Well... I have a bit more of a reason to take pictures in the next couple of years:
Tax man said "Go stimulate the economy" so I went to Penn and bought a K20D. First shots to follow as soon as I'm done getting the battery charged, getting the Photo Lab software installed and updated, and getting the custom settings done the way I want them.
tax man gave you money already? 'sup with that?
ReplyDeletethink he'll give me enuff for a hasselblad superwide, or some evil fast glass for the leica?
-GMT
Nah, he's not that fast - I calculated my dues in about 15 minutes yesterday though, so I know how much is coming and it should be in in the next week and a half. If not, then this is spare paycheck month, and if not that, it's zero percent interest until next year.
ReplyDeleteI also got Lightroom to help with the processing, so we'll see how THAT affects things. I may move to jAlbum for storage so yall can comment on pictures, or *gasp* pay for a pbase or photo.net subscription. Faculty/staff really worked out well for the adobe software - I paid $100 instead of $300. Their stuff is SO overpriced it hurts a little to think about it (CS4 Master Collection is $2500!), but for what it is, I think Lightroom turned out to be a pretty good deal. Sometimes I wish they'd just sell bridge by itself, but eh...
You might get lucky - I know someone that's got almost $4k coming in from the Feds.
i don't have all of our documents yet, but it's time to start guesstimating. won't be 4k, but will be a decent chunk. other things to do with tho, y'know? that house and wanting to retire some eon (decades from now) type stuff.... we'll see
ReplyDeleteeither way, enjoy the toys? not my style, but they should be fun for ya.
-GMT
oh yeah, still a question - do i really not want a dull mini 9 for any reason?
ReplyDelete-GMT
Hmm... well, on the Mini, I'd say go for it - they just dropped the price on the base model by 50 bucks, too, so if all you want is mini linux, great. I don't know what the base XP price is anymore, though. I do know I'm going to recommend one of the 12s to my mom, since she is always complaining about lugging around the machines she gets for work. I'm not sure about Vista on the specs associated with it, but eh... I'm not sure she would notice, given the performance she tolerates on her desktop machine.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, given the times between when I got notice you commented and when I commented back, you might think I was up to something... I hooked up lightroom to my old digital library and started going through the pile of things I never look at.
ReplyDeleteTwo reasons:
1) I want to keyword-tag the images I like and want to be able to find again
2) I want to delete the bulk of the 11,000 pictures I know aren't worth keeping that I kept for the sake of completeness.
With incoming JPEGs of 5-6 MB instead of 2-3, I'm going to fill out the remaining 75 gigs on my external hard drive way faster than I'd like. I have a few options in addition to this, like move my music library to the boot drive or move the .swf files I've collected over the years, but since I have all of the old images backed up, what do I stand to lose by deleting the ones I can tell are bad?
funny thing, how when we've got new toys, we spend time playing with them.
ReplyDeletestill debating which tiny machine.... sadly. either mini 9 for the size, msi wind for the genericness/compatibility/flexibility, or hp mini 1000, which has many issues, just because it's got the BEST screen and keyboard of the bunch
this weekend = time for a whole bunch of puppy pictures, just because. an excuse to put away the hasselblad and knob-wind leica in favor of motor driven nikon-ness
-GMT
Ditch the JPG. ;)
ReplyDelete- Josh
yeah, i'm with Josh - ditch the jpg, and go analog!
ReplyDeleteok, maybe not quite with Josh there, but yeah, decent in-camera jpg is key to usefulness in the digital world. i've got a friend who wpends to much time processing raw that, once there are more than about 50 exposures involved, it's faster to do them on film!
-GMT
Every time I throw away 800 images, I get another 2 gigs of drive space back. It's great!
ReplyDeleteI switched to .PEF for the last two thousand or so pictures; I think that, when paired with Lightroom and ACR, I'll actually be able to deal with the relative sluggishness of old G4 hardware. It's just too bad you can't upgrade the ACR component of Bridge CS2. I still really like that version; CS3 didn't do it for me, and I'm sure CS4 is even more bloated.
Moral of the story: in-the-field deletion combined with more proactive decisionmaking on the subject of "do I keep this piece of crap picture?" equals I can develop my own pictures. Sort of.
Batch process, anyone?
ReplyDeleteActually, I normally only process the keepers if I shoot more than 20-30 pictures, and the keepers are usually readily dicernable prior to processing, since the Canon default RAW settings are pretty close to usable without processing. If something is just for sharing, I'll batch process them.
- Josh