jimrowley

Can anyone help me?

I have just installed Elements 4 for mac and when I print at A4 (Epson R800) I get a warning telling me that

my print quality will suffer as it will be below 220ppi. This never happened with Elements 2 so:

1. did my printer print at this lower resolution without telling me?

2. did it print at 300ppi as I had always thought?

What do i need to do (resize the image?) to get a better print quality. (I was always satisfied with the

quality from elements 2)

Apologies if this is a stupid question.

Jim

I've not long got a "real" digital camera and need some advice - if I want to print monochrome images

from

my RAW files, is it better to convert them to mono in Cannon DPP or in Photoshop? Which gives me more

control/realism/anything else you might think of? I use Elements 2 (still saving up...)

Thanks;

Jim

Thanks.

I am shooting RAW - should I simply change the default conversion to AdobeRGB?

JIm

The end product is what counts.

I take 1:1 on my Hasselblad and love it even though it presents compositional challenges

at times. It is not necessarily a bad thing that attention slides to the centre, the rule of

thirds being a medieval construct designed to teach artists of the time some basic rules of

composition. Our liking for it, perhaps, stems simply from familiarity. (And what does

familiarity breed...?) Someone once pointed out that "true" human perspective would

result in photgraphs vaguely spectacle shaped with two tiny points of sharp focus - no-

one yet makes film or sensors this way...

I am FOR all photography.

Jim

Sadly, simple questions have a tendency to engender complex answers, still, here goes...

I have just bought my first digital camera - a Canon 5D - and wish to know whether I should

shoot in sRGB or AdobeRGB. (The manual has warnings about AdobeRGB and suggests one

chooses sRGB) I print my own prints on an Epson R800. So far I have taken about 100 shots

in sRGB and am well pleased with the results - but we can always get better, can't we...

Thank you

Jim

I was recently the recipient of fantastically good advice from you good people and am coming

back for more.

I'm looking at the Canon EF100mm f2.8 USM Macro lens and would like to know if it is as

good outside its macro function (i.e. as a portrait or short telephoto focussing up to infinity)

as it is supposed to be as a macro?

Any advice appreciated.

Thank you.

Thank you all for your advice and opinion. I have just bought a Canon 20mm lens and am

looking forward to using it for both film and digital.

Jim

Thanks for the advice/opinion so far. Am I to believe that the 17-40 will function at all focal

lengths on a film body? I do not expect to retire my film outfit but to use them alonside one

another.

Thanks again.

I am about to take the digital plunge and, having been an EOS film camera user for years, am

looking to get the 5D. I like to take wide angle street shots with my EOS 20mm but have

read some rather disconcerting comments on the 5D's tendency to vignette at wide apertures

with angle wide lenses. Does anyone have any experience of this combination? I would be

grateful for all comments.

Thank you

Help. I need some expert advice and this seems like the place to come. I have just added

a 150mm C T* lens to the 50mm CF I use with my 500 C/M. Sinc eit comes with a B50

filter ring I have been advised to get a B50 to 58mm thread step ring to allow me to use

other filters. However, I have also been told that I need to get a B50 to 63 or 67mm as I

should step up as far as I can. What do I go for?

Any advice welcome - my 50mm lens is B60 and I can't find any B50 to B60 step rings. Do

they exist?

Thanks'

Jim Rowley