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You are thinking about it the wrong way. "Cropping" is not the operation you want, and the cropping tools will not do what you are trying to do.

What you really want to do is make the portion...

C'mon, you guys.

We all know that the correct term for a long lens is "zoom lens", because it zooms in closer to stuff.

80, 110, 180, 300

All four are always carried. In order of usage frequency, it would be 180, 110, 300, 80.

Shortly after getting a drum scanner (Screen 1030ai), I found that horizontal bands were appearing in scans. I diagnosed these as being due to other devices (computers, monitors) on the same power...

I've done two long trips with my 4x5. The first was 3 1/2 months through China, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. The second was 6 months through China, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. In both cases,...

He had the option for a trial: refuse to pay, get arrested, arraigned, have a trial.

I have been looking at similar options for using an MFDB on my 4x5, especially since the release of the relatively inexpensive Leaf Aptus-II 5 22MP back.

The most interesting stitching adapter is...

Another thought about keeping a backup of the database:

If the database can be dumped in a text format, and it is not too big, just email it to a gmail account, and then you will also have a...

I am using a Screen 1030ai drum scanner that I purchased four years ago. I agree with everything Bruce has said, so far.

They are not fake lens flares.

The director and DP actually shone flashlights into the camera's lens, from just out of frame. They were not added digitally.
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I also find this to be the best cable release I have used, but I prefer the shorter 20" version.

Most people who ask to see the image on the ground glass end up saying, "I can only see my reflection."

I also often overhear people saying to their family or friends, "That must be digital!"
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There are a few interesting monitors in the same price range as the Eizo from HP, NEC, and LaCie, so you might want to check them out. Chromix.com lists many of them in their "store" section.

I...

I bought an Ebony (sv45u) as my first and only LF camera, and I've never had a second thought about it.

As Jeremy and Paul have said, the Flash approach adds a trivial level of protection (easily defeated), and likely causes the target audience to roll their eyes and click the "close" button to flee...

Drum scanners can be purchased quite cheaply, but there are some issues that you should be aware of:

1) Most of the drum scanners are no longer supported by the companies that built them (that is...

I have used the hood (without magnifier) for years. I only used a darkcloth for a short time.

It is difficult to get as dark as using a cloth. You have to use your hands to seal off the edges, but...

If anyone has a high-end flatbed they wish to give me, I will split the shipping with you. (I already have a drum scanner, so "no thanks" on those.)

Green is a primary of additive (ie. transmissive) color:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_color

Red, Yellow, Blue are primaries for subtractive (ie. reflective) color.

The Stone Forest can be visited as a day trip from Kunming. When I was there, a special tourist train trip was available to take you out and back.

On the way to the Stone Forest, the terrain we...

From the photos in the Red literature, the 6x17 sensor looks like one single piece.

If someone starts shooting movies with the 6x17 sensor, I would assume that it would be for projection in a...

Well, I only used sRGB in my example because paulr mentioned that he was using it as his working space.

It sounds like assigning a profile to a neg scan is rather arbitrary.

If that is the case, you might try using "Assign Profile..." on the original data to assign something other than AdobeRGB, and...

What was the original ICC color profile in the scans?

Did you do a "Convert to profile..." or "Assign profile..." to put the images in sRGB?

Wikipedia has a decent article about Computational Photography, including numerous links to research papers and articles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_photography

I was first...

Computational Photography is an active area of research, which covers a number of diverse topics, one of which is image refocus and depth of field control:

http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/Mask/
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Ebony sv45u (with quickload holder inserted), in Jiuzhaigou, China.

I believe you are talking about CinePaint, which started as a fork from the gimp project (about 10 years ago). It is freely available:

http://www.cinepaint.org/

Sometimes, when the zero-detent is causing a problem, I will tilt the other standard a little, which allows the standard I am adjusting to move away from the detent range. Crude, but effective. (This...

http://www.fujifilm.com/products/professional_films/color_reversalfilms/index.html

Click on each film product to go to its webpage. At the bottom of each webpage is a link to a pdf file for the...

You are likely to have long exposures in the slot canyons. Probably in the 30 to 120 second range.

Velvia 50 requires reciprocity compensation when the exposures are longer than 1 second (if I...

I recently got a Drobo, which is a very easy-to-use raid unit, and no too expensive. You can install into it whatever hard drives you need to get the space you need.

It is important to remember...

If you want to apply sharpening before printing, the parameters for the sharpening operation are specific to the print size. In that case, you want to resize the image to the output resolution, and...

The packages with the film were almost always "beaten up" to some extent. Usually, the beating was minor, but a couple of times the enclosing box had severe structural damage. One package I sent home...

I have done two long trips with my LF gear. In both cases, I had to be able to carry all of my possessions in a backpack and small duffelbag.

The first was 3.5 months through China (6wk), Vietnam...

Photoshop CS3 for Windows and Mac is a 32-bit application. This means that Photoshop, your plugins, and the memory for your image and work must all fit into 4GB. Memory requirements beyond that make...

I haven't seen this mentioned, yet:

http://www.retrothing.com/2008/04/tortuga-5-panor.html

Looks like it is a pinhole competitor to the Cirkut and other rotating pano cameras, recording to 120...

I have checked my LF gear many times, with many airlines, on many continents. I need most of my carry-on space for quickloads.

The camera gear is in Pelican cases, and those are stuffed into a...

I didn't choose my words well. When I said the product might be "crap", I meant that it is fundamentally bad by design. With certification, you will do a very good, quality-managed job of...

Being ISO 9000 certified just means that the entire manufacturing process is documented, and auditable.

You could still be producing crap. But you know exactly how the crap is made, and can verify...