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Thanks all again. Can i revive this thread? I have been doing some thinking and i thought my trip needs to end up in a

decently big city where i am assured of some serious street photo.

Therefore i am thinking seriously about chicago which is about12 hours from DC my departure point. My question is not

really about chicago, i think we all agree that it is an excellent destination for street photo. The real question is since i am

driving which rout would be more interesting for photos.

I am hesitating between going northbound first, to PA, through amish county first, then pittsburgh, then akron, then toledo,

then chicago...

Or

Colmbus, indineapolis, chicago route...

Thoughts?

Many thanks again..

I just don t understand...i have said many many times, that i do not plan to go into syria, but rather a refugee camp...on

the turkish border, so i would really like to know why Film is a bad idea? There ate no news i want to transmit within a

day, film has to many better estethics, and anyway people had used films in war for 60 years before the digital, but i

understand that in a war zone you don t want to be killed for a film that someone might confiscate it from you on the

border...

I wam talking about a refugee camp..i have a leica m6, plan to shoot trix and develop in d76:)

If you see objective problems please let me know... Thanks

Thank you all for your responses. Well My obsession with screens is due to the fact that I maintain a photoblog, so the

final "product" for me is a jpeg image on the screen, and i rarely print. When i do print digitally, i send it to a lab, so yes i is

useful in that case to calibrate as i assume this would minimize surprises at the lab.

So you all spoke with a clear one voice on the question of whether there is something i can do to make my images more

stables across different screens. The answer seems to be no. I remember once someone told me that if i save my b&w

pics under a color RGB mode thus would help, and i somehow felt it did... Is that BS?

No one commented on the specs of my screen, is that something that is decent enough to work with? I have no problem

spending 200-350 on a screen if that would help improve my results...it seems from what is said above that i do not need

to get a new screen though to calibrate, although i thought one would at least need a screen where one can have a good

control over all parameters involved...

Thanks a lot for your help

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I do mainly B&W (occasional colors too), and that I am not techy at all, and prefer to use

something that does mot need constant investment/ calibration, and here are the characteristics of my current monitor:

Widescreen 1440 * 900 resolution

720p hd- ready

19" screen

Hello

I have a Monitor that came with my pc ( gateway from best buy) and it is not impressive at all n terms of quality, further it has been giving

me problem. Are there any monitors that you guys can recommend that would go with pretty much any PC? I d like a monitor that i could

calibrate, or hopefully come calibrated and stay that way ( is that possible?).

I do a lot of scanning and after i edit my photos they turn out completely different on other monitors...

also while i am at it, is there anything you can do to the photos in photoshop that would make the picture more stanle across different

monitors? Nowadays people use different monitors with really varying brightness and quality, so i wonder how come some pictures look

just about the same across all of them ( say professional photos on websites) while mine change so dramatically...

I apologize for the naive questions... I was mainly a film guy and did not worry about this stuff before...

Thanks a lot

JK