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Airheads: still clueless. ;)

Indeed.

Steve made "getting there" and doing it in style his trademark. That kind of vision and focus is what really makes a difference.

We need more people like him and fewer opportunists for...

Now this is a pretty bold turn of phrase, me thinks! :D

Nice photo, though.

It is truly extraordinary to have such a mentor as well as such a protégé!

Wonderful portfolio and tribute, thank you for sharing.

But... why is this thread in The Lounge?

Chances are you will like it, that's a pretty good developer. You might also want to consider Ilfosol 3, especially with lower speed films.

Mark,

You said that "digital files are more fragile than film or prints. Corrupt a few bytes of an image file and the whole file is probably useless." Which is what led to this sub-discussion.
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It appears that those "restructuring" lawyers are the Jones Day law firm. They represented Lehman Bros. and Chrysler in their "restructuring" relatively recently.

Yes, actually, I have. That was a part of my job for quite some time.



The conversation was about file corruption that you mentioned, not media failure. Media security is a very different...

No, but as David and Rick pointed out, properly set redundancy - say RAID 1 as a minimum - will make it moot.

Now, did you ever have such a damage happen to you personally?

I have had many...

I'll see your Fragile, Probably" and "Corrupt a few bytes" and raise you my CRC and Checksum.

:D

Then again, here's Schneider's take on this question...

If you think striving to keep alive and well a technology that can't do it on its own any more might be a good business in the future, you should go ahead and start one.

Personally, I don't do any...

But they are still going forward with it, aren't they? Evidently, the reason for concern is not quite good enough to go back to physical storage.

On the other note, and in keeping with the topic,...

The way I understand it, patronage is not really a business - it is more of a symbiosis between art and money, a way for art to be created but not used as a tool for generating profit. It is in fact...

Speaking of separation of content, I just noticed that the conversation has completely veered off topic again. Or maybe not. It all depends on what is the cause of all this anti-digital angst,...

Questionable in what way or aspect exactly? What do you mean by "almost flawless"?

When a digital file is copied, the copy is exactly the same, to the last bit, or the operation will fail. There...

Digital information definitely has both greater permanence and greater reproducibility than non-digital information. In fact, the vastly greater permanence is due precisely to the ability for...

Where those photographs taken on a Velvia, by any chance? Or was it B&W film of some sort? :D

On the other hand, The Library of Congress is actively and resolutely going the opposite way.

I don't know about you, but I'd trust the Library of Congress over Wikipedia any day.

I think you are giving marketing too much of a credit and not nearly enough to yourself.

I don't know you personally and I may disagree with some of the stuff you say here, but I'd pick one of...

http://48pixels.com/images/mammoth_008.jpg

4x5 crop, Nikkor-W 135mm, Provia 100F

I agree on all points except on the first one. It's not just wrong, it is ideologically polemic in the worst tradition of Marxism-Leninism (or whatever it was called).

Backlash against digital?...

Merg,

It is always nice to hear from you, one of the nicest voices around here and the most competent at the same time.

I am at the age when I could also be considered "older generation" - I...

Hey mamypoko, great work. The second one is especially nice!

Bodie, Labor Day weekend:

http://48pixels.com/images/bodie_1109-1.jpg

90mm on 4x5, TMY2 in XTOL

Mystery? What mystery? Photography has always been a highly technical craft. There is no mystery in sloshing a bunch of chemicals around in the darkened room. Not unless you also happen to believe in...

I agree.

But then again, what are the chances of someone getting ready to repeat the same big mistake for the third time would realize they shouldn't repeat a small one?

Purely theoretically...

If learning by trial and error is indeed the main learning method for most humans, then everybody (or at least a great majority) should pick an upper-end professional wedding photographer by their...

I agree with most all you said. But I do have an opinion, based solely on Richard's opening description:



My opinion, in the absence of direct visual comparison, is that the composition and...

OK, I think this is a logical question:

If a good argument can be made that his painting is indeed transformative, than how exactly does that constitute an abuse of your copyright and what is the...

Here's one lawyer's take on cases similar to this.

And his painting is not your photograph either. It is a painting of the same scenery at best, or a painting based on your photograph at worst.

Even if he did paint looking at your photograph...

And then there is that pesky little concept called "transformative", mentioned in the copyright law.

Many copyright holders, especially photographers it seems, would like to wish it away, but so...

Well, then, here's one from the same place to cheer you up:

http://www.petapixel.com/2011/04/28/transform-your-old-flatbed-scanner-into-a-cheap-lightbox/

:)

This is indeed a beautiful photo accompanied by an excellent description. I hope you don't mind me quoting this from your flickr account - after reading this, I looked over my images and found that...

What Mark said.

The sizes you enter in Image Processor are max-size constraints rather than just sizes. In other words, if you enter 3000 for width and 2000 for height, you will end up with files...

File - Scripts - Image Processor

So are a lot of excellent photographs...

The difference is, CS5 will stop functioning after 30 days if not activated with a purchased key and the photographs will not. ;)

Of course, there are...

You seem to be unhappy with the head in general. I would suggest you try a standard three-way head instead of a ball-head?

I am personally very happy with this one for both my 4x5 and 4x10. It is...

Why would anybody sane want to buy a five-year old clunker??

Whoever wants to buy or tries to sell a five-year-old computer doesn't deserve comfort, they deserve a sharp whack upside their head to...