Oh man, I'm in a pickle.

[imported_Mike]

Originally posted by: OdiN
Also - I have 14GB of CF cards (5 2GB and a 4GB) and I fill those up pretty much completely in one day doing a wedding.

I have a 40GB laptop HD that copies photos - I plug a CF reader into the port and push a button and it transfers.

Oh and iamtrout - YHPM

:Q

Professional I assume?

 

[QED]

Originally posted by: tfinch2

Originally posted by: MathMan

Originally posted by: iamtrout
RAW is definitely not overrated. There are many many many things that RAW can do that JPEG can't even begin to touch (think post-processing).

Ummm... no there's not. Unless your camera is really sucky-- in which case it would be a waste to use it at all for anything anyways.

But whatever floats your boat. If you enjoy spending hours and hours of CPU time processing images just so they can look as good as they could've using JPEG at your highest quality settings than more power to you.

Raw Advantages:

Exposure compensation
Flexible white balance
High bit depth
Better sharpening

You can do exposure compensation and white balance with post-processing of a JPEG.

The higher bit depth of RAW is a bit of a fallacy. The 12 bits in raw versus 8 bits in JPEG (4 extra bits) are for z-axis precision-- which is pretty much invisible unless you are doing some extreme curve adjustment (i.e. you had horrible lighting). In that case, it's not a picture you'd want to keep regardless.

And for better sharpening, simply turn your sharpness control on your camera to OFF and do whatever sharpening routine you want on the final image-- after you've done your other edits.

 

[iamtrout]

Originally posted by: MathMan

Originally posted by: iamtrout
RAW is definitely not overrated. There are many many many things that RAW can do that JPEG can't even begin to touch (think post-processing).

Ummm... no there's not. Unless your camera is really sucky-- in which case it would be a waste to use it at all for anything anyways.

But whatever floats your boat. If you enjoy spending hours and hours of CPU time processing images just so they can look as good as they could've using JPEG at your highest quality settings than more power to you.

Whatever floats your boat too. I'm not going to go into the details of the things RAW is capable of that JPEG can't even PHYSICALLY accomplish to someone who has his mind set already on the subject (and obviously without serious experience in the matter to boot).

 

[iamtrout]

Originally posted by: SportSC4
do you have any data you need in your broken notebook? buy a 2.5" ide notebook case and slap the notebook drive in there

Already done. Still doesn't give me a way to transfer photos to the hard drive though

 

[SampSon]

Go buy more flash cards.
Or take better pictures and don't use up 1800.

 

[dartworth]

Mike...what camera are you using now? lenses?

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: MathMan

Originally posted by: tfinch2

Originally posted by: MathMan

Originally posted by: iamtrout
RAW is definitely not overrated. There are many many many things that RAW can do that JPEG can't even begin to touch (think post-processing).

Ummm... no there's not. Unless your camera is really sucky-- in which case it would be a waste to use it at all for anything anyways.

But whatever floats your boat. If you enjoy spending hours and hours of CPU time processing images just so they can look as good as they could've using JPEG at your highest quality settings than more power to you.

Raw Advantages:

Exposure compensation
Flexible white balance
High bit depth
Better sharpening

You can do exposure compensation and white balance with post-processing of a JPEG.

The higher bit depth is a bit of a fallacy. The 12 bits in raw versus 8 bits in JPEG is for z-axis precision-- which is pretty much invisible unless you are doing some extreme curve adjustment (i.e. you had horrible lighting). In that case, it's not a picture you'd want to keep regardless.

And for better sharpening, simply turn your sharpness control on your camera to OFF and do whatever sharpening routine you want on the final image-- after you've done your other edits.

Whatever floats your boat. I'm sticking to RAW, and it doesn't slow me down at all.

 

[dartworth]

iamtrout, what part of Ohio are you in?

 

[RelaxTheMind]

Ill sell you my 256mb CF....

 

[iamtrout]

Originally posted by: OdiN
Also - I have 14GB of CF cards (5 2GB and a 4GB) and I fill those up pretty much completely in one day doing a wedding.

I have a 40GB laptop HD that copies photos - I plug a CF reader into the port and push a button and it transfers.

Oh and iamtrout - YHPM

Yar, I used to have 2x8GB Sandisk Ultra II's, but I ended up selling both of them in exchange for 4x2GB Sandisk Extremes and no more "all eggs in one basket." That was before my laptop died.

And of course there's my tiny little Archos Gmini 220 with the 20GB hard drive for photo storage and music. Normally I have a laptop with a 30GB hard drive and another 60GB external, but of course that's all out the window now...


But I agree, sh!t fills up fast. During my last trip to the Olympic Peninsula I filled up one of the 8GBs and half of the second 8GB.

 

[iamtrout]

Originally posted by: dartworth
iamtrout, what part of Ohio are you in?

Oxford. It's close to Hamilton, which is close to Cincinnati.

 

[iamtrout]

Originally posted by: iamtrout

Originally posted by: OdiN
Also - I have 14GB of CF cards (5 2GB and a 4GB) and I fill those up pretty much completely in one day doing a wedding.

I have a 40GB laptop HD that copies photos - I plug a CF reader into the port and push a button and it transfers.

Oh and iamtrout - YHPM

Yar, I used to have 2x8GB Sandisk Ultra II's, but I ended up selling both of them in exchange for 4x2GB Sandisk Extremes and no more "all eggs in one basket." That was before my laptop died.

And of course there's my tiny little Archos Gmini 220 with the 20GB hard drive for photo storage and music. Normally I have a laptop with a 30GB hard drive and another 60GB external, but of course that's all out the window now...

But I agree, sh!t fills up fast. During my last trip to the Olympic Peninsula I filled up one of the 8GBs and half of the second 8GB.

EDIT: Dammit. Quoted instead of edited

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: iamtrout

Originally posted by: iamtrout

Originally posted by: OdiN
Also - I have 14GB of CF cards (5 2GB and a 4GB) and I fill those up pretty much completely in one day doing a wedding.

I have a 40GB laptop HD that copies photos - I plug a CF reader into the port and push a button and it transfers.

Oh and iamtrout - YHPM

Yar, I used to have 2x8GB Sandisk Ultra II's, but I ended up selling both of them in exchange for 4x2GB Sandisk Extremes and no more "all eggs in one basket." That was before my laptop died.

And of course there's my tiny little Archos Gmini 220 with the 20GB hard drive for photo storage and music. Normally I have a laptop with a 30GB hard drive and another 60GB external, but of course that's all out the window now...

But I agree, sh!t fills up fast. During my last trip to the Olympic Peninsula I filled up one of the 8GBs and half of the second 8GB.

Self quoting?

 

[dartworth]

Originally posted by: iamtrout

Originally posted by: dartworth
iamtrout, what part of Ohio are you in?

Oxford. It's close to Hamilton, which is close to Cincinnati.

I'm on the other side of the state...I have about 5 GB of CF cards I would have loaned ya...

 

[iamtrout]

Originally posted by: dartworth

Originally posted by: iamtrout

Originally posted by: dartworth
iamtrout, what part of Ohio are you in?

Oxford. It's close to Hamilton, which is close to Cincinnati.

I'm on the other side of the state...I have about 5 GB of CF cards I would have loaned ya...

Bah, thanks for the offer though

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: dartworth

Originally posted by: iamtrout

Originally posted by: dartworth
iamtrout, what part of Ohio are you in?

Oxford. It's close to Hamilton, which is close to Cincinnati.

I'm on the other side of the state...I have about 5 GB of CF cards I would have loaned ya...

Ship them my way. My spring break trip is next week...

 

[Evadman]

What pocket PC do you have?

 

[iamtrout]

Originally posted by: Evadman
What pocket PC do you have?

Axim x50v. The only way to make it a USB host is to get an $80 CF to USB adapter, and that's only USB 1.1

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: iamtrout

Originally posted by: SportSC4
do you have any data you need in your broken notebook? buy a 2.5" ide notebook case and slap the notebook drive in there

Already done. Still doesn't give me a way to transfer photos to the hard drive though

http://www.digitaldingus.com/reviews/macally/macally250otg2.php

I bought one of those and tossed a 40GB laptop drive in it. Works good. I just plug a CF card reader into the USB port on that drive and hit the copy button.

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: Mike

Originally posted by: OdiN
Also - I have 14GB of CF cards (5 2GB and a 4GB) and I fill those up pretty much completely in one day doing a wedding.

I have a 40GB laptop HD that copies photos - I plug a CF reader into the port and push a button and it transfers.

Oh and iamtrout - YHPM

:Q

Professional I assume?

Semi-pro. I do it in on the weekends on the side to make extra money.

Couple wedding shots of the last one I did:

Bride1

Bride2

 

[iamtrout]

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: iamtrout

Originally posted by: SportSC4
do you have any data you need in your broken notebook? buy a 2.5" ide notebook case and slap the notebook drive in there

Already done. Still doesn't give me a way to transfer photos to the hard drive though

http://www.digitaldingus.com/reviews/macally/macally250otg2.php

I bought one of those and tossed a 40GB laptop drive in it. Works good. I just plug a CF card reader into the USB port on that drive and hit the copy button.

Oh man! I completely forgot about USB OTG devices! Nice! Anyone know what the major electronics store in the Colorado area is? (ei. Fry's, Microcenter equivalent?)

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: Mike

Originally posted by: OdiN
Also - I have 14GB of CF cards (5 2GB and a 4GB) and I fill those up pretty much completely in one day doing a wedding.

I have a 40GB laptop HD that copies photos - I plug a CF reader into the port and push a button and it transfers.

Oh and iamtrout - YHPM

:Q

Professional I assume?

Semi-pro. I do it in on the weekends on the side to make extra money.

Couple wedding shots of the last one I did:

Bride1

Bride2

About how much do you charge per wedding, and how many shots do deliver, if you don't mind me asking...

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: tfinch2

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: Mike

Originally posted by: OdiN
Also - I have 14GB of CF cards (5 2GB and a 4GB) and I fill those up pretty much completely in one day doing a wedding.

I have a 40GB laptop HD that copies photos - I plug a CF reader into the port and push a button and it transfers.

Oh and iamtrout - YHPM

:Q

Professional I assume?

Semi-pro. I do it in on the weekends on the side to make extra money.

Couple wedding shots of the last one I did:

Bride1

Bride2

About how much do you charge per wedding, and how many shots do deliver, if you don't mind me asking...

It depends on a lot of things - what package they want, whether they want to purchase the rights to print all the pictures, etc.

The last one I did was $1000 and that ended up with 911 photos and what they chose to do in that situation was to get them all on CD with permission to print for themselves and family only.

But anywhere from $600-1200 usually. I'm doing a couple for $400 for friends of mine since I know em really well. So yeah it varies.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: iamtrout
Oh man! I completely forgot about USB OTG devices! Nice! Anyone know what the major electronics store in the Colorado area is? (ei. Fry's, Microcenter equivalent?)

There isn't a Fry's out there, but you will pass within about 700' of one on the way out there

There is a Fry's in Illinois where 88 & 355 come together. Get off at butterfield road going west, turn south (left) onto Finley. It's right there.

If you need 'em, I have 2 160gb USB drives that you can borrow. (I work about 30 minutes north of that fry's)

 

[iamtrout]

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: iamtrout
Oh man! I completely forgot about USB OTG devices! Nice! Anyone know what the major electronics store in the Colorado area is? (ei. Fry's, Microcenter equivalent?)

There isn't a Fry's out there, but you will pass within about 700' of one on the way out there

There is a Fry's in Illinois where 88 & 355 come together. Get off at butterfield road going west, turn south (left) onto Finley. It's right there.

If you need 'em, I have 2 160gb USB drives that you can borrow. (I work about 30 minutes north of that fry's)

Oof. Unfortunately, I'm not going to be passing that far north. I'm actually gonna be driving along 70, past St. Louis.