Posts for: CamB
Feb 7, 2024 16:32:13 #
paulrnzpn wrote:
b PPI is Imaginary! PPI vs DPI vs Resolution /b ... (show quote)
I just went and watched this video. Two things came to mind. 1) I remembered how math has always made my head spin. I watched the first two minutes twice and could not follow what he was talking about, even though he has a nice presentation. 2) I'm so glad we don't have to know or deal with any of this to make great prints.
Feb 7, 2024 16:00:16 #
paulrnzpn wrote:
b PPI is Imaginary! PPI vs DPI vs Resolution /b ... (show quote)
Lightroom Print has a ppi setting. (mine is always at 360. I never change it) There is no DPI setting anywhere in the print setting chain. I don't even know what that is and I have been printing for thirty years. This video might explain it but it is not really something you need to know. Some people might want to know, and that's fine, but it is numbers and math that don't really concern digital printers (most of us) working at home with our Epson and Canon printers.
Just for fun I changed my ppi from 360 to 150 and printed a small section crop on a 17x25 print. Looking at some very fine detail the 150 setting was not a sharp. So now we know that changing the ppi does effect quality of the final print.
Feb 7, 2024 14:17:19 #
paulrnzpn wrote:
b Choosing the Perfect Print Resolution for Your ... (show quote)
My old printer (Epson 2880) gave me a choice of something: 1440 or 2880. It didnt make any difference to the final print which I chose. The final prints were identical. Epson has now done away with that and there are no choices for whatever that was about on my current printer (P800). In my software (I print through lightroom) I set the PPI to 360 five years ago and have never changed it since. My choices now have nothing to do with PPI or DPI or 1440 or 2880. I determine my final print size, 5x7, 13x19, 17x25, whatever, and my paper profile and print.
You haven't needed to bother with the math of it for years and yet this topic rears its confusing head a few times year after year. All the computer power we pay for and all modern programs we use will do it for you. Don't bother with this stuff. You will only end up wasting time doing something your computer does anyway. Choose a ppi that works for you (360 is the Epson default) set it and forget it, then print whatever you want.
Feb 6, 2024 17:18:18 #
Silversleuth wrote:
Found a Kodak metal one in an old trunk, opened it and yikes, it WAS full of weed.
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When you misplaced it, it was probably a crime to have it. Now you can just go to a store a buy it. How things change.
Feb 5, 2024 22:07:05 #
SuperflyTNT wrote:
The plastic ones really depend on how much weed is in them.
This made me laugh. It made me think of all the years where the first thing you did when opening one of the plastic ones was to smell it.
Feb 5, 2024 15:27:58 #
DirtFarmer wrote:
Eventually the metal cans were replaced by plastic.
When they went to plastic Kodak made all theirs black but some of the other film company's made their's clear which was nice when you wanted to know what film was inside. I would often tape the label from the box to the can to keep them sorted in my camera bag. Then, of course, there was German customs. You couldn't have your film in bricks. All rolls out of boxes and out of cans. Before going overseas I would put a rubber band around each roll to keep things neat and to keep the film leader from sticking out. Seeing those cans brought back lots of memories. I still have two. One with tiny little nails in it and the other with a few rattlesnake rattles in it.
Feb 2, 2024 22:32:03 #
Longshadow wrote:
I could, but I won't.
BUT, I'll bet that there is someone out there that would.
People love to group, sub-group, and sub-sub-group, and, ...
Humans are strange, they love ro group and categorize.
BUT, I'll bet that there is someone out there that would.
People love to group, sub-group, and sub-sub-group, and, ...
Humans are strange, they love ro group and categorize.
Thats me! I love all my groups and sub-groups. Vacations by Location and date but lots of Keywords. I don't really care about the date on most of the things I shoot. It's always there in the metadata anyway.
Feb 2, 2024 19:32:51 #
Longshadow wrote:
I don't mind, and I won't have an iPhone..... 
I'm just curious. Do non Apple phones automaticly sync with computers if they are looking at the same online storage? I've just assumed every phone on the same account or network would auto sync something like Photos without having to do anything once the system is set up. Don't calendars and contacts talk back and forth between devices? Mine do. Wouldn't photos be the same?
Not trying to make a point here, just wondering.
Feb 2, 2024 19:22:10 #
Ioannis wrote:
An old subject with many preferences from each one of the readers. I find the usb cable more reliable in my opinion , opening the camera door and taking the card out it could very easily be scratched, and then replace it back in the camera, those are few steps more than plugging the cable into the camera. Some saying something about running the battery low, this could happen as we taking photos. My usb cable is always plugged into to my computer, not a big deal!
I didn't know scratching a card was a thing or even possible. Never heard of it happening or even how you would do it.
Feb 2, 2024 14:21:50 #
gvarner wrote:
Why would anyone use a card reader when there are more direct ways to load photos onto a computer, like using a USB cable?
By the time you pry open the rubber door on your 7200 and insert that annoying little plug into the slot, my card reader is downloading files into the Lightroom folder I download to. And even assigning a few keywords. It doesn’t get much easier than that.
Feb 2, 2024 14:16:45 #
Longshadow wrote:
I simply plug my phone into the computer and the phone becomes another drive.
I go to the photo directory in the phone and copy the images to the computer. Easy.
The phone is always on during the day anyway.
I have a spare phone cable next to the computer.
I go to the photo directory in the phone and copy the images to the computer. Easy.
The phone is always on during the day anyway.
I have a spare phone cable next to the computer.
So old fashioned. When I take a picture with my iPhone, which I hardly ever do, it magically appears in the Photo folder on my computer. I don’t have to do anything.
Feb 1, 2024 15:29:30 #
Thanks for the heads up on this.
Jan 29, 2024 15:31:15 #
jeffhendy wrote:
Remember that the Scots have a saying "There's no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes"
Edinburgh, Glasgow and the Orkneys are places that I have visited and recommend. But check the weather forecast!
Edinburgh, Glasgow and the Orkneys are places that I have visited and recommend. But check the weather forecast!
All these are favorite spots. Been to Orkney four times and looking forward to the next trip. We rented a house on Skye a few years ago. Found that about five or six days to explore felt about right. The drive along the coast, North and South as far as you can go is great. Long ago one side of my family came from Scotland and I saw my name on many signs. That was kind of fun.
Jan 29, 2024 15:25:59 #
Bobby123 wrote:
I found that it was a real wrestling match to rotate my Nikon 80-400 to shoot a vertical so a tour leader told me about a Kirk foot. Go to kirkphoto.com and look for NC-80-400GN. I ordered it the day I got home and what a world of difference! My lens rotates very easily now. Good luck!
Me too. Kirk feet on everything. Quick and secure.
Jan 26, 2024 15:02:58 #
zacksoccer wrote:
This image is from Scott Wells...He uses a Nikon z9 with a 600mm lens...I have a Nikon D850, D500, and am using a Sigma 150-600 lens...is it every possible to get this level of sharpness without a mirrorless camera and a prime lens? These images are amazing...
Sharpness comes from the lens. A great lens has to ability to give you a super sharp file. Focus is a combination of the lens and the camera working together. People here have talked about newer cameras having eye focus. To me, that could be really nice but it still comes back to the lens. Focusing on the eye with a less than sharp lens won't give you a sharp shot, just a better focused shot.
I am not a fan of the example photograph. The top of the eagles head is over exposed. I live in a land of eagles. Sitting at my computer and looking out the window to my left I can see two eagles sitting in our eagle tree. Everyone around here photographs eagles. Most eagle pictures have an over exposed head and that fact makes the shots that are perfectly exposed the winners. Mr. Wells might have detail in the head in the raw file but by opting to wipe out any hint of sky has blown out the head.
I have never seen a real sky this white. It makes the shot look over processed and the eagle seem to be pasted on a white background. Yes, the picture is sharp but it is missing other things that it needs to make it amazing. I can't get past the white sky and the blown out head. To me the cropping also feels uncomfortably tight. The eagle is nowhere.
Sharpness is just one aspect of an amazing picture and most of the others are missing. Re-crop, bring down the highlights (and whites) to give this eagle someplace to be, and this file might be amazing. Don't get too hung up on sharpness. I would trade a little sharpness for an an eagle shot with a little more dynamic interest. It is sharp though.