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<p>Edwin, that is awesome! Are those your dogs? My guy knows a lot of tricks but we haven't been able to get him to jump on command... we're probably doing it wrong.</p>

<p>The storm is gone but the snow remains... happy phriday!</p><div></div>

<p>Hey, it's Friday somewhere!</p> <div></div>

<p>The weather's cold, but the action in this forum is hot! Okay, not really. But it <em>is</em> Friday!</p><div></div>

<p>Boo, let's try that again.</p><div></div>

<p>Happy phriday!</p>

<p>Happy Phriday!</p><div></div>

<p>Ok, <em>really</em> basic question here... Ever since I started the Phone Phriday "thing", I have noticed that everyone else's images tend to look much sharper than mine even though we're all working with the 700 pixel constraint, and despite the fact that my original images look much sharper than the 700 pixel export that comes out.</p> <p>For example, compare my image above to the full-size jpg attached to this post.</p> <p>For you iPhone users, are you shrinking the images with the "Export" feature of Photos, or do you have an alternative workflow that produces better results?</p><div></div>

<p>Er, <em>here</em> is a photo from my trip to Myanmar...</p><div></div>

<p>Thank you Andrew for keeping this going while I was away! Here is a photo from my trip to Myanmar.</p>

Greetings from Taipei<div></div>

<p>It's about that time...</p> <div></div>

<p>One thing to keep in mind about eBay: some very reputable dealers use it as a virtual storefront. For example I've purchased used gear from KEH through their eBay store. I trust e.g. KEH's care and attention to their merchandise, but I definitely don't trust their ability to build a secure ecommerce platform on what is probably a pretty small revenue base. I'd much rather deal with the KEH's of the world through a company whose IT budget rivals the GDP of a small nation.</p> <p>Having said that, the question is about B&H and I can say I wouldn't hesitate to buy <em>anything</em> from B&H.</p>

<p>Ooh, love that... really captures a type of winter atmosphere that anyone from the Northeast is familiar with.</p>

<p>TGIP(hriday)!</p> <div></div>

<p>The Sony DSC-RX100 is very well-liked... so well-liked that I bought one myself (an older version - the mk I) after doing some research on the current state of the point-and-shoot market. I haven't used it enough to give it a fair review, and I also haven't compared it to its contemporaries.</p>

<p>jpg export fail... let's try that again.</p><div></div>

<p>Construction site in Chelsea, NYC</p>

<p>Matt - I know my iPhone 5 has plenty of life left in it, but hot damn the 6+ can do some incredible things. Must... resist.... Too many... gadgets....</p> <p>(Beautiful shot, btw.)</p>

<p>It looks like this forum hasn't been active for a while... Every other equipment group seems to have a weekly photo thread, so what the heck, I'm officially kicking of "Phone Phriday."</p> <p>Taken today while getting lunch. </p> <p> </p><div></div>

<p>Yes, to the extent the photographer believes the story he is told then what he does with that information certainly reflects <em>a</em> truth, if not <em>the</em> truth.</p> <p>I think the more interesting implication is about <em>bias</em>: what happens in all of those cases where the photographer <em>doesn't</em> have a back story on a subject and subconsciously invents one (as we human beings are prone to doing)?</p> <p>Not that we should draw<em> </em><em>too</em> many conclusions from things like this... these kinds of stunts are (a) non-statistical to begin with, (b) typically set up to achieve a certain result which (surprise!) they achieve, and © buried away from view when they fail to achieve the intended result.</p>

<p>Funny, I never thought about it until I saw this. My current monitor (Samsung 28" 4k, model # U28D590D) does have a status light, but it turns off when the computer and monitor are active. That seems like a nice solution on Samsung's part... It's definitely not the best for photo work, but as an all-around monitor it's pretty good for the price (not that anyone asked!).</p> <p>Hector, what brand/model is your monitor? As others have suggested there might be a way of changing the light's behavior. And if not, anyone else who uses that specific monitor can perhaps chime in about their experience.</p>

<p>Meh, I can identify the impulse. My wife and I have made a habit of taking at least one selfie on our vacations since the days of film... People used to watch us holding the camera out with one arm as we struggled to gauge where we'd be in the frame and how the background would look, and they'd stop and offer to take the picture for us... and we'd say "no thanks, this is just something we like to do!" There are quite a few self portraits floating around our home with one of our faces partially out of frame, but those are some of our favorites.</p> <p>To this day when we want to record a memory of ourselves at a place or an event, we prefer taking the picture ourselves over asking someone else to take a picture of us. I guess it's partially tradition now, but that's not the only motivation - there is just something fun about it, even if you never end up out of frame by accident anymore!</p> <p>I don't totally relate to the social media aspect of selfies, but I do relate to pointing the camera at yourself and pushing the button.</p>

<blockquote> <p>Better advice: Find the software / hardware you want to use and pick the desktop that supports it.</p> </blockquote> <p>+10,000,000. I would never advise a dedicated PC user to buy a Mac or a Mac user to buy a PC. And I'd never tell <em>anyone</em> to use Linux! (I jest, I jest! Sort of. And for the record I have more Linux devices than Mac/Win combined.)</p> <p>First question is: which OS/platform do <em>you</em> prefer? Go with that one.</p> <p>Second question is: what kind of "photo editing" are we talking about, and what kind of volume? E.g. you don't need a 12-core monster to process dSLR photos one at a time - most of the processing headroom will simply be wasted.</p> <p>Third question is: do you have <em>other</em> things you'll use the computer for? I <em>do</em> happen to have a 12-core monster, and I do happen to process photos on it, but I would never have gotten such a ridiculous machine just for photo stuff. I got it because I do numerical analysis on large datasets and the more cores I can deploy the faster my work gets done. If you have other demanding applications for the computer you want to buy (pro video, gaming, password cracking, machine learning, ... ?), then let that dictate the specs. Otherwise, any modern 4-core machine will be more than sufficient.</p> <p>Fourth question is: is there a particular application or suite of applications you like? E.g. if you know you want to use Darktable then Windows is out of the running. If you want to use the Adobe family of products then the world is your oyster.</p> <p>And I do suggest that you set a budget. Because, like cameras, when you say the words "regardless of cost" it becomes surprisingly easy to spend $30k (a top of the line Mac Pro here, a few super high-end 4k monitors there...) when $3k worth of stuff would work just as well, and possibly better.</p>