PhotoHawk

You nailed it.  This is a very calculated move similar to moving people to license music and books.  No problem some say - music is disposable and I only read books once.  I like music and I like...

Detail Man - you are ahead of your time.  And maybe the rest of us too.  One of the things that Adobe didn't count on is that some of us would get mad enough to seriously look at DXO or Capture One...

It wouldn't be $19 per month. Take a look at the camera rentals.
Adobe is charging $19 per month for a product that costs $399. For a product that costs $3999 it would be $190 month on the same...

Right jkoch2 - who said Photoshop wasn't carrying its weight? It might have been the only product that was. Which led them to "mine" it more.
Care to guess how much marginal profit there is in...

John;
I don't think you understand at all. Many of us have a significant investment in Adobe. And this was undoubtedly factored in and taken advantage of by Adobe. A good many of us in this and...

Since Adobe came out with its announcement I've downloaded and tried DXOoptics and Capture One. My thinking is that CS5.1 has all the features in a manipulation software until the market answers...

Seriously jkoch2 - that must be sarcasm about tablets. If you think tablets will replace 21" wide gamut monitors in any sense you clearly have no clue.
And this move by Adobe is not meant to...

This is an extremely bad spin from Adobe. Particularly:
1. They expected that the hobbyist photography would have view this subscription service negatively and admitting that there was not a lot...

Actually they are not rolling in cash.  In fact their lack lustre results most likely precipitated this search for revenue and minimization of overhead costs.  Have a look at Google Finance,...

Adobe has also hurt the training and consulting industry surrounding Photoshop. There were many enthusiasts who not only won"t buy into Adobe's profit grab but also will have little need to buy the...

One really has to question Adobe's strategy on this. Who will be using Adobe products of any type knowing that this sort of thinking is steering the company? Who wants this sort of dictatorial...

I am against buying CS as a service (in the cloud). It is very much in Adobe's interest to have me work with CS in a subscription model and very much not in my interest. Adobe can artificially...

You shouldn't see a big difference in noise between the EOS M and the OMD.  The lens shouldn't affect your noise much either at a given f stop.  Resolution, but not noise.   You may well see a...

I just got back from a trip to Italy.  I had my K5 with the Tamron 17-50 and the Pentax 18-135.  I used the 17-50 extensively - most shots at the wide end of the lens.  I'll post some pictures...

This behavior would be classic if Aperture ignores the information in the raw that indicates that the shot has been underexposed (which is the way the highlight protection feature works -...

No its very unlikely to be DNG.  Nothing is changed on the pixel records.  It might be the version of ACR.  Can you download the raw shots and put them through something other than ACR - like...

Thanks everyone - I guess back it goes for calibration.

Thanks for replying.  Its not what I wanted to hear but...  Anyway I'll send it in to Tamron for checkup. Regards Jim

I posted this on the third party lens forum but I thought I'd ask the Pentax SLR forum as well as I'd like your advice as well. I have a Tamron 17-50 non VC version for my K5.  All my other lens...

I have a Tamron 17-50 non VC version for my K5.  All my other lens (Pentax) do not require any micro focus adjust (MFA).  The Tamron requires +5 at 50mm at 2.8 and +9 at 17mm at 2.8.  I can use +8...