David Mantripp

Thorsten is weird. He publishes a huge amount of free information on his website, quite readable, and I imagine quite useful to some Leica owners (I'm not in that category, but it is still ...

Two small tips on Catalogs: 1. Don't necessarily believe all the terrible things people tell you about C1 Catalogs.  They work differently to Lr.  Lr certainly has more DAM features, but C1 isn't ...

Speaking of which… I got an email ( in Switzerland) for the 12/2 for CHF 349. Nice offer. Only, when you get to the purchase point on the OM website ...

So that's about 1 lens per patient, going by my dentist's billing

Ooooh, Leica comments!!!!! Yaaay!!

2009 called. It wants its software back.

https://creativepro.com/review-alien-skin-bokeh/

I use a similar set up. Go for center weighted metering.  Set Aperture at f/5.6. For negatives, go for ESP metering and set exposure compensation to +1. If you are scanning a whole roll, or several ...

Yeah well… that might not be unrelated to the fact that Hasselblad blocked PhaseOne backs from their H series after they acquired Imacon…. he said, she said, and really it’s ancient history that ...

While Plustek film scanners are quite good, and their film holders are truly excellent, they do generally suffer from quite low DMax, which is a particular problem if you are scanning reversal ...

I got an email with a special offer of an extra 10% off today only. Then applying my "Loyalty" bonus of 40%, I ended up with a total discount of 65% - which I suppose is 50% + 50%*30%. (currently ...

Well it works sometimes, more or less (and of course flawlessly on the carefully selected examples in C1’s demos) but otherwise it is an embarrassment of a feature within a $300 application. If C1 ...

It would be interesting to hear how you get on with it.  ON1 has very mixed reviews...

I haven't "tested" it... but I have been using it everyday, since it was released... back in Feb maybe? Can't remember. Anyway, it has useful improvements over v6 but nothing that will make your ...

Given how poor current "magic" masking is (e.g. set tolerance to 1 and it selects half the photo...) as well as edge detection, and the fact that C1 hasn't really delivered anything truly ...

I think you will find that it is because Aperture uses the macOS underlying Raw engine  - which Photos also uses - and which does support the GR 3 There’s more to raw support than a file format. ...

If the number of people who in 2023 will never forgive Apple for killing Aperture had actually bought in in 2013 then maybe it would still be with us.

Aperture was never very popular. First...

So over 7 years they’ve pulled in steady funding of R&D from subscriptions, and now they’re raising the price of subscriptions justifying by the fruits of the R&D subscribers have already been...

So basically yet more lipstick-on-a-pig. Possibly the UI enhancements are good, but the underlying functionality is stuck in a time warp. Nik Sharpener’s algorithms haven’t been touched by either ...

We must be using different versions.....   Or different software.

At least CaptureOne’s designers could stretch to imagining that you might like to be able to adjust the image and modify metadata with having to change modes. Lightroom’s clunky Tonka Toys UI is...