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Little poll... are u a windows or a mac user ?

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aponsin said:
How about you people ? Are you a windows user, or a mac user ? And
how do you do you photo management ?
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Typical head in the sand question. Why not ask, are you using a sh1tty buggy bloated security nightmare OS or one that ties you to proprietry hardware.

I use Linux on my laptop, desktop and server. I use The GIMP as my primary photo editing tool and I use several different peices of photo management tools depending on what I need to do.

I am also one of the contributors to the OpenSource Photrography wiki:

http://osphoto.org/

I enjoy my freedom, of choice, from viruses, from spyware, from reboots, from worrying that if they can hide a flight simulator in a Spreadsheet program what else can they hide in that and other programs.

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Regards,
Harry Phillips

http://www.tux.com.au
 
Harry Phillips said:
I use Linux on my laptop, desktop and server. I use The GIMP as my
primary photo editing tool and I use several different peices of
photo management tools depending on what I need to do.

I am also one of the contributors to the OpenSource Photrography wiki:

http://osphoto.org/

I enjoy my freedom, of choice, from viruses, from spyware, from
reboots, from worrying that if they can hide a flight simulator in
a Spreadsheet program what else can they hide in that and other
programs.
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And what about Color management in Linux? As far as I understand it is close to non-existent in Linux, also you can forget about hardware monitor calibration...

Correct me if I am wrong.

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Edvinas
 
In addition to freelance writing and photo work, I also work as an IT consultant. A man's gotta' pay the bills somehow. So, I play this game from both sides of the fence and I can say without too much bias that Apple has a pretty compelling argument on product alone these days.

I have used Windows and Mac machines for a loooooong time now. I continue to use both as I have clients in both camps.

But for photo work, I have a Power Mac G5 Dual 1.8 GHz running Tiger and recently purchased a MacBookPro 15 inch/2.33 GHz/2 GB/Etc. laptop. I also have a Sony VAIO laptop running XP on a Centrino 1.6 GHz.

For photo editing, I use Photoshop on the Mac, but have resorted to Elements in a pinch on the Windows machine. For JPEGs of the kid and family from the PowerShot S3 IS, I use iPhoto, which really rocks compared to any other tool out there, Picasa included.

For organizing my library I use Aperture in referenced files mode. I have a few years worth of RAW files that I have already organized, mainly by client and I have a pretty keen handle on file management, so I didn't want to upset the apple cart (no pun intended). Aperture just flies on the Intel platform. Seriously, it does a stellar job, especially given the 256B VRAM of the MBP. It is a RAM hog, but worth it. It saves me so much time.

One poster pointed out that the Mac hardware is so expensive. These days, I am not so sure that is true. How much do dual dual-core Xeon processor Windows machines start at? Surely more than the $2,500 a MacPro goes for. Likeiwse, decent, robust laptops start at $1,100 and very high quality all-in-one boxes start at a cool grand. All reasonable prices and not a Celeron in the bunch.

While not certified on either platform (who really needs it after 15 years?), I manage networks on Windows 2003 (and earlier) and OS X Server. Windows is probably a more robust server platform, given the number of applications available, but as one poster pointed out, OS X is probably the prettiest UNIX out there. Think of it as BSD on steroids and you will be close.

If Microsoft Access were available on the Mac cross-platform, I might never go back. And, no, FileMaker does not come even remotely close, as better as it is there days.

Cheers,
Terry
 
I use XP Home but have become convinced that which OS you use has become immaterial as they all will do what you want if you learn them.
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dsneed
 
drumhurrin said:
One poster pointed out that the Mac hardware is so expensive. These
days, I am not so sure that is true. How much do dual dual-core
Xeon processor Windows machines start at? Surely more than the
$2,500 a MacPro goes for. Likeiwse, decent, robust laptops start at
$1,100 and very high quality all-in-one boxes start at a cool
grand. All reasonable prices and not a Celeron in the bunch.
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What about $3300 for MacPro, $1500 for cheapest iMac, $1550 for cheapest MacBook and $2700 for cheapest MacBook Pro? And consider the fact that Apple sells (in fact -- tries to sell) it's hardware for prices above in country where average monthly salary is ~$500. So, aren't those prices ridiculous?

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Edvinas
 
Edvinas said:
And what about Color management in Linux? As far as I understand it
is close to non-existent in Linux, also you can forget about
hardware monitor calibration...

Correct me if I am wrong.
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Theres this new fandangled web site called Google, you may not of heard of it but all you do is put in the words you are looking for and hey presto the first result finds this page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_color_management#Linux_color-managed_applications

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Regards,
Harry Phillips

http://www.tux.com.au
 
exaiphnes said:
Wow. Nice to see so many fellow Linuxians and even Gentooists here.
Pentax users are indeed a progressive folk!
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I used to be surprised at the amount of people using Linux, now not so much. I am part of the OpenSource Photography project/wiki.

There is also an OSP group on Flickr that was the instigator of the project, you don't have to be on Flickr or even in the group:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/83823859@N00/

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Regards,
Harry Phillips

http://www.tux.com.au
 
I've been using both PCs and iMac for quite a while, and happy with both - my PCs/laptops and my 20"iMac which is somehow delivering much better image presentation than any of my PCs. I didn't dig it out why... just reporting my perception..
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torhalik
 
My main machine is an iMac G5 20" with OS X 10.4.9. I run PS CS 2, CS 3 Beta and Silkypix. I am also experimenting with Linux. So far, I have tried Ubuntu, Kubuntu, OpenSuse and Gentoo. I really like Linux. However, GIMP is not an adequate tool for me yet, because of lack of support for LAB and CMYK color spaces.

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Alien
 
MacOSX on G4 ibook for just about everything, including photo editing purposes.

I still have Win2K on an old Gateway Solo laptop for the odd application or running old peripherals, but that only gets turned on a few times a year.

Never had any problems with either setup, but the ibook is simply the best laptop I've owned.

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http://www.pbase.com/chynyj
 
I am a Mac user, there are soma advantages oıf Mac's over Windows, the greatest is the virus problem. As far as I know there is no or very few viruses are attaking Mac computers.

My Mac is a MacBook with 2 GB of RAM. Intel Based Macs can also Widows bootable computers or by using Parallels (or something very close to this name) you and boot windows in a seperate window at the same time with MacOs window as SoftPC we were using in the past just for show business.

I am a Nikon user, my problem with Mac is; it is very slow when I use Nikon Capture, Nikon Wiever etc. Native Nikon products run very slow in Mac environment. I have no problem with Photoshop or other digital darkroom programs.

With Mac's PreWiev (that comes with the system) I can open even my Nikon RAW (NEF) files.

I think you have done a good buy and once you get used tu Mac, you will continue with it.
 
Windows XP SP2 + PS CS3 Beta
 
Linux (ubuntu/debian) - Lightzone,Ufraw,biblepro and Gimp
windows - Bibllepro

Mainly linux but as I support Microsoft OS's have to have somthing on my work PC ;-)

Plus when were away as a family only carry one laptop (XP).

Biblepro suits me as workflow the same whichever OS (flaky on linux) though have to watch it when converting raws as can leave matrix trails.

Lightzone - really good

UFraw - OK but a bit noisy in its raw renditions
 
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Regards Allan.

I have a photographic memory, but I keep forgetting to remove the lens cap.
 
Yep Vista... Had some trouble with my printer profiles, resulting in yacky prints for class (hope they don't shoot me for those). But I managed to transfer them from my XP in the mean time, so that's OK.

Haven't tried installing PTGui yet though... That's the only other tool I really need for my images...

Wim

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Belgium, GMT+1

 
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