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  1. <I've used PW during abot a year, thinking PS was overpriced, overkill. Yeah, right. With PW, changing your mind means redoing the whole thing.>

     

    Not if you hold on to your 'intermediate' images in PW - yes this takes up a lot of HD space - about the same as an un-flattened PS file, with all the layers intact.

     

    When using PW, keep these TIFF files -

     

    1. Original scan/ RAW file

     

    2. Spotted and cleaned file

     

    3. Your preferred crop

     

    4. Color balanced/ corrected

     

    5. Levels/ curves corrected

     

    6. any other manipulations

     

    7. Your final image

     

    Burn all this onto a CD in a folder for the particular image - you can then go back to any stage and make further corrections anytime. You can probably get 6-10 'image in progress' folders on a 650Mb CD

     

    PW also has the advantage of personal support from the author - when was the last time you had an email to Adobe answered authoritatively and in detail within two hours ?

     

    PW Pro software for PHOTOGRAPHERS + instant support - $89.00

    CD & excellent white papers + comprehensive manual - $10.00

    2-3 day (vs. rest-of-your-life!)learning curve - PRICELESS

     

    Hope this helps

  2. Hi Cassie

     

    You will need to give a lot more info here for people to know what the problem is -

     

    What camera?

    What film?

    In what way did the pictures fail - over/ under exposure, all blank, or just not what you're looking for?

    Are you sure that the developing & processing aren't at fault?

    How long of a bulb exposure did you make?

    What was your aperture?

     

    For motion shots, if you haven't done them before, bulb exposure is a little extreme to start with. If you make a picture of a busy street in daylight, say, then you will get motion effects with a shutter speed of only 1/4 or 1/2 of a second, BUT you still need to pay attention to the overall exposure, which means stopping down your aperture to a large number. This is because the longer your shutter is open, the more light you are letting in, therefore you have to compensate by closing down the aperture.

     

    Bulb exposures tend to be used at night, and you still have to count and limit the amount of time the shutter is open for, because the camera (in bulb) is no longer doing the timing for you.

    Most cameras have shutter speeds up to 30 seconds - if you need longer than that, use bulb, and use your watch or a stopwatch to time the exposure.

     

    Hope this helps

  3. I just received a 16mm Zenitar fish eye lens from Ru Gift. They warn you that it will take 2-4 weeks for delivery, and they were right, it took 4 wks & 3 days, but it came pretty well packed, and the company was responsive to my Email queries at the 4 week point. I'm having fun with the lens on my 10D - well worth the money. I think they have a dealer in USA for ordering, but the lens came from Russia.
  4. >the current limitation are the ISO speed, frames per second, slow prime lenes, and lag time to process the images<

     

    Not true.

     

    Example - Canon 10D

     

    You can, with post processing, get useable images up to 3200 ISO, use ALL of Canon's primes, and take up to 9 images in a row at 2-3 FPS. All of these features are pretty much the equivalent of a mid range film SLR. There are drawbacks to DSLRs, but these aren't. I think maybe you have 'DSLR' confused with 'Digicam', the consumer all-in-one digital cameras, to which all of your drawbacks apply. As mentioned, search the numerous Film/Digital debate threads here on PN for a full discussion.<div>006NgT-15090784.JPG.ec028908d89030a1c172d4faa00f2f34.JPG</div>

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