So Photoshop works differently than gimp?? With gimp, exporting a JPEG doesn't change data in the software, so you can just continue editing if you want to.

But that wasn't my original question. I don't understand why creating a JPEG is needed to see if you like the image as edited. With my monitor, displaying a JPEG image looks just like what I remember seeing on the monitor before I exported the JPEG file.

BTW - we are on page 6 now.

Reply #73: Given that the answer to the OP is 'yes', what would be accomplished by making a JPEG that isn't accomplished by looking at the screen in front of your nose???????

Why not just click on the 'watch' link on the Original Post???

Three other issues with Epson scanners:

(1) glass in the scan path.

(2) my experience is that one-pass scans suffer from what I call 'flare' - light areas bleed into adjacent dark areas; this is bad enough when something white appears to glow ... but I also had that happen in a picture of my daughters wearing bright pink rain gear!

(3) they render perfectly imperfections in the media.

I'm still using an old Nikon LS-2000. Nikon got out of that business some years ago, but I purchased mine from a guy who refurbishes them; I have to keep an old Win XP computer to run it, but the guy who sold it to me says I could also run it off Linux. It takes seven minutes to make 16 scans of a slide, but then it uses parallax to eliminate many surface issues. Of current production consumer-level scanners, I believe the Plustek 8100 is the best.

Most P&S cameras have so-called 1/2.3" sensors. These are small sensors, which have three issues:

(1) The cameras have strict ISO limits, and even within those limits the upper values are noisy.

(2) The camera has limited Color Depth, much lower than what JPEG can convey. When I was young, my family spent time at Torch Lake, MI. At the southern end, where we stayed, the water was 4' or less for perhaps a mile out, but it eventually became very deep, so the range of colors we could see on a sunny day, from shallow water, sandbars, and deep water, caused the locals to call this the "Place where the rainbow stores its colors". A 1/2.3" sensor might have trouble capturing all this variation well.

(3) The camera has limited Dynamic Range. In sunlight, Caucasian skin may lose its detail. In forest glades, you can capture shadow areas, or sunlit leaves, but not both.

We can make suggestions, but ultimately you will have to research areas such as these.

How much Post Processing do you anticipate doing? Do you hope to use JPEGs Straight Out Of Camera, or do you assume that you will create a 'raw' file, and then spend time manipulating that 'raw' file to create a final result??

One of the things unique to Maine {in the US} is their "two foot" railroads; in the US, rails are normally 4'-8-1/2" apart; on a "two foot" railroad, the rails are 2' apart. The best restored of these is probably the one in Wiscasset ME.

full disclosure: when we lived in Mass, I drove up to Wiscasset several times as a volunteer member of the track crew extending their line; I learned a lot about traditional manual track laying.

I showed this image to my 93-year-old mother at the nursing home, and she muttered "cute". I visited every day, but that was the last word I heard from her - she died on the morning of the 10th, so now I will always associate this image with my last meaningful interaction with her.

I now think these are both males, and the dominant one is establishing territorial pre-eminence.

All current production Pentax systems, even the least expensive, are Weather Resistant, meaning this rain would be more of an issue to you than to it.

No, No, No

Some photography is art. Some, such as that performed by photojournalists and those at the Olympics, is recording our world as it is, and then the photographer attempts to keep himself/herself out of the picture. My 'mission', of "recording my world as it is today, before tomorrow comes and everything changes" is close to photojournalism, so I choose to follow their standards.

Even 'raw' data is 'processed', because at minimum the processor is in the route from sensor to memory.

Yeah, someone always makes this statement. My Kodachrome film was also processed - also by professionally designed totally predictable automation. From the pov of a design engineer, this sort of thing is just an extension of the professionally designed equipment - part of the machine to deliver the product {a reliably consistent rendition of the scene} to me.

The legality in my state is that B&H doesn't charge me sales tax, but the state expects me to pay it directly to the state as part of the annual income tax return. Colorado had the same expectation, and now they are forcing merchants like B&H to report these sales.

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Or handles high ISO settings gracefully.

The Pentax K-70 handles high ISO values very well.
A K-70 + 55-300mm lens costs less than $1000.

When I see something by you or rmalarz or uuglypher, I think "Those are very nice, but they don't fit into my goals", so I just keep moving because there's nothing there for me.