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    Re: Digital Photo Professional vs. Photoshop CS4

    If you've moved the image from ACR to Photoshop, you're no longer working with the raw file. ACR renders it to a TIFF behind the scenes, and that's what you're working with and then printing from in...
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    Re: Digital Photo Professional vs. Photoshop CS4

    A raw file can't actually be printed. It's not an image file, it's a set of instructions to create an image file. For instance, what you see in DPP or any other raw converter is actually a TIFF or...
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    Re: Digital Photo Professional vs. Photoshop CS4

    Most people who have used DPP consider it the very best converter to get the best Canon files have to offer in terms of color purity. However, a lot of people prefer the workflow of ACR (which is the...
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    Re: 5D Mark II - Transfer Issue?

    Was there any Canon software to load into the computer? Somewhere in the chain, the computer needs to have UDMA drivers loaded. I don't know if that computer has them as part of the OS or if they'll...
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    Re: Autofocus Performance 1DMKII vs. XTi

    You need to do some controlled testing to nail down the key variables. Until you've done that and gotten some decent performance data, it can be as well explained by, "It was later in the game and...
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    Re: Evaluative metering question

    Yes, you are on the right track. As you say, the camera evaluates the scene and compares it to scenes in a database, looking for a scene that matches the lighting and the subject placement (it...
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    Re: Do you use apertures narrower than f/8-f/11?

    Daniel, you're totally right. The question I always ask: What does the print look like?


    But here is another difference in how people perceive "problems" in digital compared to film (and perhaps...
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    Re: Dry Boxes - do you use them?

    The first question is: Do you really need a dry box?


    The worry is about fungus, which attacks the coating on camera lenses and the cement between lens elements (it also used to attack the...
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    Re: LCD screen Protector

    The Canon DSLRs already have an LCD protector. That exterior sheet of plastic is not the surface of the LCD. That's just a plastic cover stuck on the back of the camera by adhesive strips.


    You...
  10. Re: The tough-ness of your non-weather-sealed DSLR cameras

    I'm not sure what "mid-high-end" means. Canon Inc (Japan) considers the 5D series to be a consumer camera, and that is how they designed it. To see what serious weather resistant design looks like,...
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    Re: DPI - Unravelling A Mystery

    Or better than double it, depending on whether the original image captured sufficient detail for your purposes.


    For the portrait work I do, an important pictoral factor is that viewers have a...
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    Re: Digital Photo Professional vs. Photoshop CS4

    If there is a considerable amount of cropping necessary for an image, I find I get better results cropping close to the final intent in DPP rather than Photoshop, thus doing that upsampling from the...
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