The place I recommended, atlex.com, sells the genuine Epson and Canon ink. The only prices I have seen lower are usually telemarketers who don't say it's third party ink unless I ask, and then they say it's just as good. I say no thanks.

That is a setting for in-camera sharpening of JPEG files. It doesn't really make them sharper, it just increases contrast along lines and edges, giving the illusion of more sharpness. If you sharpen images too much, they get undesirable artifacts like halos. It is better to use low or no sharpening and then sharpen as needed in post. Or better yet, shoot RAW, and the sharpening won't be applied, so you have to do it in post.

I just don't think scans that cheap will be as good a quality as a decent digital camera, and you have to pay for the film and processing.

I don't see the point of shooting film, especially medium format, if you are going to have it scanned. For that price, I can't believe the scans will retain all the quality of the film. The only way I would shoot film again is if I was getting prints made directly from the film.

The best prices I've found for printer ink is Atlantic Exchange:
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All this discussion about whether or not there is a god is beside the point. I am an agnostic, and I believe there may well be some kind of god, not so much because the universe exists, but because life exists. The impossible leap for me is believing that the Bible, or any other work written by man, is the word of this god. It seems most people just believe the religion they were raised in, but I never had what I would consider a communication from a god concerning what to believe about him.

Why aren't the sex answers "right"? If you were supposed to have non-sex answers, there are some others that would fit. I guessed "fandom" for the second, and I guess I'm dense, but I can't figure out the sex answer for that one.

Well, like I said, with business portraits, they don't usually need prints. When I do personal or family portraits, I would quote them print prices first, then maybe web files. I wouldn't want to sell people hi-res files if I thought they were going to print them themselves. It's one of the difficult questions with professional digital photography.

I do mostly business portraits, so everything is either for publication or online use, and there is no use for prints. If I tried to make them buy prints before I would sell them the digital files, they wouldn't put up with it. I do get an occasional print order for personal use - usually for their mothers.

I love digital photography, especially for the ability to show clients their photos during the session, and make sure they like them. Also, digital retouching allows me to make people look better, and people like that. But I feel I'm not making as much profit as the film days where if they were sending out 100 press kits they would need 100 prints of each photo.

Does anyone even remember milkmen? I'm 65, and I barely remember our family having one when I was a little kid.

Not necessarily - Plenty of lousy photos have been taken with natural light. GOOD light makes great photos, whether it is natural or man made.

It's not available on my cable company's On Demand (Xfinity)

The BBB may be toothless in doing anything about complaints, but they do keep a record of them, so it is useful to check with them before doing business with a company you aren't familiar with to see if they have complaints. And for the same reason, it's good to send complaints to them when you've been ripped off.

Most serious photographers shoot in RAW, so no processing is applied in the camera, and the images must be post processed to some degree when they are opened, and usually some additional post processing later. Sharpening in particular is usually one of the last things done, and depends on the size of the file and its intended use (printing or on-screen use).

There isn't one level of sharpness that will be best for all photos. Different subjects or lighting can have different levels of sharpening that is ideal. That is why it is best not to apply sharpening in camera, or do it at a low level, and then choose the amount of sharpening that looks best in post.