Rob de Loe

That's an outrageously good performance Marc. Thanks for sharing.

Are you asking for thoughts on which one is preferred and why? If you are, #2 for me because you used a shutter speed that makes the water look more natural to my eye. I'm not a fan of the long ...

I tried to get Dream Studio to produce a cartoon image of two fleas on a dog arguing about which one of them owns the dog they're on. Someone better at prompts might have been able to pull it off; ...

We can't close our own threads, but if I could, I would simply because this is such an optimistic and positive concluding thought on what has been a fascinating conversation. Thanks

The thing is, they have yours now because you published them on this site. I looked at the EXIF data in one of your images and am glad to see that you didn't enter useful keywords. Someone in the ...

I like your optimism. An external threat can often be the source of enormous new creativity. I hope that's what generative AI will be for photography.

Obscure places that nobody else wants to go will save me! In all seriousness though, obscure places that nobody else wants to go really will save me -- but only for so long as it matters that the ...

I don't think this is hyperbole. To the extent that photography had the credibility of being connected to the real (Oren's 'free ride'), I think we're already done with that. It's going to take a ...

Hi Oren, That's a great question, with a couple interrelated dimensions. First, for the professional work I do -- e.g., a research project in my capacity as a researcher at a university -- the ...

Who is this "we" who hasn't defined photographs very well? ;) Yes, I know there's lots of back and forth. I addressed that tangentially in the article. What people have always wrangled about is ...

Your pictures are obviously better than the quick-and-dirty AI output Paul created. But what you're missing here is that Paul is showing you the absolute least of what the tools can do. Look at ...

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This sounds like the basis for the argument that an artist who uses generative AI images would offer. In my mind, this is a completely different issue from the one I addressed in my article. We ...

Paul: this is an excellent point. At one point I addressed it in an earlier draft of the article, but I pulled that material out to keep the length manageable. You are correct that this ...

There are a lot of really interesting and thoughtful points here. I don't have the bandwidth to respond to all of them, and I think that would clutter up the thread. I've enjoyed reading ...

Generative AI -- think ChatGPT for text and Stable Diffusion for images -- is going to have a huge impact on just about everything. It's making one side of my job easier (e.g., summarizing masses ...

You are right. I was thinking only of the FA lenses. Good catch.

Because Pentax AF lenses are screw drive. It's the 645 body that drives the autofocus. There's no motor in the lens.

The interface could use a major refresh, but once you figure out how to do what you need to do, it's highly reliable. I haven't had any printing issues since using it. The developers are very ...

I have absolutely no clue how to fix this. But I can tell you who you should send it to if you want to get it serviced. Bill Rogers from Mamiya Repair (in Las Vegas, NV) is first-rate.