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Just keep the old camera.
In about 20 years it will be a rare collector museum piece.
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I kinda did the same but didnt throw everything away. I still use my photo stuff for a tool for my new hobby.
I was a tech for about 16 years trouble shooting PC and micro controllers that was my job and my photography hobby was gettin boring.
Doing this was related to my job but building PCs on my spare time for computer graphics was fun. Then I started getting into graphics programs like vector, 3D and I couldnt get rid of the cameras because they became a tool.
Now I depend on camera to do my new hobby and Im thinking of getting the Pentax DSLR camera body because all my old 35mm film body lenses fit it.
For me It would have been a big mistake to get rid of at the camera stuff because I need it in my tool box.
My friend on Myspace Cat Palmer is a pro-photographer that stayed film until 2005. She went digi and now really likes it.
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Google Bare metal backup
This might interest you.
This is how I backup my hard drive and love it. A full restore with about 7 gigs of stuff plus the operating system can be restored in about 15 minutes the faster your system and drive is the quicker. I havent had to do a clean reinstall of Windows since Ive been doing it that way. The problem with doing it that way is its manual nothing auto about it.
The programs cost from $0 to about $700.
I use XXclone free for personal use. I can boot to the clone to make sure everything is working.
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Should be setting in the scanner software for scanning the 4*5 with higher dpi Im not shure what res to use. Then you will have to rescale it with software to 11*17 thats when the dots get spread out.
Someone might have a formula to use.
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Imagine a 4*5 sheet of rubber with 300 dots on it. Then stretching it out to 11*17. The dots would spread out.
The same thing is going on with the image. Try scanning the 4*5 at a higher resolution. The closer you can get it to 300 before you print the sharper it will look.
If the scanner doesnt go high enought you can do a incremental increase in size and res with software that might help but you can only go so far.
300dpi or a little higher for print is good, 600 is going overboard, 250 might be ok but not that great.
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Know your audience is a best answer.
Flash, JS might be a winner or loser. Keep it simple might be the winner. When I go to a Flash site Im not interested and leave so Im not your target audience.
You can really dress up a site with CSS and pages will load fast even on the slowest modems and that might be the winner. I think the CSS tabed menus are real cool. The code is real easy like html.
Dont listen to me Im not a web designer.
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Thank you very much for your input auto and manual. Just visited their website.
I dont pick a place where I have to tilt, I keep it leveled for 360 landscapes. I live in New Mexico and close to Arizona, Utah, and Colorado. I would like to do some 360 VRs of badlands.
Route 66 is about 150 miles south.
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Dont feel bad Im in the same boat. My film scanner was damaged while moving.
Good luck
TT
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I have the Cannon pano software also.
I tried Autostitch a couple of weeks ago. Im not sure what formats it will work with I used .jpg full res from a 7.1mp camera.
http://www.photo-freeware.net/autostitch.php
It was as easy as it sounds Auto and it did a perfect job, blending and everything . I just selected all the pics in a folder and it saved the pano in that folder. It ended up being a 80 meg size pic.
I had to crop the top and bottom but it trimmed the ends perfect for a 360 VR quicktime. I used Pano2QTVR to convert it to Qicktime VR video.
http://gardengnomesoftware.com/pano2qtvr.php
My goal was to find freeware that students at the campus can experiment with using an inexpensive camera.
Autostitch is free for personal use nonprofit but it will expire when a new version is released the website says just download the new version.
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If your doing night photography without flash a good light meter is way better that trying to use the meter in your camera but if you have enough light using what you have in your camera is good enough.
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I have 2 pics at Myspace/my pics of a wagon. I was try to use expressive colors to give the feeling of fall and summer.
Just click on my name to find the Myspace link.
Is this what you want to do.
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Its a lot of work, lol.
If you have sky use the select by color tool adjust the threshold until you get all the sky selected. Delete the sky. Now you need to make a gradient that has sky blue colors. Use the gradient on a new layer below. Someone might know a better way but it looks real to me.
I tried that channel mixer method it works on some pics with few objects but with lots of stuff in the pic it wont look good.
Sometimes I just end up using a paint brush adjust it, put the color in over with another layer. Sometime you can use the select by color tool fill the selection on another layer with color and adjust opacity ect.
I would like to know more on how to do it also.
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I block all scripts on my browser because for some reason it really helps keep the spyware out. Firefox with the NoScript plugin.
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Question?
Can anyone suggest panoramic software.
Im getting into it. Im using a series of photos at 15 degrees, 360 total using a point a shoot digi.
I use to stitch them by hand but I tryed Autostitch and love it but It expires and have to keep downloading it.
I would like something like Autostitch with more features like crop convert to quicktime, ect.
I lived on Route 66 in Albuquerque. Nice place to take pics.
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Some more tips. I use Firefox.
Get the browsers Firefox and Opera. If you have a Mac get IE for Mac.
I didnt know what Dennis was talking about until I switched browsers yes that page is really messed up in IE. When Im working on a website I test it with different browsers because customers might use Firefox, Safari or IE. Even if you have a pro web designer do it for you check it with different browsers.
The thumbnails are B/W make them .gif 72ppi that will load faster and save you bandwidth and a lot of modems PCs still. Its not a big deal since you dont have very many pics but every bit saved helps.
Try some color in the tables on the portfolio page I think that will make the thumbs easier to look at.
Flash shows take bandwidth if you get a lot views you might max out and your host might want $. This is something that happens a lot and you might not be willing to pay for the extra bandwidth.
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Clean navigation is one of the most important features for web design.
You want someone surfing the web to stay. If its hard to navigate they will move on.
I have to find the next link on your page to navigate to the next page. When you click between link and contact that how navigation should look.
You might check out this web site on web design. Im not say yours sucks but I think that I learned more about what not to do than anywhere else here.
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/
Enough of that.
To make all pages the same, work on a page get your navigation setup and use a header banner graphic. Then use that as a template. Just make copys of your template and rename them like index.htm about.htm pricing.htm now all the navigation should be the same on each page.
Now all you have to to is fix your href= on each page of the navigation I think you know how. Go to W3S if you need help.
Dont use tables for the header like the about page that dosent look good instead use a header graphic about 900px * 200px resolution 72. Spend the time to make the header graphic look real good thats the first thing that someone looks at. Use the header graphic on each page just like the navigation.
Put the navigation under the header graphic thats where someone surfing will look first but sometimes on the left side of the page.
Dont get a professional web designer its better to learn how to do it yourself it just takes a little time.
W3S is the best school you can go to and its free.
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If you do night photos a digi in manual is the only way.
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Go to Control panel/administrative tools/services
find the twian driver in properties this might be where the problem is.
Check this also in properties.
Click on dependencies the driver might depend on another service
thats not working.
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At my tech forum I found something just like this twain problem it might be related. 3200 scanner on Win2000. XP OS and 2000 OS are close cousins.
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I think the support people that helped her jumped the gun for doing that. They already had her try re-installing the driver so she has to make sure the driver is working. If she saw plug n play the driver it reinstalled correctly.
If she didnt see plug n play the old Win 98 manual intall way will work.
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Opps It hard to do this tech stuff over the net. Its tricky.
Fix my instuctions: Allways unplug the cable after you click unintall driver and reboot. I can see how support cant help you.
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Oh post back if you did or didnt see Plug in Play when you re-installed the driver that would be good info.
I re-install drivers all the time and its tricky. Kinda like going from shifting a car to a semi truck and ya might grind a gear so my instructions post might guild ya.
Ill check back with ya.
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Support people dont know anything they are payed to pick up the phone.
Make sure the the USB or cable is unpluged when you uninstall any kind of device driver. Did they tell you I dont think so.
Go to Windows Start/control panel/system/hardware/device manager.
Look for the scanner driver right click and you will see uninstall.
Do it and reboot now Plug n Play should be ready to detect the scanner.
See if the Epson website has a update driver in support first.
Follow the intructions carfully in the read me file for the driver.
I hope this helps.
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If nothing works you might try some forensic recovery.
Scan times are very long, like a day.
http://www.data-recovery-software.net/Linux_Recovery.shtml
Yup it has the word Linux but they are free Non-destructive Win32 programs.
Switching to Mac
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I would choose something with little more process power than the apps need but you might not need gamer power. The technology in the software changes so what works good today might be slow in the new versions 2 years from now.
This PC I built a few years ago had way more power than I needed at that time for the apps that I used. Not today the new version of the same kind of apps seem slow.
I really need something faster that most gamer PCs for rendering 3D animated movies. You might think of what other program you use for the kind of power you need.