On Sep 19, 2006, at 10:13 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm back from trip. Had fun, will share some photos later.
Glad you had a good trip, welcome back! > Is everyone happy with the K10D? > Looks pretty good to me, and I didn't even know it was going to > have two new > sensitivity settings -- which I like. I expect to be. ;-) > Okay, I started a Photoshop class last night. Taught by our local > civic arts. > Arrived back in time for the class just as I returned from trip. > Not what I > hoped for since they are using Elements 2 and PS 6. However, I > already learned > two new things (new to me) so I will stick with it. I will learn > something > despite the older software. > > But when cameras were discussed the first night the teacher only > mentioned: > Canon, Nikon, and Olympus -- basically saying they are the only > serious > players. I was not Pentaxian enough to debate him, or not Pentaxian > again enough to > debate him. :-) > > Thinking about taking in a specification sheet for the K10D before > the class > is over, and maybe sales numbers for the DLs and DSs. > > Isn't Pentax outselling Olympus? Or is it? > > Anyone have any other suggestions of what to take in to get this > guy better > informed? > > He didn't know about Elements 5 with curves, so I told him about that. > Obviously he's a bit behind, but since he teaches classes to a fair > number of people > over the course of a year maybe he should be upgraded. I wouldn't want to judge an instructor without knowing more about his background and reviewing his class. Using software that is somewhat behind the times, or lower spec than you're using, you have to evaluate what is being articulated and apply the concepts to your current tool suite. Regards his comments about cameras, well, I'm pretty tired of trying to justify Pentax or Sony or Panasonic .. .or anything else ... even to photographers who should know better. So he has a prejudice to prefer Canon, Nikon and Olympus: so do thousands of other photographers, although Olympus less so than the other two. A Photoshop class should be camera agnostic. From the standpoint of image processing, what camera made a particular image file, RAW or JPEG, is almost completely irrelevant presuming that Photoshop's RAW conversion is applicable. Given the level of the software being used, you're not going to get into RAW processing with Camera Raw at all, which is a darn shame as that is where most of the capabilities of digital cameras are, in RAW format capture. You'll be talking entirely RGB level editing capabilities, and almost entirely 8bit work. There's a lot to be had there, if the instructor is any good. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
