Picasa Veteran User With Problem!
Mar 25, 2013 19:36:23 #
Nikonian72 wrote:
I am certain that my conservative views are NOT typical for the left coast. Governor Moonbeam will never designate me to represent the Socialist State of California.
Attaboy Doug :-) My sentiments exactly
Mar 26, 2013 02:32:18 #
Gramps wrote:
Why are you being snotty to me? My post was to show the most current version of Picasa 3.9, which I am using, compared to the version being used by fellow Scotsman, ArtistWally.And your point was? Can you transfer shots from yer camera via the card reader in yer printer? That's what I was doing untill the middle of last week!
Mar 26, 2013 05:24:30 #
Gramps wrote:
Y'all get more than I. Yes there is a drop down b... (show quote)
File Hippo (Google it) is a site where, if you wish, an earlier version of Picasa (choose Build 136-12) can be down loaded, as I have done to resolve the same problem (it only started when I updated to the latest version a few days ago) this worked for me.
Nothing under my kilt is worn - it is all in fine working order!
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Mar 26, 2013 05:45:13 #
Gramps wrote:
All of a sudden I am unable to import pictures via Picasa Import. Up until two days ago all I needed to do was insert my memory card into my Canon MX712 printer slot and almost immediately the contents were shown in import ready to be saved or processed. Since I have never used any other import media, I'm stupidly, dead in the water for a solution.
Since the update I have found that Picasa will not import Raw files.
Mar 26, 2013 05:52:53 #
Trudy wrote:
I am using Picasa 3.9, build 136.18. Just today, I opened & edited NEF images from my D5000, the saved as JPGs.Since the update I have found that Picasa will not import Raw files.
Mar 26, 2013 07:57:11 #
I've got the most current version as well & the only files that mine won't open are the Raw files from my Sigma DP2s
Mar 26, 2013 11:03:21 #
Nikonian72 wrote:
Why are you being snotty to me? My post was to show the most current version of Picasa 3.9, which I am using, compared to the version being used by fellow Scotsman, ArtistWally.
Never intended to hurt yer feelings, Mr Nikonian. Had it not been for you, I would never have known to solve my problem for as little as $5.00 with a perfectly easy to use card reader. Unfortuneately Picasa seems as pro active to change as Microsoft and doesn't give a damn about the user. Again I apoligize!!!!!!
Regards what Picasa does and does not allow---, TRUDY and Screamin' Scot, say Raw files. I don't shoot raw, my shots are jpeg which were, also, not down loaded. Do you suppose it depends on name rank and serial #?
Mar 26, 2013 13:13:21 #
Gramps wrote:
I shoot raw as well, which are .NEF (Nikon Electronic File) from my Nikon D5000 & Nikon D90. Much more info in a raw file than a JPG file, for post processing.Regards what Picasa does and does not allow---, TRUDY and Screamin' Scot, say Raw files. I don't shoot raw, my shots are jpeg which were, also, not down loaded. Do you suppose it depends on name rank and serial #?
Mar 27, 2013 12:28:56 #
Nikonian72 wrote:
I shoot raw as well, which are .NEF (Nikon Electronic File) from my Nikon D5000 & Nikon D90. Much more info in a raw file than a JPG file, for post processing.
Tell me something, is it an unwritten law that not shooting raw and relying on PP is not photographicly proper? Untill I joined UHH and for 40 years before that, I took what the camera saw, with my eye, and my audience seemed critically happy. Now I get the impression that shooting raw and waiting, 'till later for PP to "make it better" is law. No offense intended, but what ever happened to the natural ability to shoot a good shot, especially since digital allows us as many tries as we want(like)? Yesterday I was privileged to roam the Shell/Redstone Open Golf course which will feature the Houston Open, later this week. Must have shot over a hundred pictures of which I have kept about 60. The ones I kept, might have needed some cropping, but that was it. I am not interested in extra fizz---just natural, my eye, my emagination, from my camera. What's wrong with that?
Mar 27, 2013 12:38:05 #
With shooting in Raw, you allow yourself the ability to "tweak" the image to fit the way your mind's eye saw it without loosing any data when you do those edits (unlike shooting in Jpeg). A camera lens does not see like our eyes do ( I'm sure you are well aware of that) and cannot always capture a scene as we think we saw it.. As for "getting it right in the camera the first time". Be aware that your camera is making edits to the image it captures thru the menu settings you have selected in the menu system. I'd rather I make those edits than the camera's software. That said, it's purely a personal decision on your part. If you are satisfied with the decisions the camera makes , then that's all that matters. Think of shooting RAW as working with a negative in a darkroom.
Gramps wrote:
Tell me something, is it an unwritten law that not... (show quote)
Mar 27, 2013 13:58:32 #
Screamin Scott wrote:
With shooting in Raw, you allow yourself the abili... (show quote)
"Think of shooting RAW as working with a negative in a darkroom." Your quote.
That's all well and good if I was processing a "monochrome" neg. Yes I might doge or burn. It was always a state of enlarging to suit the order. But I ended up shooting most of my stuff via slides. Had a friend with a commercial darkroom and she'd run a set of slides and prints at the same time. I used, some one in Pop Photo to do my enlarging cuz I could charge for what my time might have been. Then when I, finally gave in, and went digital, I was in love all over again. Take the shoot, yesterday, my prints are requiring, only, cropping and text. Sorry, I still define PP as contrivance. Still friends?
Mar 27, 2013 14:00:32 #
Gramps wrote:
"Think of shooting RAW as working with a nega... (show quote)
To each their own...Whatever floats your boat....Yes, still friends...
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Mar 27, 2013 14:15:04 #
Gramps wrote:
But you do shoot raw! Every camera and photocopier capture images only in raw format. Period.Tell me something, is it an unwritten law that not shooting raw and relying on PP is not photographicly proper?
JPG is a viewing format. It has been processed (after capture, hence called PP) from a captured raw image. You can program your camera to provide you with just a JPG image (internally edited to someone else's specs), but the original was a raw capture.
Raw is first generation (capture format). JPG, TIFF, PNG, etc., are second generation, at best. And if you tweak (crop, straighten, sharpen, enhance in any way) a JPG, and save, you now have a third generation image.
Read more here:
FAQ: What is the Difference Between Raw and JPG?
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-26507-1.html
Mar 29, 2013 18:37:52 #
Nikonian72 wrote:
But you do shoot raw! Every camera and photocopie... (show quote)
I learned more about les diffrence' between raw and preferred jpeg than I cared to know. But it's all moot. Picassa got caught with their mammory in a wringer and has down loaded a fix. I just down loaded shots from my printer to my puter. I am now the owner of a card reader I may never use. Guess that's how one colloects war trophies. Thanks for the help and whatever!
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