dampfish

I was NYC a couple of weeks ago, a 28-70 & 70-200 served very well. Grand Central makes for some good pictures, and yes a tripod will be needed as an earlier poster stated. Beware though, I got yelled at for using my tripod without a permit!! (Land of the free... yeah right ;-)

I have had a look around for some software to perform what I'd have

thought was an often-demanded function, but have had no luck. I

wonder if anyone out there has found something to do what I'm

after...

Up until now I have kept all my digital images on my hard drive

organised in a folder hierarchy that has grown organically over

time. The folders are based on subject content rather than time/date

because the OS and EXIF date stamps everything.

What I want to do is have a utility scan recursively from my root

picture directory looking for files bigger than a thumbnail. On

finding one, I'd like a thumbnail generated, and the original moved

to DVD. The utility needs to prompt which DVD still has space

available and also record which DVD the original now lives on.

Later when I browse thumbnails, should I should have a "load

original.." context menu that will prompt for the correct DVD and

open the image in Photoshop (or whatever).

The whole point being to free up hard drive space, while keeping an

easy-to-browse file structure, and making a permanent DVD based copy

of the pictures.

I've scoured the web, tried IMatch and Portfolio but so far nothing

seems to do what I'm after. Any suggestions? Thanks in anticipation!

Here's the sketch: I've had been using the 28-80 for a while, but

had become increasingly disillusioned with my pictures. They just

seem to lack 'pop'. Finally after reading some related posts here

and there, I dug out some old slides taken with a 50 1.8 FD and

compared them. Ah ha! There *is* a difference!

 

So finally I could justify to the 'finance committee' a couple of

new lenses. My first purchase was a 24-70L. I have taken

comparison pictures with the old 28-90 and the new lens, and here's

the thing, I can't see any (or very very little) difference!

 

A series of pictures were taken across a range of apertures and

focal lengths. These were then projected to a size of about 5ft

along the longest edge. Film is Fuji Sensia 100. Shutter speeds

were in the range of 1/250 to 1/2.

 

So a couple of things occur to me:

1. I happen to have a spot on 28-80 (well... no... you're right)

2. I have a bum 24-70

3. The projector set up is crap

4. Maybe the problem is with the tripod

 

In consideration of 1 and 3, the old FD slides are fine (although I

have no direct comparision pictures). With respect to 4, top speed

was 1/250 and if memory serves, the old FD based pictures were

largely hand-held.

 

Any thoughts? Any suggestions on how I might get the 24-70 checked

out? FWIW - It was purchased from a well known NY store beginning

with B (and no, I have no issue with them) it's a US model, but I'm

in the UK. At the moment I'm hanging off buying a 28-70 2.8 IS

 

Thanks!

Oops - missed that, just call me stupid! Thanks for pointing that out Bob. I've just read it - new one it is then.

So here I am reading all these posts having set out to answer the question "should I buy the old 28-70, or splash the extra cash for a 24-70?" or in other words, is it worth the extra 4mm and being sealed?

The view in this forum seems to be yes - but I haven't read any real comparision between the new & old when it comes to optical performance. Any one care to comment on that specifically?

 

Thanks!