JPDupre

My first digital camera was a G3, bought in 2004, which I used extensively. I bought it used in February 2004. The first owner paid 1300 $ (Canadian) in November 2002. Really great lens. We travelled twice in Italy with it, and still enjoy the pictures. I still have it, but, of course, don't use it anymore. It was replaced by a Canon Xti in 2006, and a T6s in 2016. For technical details: https://www.dpreview.com/products/canon/compacts/canon_g3

I have a Canon T6s (760D elsewhere in the world). To upload pictures from this camera to the computer and make a first selection, I always used the free Canon software “Canon Digital Professional”. But once on the computer, everything I do with my pictures I use Lightroom and/or Photoshop. Tonight, when loading “Canon Digital Professional”, I got a notice that, after version 4.17.10, Canon proposes “Neural network Image Processing Tool", with new algorithms and deep learning. But “Canon Digital Professional” would still be needed https://my.canon/en/support/0200682602 If I agree to download this new software, I get a second notice saying that new software is subscription paid. I didn’t, and I don’t plan to, as I am already paying my Adobe’s subscription pour Lightroom and Photoshop. Did anyone download It? Thanks. J-P

@antonroland: no I did not, mainly because the out of focus was really abnormal, while the height-adjusting sliders are very subtle. Finally, after someone from an authorized service centre told me it might be the “optical engine” and that it cost 800$ plus transportation and labour, I decided to buy me another one, and I had the luck to find an Epson refurbished. The one that broke down was bought in 2015.

Bingo with this last recommandation and many, many thanks to John W.

Good day to all. When I use the healing tool (Q), the picture turns instantly like a black and white negative, just like when I press the Alt key when adjusting masking with the sharpening tools (Detail). The problem occurs only with my desktop (NVIDIA). Not with my laptop (IRIS Xe) I reinstalled Lightroom, with no effects. Any ideas? See both pictures.

The glass is perfectly clean. But now, a there is bluish line all along. See picture.

Thanks to all who replied.

My Epson scanner V850 Pro just let me down. Opaque documents are OK, but scans of transparencies and negatives are blurred, out of focus. I bought it in 2015, so it is no more on warranty. Any idea?

I have a Dell U2718Q with 3840 x 2160 resolution and color gamut of 99.9% sRGB. It has a ComfortView feature when working in Word, etc. I bought it in 2019 and it is connected to a PC (Windows 11). I just love it for photo editing (Lightroom and Photoshop). It must be discontinued by now.

Many thanks to @ dcstep

A friend, who has taken many pictures in his life and is in a large scanning operation, would like to name people on those pictures. Is there a way to post these pictures on the WEB (Facebook excluded) so that someone can add names of people appearing in those pictures and tag them accordingly? Thank you.

It depends on the end use of your scans. I have a Brother MFC-J6930DW multi usage printer-scanner that has a ledger-size scan glass (11X17 inches). It can scan 11X17 documents and photos on that glass up to 600 DPI in tif format, with surprisingly good results in B&W. In colors, results are not that good and tend to be oversaturated, but you can correct that in Lightroom or Photoshop. Hope that helps.

I think there are a few misconceptions about flatbed scanners. I have an Epson V-850 PRO which I like very much, even for 35mm films, and even for printing those 35 mm negatives up to 18-20 inches, and more. But there are a few things this scanner will NOT do: This scanner will not go back in time and retrospectively put on a tripod the film camera you had at the time of the picture 30 or 40 years ago; This scanner will not go back in time and retrospectively install a 4 or 5 stops stabilizer in the lens or film camera body you had at the time; This scanner will not go back in time and retrospectively install a 45 focusing points in that film camera, of which half of these would have been cross-type focusing points; This scanner will not go back in time and retrospectively put a contrast detection focusing system in that same old camera. No, the Epson V850 will not retrospectively do any of these things. But with well focused pictures from a sharp negatives or transparencies, the results will be outstanding, let alone for web-bases blogs. Mark Segal has done a very thorough review of this scanner and I recommend everyone interested in such a scanner to read his paper, especially his 89 pages analysis. Thank you.

Maybe a precision or two on what was said previously. 1. An Adobe subscription does not mean that your stuff is in the cloud. I have a Lightroom (classic) and PS monthly subscription that gives me a "hard" version of both, on my computer, with all my photos on the same computer. Nothing is in the cloud. 2. You can compare PSE with Photoshop; however, and with due respect, I dont think you can really compare PSE with Lightroom, if only for the library management tool Lightroom offers.

Lightroom will do it. I just did a test with a 303mb TIF files, and it worked.