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    No Unsubscribe Link in Contest Emails

    in PhotoNet Site Help

    Posted

    Yes, Fred G is correct: Forwarding the photo.net contest email in the Apple MacOS Mail app does reveal an unsubscribe link the composing window for the to-be-forwarded message. In addition, it also reveals a "Missing Plug-in" warning too. Perhaps these behaviors are ultimately due to a bug in the Apple MacOS Mail app, but the bottom line is that even emails from actual spammers manage to show unsubscribe links. Photo.net is pushing the limits, and it needs to dial back the complexity of its emails.

    No Unsubscribe Link in Contest Emails

    in PhotoNet Site Help

    Posted

    I do know its there because its on all of these emails...but I wonder why you can't see it.

     

    Are you viewing on desktop or mobile - this is how it looks in gmail to us.

     

    [ATTACH=full]1235290[/ATTACH]

     

    As I noted in my first message in this thread: "I'm using Apple's Mail Version 11.2 (3445.5.20) on macOS Version 10.13.1 (17D47)." I suspect that whoever designed photo.net's contest emails got overly fancy and introduced a platform dependency.

    No Unsubscribe Link in Contest Emails

    in PhotoNet Site Help

    Posted

    On 28 Feb 2018, I posted in this forum ("How to unsubscribe from contest announcement emails?") asking how to manage my account settings so as to no longer receive emails announcing contests. There was a response from "Admin Testing" who then promptly closed the thread to further replies.

     

    "Admin Testing" said to use the unsubscribe link at the bottom of all emails. I'm attaching screenshots of one of the recent contest emails from photo.net (two screenshots, so as to show the full extent of the message with scrolling). I don't see any unsubscribe link. Even dragging the pointer over the whole message, to see if the highlighting colors would reveal a link, did not reveal any unsubscribe link.

     

    I'm using Apple's Mail Version 11.2 (3445.5.20) on macOS Version 10.13.1 (17D47).

     

    This missing or invisible unsubscribe link, along with the fact that I'm getting two copies of every contest announcement email (sent within minutes of each other, to the same recipient address), are indications of fundamental problems at photo.net or its email list contractor.

     

    What can be done about this?

     

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    How to unsubscribe from contest announcement emails?

    in PhotoNet Site Help

    Posted

    Hello,

     

    I want to stop receiving the slew of photo.net contest announcement emails. Even worse, each announcement is duplicated — I receive two copies of each of those emails (to the same recipient address). I've turned off every email setting I can find in my account settings, and two months ago I emailed contact@photo.net about this. There's been no response. What can be done short of canceling my account?

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    Printing services with Epson 4900 / 7900 / 9900 and Ilford Gold Fibre Silk

    in The Digital Darkroom: Process, Technique & Printing

    Posted

    <p>To follow up: I remembered that a photo store near me had a big Epson printer. It turns out that they currently have a 9900. I was able to walk in with a flash drive and had ten 13x19-inch prints less than two hours later. For reference, it's L.B. Wheaton's, in Worcester, MA: http://www.lbwheaton.com</p>

    <p>Thanks again to Scott for his offer. And the preliminary assessment is that, yes, I'm preferring the Epson prints on Ultra Premium Photo Paper Luster to C-prints done on a Durst Theta 76 HS on Fuji Crystal Archive Luster or Glossy. The C-prints are very nice, but colors and sharpness are looking better on the Epson, and I'm not seeing artifacts in challenging areas of the prints (unlike from Epson consumer "photo" printers of some years ago).</p>

    Printing services with Epson 4900 / 7900 / 9900 and Ilford Gold Fibre Silk

    in The Digital Darkroom: Process, Technique & Printing

    Posted

    <p>Does anyone know of printing services that use Epson 4900, 7900, or 9900 printers, especially ones that offer prints on Ilford Gold Fibre Silk paper? I'm considering buying a 4900, but I'd first like to see how some of my photos look when printed by those machines as compared to the C-print service that I currently use. I know, the x900 prints are supposed to look much better than C-prints, but I'd like to see it for myself.<br>

    So far, I've found these services that use a 9900 and offer Gold Fibre Silk:</p>

    <p>http://www.oregonfineartprinting.com<br>

    http://archive.artisticpursuits.net</p>

    <p>and these others that have a 9900 but don't offer Gold Fiber Silk, at least not as a regularly stocked paper:</p>

    <p>http://austindetailsart.com<br>

    http://www.sedonagicleestudios.com<br>

    http://www.thecanyongallery.com</p>

    <p>Any others? Thanks!</p>

     

    Trying to recall a particular photo / photographer

    in Casual Photo Conversations

    Posted

    <p>I saw an article today (on another site) mentioning several contemporary photographers. Dave Hill's name caught my eye, I checked his site, and there was the photo I'd been trying to recall:</p>

    <p>http://www.davehillphoto.com/adventure/01-Hiding-the-map.jpg</p>

    <p>The setting is an office, not a diner as I had said.</p>

    <p>Douglas --- I believe I had seen references to this photo in multiple places, including photo.net.</p>

     

    Trying to recall a particular photo / photographer

    in Casual Photo Conversations

    Posted

    <p>I'm trying to recall a photo by a contemporary photographer, that I've seen referenced several times over the past year. I want to show it to a friend, but I'm failing to remember the photographer's name, and I've yet to come up with a set of keywords that yields success with Google.</p>

    <p>It's a hyper-realistic or perhaps HDR photo of a burly man with gray hair and intense eyes, wearing an overcoat, gesturing with a cigarette that's trailing smoke in the air, leaning over the counter of a diner, with an apprehensive waitress on the other side.</p>

    <p>Does anyone recognize this, and can you remember the name of the photographer?</p>

    <p>Thanks!</p>

     

    Turn off VR when using a tripod and exposures longer than about a second - initial data

    in Nikon

    Posted

    <p>For whatever it's worth, the photos I alluded to earlier, that exhibited motion blur with the 70-200 with VR enabled while on a locked tripod (Gitzo 1325 with Arca-Swiss B1, and MLU and a remote release), had shutter speeds of 1/1.3, 1.6, and 4 seconds.<br>

    <br />But, not all the photos at similar shutter speeds, with VR enabled, exhibited blur --- it was hit-or-miss.</p>

     

    Turn off VR when using a tripod and exposures longer than about a second - initial data

    in Nikon

    Posted

    <p>Assuming that Tom had his tripod's head locked, then both his and Shun's experiences are consistent with Nikon's instructions:</p>

    <p>http://support.nikontech.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/7676/kw/tripod/p/81/r_id/116678</p>

    <p>My own experience of once unintentionally leaving VR enabled on my 70-200 while on a locked tripod is consistent too (blurry photos until I noticed and then disabled VR).</p>

     

    W/NW, Dogs...

    in Nikon

    Posted

    <p>Rene', thanks for sharing your good memories of JIROH and creating this opportunity to see and read about so many wonderful animals. My wife and I had two Shetland Sheepdog littermates: Paris and his sister Heather. We put Heather down in January 2007, a couple of months before their 15th birthday. And just this past February 28, we put Paris down, one month to the day before his 17th birthday. Those were two very sad days, and the emptiness is still here, but we have many years of very good memories.<br>

    --Bill<br>

    <img src="http://depot.chiarchiaro.com/photo.net/20090402.0/paris_and_heather_11.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="525" /><br>

    <strong>Paris and Heather, 11 years old</strong><br>

    <br /> <img src="http://depot.chiarchiaro.com/photo.net/20090402.0/heather_14.jpg" alt="" width="465" height="700" /><br>

    <strong>Heather, 14 years old</strong></p>

    <p><img src="http://depot.chiarchiaro.com/photo.net/20090402.0/paris_16.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="465" /><br>

    <strong>Paris, 16 years old</strong></p>

    best laptop for image viewing?

    in The Digital Darkroom: Process, Technique & Printing

    Posted

    Hello, K.

     

    Take a look at the IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T60 with a Flexview display. "Flexview" is IBM's marketing term for IPS (In-Plane Switching) LCD panels. I don't know if the Flexviews are truly plain-old IPS or the newer S-IPS panels. Top-end desktop LCD monitors, such as the $1,000-and-up models from NEC and Eizo use S-IPS panels. I've seen a claim on photo.net that there are no IPS panels smaller than 19 inches, but IBM's Hardware Maintenance Manuals state that some of their notebook panels are IPS.

     

    My two most recent ThinkPads have had Flexview displays, and I've been very pleased with them. I'm currently using a T60 that I bought this past February. It has a 15-inch, 1400x1050 pixel Flexview that I've calibrated and profiled with a GretagMacbeth Eye-One Pro and Eye-One Match. This display's gamut is smaller than a top-end desktop's, the separation of dark tones is not as good, and the backlight brightness steps are coarser than I'd like. But, it's much better than any other kind of notebook LCD that I've ever seen (not that I've seen every kind there is). People who say that no notebook LCDs are any good for photo work because of contrast shift over viewing angles have never seen a Flexview. Looking at something like Norman Koren's gamma test charts and moving up, down, left, or right to ridiculous angles, I see no change in apparent gamma.

     

    I've seen forum postings and other items on the Web in the past couple of months that claim the Flexview displays are no longer available. However, looking this afternoon at the notebook section of the lenovo.com Web site, I see that the T60 does still have the Flexview option. Find the "ThinkPad T60 15-inch," click the "View models" button, and then click the right-hand "Customize & buy" button. Under "Display type" you'll see "15.0 SXGA+ TFT Flexview Display with Wide Viewing Angle."

     

    Good luck,

     

    --Bill

    Composited or not?

    in The Digital Darkroom: Process, Technique & Printing

    Posted

    <p>

    First, the OP mentions the New York Times, but the link is to the Taipei Times --- maybe the photo did run in both. The Taipei Times page shows a photo credit for AFP, which is the oldest news agency (think UPI / AP / Reuters).

    </p>

     

    <p>

    Second, <i>"would the NY Times do that?"</i> The question of whether someone at the NYT would make an editorial decision to use a knowingly faked photo is an open one (major news outlets have been caught perpetrating dishonest journalism). However, over the past few years, there's been a steady stream of faked photos making their ways past editors and into the news. Just last month, the New York Times itself published such a photo:

    <a href="http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2007/04/nytimes01.html">

    <b>New York Times Admits To Publishing Altered Photograph</b></a>

    </p>

     

    <p>

    If that photo is too trivial a case, a "bigger" and more famous one from last year caused embarrassment for Reuters:

    <a href="http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2006/08/reuters.html">

    <b>

    Reuters Apologizes Over Altered Lebanon War Photos

    </b></a>

    </p>

     

    <p>

    Third, I agree with the comments about using a long lens and a distant perspective to produce the sort of photo in question. But, there are a few things in the photo that catch my eye. Above the boy's right ear (camera-left), there are curved lines that follow the side of his head. Something similar is seen along his right shoulder. On the other side of the boy (camera-right), there are straight, parallel, vertical discontinuities. See the dark patch in the flames to camera-right of the boy's hairline and then follow up and down from its left and right sides. These discontinuities might be JPEG artifacts rather than signs of manipulation.

    </p>

     

    <p>

    Composited or not? Hard to say.

    </p>

     

    <p>

    --Bill

    </p>

    ISO3200 Nikon D2Xs vs Canon Mark III

    in Nikon

    Posted

    Shun wrote:

     

    "You can go to any professional sports event and there is hardly any pros shooting Nikon."

     

    Not quite "any." Last month, I followed the Paris-Nice and Milan-Sanremo bicycling races in France and Italy. At those events, there were lots of Nikons being used by pros, perhaps even being the majority of cameras (and a lot of the Nikons were the D200). I don't know if it's a European thing, or a bicycling thing, or a non-stadium-sports thing. But it certainly wasn't the hugely lopsided market share seen at American football / baseball / basketball events. I wonder what the share is at, say, European football (soccer) events.

     

    --Bill

    Skylight and Polarizer Stuck Together

    in Nikon

    Posted

    Get yourself some appropriately sized filter wrenches, such as

    <a href=http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=122&A=details&Q=&sku=70726&is=REG&addedTroughType=categoryNavigation>

    <b>

    these

    </b>

    </a>

    or

    <a href=http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=122&A=details&Q=&sku=251749&is=REG&addedTroughType=categoryNavigation>

    <b>

    these

    </b>

    </a>

    .

     

    <p>

    --Bill

    </p>

    Extension Tube for *Front* of Lens

    in Nikon

    Posted

    Thanks again to everyone for their suggestions.

     

    Aaron -- Yes, getting less magnification is conceptually simple, but I want a mechanically rigid arrangement that preserves the convenience of the ES-1.

     

    Edward -- I was considering asking a friend of mine who's a good machinist to turn a tube for me.

     

    Anyway, Tommy's suggestion looks most attractive, assuming that the threads on the K4 and K5 really are the same as the standard 52mm filter thread. I've ordered one of each from KEH, canceling my order for the pile of filters. I'd read of the K rings in the past, but I never would have recalled their details or thought of them as a solution for my application.

     

    --Bill

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