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| bio | website | khedron.livejournal.com |
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| location | Ohio | |
| age | 40 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 3 months |
| seen | yesterday | |
| stats | profile views | 43 |
Programmer, sci-fi reader, lucky enough to have the mythical Lisp Day Job.
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How does the Canon EF-S 15-85 IS USM compare to the EF 24-105mm L as an all-around lens? Hi, is it safe to assume you meant Canon 17-55 F/2.8 IS USM? |
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What does infinity focus mean and when should I use it? "To infinity and beyond!" (Ahem. Sorry.) |
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May 14 |
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How do I speed up Apple Aperture? @stephencosh - I use TimeMachineEditor to make sure that Time Machine runs, but runs less often than 1/hr. It's definitely the case for me that heavy disk activity slows down everything. (My situation: laptop, quad i7, 16 GB ram, 128 GB ssd + 1 TB hdd.) Also, I would keep Activity Monitor up & running at all times, so you can quickly see what programs are using CPU. And install something like MenuMeters or iStatMenus to also be able to quickly see when your CPU is busy. Maybe the problem is mds (search indexing) -- I would tell it not to bother indexing photos. |
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Apr 9 |
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Canon Lens EF 50mm 1:1.8 II or EFS 18-55mm IS II for EOS 650D I get a lot of mileage out of my 55-250mm for birds & other things outside; it all depends on what you're most interested in! For taking pictures of family members & social gatherings, I'd go with the 50 + 18-135 as well. |
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Apr 1 |
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What is the best Canon Telephoto Zoom Lens for $600-650? I'm pretty happy with my 55-250. Sure, I want more range, and I'm thinking about the 70-200 f/4 vs. others, but I'm happy with the detail in: 500px.com/photo/28607951 |
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Mar 28 |
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How do I capture the milky way? I took Milky Way pictures with my APS-C Canon T1i and a 17-55 f/2.8. No, it's not as fantastic as the picture you link to, but it's still possible! Give it a try. |
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Feb 26 |
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What camera & lens combination(s) are ideal for animal and bird photography? Thanks for the update! While I don't think I can rationalize the cost anytime in the near future (i.e., until my 2-yr-old graduates college ;-) ), I will say that your pictures are fantastic. |
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Feb 26 |
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Canon 75-300mm f4-5.6 USM or 55-250mm f4-5.6 IS lens? I've been quite happy with my 55-250. Do I want more reach or faster focus? Sure! But if I'm taking pictures of birds in the back yard or butterflies in the park, it's never the lens's fault if it's a bad picture. The IS is a huge bonus, and the pictures are certainly sharp enough for me -- I can see detail in the feathers on a woodpecker 20 feet away. |
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Feb 25 |
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What camera & lens combination(s) are ideal for animal and bird photography? Do you still prefer the 300mm + 1.4x? I ask because I read a different take from the "The Digital Picture" guy: "If 400mm is your goal, the 100-400 will give you better results than the 300 f/4 and 1.4x combo." the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/… |
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Feb 25 |
answered | Is the MacBook Pro display well calibrated? |
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Feb 25 |
answered | A good library-less photo manager for Mac? |
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Jan 7 |
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What sites/companies are available for buying and selling used lenses? LensRentals.com does the same: lensrentals.com/buy There's also the Fred Miranda forums (though I haven't used them personally). fredmiranda.com/forum/board/10/2 |
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Jan 3 |
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Apple Aperture, raw files, and white balance? OK, I didn't have any White Balance adjustments set to fire on import. I can try telling it to "Auto Enhance" ala Pete's suggestion and see what that does. |
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Jan 3 |
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Apple Aperture, raw files, and white balance? Hi Dotty! Do you mean that under the Adjustments pane, along with "RAW Fine Tuning", "Exposure", and other settings, I should remove the "White Balance" panel from the default set? I just tried that, and I still see the initial preview changed to the oversaturated yellow that you're seeing too. |
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Dec 10 |
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RAWs looking massively different in Aperture/Mac OS Preview compared to camera preview and (Canon) PictureStyleEditor This may have been covered, but it seems similar to me to the question I asked a few weeks ago: photo.stackexchange.com/questions/29165/… While I can understand (at some level) that different programs interpret RAW files in different ways, I ... don't like it? I guess I should try a Lightroom demo (or something similar) to see if other software makes the problem go away. (And @PattaFeuFeu should do likewise.) |
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Nov 30 |
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Apple Aperture, raw files, and white balance? I've considered that - after all, when you're already paying the cost of RAW in terms of disk space, what's an extra JPEG? But I don't want to be sorting through twice as many images, so I'd have to think about how to handle that. In any event, I'm still surprised that the JPEG preview is so radically different from RAW + camera's assessment of what the white balance should be. Is that really to be expected? (Do I need to post comparison photos?) |
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Nov 28 |
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How do I avoid dust entering my camera when changing lenses? @Itai - I don't know if you were being serious when you said "statistically", but how are you measuring dust on our lenses/sensors? I'm wondering what I should be looking for. |
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Oct 31 |
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Apple Aperture, raw files, and white balance? I'm filing a bug report with Apple on what may be a related issue - I was reorganizing, and tried to move a pair of pictures (duplicate + edit one version) into a new project. Instead of moving, it copied (prob. 1), and on arrival it reprocessed and mucked up the exposure (prob. 2). In this case, unlike the other raw/import problem I posted about here, hitting "reset" on the Exposure adjustment did restore the look. |
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Oct 25 |
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Apple Aperture, raw files, and white balance? Where would I see such a setting? In Preferences, it's set to use Camera Previews in Post-Import Processing... |
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Oct 25 |
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Apple Aperture, raw files, and white balance? Hi Pete -- the yellow is coming from the particular lights in that room, plus the yellow walls. That part is understandable. But, the camera's auto-WB often compensates marvellously for it, in what I see on camera and in the preview shown in Aperture before it processes the raw file. Then I click on the picture, it thinks again, and I'm back to the un-auto-WB version. I'm happy to post a screenshot of two pictures from the same scene, side-by-side, so you could see modified & unmodified pictures. If I ask Aperture to apply its own auto-WB, it does OK, but should I need to? |
