terrestrikon

Luminous Landscape has a discussion of this:

 

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/prophoto-rgb.shtml

Scott Eaton you should really post at /. I think your observations, from an IT professional point of view, which I'm not, are falsified by many posts there. From a home user who has extensive experience with Microsoft I'll reiterate: there's no comparison between Apple and PC; the Apple wins across the board!

Phew.... J-B Queru Did you know that some people jinx computers? It's scientifically proved. Maybe you should try an abacus or something...

After using IBM pc's since 1982 and having built my own boxes for over ten years (that would be over a dozen pc's), I have been switching to Mac this last year. First with an iBook, then a second iBook, and now a powermac 2.3 G dual.

 

Unless you like the uncertainty of Microsoft's security issues, and want to spend a lot of time updating your OS, the better bet is Apple, which -- it seems to me -- in your position will offer you better expansion options in the future.

 

The only reason to go for a pc would be if you like to fiddle with components and software, but, believe me, that loses its appeal after a while...

I recently built a small form factor pc using a SATA 150 drive. I was very surprised to see how fast it was compared to regular ATA 100 drives. Though the memory was the same between this and my old box I cannot say for certain that the entire speed boost was due to the drive since I used a slightly faster processor -- but I believe most of it was.

 

I'm not sure, however, that a SATA 150 solution could work with your Dell, unless there're SATA 150 pci cards out there...

What's the cost of the upgrade? Thanks.

Thanks much!

Gary, I think I've seen it, but could you please link the Jeff Schewe review? Thanks.

Amazon has them, at roughly the lowest legit internet price. That's where I bought mine a couple weeks ago.

Thanks for that! I lived in Marseille -- just down the road a ways -- for about a year and a half in the early nineties, so that brings back quite a few memories...

I was using a 7960 and upgraded to an 8750 specifically for B&W. On HP premium satin paper for large prints at 230 dpi in B&W from a 20D it's better than outstanding -- just lovely prints, quite competitive with MF from a wet darkroom. With color, however, it's a bit problematic though I would like to suppose that with some work and custom profiles it would be just fine there too.

 

As always, YMMV!

 

g.

Probably best to go with Mac, given what you've said. Security is a major issue, and you're not going to get reliable security from Windows for a long time. Also Mac is probably marginally better with PS; more than marginally if you get a lot of memory.

 

I've got both but am slowly migrating to Mac after being with IBM PCs since early DOS days. I've built my own home machines for fifteen years or so, running both Windows and Linux. But recently I got a couple of iBooks and just today I got a 23" Apple display (an electrical storm last night fried my Sony CRT to where it just showed purple and green), which, thankfully, worked out of the box with my homebrew machine. In about a year, I think, I'll have almost completely transitioned to Mac.

 

Not that any of that makes any difference to you, just my take on the overall balance between the two is that Mac is a far superior, albeit less customizable, system.

 

g.

I had the 40 for a year and a half or so, then got a 905. For me the 905 was so much better that I sold the 40. Others, however, may give you the opposite opinion. Now I just wish I could get a full frame digital back at 25-35 Mp for about two grand... Maybe in several years....

 

As one friend put it, the SWC is about the best point and shoot in the world!

You and a couple other million people...

Yeah, but look at the prices for the 21, 28, 35, etc. These seem more than reasonable.

I would guess that a replacement for the 20D is close to being announced.

The only thing that's clear to me is that Erwin has absolutely no idea what he thinks.

If the 905 does get discontinued my guess would be that prices would go up. Perhaps not immediately, but within at least the medium term, and up onwards from there.

 

G.

Thanks! Very nice.

Must be a /. reader.

Just look them up on resellerratings.com. Seems they're not well liked by a lot of former customers and have a far lower than average set of ratings.

This is a pretty good thread. Heck, we live in a police state -- so what's new?

I actually like this one. I would certainly buy a print!

I have an EyeOne also (the cheap kit), and a 7960 as one among a couple printers. What I've found, despite all they glowing reviews of these automated color correction devices, is that I can adjust my Sony G500 manually (it allows very fine adjustments on the rgb guns) much better than the EyeOne can. What I learned is that the EyeOne was a moderately priced lesson in color management.

I know exactly what you're talking about. I got both an original strap (which is in pretty good condition, but it's really no good for ordinary use) and an Op-Tech. The Op-Tech works fine as is -- its normal attachment is a flat, thin and narrow bit of strap that loops around a typical camera lug and then in and out of one of those little plastic gizmos. It's thin and narrow enough that it will fit through (with a very slight bend in it) the Rollei's alligator lug. If you don't like the slight bend you can do what some people do which is to very carefully remove the screws on each end of each lug, then after taking the lug plate off you can remove the little bar in the center and the Op-Tech or any other regular strap will thread through with room to spare. I opted not to do that because I figured I'd lose that little bar...

 

Hope this helps,

 

G.