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I really don't know where to have this discussion. I wish to create a number of photo books to document my 50 years as a photographer. I don't care about selling them or at least I don't care about making money from them. I have spent considerable time watching YouTube videos and landed on Blurb to give it a try. It has good reviews and you can produce the book in Lightroom and upload directly to Blurb. I must say that the all B&W test book I had printed was not good. The images were flat with a green color cast. I provided them with the file types they asked for including the color profile they requested etc. and my screen is always calibrated for making my own prints. Anyone have any luck getting good B&W quality from any book publishers? None of them seem to have user forums. Thanks

Anyone besides me seen this? I leave test prints taped up around my office for a long time. They tend to get yellow around the edges on the back and sometimes on the unexposed portions of the emulsion side. Do I have a bad batch of paper or has anyone else seen this.  Iflford Gold Fiber Silk prints up longer with no yellowing.

25 minutes ago, inoneeye said:

Have you tried  Simply Elegant Gold Fibre?

From itsupplies website “Simply Elegant Gold Fiber Paper 310gsm - This paper is a 100% direct replacement for Ilford Galerie *Prestige Gold Fibre Silk product.”

Thanks !

This was my favorite paper for years until Ilford discontinued it for some reason. I tested a bunch of papers after its demise and landed on Canson Infinity Platine Fibre Rag. It's OK,  but I long for getting my Gold Fiber Silk back. The Canson is so thick I have problems rolling it up to put it in a tube for shipping. I don't care how thick my paper is, its going in a frame. Also I have noticed of late that prints I have had taped to my wall for over a year are yellowing on the back and the white edges not printed on. That's definitely not OK. Anyone know if another company purchased the Gold Fiber Silk formula and it is available from another brand ? Thanks

Thanks you so much. This did the trick. I did understand this stuff when setting up my last computer nearly 10 years ago, but didn't store the info anywhere.

Sorry, I know this has been addressed, but after reading the first post, the rest disappeared and I can't find them again.... I just purchased a new computer (Windows 10) and upgraded from CS6 to CC 2020. I have had things printing properly for years. Unfortunately I did not keep track of the two above mentioned settings from Windows 7 and CS6. I know how to calibrate my screen and how to turn off color management and select my paper profile when printing with my Epson P600 printer. I let Photoshop manage colors with a paper profile. I don't remember what I am supposed to do the the above mentioned settings. I shoot in sRGB on my cameras. Can someone give me a quick refresher on these two settings. I do all of my own printing, never send anything out. Thanks.

Thanks, I think I sent the D700 to Chicago so that recommendation is probably it. Cleaning is cheaper when not sent to nikon, BUT, if Nikon finds something else wrong with you camera like a small scratch on the sensor coating they won't clean your camera with out replacing that. I don't think I have a scratch on my sensor, but I didn't think there was one on my D700. I was hard pressed to find it, but it was there and had no effect on my images. Wasted lots of time and money with shipping etc. Would rather not go down that road again.

I live in Washington State, but have no problem sending it elsewhere.

My D610 really needs a good cleaning. I sent my D700 to be cleaned by someone other than Nikon before I sold it a few years ago, but can't find the receipt. Haven't been on Photo.ne for a long time. I know this is somewhere in it's archives, but not having much luck searching this site. Recommendations. Thanks

I stored my computer for a year while traveling. When I attempted to recalibrate my Nec Monitor for my favorite paper, Ilford Gallery prestige, the data were nowhere to be found. I spent months getting my screen and prints to match, now the data is gone. Don't have any recollection of where to begin. Ideas on where to start? Its amazing how much you can forget in a year. Thanks

My Photo Printer is and Epson.....darn. I'm moving and its packed away and I don't remember what model it is. But its my printer for making prints for framing and sale. My other "problem" printer is a smaller format and only prints 8.5x11 with four ink cartridges. Epson Workforce 60. The printer was inexpensive an has performed well, but the ink is outrageously expensive and you can only buy the black ink separately. You have to buy the others in a set. Four cartridges coast almost as much as I paid for the printer. Well its on its last leg and I don't want to go down that road again. Suggestions for an inexpensive printer that allows me to buy cartridges individually ? Again, this is not my photo printer its for letter, labels, etc.

 

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<p>I am so sorry to post this question here, but I am getting nowhere with any Apple support or forums. Won't let me post my question. So here it is and hope someone can help.<br>

OK, I am baffled, I thought I understood how this worked. I just upgraded to 1TB for about $10 USD/mo on iCloud and began doing a little more experimentation. Sometimes what I am trying to do works and sometimes it doesn't. So here it is in a nutshell. <br>

I am planning on using iCloud as "ONE" (not my only) of my forms of backing up video and camera RAW files for a year long trip. I have a Windows based (Windows 10) laptop that fits easily into my backpack. I plan of using my second card slot in my Nikon as an automatic backup for my shots with a micro SD card that will fit into the tiny laptop. When my main card is full I will take the micro SD card out of the camera and drag the images from the SD card slot to the iCloud drive. Done. Well sometimes during my test runs, everything that I have dragged to the iCloud drive on my small laptop shows up in the cloud on my desktop. I can open my desktop where all processing will be done upon my return from my trip using Photoshop, etc. and open both RAW photos and video. However, sometimes my desktop shows my iCloud drive as emtpy. What's going on? I have downloaded the proper iCloud for windows to both of these computers. Am I missing something in the setting.<br>

Again, the Cloud will not be my only form of back up but it will be the only one that can't get stolen while I am traveling. AND that's important.</p>

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<p>Hot dead pixels !? That sounds serious and kind of what it looks like. Is there a solution?</p>

<p>I have a Nikon D610 and using it with a Nikon 17-35mm f2.8 and a Breakthrough 10 stop ND filter and shooting in RAW. ISO is 100. I have been experimenting with this new filter. I don't know where this starts, but I know it is there at 20 minute exposures. If I zoom into 100% and definitely at 200% it looks like there are lots of pin holes in the image. These manifest themselves into bright specks. I am shooting with long exposure setting off, because the camera will work for more than 10 minutes cleaning up the image. That's not acceptable. Anyone know what's going on?</p>

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<p>My spouse is almost 5 years older than me, so never had to wait for her to retire. However, we have both been good with traveling alone as well as with each other. Both are great and very different experiences. Anyway this is something we need to do. I'm 68 and she is 72. We have never really traveled outside the US with finding a new place to live in the back of our minds. Done it in the US, but never in different country.This could be our last hurrah traveling on the edge...together anyway. We may need a yacht to live on soon instead of hostels, couch surfing and home stays. Lovely photograph. I like that its so close to Africa.</p>

<p>Well Gup, that is an interesting question. We tend to be "by the seat of our pants" travelers. There are definitely some places we plan on going, but where we go first depends on when we actually get out act together. We are hoping to leave late fall of this year (after a few week spiritual retreat in the Peruvian Amazon), but no later than late winter next year. It is challenging to disentangle ourselves from our home, get everything in storage so we can rent the house, store cars at friends houses, mail, etc. etc. We know we wish to spend more time in Central America. We both wish to see Cuba and likely Patagonia. We both wish to return to India. We have a young lady in Uganda that my spouse met while there in 2007 and has helped her through secondary school and college so we would like to be in Uganda for her graduation in 2017. I have lots of relatives in Italy. We want to see eastern Europe. There I parts of Mongolia I still wish to see as well as parts of Russia. All I can really say is our travel is "fluid" and with a year we could end up almost anywhere, but the above is a starter and that's all we need to get going.</p>

<p>Thanks Leszek. My wife and I will be traveling with a Nikon D610,D7100, Canon G12 (I love this little camera), and at least one GoPro. Oh yes two iPhones :-). We both have Pacsafe camera straps and backpacks. We also lock our bags closed in our rooms as well as lock the bags to something immoveable. I am still going to use the cloud when possible, but in conjunction with the other measures I mentioned above in the post just before yours. I also take one more step to avoid theft. I put off market lens caps on my lenses so the large white word Nikon does not show and I put small pieces of black duct tape on all the camera brand and model names wherever they appear on the cameras. That way the cameras are less noticeable and unless the potential thief is a photographer, he/she won't know its a Nikon, which likely is known worldwide as an expensive camera. We also have camera insurance, so replacing one out of the country is perhaps a pain, but not impossible. Great discussion !</p>

<p>Thank you all again. I am pretty sure I have a plan based on all of your comments and my personal needs and levels of comfort. I have a rather large following of individuals wanting to read about my adventures out of the country "while I'm, traveling". I never traveled with a laptop. I would write in my journal every night and when I found an internet café I would write home. On recent trips to Mongolia, Colombia and the Amazon I found it more difficult to find an internet café. But finding WiFi here and there even in a place as remote as Sagsai Mongolia is now common. I decided the next trip I needed to have a tablet with a decent keyboard or a small laptop. I have had a tablet for a couple of years (never traveled with it, just too much stuff in my back pack, AND front pack) and find it unsatisfactory for my needs anywhere. Apps are annoying as well and belong on the phone. So I will be purcasing a very small Windows based laptop primarily for writing and e-mailing. So, I will have a laptop with me, but the size of the hardrive will be small. I will stick with 16GB SD cards, because as I said earlier, I can't deal with the loss of more than 300 images if my camera is lost or stolen. The camera is the most likely item I will be traveling with that will be stolen followed by the laptop. I should point out that both my wife and I are independent travelers. We go it alone and like to blend with, experience and photograph cultures different from our own. This means we don't have some of the protection that comes with traveling with experienced guides and leaves us more vulnerable to lots more "bad things" to happen to us including theft. But this is what we like to do. I don't view backing up my images to my laptop or keeping large numbers of images on SD cards in my camera as a safe way to back up. I will carry two SSHD's, one for my wife carried in her bag (not her day bag) and one for me. We will use the laptop to upload images to these as the opportunity arrives. I may purchase several hi capacity SD cards and store the same images 0n them that are on the SSHD drives and carry these in my money belt. Finally I will try to upload to iCloud when the opportunity arises so images are not with me and can't be stolen. Yes I know that could take hours, but traveling for a year we have to reason to rush from one place to another. We may even rent an apartment or house here and there as we are also scouting for a new place to live out our "elder years" as far away from the current worldwide" insanity of humanity"' as possible.</p>

<p>Gup. Thanks. Why was the tablet a mistake ? Just curious. Just that it has little storage space or something else ? Thanks</p>

<p>Thank you all so much for the great info. This is all 21st century stuff, like me just getting my first smartphone. I like the idea of the SSD drive and am amazed at how small they are. These or storing on a large capacity SD card seems to be the way to go. I think I will experiment with the cloud as well. A number of friends that travel to places like I go have lost everything to theft. I have been lucky so far, but being gone a year will definitely increase the odds. So one SSD drive for my spouse, one for me in separate bags and the cloud. Perhaps a large capacity SD card in my money belt as well and should be covered pretty well. I think I will take the laptop out to the edge of my wireless connection at home and see how it does uploading a 16GB SD card with a couple of hundred RAW images on it.</p>

<p>Thanks Dieter and thanks for the attached threads. I will check them out. I get nervous when I get too many images in my camera. The camera is the most likely thing to be stolen when I'm out and about, although I use a stainless steel lined neck strap, but still, one careless moment and its gone. I can live with a stolen camera and 300 or less images going with it, but I can't live with the potential of over 2000 image lost with larger SD cards. I look forward to reading the threads you attached.</p>

<p>Thanks Charles. If I were on the road in the USA I would have lots of alternatives for managing my images for a year and space wouldn't be much of an issue. I would likely be in my camper and be backing up to an external hard drive or I might even take 60 SD cards. I will, however, be out of the country, visiting parts unknown. Even in parts unknown, you can periodically get a descent WiFi connection at a hotel in the middle of nowhere. I'm starting to think I should bring a solid state external back up drive (1Ter) and back up to that and to the cloud when possible. I don't think it would kill me to carry the external drive. The thing that worries me about not using the cloud is losing the external drive or having it stolen. Not comfortable mailing SD cards home from the edge of the earth. Thanks for the quick response.</p>

<p>Normally my trips last about six weeks and I keep my 16GB SD cards in my money belt with the 300 or so RAW files. I travel light and have never taken a laptop with me and may spend days or weeks off the wire. I have been doing this for years without incident. However, my spouse and I are planning to wander the globe for a year and this method would not be practical. I plan on getting a very small laptop (windows based) ,mainly for writing. But, am starting to think about using that as a conduit for uploading images to iCloud or some similar service. I have test uploaded RAW images to iCloud with no problem. I would feel better not having to worry about lost or stolen SD cards. I would likely need 60 SD cards to get me through a year of travel. I don't want to take that many and would think I would have less to worry about if each card was uploaded to the cloud when full, format the card and move on. I know there is still an element of risk here. Comments or suggestions about cloud storage and/or options for traveling this long would be appreciated. Thanking you in advance.</p>

<p>Thank you both for the responses and the answers match which is always good :-)<br>

I have downloaded the new profile. I don't know whether I misunderstood Ilford's explanation of the code or something else, but I thought the media type code was at the beginning, but it is in fact at the end.<br>

Thanks again.</p>

<p>I just did something stupid. I uninstalled my Epson R2880 software from my computer and installed my new Epson SC600 printer and software. I wrote down all my settings for producing B&W prints the way I like, but I forgot to write down the media type for my preferred paper. I think there are more choices than with the R2880, but I can't be sure now. I use Ilford Prestige Gold Fiber Silk for both B&W and Color. I have three opened boxes of this paper(different sizes) but no longer have the little instruction sheets in them. Ilford's site has nothing, much to my amazement on this setting or because of my inability to find it. My choices are Premium Photo Paper Glossy , Premium Photo Paper Semigloss and Ultra Premium Photo Paper Luster. I think I was using Premium Photo Paper Glossy for years, but I just don't remember. I will experiment if there is not a source with this information. Thanks for any help you can give me.</p>