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TIF is a defined format for files. It is used throughout computer work, not only in photography. It has no requirement on the substance of the information stored. A NEF file is in TIF format, but ...

Don't see here what the lens offers over a Summilux. More wormy rendition of makeup when viewed at 50% of full size and up?

If you print yourself, a monitor calibration package is at the top of the list of tools to get. ColorMunki hardware+software packages for the monitor only are around U.S.100. You can use it on ...

on which camera? https://www.cameraquest.com/LMVisoflex.htm

Red River Polar Metallic is a good candidate. Also, you might try taking most of the neon glow off the foliage (to green), and to a lesser extent off the foreground pavement (toward black) - an ...

If you want to avoid saving large intermediate files, you use programs that will save "sidecar" files, which can reproduce your workflow. For example, I begin with Raw Therapee, exporting a .tif ...

On your point 5.: Ah, I am so happy to skip the joys of Adobe products. I print from Picture Window Pro, an alternative to Photoshop. You set the paper size by invoking the printer driver; you set ...

I opened the .dng in Raw Therapee with its most neutral settings and with ProPhoto working color space. A partial screenshot is below. The histogram shows the challenge. The information for each ...

The issue is color spaces and ICC profiles for translation from one to another, not gamma curves. Here is a print service with articles that describe the printing process as it would go between you ...

The text refers to default settings. If you have an issue in your shots, you can adjust NR for OOC JPGs under the IQ tab of the menu.

Any of the baryta papers - Moab, Canson, Hahnemuhle. For some shots, a "metallic" paper, like Red River's.

Nice shot. Don't know what Ansel would say. For at least some of his career, he favored areas of dark shadow. A technique called local contrast enhancement would also punch up the image (but watch ...

This hint from the manual might be your solution. When it says "Keep ...pressed up," that means to your right.

Darkening in HSV reduces saturation. Darkening in HSL increases saturation when L > 0.5. Lightening in HSV increases saturation. Lightening in HSL reduces saturation when L > 0.5. http://www.norman ...

That's why you wrap a microfiber cloth around it. I've done it many times. It works. 1. A flat edge gives more uniform contact that a Q-tip ball. 2. If a Q-tip is not microfiber cloth, it may ...

I use a simple rubber bulb syringe -- holding a microfiber cloth over the nozzle. For wet cleaning, find something with an edge about 1/8 of an inch thick and a bit soft - soft wood is good; the ...

One adjustment dialog in Picture Window Pro on the JPG. The shadows were darkened and the highlight end raised slightly in the Dynamic Range line, plus Contrast and Midtone tweaks.

IBIS is one antidote for unsteady hands. Another is to set the shutter speed you need and learn to brighten the raw file. IBIS takes money. Craft skills takes time.

The default setting is more than you want.

Considering that Budapest is in Hungary, perhaps you want polished Hungarian models. (We all have our spots of geographic ignorance. I used to think that the U.S. was part of the developed world.)