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  1. Thread: Dear Adobe

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    Re: Dear Adobe

    Ditto, I have a Mac Pro dual quads with 8 gigs. After going through Adobe hell (India) to get a new Mac version of CS3, it crashed the first hour after installing. However, it's only crashed a couple...
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    Re: Epson 4990 with Vista ??

    I had a similar problem with my Microtek Artixscan M1 Pro and Silverfast. I had to go to the Silverfast website to do a software update and that solved the problem.
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    Re: Processing and Scanning Rolls of 120

    This reply is a bit tardy but if you don't mind shipping by mail, A&I Photographic in Hollywood/LA is probably amoung the top labs in the country. The film comes back pristine, vitually spot free....
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    Re: Advise on Having New Computer Built

    I've been using PCs for years but I recently went to a Mac Pro running the Mac OS along with XP Pro using VMFUsion. It works great. XP is very fast on the Mac hardware. The Mac Pro, if you buy the...
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    Re: Trying to choose a printer

    My experience also with the ipf8000. It's been superb, never clogged, hasn't failed. Canon support has been great everytime I've had a question and sometimes after all the voice prompts and I've been...
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    Re: digi print quality on canvas vs. paper

    I use Breathing Color Chromatta Matte canvas and I use the same print files time after time with no color shifts or hassles. I spray the printed canvas with Breathing Color giclee varnish and I find...
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    Re: high dynamic range software

    I did not care for Photo Matrix Pro. I did download Dynamic Photo HDR (free unlimited trial download) and I much preferred it's functionality. It also allows you to select preferences such as...
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    Re: Zion NP - Advice Sought

    Camera Country no longer processes E6. If you are driving to S. Utah from Salt Lake City, there are still several pro labs there including Nichols Photo Lab. Nichols will give you three hour...
  9. Re: What slide format will survive the digital age

    Not completely accurate. Exhibition prints are on transparency film and a release with 5,000 exhibition prints in circulation is a lot of transparency film, far more than the amount of negative film...
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    Re: Scratch 'N Dent sales

    With apology to Mussorgsky, label a bin of seconds with a sign 'Pictures from an Exhibition'.
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    Re: Monument Valley Navajo Guide?

    The park overlaps Utah and Arizona. During the summer Utah operates on savings time and Arizona on standard time.
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    Re: Monument Valley Navajo Guide?

    When I hired a guide I asked for one who was experienced working with photographers and it worked out well. I only remember his first name was Larry and he lived in Kayenta, Arizona. Are you looking...
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    Re: Affordable Imacon scanner?

    Or look for a used, older Imacon Flex Photo which doesn't normally do 4x5. I use a modified 6x17 film holder and scan one half of the frame, then the other half, and stitch. Works extremely well,...
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    Re: Best stitching program

    I tried the free 15 day trial of ArcSoft Panorama Pro4 and I preferred it over CS3 in terms of the quality and blending of the stitch. I found it could blend frames with mismatched exposures far...
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    Re: What about the HP Z2100? Epson Killer?

    I found my customers asking for larger and larger prints for their homes (lots of trophy homes in this area with huge wall spaces). My customer support experience with HP and my HP130 was so awful I...
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    Re: Vista - hom much memory is adequate?

    [QUOTE=Joanna Carter;259978]1. I am not a fanatic, I was just suggesting an alternative to Windows. After all, Macs tend to be used professionally more than by hobbyists who tend to stick with...
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    Re: Meeting famous photographers...

    Workshops aside, once at Glacier National Park, I got up at 4:30 am to be the first person to the overlook at St. Mary's Lake. When I arrived David Muench was already set up and waiting for the...
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    Re: Imacon 949 vs. Epson 4990

    This is a bit off subject but here it is FWIW...I use an older Imacon Flextight that is not natively 4x5 capable but I tried an experiment based on a hunch and I was flabbergasted with the results. I...
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    Re: If you only had 5 days in Utah during Sept...

    As a southern Utah resident and for what it's worth, all of the suggestions are good ones. Five days is not remotely enough time...you can spend years trying to photograph the red rock country and...
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    Re: LF mistakes made so far

    [QUOTE=Linhof] 3. perform shutter test before actual fire

    I've measured shutter speeds and found that with older shutters it's helpful to fire the shutter several times to stabilize the speed,...
  21. Thread: Mac Pro

    by Charles
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    Re: Mac Pro

    As you wish...your quote below:

    8-Apr-2006, 20:47 #54
    Marko


    Join Date: Dec 2005
    Location: Los Angeles
    Posts: 356 Running CS2 on XP on a Bootcamp MacIntel
  22. Thread: Mac Pro

    by Charles
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    Re: Mac Pro

    Likely for the same reason you and others take pot shots regularly at PCs. As for how regularly I comment, I've only made a few posts. One post was regarding HD speed and was cautionary in nature but...
  23. Thread: Mac Pro

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    Re: Mac Pro

    There are probably more PC users here than you might imagine. Some may prefer to forgo the abuse they're likely to receive by admitting it. As for me, my PCs work fine, my prints look the same coming...
  24. Thread: Mac Pro

    by Charles
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    Re: Mac Pro

    All the PC bashing here is entertaining but the assumptions are far overstated. I use PCs and have considered MACs at various times over the years, and for various reasons remained a PC user. That...
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    Re: How did you create your web site?

    One aspect that hasn't been discussed in detail is hosting. I've had less than stellar experiences with two hosting companies. The first let my domain name lapse instead of renewing it as promised....
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    Re: This is crazy already ('old' lens prices)

    Auctions with statements to email for a buy it now price before bidding are usually fraudulent. Often the perpetrator is using a stolen ID and often the location of the item doesn't match the...
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    Re: Laptop for digital side of workflow

    Whatever.....at least Microsoft admits their OS issues as opposed to Apple where the company policy seems to be admit nothing. Admission would, of course, tend to shatter the myth of Mac superiority...
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    Re: Laptop for digital side of workflow

    SEE PRECEDING POST
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    Re: Laptop for digital side of workflow

    POSTED BY MARKO
    It's neither PCs nor Macs that are succeptible to viruses - it's the operating systems they run. PCs mostly run Windows, Macs run OSX, which is a variant of BSD Unix and that's what...
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    Re: Laptop for digital side of workflow

    Another important point to consider is the speed of the hard drive. Most laptops come stock with 5400 rpm hard drives. I'm not sure about Macs or whether their hard drives are easily upgraded. I...
  31. Thread: new to LF..

    by Charles
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    Re: new to LF..

    A thought here, for what it's worth. Shooting 6x6 with a rollfilm holder on a 4x5 will give you movements but you may likely throw away a bit of detail/resolution in the process. Generally speaking,...
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    Re: Antelope Canyon in November...

    Alan Rabe's suggestion regarding Buckskin Gulch is excellent and in the same area you will find Coyote Buttes North and South. The north section is the location of the famous Wave geologic formation....
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    Re: Best Vehicle & Camper for photo field work?

    You have to decide what type of photography you want to do. If you want to spend every night in a Best Western, then you're going to be limited to overlooks and short day hikes. But some of the 'good...
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    Re: Antelope Canyon in November...

    When you're in Page, don't forget to make a quick trip to Horseshoe Bend...about two or three miles or so below the Glen Canyon Dam, on the Colorado River. It's a spectacular overlook...bring a WIDE...
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    Re: Professional versus home scan?

    I'm new to this forum and I own a gallery in SW Utah from which I sell my landscape photography. Although I sell prints derived from medium 645, 6x9 and 617 chromes, I do occasionally shoot 4x5, and...
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