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Well Ken I'm sorry my Irish humor did not go over with you, I'll just go and stand in the corner zip it for now.

So you've waited three years to save but ended up spending more than $3300 (2x 5D's) anyway...see I spent the

$3300 upfront and spent three years making photographs.

 

And Sarah it's called "Humor" Mr Stone's been talking about this here and on the Pentax forum for years.

"Maybe someone who buys a 5D wants a full frame camera"

 

Are you sure about that?

Can you go to a store and pick up a few bodies to see how they feel and what the weigh. For travel you would do well to also consider the Pentax K200D a tiny weather sealed body with tiny prime Limited series of lenses. You could add the K20D later if you need higher res body, which you have become used to with the 5D.

Think of all the Pentax gear you could of bought for this pair.

Lighter is better for the last few years my travel kit has been 5D, 17-40L, 50 F1.4 and 70-200L F4 (now have IS). All your lenses are big and heavy maybe you should take out a kit and spend a day walking around the city see how it feels. Don't forget you will need a carbon fiber tripod and small ball head for sunrise /sunset and for landscapes with DOF. 2-3 months in a humid climate is tough so I might be tempted to consider what was said above one body and a few primes in the 24-85mm range. My motto now is less gear usually means more keepers.

These are great times for photographers but yet the crying gets louder and louder on Forums...if you are a pro then buy what you need it does not matter, Nikon users waited many years for what they have today, also you can pick up another 5D (you luv em right) for $1600.

I've been using the 5D since it's introduction and I live in a coastal town in MA. I shoot with it full time, I've spent many hours on the beach, in harbors, close to water both locally and down on the Cape with no ill effects. I paid a lot more than $1700 but so far it's been worth every penny.

OK figured it out, the files are compressed during transfer and you need to open them up in PS to decompress them.

Thats what I was thinking, but I'm being told they are still half the size when downloaded and opened.

I'm FTP'ing High Res Tiffs to a server and they need to be 50MB in size. After

sizing the images and loading them via Fetch they end up on the site at less

than half that size at between 18-21MB.

 

I start with 50MB 8 Bitt Tiffs

 

 

Any ideas how this is happening and what

I can do about it?

B+H already sells the ZF (for Nikon) range from Zeiss so I"m sure it's only a matter of time

before they do likewise for the ZK line. The ZF 50 F1.4 sells for $492 and the ZF 85 F1.4 for

$984.

I've used the Flextight for about four years with no problems, it's built to be used daily and

simple to operate, the d-max is real as stated by Imacon not some fuzzy mumber most of

the other makers seem to come up with.

 

One thing to think about is your computer set up, if you are using a newer Mac with OSx your

older Flextight's are not firewire.

With the Intel Macs you no longer can load the Printer Software, so I downloaded the inastall

from the Epson site. Last night I did an uninstall and tried to download again but now I have

nothing no Printer Utility. This is pretty strange my wife is an IT person and an hour of her

help did not provide any answers.

Well my Printer Utility is empty, as far as I remember it should say Epson 2200. i need to

figure this out.

Recently upgraded to a Mac Pro and continue to use my Epson 2200. In the past when I sent a file to the

printer the queue would appear and I could follow what's printing or cancel etc. Now for some reason I

cannot locate the printer queue in the utiliities, there are some files in there I'd like to cancel. Would

apprecaite any Mac users out there with info on what sould be an easy fix?

OK figured it out , thanks

OK Dan what were the steps you took, looks a little like using Color Range but

not sure how to apply the color i want?

Thanks Dan will play around with it.

not sure how to upload an image here but will try.<div></div>

I want to try to recover a white background, my misatake was i did not overexpose it during a shoot so

it's gone a grey color. My subject is wearing a white shirt which is rendering white, anyone know of a

PS/CS2 technique I can use to get the background white without effecting the shirt.

OK probably a dumb question but I'm trying to use a Morris Flash Trigger Kit to trip some Speedo

lights. Transmitter is pretty sefl evident slips onto camera hotshoe but the receiver, where does it

connect? It has a large jack which seems like it connects to a pc adapter where does it plug in. I woould

of thought to a lighthead the 102 head just has a modeling switch. Anyone out there using a blackline

set up can point me in the right direction...Speedotron TS are on holiday till next week.

Daniel, drop me an e-mail if you want to sell that

puppy...dermot.conlan@verizon.net

You can contact HP but I'm nearly sure they will say you need to send your camera back to

Linhof in Germany for repair. That's what happened to me about two years ago when my

617s (fixed lens) needed a small repair. You have to call them and get the address, send

your camera, they do an estimate and then send you their banking tranfer info. You have

to deposit the cost of the repair in thier bank and then wait for the repair....three weeks

minimum but they do a great job, they even cleaned up my viewfinder and recoated it

without me asking. The girls in (linhof) customer service do speak some English.

Larry Mullin? for gods sake put down those drum sticks, they'll bring ya no good.