What software are you in? Is it called aperture? Otherwise I'm totally cornfused by the term aperture..... :cry:

Hmmm, how does 'aperture' let you do that? :?

Nature will never fail you if you take some time to carefully inspect what's around you when you're out about!

More than half the fun is actually finding something interesting to shoot, eh? :lol:

Thistle Crab Spider

Got nicked on the ear by one of this cutie's appendages when I didn't see it while shooting another pix and accidentally knocked it around... :lol:

If you are a photographer only and not into commercial art or similar, the solution is to buy Lightroom. Exact same engine as CS6, but without all the miscellaneous stuff unrelated to photography. Works for me anyway... :thumbup:

Primarily 8X10, but up to 11X14 or more at times. Let me say that I was a film junkie for years and always controlled the entire process from shooting to darkroom, both B&W as well as color so sourcing to a lab, even a really good one, is tough for me so I think the primary concern is long term cost if a get a printer able to do what I need. The initial investment doesn't scare me, just thinking long term...

I'm really struggling with the best way to create good quality prints so thought I'd reach out and ask what your experiences have been. There are great local printing facilities that charge a reasonable fee for prints. On the other hand, there are many quality photo printers out there that can create high quality prints. If one intends to produce quality prints for sale to the public, I'd like to hear your experiences with the best way to create these prints. I realize there are economies to scale on both sides of the equation, but the primary question is whether to buy a high quality printer or just farm out your printing to a local high quality facility like Ball Photo or similar.

I recommend Colormunki if you a serious about getting start to finish color calibration. Check it out here http://www.colormunki.com/
It's the best out there.

Here in the Asheville mountains, most have already left. Got a couple pix yesterday, but that's purdy much it for the season.

You're not missing a thing if your pix work for you! :thumbup:

The capacity of SD cards is not really what drives the biggest part of the cost today even though larger is more expensive of course. First of all, I use a 16 meg 'slow' card in my SZ7 and never had any issues. Now that I have a full format camera, I increased that to 32 megs because I'm shooting 75 meg files in Raw. Also increased the speed to Class 10 just for convenience of a quick download. Read up on what Class 10 means since they aren't all created equal. The really fast transfer rates is the main cost of an SD card and unless you're doing high frame rate shooting or movie shooting, anything over 45 mb/s is just not necessary. I agree on 2 smaller cards vs 1 large for the same reasons as everyone else. Good luck! :thumbup:

Ordered at the same time and waiting (impatiently) for delivery....

Ordered the 60mm Macro (Micro) and received it, but not the 28-300 zoom. Same on the delivery?
JC

Suspected some delay due to overwhelming interest.
Thanks,
JC