other than the NAS), keep them offline when not actively being used for backups.
Jarrod,
Thanks for the comment. I knew about the micro adjust feature, but figuring out how to make it work was where I had problems. I was able to find a website (google is your friend), which described a procedure for testing lenses and then adjusting them. Following the procedure there I found the lens seems to have a significant back focus issue (I had to adjust it to forward 15). So now I need to take some test shots and see if the issues is if not resolved helped.
Brian
The Procedure can be found here:
http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/article_pages/cameras/1ds3_af_micoadjustment.htmlDoug,
Thanks for the reply. Attached should be an image of my wife and one of my daughters taken the other day. Both are in relatively the same focal plane, yet neither are in focus, though the focus point selector was on my daughter’s nose.
Jason,
I don’t have first hand evidence, but Red Truck Fly Fishing (discount arm of Leland Fly Fishing in San Francisco) had a blowout sale on Cloudveil a while back and they said Cloudveil was getting out the fly fishing business as part of the marketing for their sale.
A real shame, they seemed to have some real quality stuff.
Brian
Dan,
It all depends on where you live and what the regulations are. Here in N Texas at first we were getting the leaking ponds for contaminated frac water, but now that it isn’t the case. Instead, it is disposed of in “disposal wells” located in specific areas. While this is a good thing, the bad thing is the large number of tank trucks we now have on our roads carrying the frac water from wells to these disposal sites.
There are viable options, but as others have said getting the regulations caught up with the pace of discovery and drilling is the real issue.
Brian
Matt,
The only program I know of which does this natively is Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 and higher.
Zach,
I hold a degree in Archaeology but don’t live in Georgia so I’m out, nor was my area of expertise the SE US (bronze age Mediteranian mostly).
Callum,
I find that I can do most of the edits I want to make to an image in Lighroom without going to Photoshop.
Allan,
Great question! The answer however isn’t really cut and dried. As with most things computer related this answer is prefaced with “it depends”. If the software which came with your camera is doing what you want then you probably don’t need anything more. However, if you feel like the adjustments available aren’t quite what you want then you might want to upgrade.
That being said it depends on what you want to do as to what you choose to go with. I got my parents Photoshop Elements 8 for Christmas and they really like it, but they aren’t heavy photo editors. Just doing enough to make decent prints and uploads for the web. That being said my dad did find he needed to get a book to really understand all the aspects of Elements and what he could do with it.
I on the other hand like the flexibility and power that come with Photoshop CS (just upgraded to 5) and Lightroom. I’ve found that I now do almost 90% of my editing in Lighroom and only go to Photoshop for specific situations. But Lightroom is about 100% more expensive than Elements. Like my parents though my wife wants something simple so she uses Picassa (free) to handle photos. She doesn’t do much editing but needed something that would catalog the images so she can easily find what she is looking for.
So, like I said at the beginning it really depends. If the ACDsee software is working for you then there isn’t much reason to upgrade to something else. On the other hand, if it isn’t quite doing everything you want and you aren’t happy with the results you are getting I’d look to Elements 8 or Lightroom (with the caveat that Lightroom 3 is coming out “soon” (release date not yet released by Adobe)). I should note that as the other post noted Lightroom 3 Beta 2 is available for free so you could always download that and see how you like it before making a purchase commitment (there is also a trial of Photoshop Elements 8 available)).
That was a long response to an easy question, but the answer is that a standalone package quite likely has substantially more features than a package like ACDsee.
John,
I’m with Kurt when it comes to Lightroom. I started using it seriously a few months ago and I now use it probably 75% of the time for all the edits I need to do to any image. As Kurt noted in lightroom an action is called a Preset and you can even export presets for use by other users. I currently have probably 20-30 presets created by Matt Klowskoski (lightroomkillertips.com) that I use all the time.
I mostly only use Photoshop now when I’m doing selective color images, or have an issue where I need to do extensive retouching of an image and Lightroom just can’t get me there. Be sure to check out the Lightroom 3 Beta 2 if you get a chance. Once you get used to how Lightroom works you’ll be a believer.
I should add that the content aware fill seems to be the single coolest thing I’ve seen in a long time.
Kyle,
If you are using Photoshop CS4 (I only have CS4 to refer to, but the process should be similar in older editions), choose Filter – Brush Strokes and then the brush you want to use.
Zach,
Mostly a question of curiousity as I’ve seen some postings on other boards where folks are trying to find out about warranty work and not having emails or phone calls returned (which would make sense if the staff was either let or in the proces of being let go).
Having been through 2 layoffs in just over a decade of full-time work I completely sympathize with the folks at T&T.
