Re: [CGUYS] over shooting

2008-05-26 Thread Tom Piwowar
Anyway, I have no need to defend myself, so I'm out. Steve, do let us know how you ultimately solve the problem. It would be a good thing to know. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy **

Re: [CGUYS] tags

2008-05-26 Thread Tony B
Huh? It's true Gmail calls it's filters 'labels' (not 'tags'), but how does that mean *I'm* doing anything wrong? I was the one making the point that this is where we commonly see tags today - on the web, not in file systems like you brought up. I won't argue that tags may be the future. My other

Re: [CGUYS] PC, Mac or Modification

2008-05-26 Thread Tom Piwowar
If not wanting to buy a new version of Word is all that's stopping you, check out Open Office. It's free and will let you read Word and save your creations in Word format. MS sells an inexpensive (but complete) version of Office for home use called Student and Teacher's Edition. It is widely

Re: [CGUYS] over shooting

2008-05-26 Thread Tom Piwowar
What respects are those? Are you saying, that given equal lenses, a charge coupled detector of fixed bandwidth is an equal recording instrument compared to film? More pics at essentially zero cost. A good digital camera will have better resolution than 35mm film. Film has grain, digital

Re: [CGUYS] over shooting

2008-05-26 Thread Steve Rigby
On May 26, 2008, at 7:03 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: Film has grain, digital doesn't. Digital does have noise, which in many ways is the digital version of grain. Digital camera noise is highly consistent from pic to pic. Software can profile it and remove it. Not so for film grain.

Re: [CGUYS] over shooting

2008-05-26 Thread Steve Rigby
On May 26, 2008, at 7:08 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: At any rate, the CD can be viewed on virtually any computer without problems, and if a recipient has a DVD player that they want to view the images on, I can only hope it works 100% for them. You should include a ReadMe file about what you have

Re: [CGUYS] PC, Mac or Modification

2008-05-26 Thread maruca
On May 25, 2008, at 11:00 PM, Steve Yaffe wrote: He might be ready to switch to a Mac - my 82-year old mother is happy with hers. I'm thinking of doing the same - except I need to exchange Word Excel files with the Dell at work either thru e- mails or flash drive. If not wanting to

Re: [CGUYS] over shooting

2008-05-26 Thread Steve Rigby
On May 25, 2008, at 11:08 PM, Tony B wrote: Point taken. But really, when one has to prepare an answer based on virtually NO information, it's tough to be real 'polite'. The re-phrasing you wrote is only with benefit of the list having dragged _some few_ details out of the OP. Others here

Re: [CGUYS] over shooting

2008-05-26 Thread Steve Rigby
On May 26, 2008, at 4:16 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: What respects are those? Are you saying, that given equal lenses, a charge coupled detector of fixed bandwidth is an equal recording instrument compared to film? More pics at essentially zero cost. I can agree with this for the most part.

Re: [CGUYS] PC, Mac, or modification

2008-05-26 Thread Daniel Else
Well taken, Betty, But I don't know if the Wii would help or frustrate. His Parkinsons is starting to gallop along. Dan b_s-wilk [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/26/08 12:44 PM My dad is using a computer that over 10 years old for Internet, email, WP, database. It's old, slow, so is he. He's retired,

Re: [CGUYS] over shooting

2008-05-26 Thread rocky lee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Av6gCq_awQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKK9-HEDa8INR=1 Using the same lens will you be able to produce a recorded image of equal or better quality using a digital camera instead of film? With equal a full frame digital (36mm) and 35 mm film frame, I'd say

Re: [CGUYS] over shooting

2008-05-26 Thread Steve Rigby
On May 26, 2008, at 4:00 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: Steve, do let us know how you ultimately solve the problem. It would be a good thing to know. Apparently the only 'problem' I had was with one person who replied to my initial query, and my DVD player. My DVD player seems to only want

Re: [CGUYS] over shooting

2008-05-26 Thread b_s-wilk
Tony, if you admittedly don't know anything about the subject, why bother to reply, especially in a condescending and somewhat hostile manner. You may have only 25 out of 375 photos that are worth looking at, but others may have 400+ photos that are 80-100% of interest to target viewers. I