BboH wrote:
I do follow you.
---- Cut by me ----
BTW, bought BOTH Photoshop and Paint Shop when they first appeared on the market. Walked away from Photoshop because of Adobe's proprietary file structure - they wanted to be the only game in town as they have almost accomplished with PDF - I don't like monopolies. Still maintain Paint Shop; also have DxO, PTGui and a few other specialty programs, all of which are seldom now used.
Linda, sorry I got carried away...
A very good way to start my view.
I do not like (euphemism) Adobe, PERIOD. They steal data and like Micro$oft and Apple,
they have the same greedy way of doing business. I do not like "open source" either (neither ?),
because the opportunity makes the thief in some cases (mean people). I had my first contact
with a computer back in 1979 (Burroughs B1700 and ForTran IV). Since then I had programmed
in 8-bit and 16-bit various languages (Assembly, BASIC, C, C++, Visual Basic, etc.).
Micro$oft bought the rights of Dbase, released a Window$ version and deep-sixed it.
Bought XTreeGold, launched the XT4 (for Window$) and buried it too... moving on...
Linda, sorry for starting from the end, but Bboh's post moved me. I read all posts on this
subject and noticed very funny and very not so much comments.
As I said a while ago, I like to shoot abstractions, landscapes (with interesting details),
in B&W and sticking the most I can to a certain low ISO. I feel sorry that my camera
can not give me the options of lower than 100 ISO and I can not afford another one.
I do not review the LCD display. I like, I shot, and do not PP. Sometimes I do crop,
or correct the horizon and save as *.jpg+*.tif and keep them to myself.
I do not like flowers, butterflies, birds in flight, over-saturated colors, effects, etc et al.
I mean: for me to do it, I do not mind in seeing those. Everything has its value.
I posted a close-up (in color) or two, but that was when I was testing my 50.
I would love to post a photo I took in color (saw, liked, shoot) using a Vivitar
75-300 Zoom (for Nikon with adapter to EOS), but it is from a neighbour's home
and quite identifiable. Saw the scene, ran inside, mounted the tripod and camera,
positioned, turned off all lights in my house and took the shot. There was stuff
in the foreground (unavoidable) and it is impossible to crop. The part of the scene
that caught my eyes had great texture, including the reflection over the hood of a
car parked inside the house.
Anyway, I let light take me and my camera HAS to do what I want, except when
I am wrong.
Sorry for the long post, but... c'mon I read a lot more.
Edit: Oh... as for "Newbies", I face and accept it as "new here". I am on a
distribution list in Dermatology for some 14 years and even people who graduated
30 years ago are "Newbies" for the LIST. That is not an open forum, like this one.
IMHO, "offensive" is to call offensive whatever one says. Otto's paradox.