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Those figures were more for purposes of discussion. If I'm doing things slowly and deliberately, the reject rate will be lower. Higher if otherwise.

I got spoiled by 2 TB drives at $75 at NewEgg, pre Thailand floods. Well, we can agree to disagree, I suppose. I don't find it much at all like down-sampling to 2mpx. It does seem like...

Thanks ... very helpful.

My understanding is that a "lossy compressed dng" is something of an "enchanced 8-bit jpeg" within a .dng wrapper. It uses the same compression algorithm as jpeg (at about 10 of 12 quality, I...

I'm interested in evaluating the DNG "lossy compression" format that is available with ACR 7.x and LR 4.x. I'd appreciate comments from people who have used it ... pros and cons. With my 5dm2,...

The FZ150 is very, very similar to the FZ47, which lacks RAW mode, articulated LCD, and some other advanced capabilities. Same lens and sensor. The FZ47 was on sale during Thanksgiving week for...

Something I've been curious about: number of full frame cameras sold by Canon, Nikon, and Sony. Does anyone have valid numbers, especially Canon 5dm2 vs Nikon D700 vs Sony 900/850? In my...

My understanding is that once you have LiveView capability on a camera, video capability is mostly firmware. I believe the non-video 50d which has LiveView can actually record video with non-Canon...

Part of me finds the 21 mpx of my 5Dm2 to be plenty, and am hoping for improved low-light performance from 3+ years of R&D to the sensor.

But the other part of me would have liked a very high mpx...

My impression is that the advanced AF helps in sports shooting, especially tracking a moving subject. I don't tend to do much of that, so the 5Dm2's AF was sufficient.

I was hoping the 5Dm3 would continue the trend of the 5Dm2 compared to the original 5D: a better camera at a lower price.

I am interested in seeing how the high-iso performance compares once the...

I would suspect that masking and layering would be difficult. I have some doubts it would look natural unless you tweak the sizes so the people in back appear to be further away in perspective, and...

I've got CS5/ACR6, which doesn't have the capability to adjust independent RGB channels in ACR for RAW/DNG files. This is more or less equivalent to using Curves in PhotoShop, and is possible in...

I think your experience is typical ... stable after to 6 to 12+ months.

I'm not sure I understand your question, but on my Windows 7 system, the .icm / .icc files were placed at: C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\color

Something to consider if including a gray card isn't an option ... take the first or last image as RAW and the rest as JPEG. If the lighting is more or less similar for all, then spend time...

To me, dpi can be ambiguous so I think in terms of pixel dimensions. 800x600 is probably fine for people who will view your images on the web, or to transmit as email attachments. But it can...

With the Spyder-3, all version share the same hardware and the difference was the software. I have dual monitors, but only the Primary really needs to be calibrated, as least for how I do...

My desktop computer has an Intel SandyBridge I7-2600K that has the HD3000 GPU. So far, I'm impressed with the HD3000, but I'm wondering if the purchase of a descrete graphics card would be...

Do you have some specifics? Perhaps you could provide links to .jpg's rendered by LR3/2010 and LR4/2012 that illustrated the differences? Along with your comments on just what to look for? That...