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Old 05-20-2014, 04:08 PM   #421
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Photographers: tips, tricks, equipment, etc

I agree with everyone here who recommended Lightroom. Besides being a great organizer and editer, its still offered as a desktop program, as compared to Photoshop which I believe is only available on Adobe Creative Cloud at this point. I find that Lightroom meets most of my needs and PS is still too daunting for me (A class or two would take care of that, but time is tight).

I also highly recommend one or more books to help with Lightroom as it has a lot to offer that will not be immediately intuitive. I own and like the books by either Victoria Bampton and Martin Evening. Each offers something a little different and you can read the Amazon reviews to see which one might fit your learning style the best. Over the years, I bought books also by Kelby, Schewe, and duChemin, but keep picking up Bampton's or Evening's when I need help.
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Old 05-20-2014, 04:44 PM   #422
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Photoshop is only available on the cloud, which is a niggle but is great. Lightroom is available separately but don't know the price, it was $79 or so.

But get this, you can get Creative Cloud for $9.99 a month. It has Lightroom, Photoshop, other graphic editors. This is a limited time deal and is worth every penny.

Shooting RAW is well worth it, your photos will take a leap forward in final quality and isn't difficult as everyone says. Just the conversion to JPG is handled much better by your computer, the camera is good but not as powerful. You do need a converter to manage them, but LR does that for you and you can export in any format such as JPG.

The numbers I posted, I have those loaded into a preset since they work well with my camera and style. Import the photos, one click on the first photo to apply, then sync across the rest of the photos. Done. Literally takes less than a minute after import to get what you saw in that link I posted.

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Old 05-20-2014, 08:41 PM   #423
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Photoshop is only available on the cloud, which is a niggle but is great. Lightroom is available separately but don't know the price, it was $79 or so.

But get this, you can get Creative Cloud for $9.99 a month. It has Lightroom, Photoshop, other graphic editors. This is a limited time deal and is worth every penny.
I respectfully disagree. I have been a loyal Photoshop user for over 20 years - I owned 1.0 when it debuted on the Mac.

This move to the "Cloud" is a asinine and money grubbing move by Adobe. Frankly, there are several apps out there that can do everything Photoshop can, so Adobe in a really dumb move™ decided to "Move everything to the cloud" and charge a "reasonable" price. Bah!

I say if we boycott Adobe they will come to their senses and perhaps reinstate Photoshop as a stand alone software.

Until then use Gimp, Lightroom, Paint.net (windows), Pixelator (Mac), or Pixlr Editor (Web Based)

My 2’...curmudgeon here who still remembers when Canon changed lens mounts in 1977 which caused a LOT of pain in the profession...the sole reason I exclusively shoot Nikon now
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Old 05-20-2014, 10:26 PM   #424
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That should actually say but it's great. I don't like it being subscription based only, and I'm not the only one. Originally it was $49 for new folks and $39 for CS4 and later owners. $500 a year? Shove it.

But at $120 a year when updating LR was $59-79? Begrudgingly, I'll take it. It simply didn't fly, so Adobe dropped the price to something much more reasonable. Now when they jack it up in the future, odds are I'll boycott it.

Content aware............That alone it worth $10 a month. Oddly enough, that's about all I really know how to use.

I'm working on some Kelby lessons. Awesome stuff.
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Old 05-21-2014, 02:34 AM   #425
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I have a Nikon D7000, but should be able to find something for RAW.
I thought all the Nikon DSLRs came with View NX2. I shoot a D300 and use View NX2 for import and simple corrections and also have Capture NX2 for PhotoShop type processing. These are being replaced Nikon with Capture NX-D.

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Old 05-21-2014, 09:13 AM   #426
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I thought all the Nikon DSLRs came with View NX2. I shoot a D300 and use View NX2 for import and simple corrections and also have Capture NX2 for PhotoShop type processing. These are being replaced Nikon with Capture NX-D.

Nikon Releases New RAW Image Processing and Adjustment Software, Capture NX-D
Seems I need to bust out my box and see what came with the camera. I get so used to just using my card reader, I forget that there can be useful software in the box.
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Old 05-21-2014, 02:28 PM   #427
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Thankfully, I still have a Stand-Alone version of Photoshop PS6 on my Mac!

I have found though that there are app out there just for photographers (take a look at SmartPhotoEditor, SnapHeal Pro, FX Photo Studio Pro or the DxO Filmpack/Optics Pro) Apps targeted for the Photographer and do NOT cost a zillion $$ Like Adobe's stuff does.
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Actually my favorite app for the reporting I do is Photoforge 2. Works great, it's not LR but is very good especially for a $4.99 app.
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Old 05-27-2014, 07:39 PM   #429
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Seems I need to bust out my box and see what came with the camera. I get so used to just using my card reader, I forget that there can be useful software in the box.
If you can't find the disc, go to this page and at the bottom you can load the latest version of View NX2
https://support.nikonusa.com/app/ans...ail/a_id/18916
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Old 05-27-2014, 07:56 PM   #430
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Haven't taken the time to tell y'all this. Stupid err80 popped up again Monday KILLING an awesome shot of Tommy Johnson blowing his body apart. Shipped it back to Canon, they received it Friday. Hopefully they can cover it under warranty.
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Old 05-28-2014, 02:13 PM   #431
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Haven't taken the time to tell y'all this. Stupid err80 popped up again Monday KILLING an awesome shot of Tommy Johnson blowing his body apart. Shipped it back to Canon, they received it Friday. Hopefully they can cover it under warranty.

Yet another reason I don't use Canon 😜
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Yet another reason I don't use Canon 😜

Add that to the controversial topics list!
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Absolutely you can. One month out of warranty it was suggested that it was likely a bad memory card, so I tried that out, thought it was the issue. Was ready to toss the card when it happened again on Monday the 19th, two months after the conversation and three out of warranty. Mind you, there's failures stored in the camera going back to November.

Canon told me today, sorry, but it's going to be $233.92 just to open it up for diag, if repair fits under that there won't be any more charges but it could go up from there.

This after I called chasing them down. Yes, they were too good to call me.

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I got an Err01 on my cheapo 75-300mm zoom-telephoto Canon lens. I sent it to Canon, and they said it would be around $129 to fix, and with shipping, handling, and taxes it would come out to $142. That is for a lens I only paid $155 brand new.

I had already done a search on the internet, and found that lens was prone to the Err01 code. If shots are taken at full open aperture, the lens works just fine.......and I still use that lens.
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Old 05-28-2014, 05:32 PM   #436
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This is an internal problem, either in the mirrorbox, focusing assembly or main board. $233 is a far cry compared to the $6,800 the thing hung me for a year ago, but I'm more than angry now. My XSi? 17,000 clicks out of an entry level camera with a 100,000 cycle life span. My 7D? 38,000 clicks on it's 150,000 cycle life span. No issues.

My 1DX? That I had to financially hang myself for last year? 58,000 clicks now (That 12FPS can be a killer.) but at 25,000 cycles it threw the first error.

I should have sent it in right off I guess. Canon will goodwill two months past warranty, I guess two months and three weeks is too much to ask.

Warranty is warranty, but I can't help but be upset especially since dude told me in March that it could be a card error and see if I could sort that out. Took the card out of rotation, a busy spring, two months and 20,000 clicks later I thought it was figured out. I was wrong.

In six years I've spent over $16,000 on Canon gear. Now I wonder how smart that was.

Yes, I'm whining. But at this price point you'd think they could take care of a known problem.
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Jumped from Canon in 1977 and can honestly say, I have never had an error or a problem with any Nikon I have owned since then.
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I'm giving it serious thought, I had an issue with my 70-200 that I repaired myself. Two problems does not a jumping ship completely make. Declining warranty over 22 days, which was under the advisement of one of their people, does.
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Absolutely you can. One month out of warranty it was suggested that it was likely a bad memory card, so I tried that out, thought it was the issue. Was ready to toss the card when it happened again on Monday the 19th, two months after the conversation and three out of warranty. Mind you, there's failures stored in the camera going back to November.

Canon told me today, sorry, but it's going to be $233.92 just to open it up for diag, if repair fits under that there won't be any more charges but it could go up from there.

This after I called chasing them down. Yes, they were too good to call me.

Hacked? Oh yeah, I'm hacked.

Ok I was kidding (well, sorta...I have issues with Canon we can chat about over a adult beverage at Goshen...my treat)

Sorry to hear about this my friend...I would have hoped better from them
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Jumped from Canon in 1977 and can honestly say, I have never had an error or a problem with any Nikon I have owned since then.

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