Wow! Eerie is right! You should publish a book with those bug shots...

Nice work! What camera are you using?

I was just looking at the Topaz site. It is not obvious whether this is a stand-alone program, or a plug-in for something like PS or LR. The price is good until the 19th.
Can you give me any more info on it?

Thanks.

Excellent service! You should let your bosses know how much good this sort of problem-response does for the company! I don't know how many subscribers there are to this forum, but you guys just bought some priceless advertising...

I am in the same boat - my copy of CS3 should be arriving today. I hope (!!!) that I can just register it with Adobe and go from there. I was in chat with one of their reps a few days ago, and I explained what I was doing. His only question was, did I have the serial number yet? As soon as I get it and try it, I will post the results on here.

There is no way I could ever afford the price they charge for complete versions, so I saw ebay as my only chance. If they *don't* accept this, then they will be throwing away their chance at my $10 every month 'for ever'. I am not going to make them rich, but if they want sales and subscribers, then they should accept them.

If they are *not* going to accept ebay purchasers, they should make that clear somewhere. I will have just wasted $75 going from one outdated version (CS2) to another (CS3). I shouldn't think that they are still selling their older versions, so that would mean to qualify for this offer, you would have to buy CS6, for a huge amount of money. My computer cost less than the retail price for that program! If I could afford CS6, then I wouldn't be interested in paying monthly for access to CC!

I was looking for a new camera, and that feature (along with the other stuff which it shares with almost every other camera) was the deciding factor. I wanted a long lens, and - as I stated - the cost of such a lens for a dslr is way beyond my purchasing power. So yes, the zoom was important in my decision.

I have read enough of your moronic comments. Go away.

This is a perfect example of good PR. I think most people on here already know that B&H is a company worth dealing with, but whatever it cost them to put this situation right, it was worth it! How many others on here will have followed this discussion and decided to buy from them instead of somewhere else? Why can't more companies *see* how this works?

I buy a ton of stuff in all categories from Amazon, because they have proved that they value the customer... When something does go wrong, they are so good to deal with, and get things put right.

Yeah, that is my experience too. I have a closed-in porch, and most times they push open the porch door and just shove the package in; they don't even approach the front door. If I am here, that porch door is right outside the window beside me, but I still couldn't get there quick enough to grab the guy.

I realise that, and to be fair, I have only had the P&S ones for a couple of weeks. I have used one, but I don't think I have used the other yet. The ones for the SX50 I haven't used at all.

I just feel that Canon is pushing the pricing envelope with their name-brand batteries is all. If they sold them for half the price they currently charge, they would sell a whole bunch more of them, and I can't believe that they still wouldn't be making a decent per-unit profit.

I did use the DPP in the end, although to be honest, I don't see much difference in the quality between the raw and the camera jpegs... I used the raw to generate the HDR, but the other 2 were plain jpegs. I suppose when I start getting more clever with my shots and what I am doing with them, the raw will come in more useful.

I am just a bit disappointed that this book I have been studying seems to have lead me right up the garden path, in regards to CS2 and Camera Raw.

Yeah, I wouldn't say I have *large* hands, but I guess they aren't small either. I had never really thought about the size factor, but having pretty much all the controls of a full-size slr on a body this small, well, they *have* to put them somewhere I guess. Being right-handed, it would have been easier for me if the controls were more over on the left - but I may change that opinion when I start using the features in earnest...

I was planning to get my first dslr, but after seeing some of the photos posted on here by sx50 owners, and knowing how much it would cost for a lens that long, I just couldn't resist this one!

I really like the way the pictures came out, especially since most of them were 'grabbed'. Oh, and perhaps I should have said, but none of them were cropped at all. They are resized from 4000x3000 down to 2000x1500, and run through jpegmini for smaller upload size, but that is all. If I wanted to crop in on the full resolution original, I could get even closer! After going from a P&S with a 5x zoom, this is a whole new world!

That was another question I was going to ask... Is there any advantage/disadvantage of DNG over CR2? Other than my current program not reading CR2, of course!

I guess technically, the wider shot gives him more room to 'run in to', but I have to agree with the other posts that the first one somehow works "better" for me.

I have bought after-market batteries for both my cameras (both canons). They are not counterfeit, but sold as 'compatible'. Both sets have higher amp/hour rates than the original canon batteries. I think the manufacturers themselves are causing the counterfeit problem by charging such ridiculous prices. For my P&S, Canon wanted nearly $40 for a battery. I bought 2 higher-capacity Halcyon batteries for it, and paid less than $10 for the pair, *plus* a car charger! I cannot see how the 'real' ones can be *that* much better.

I understand that their equipment, cameras, lenses, and so on are built to a high quality standard, but how much difference in quality can there be in a battery?