Mike Johnston asks are we getting used to paying a premium for new tech?
I think it’s always been that way. Technology is expensive when new but rapidly goes down in price. Digital camera tech is advancing at such a rate that anything older than a few months old then it can be very obsolete.
As Mike says, with regards to the new Canon XT and NIkon D50, the price is getting closer to a more realistic level. Digital cameras have reached a level where they are challenging and surpassing film in terms of quality and that tech is getting cheaper. It’s no longer necessary to buy the most expensive model.
The same is happening with PC sales too. Who needs to be a 4GHz CPU when a much cheaper 2GHz machine will run your web browser just as well?
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Useful links for photographers
Lots and lots of links here!
Weddings, From a Photographers Point of View
Weddings, From a Photographers Point of View – We’re trying to pick out a hotel now for the reception. Haven’t even considered a photographer yet, and I’m banned from camera work for the day! Several good points in this article, including things I hadn’t thought of yet.
Should You Print Your Digital Photos at Home or Use a Photo Printing Service?
Should you get your photos printed at home or elsewhere? I’ve done both, but the prints I’ve got from shops and online have been of much better quality. The author, Valerie Goettsch, runs digitalphotos101.com which looks like it has a few interesting bits and pieces!
Market Your Photography Business
Without marketing your business isn’t going to succeed. Roy Barker introduces some ideas for budding professionals to follow. Stock photography is probably the easiest way to ease yourself into the photography business!
Struggling to Manage Your Ever-Growing Digital Photo Collection?
In this (what looks like a promo) article John Grand explains some of the issues with organizing your photos.
After reading this I went looking, and found Lodju (also available from Debian – apt-get lodju), and then looked into gThumb. It allows you to put photos into categories, and I spent an hour last night sorting some of my snaps! I backup to DVD almost once a month so hopefully my photos are reasonably safe! Now, if only gThumb would remember when I rotate my images! I don’t want to modify the originals, but having a rotated thumbnail would be great. Lodju does it!
GIMP menus overhaul
GIMP menus are going to be reorganized! Finally, no more Script-Fu, or Python menus, only one “Filters” menu!
What I’d love to see in the GIMP is a “My filters” menu where I could drag and drop frequently used menu functions. I’d drop Levels, Curves, Rotate, Scale and Unsharp to that menu for starters!
Game Reenactment – Counterstrike and Grand Theft Auto
I’m a bit late to this, as both of these movies have appeared on slashdot already, but they’re worth mentioning again!
Grand Theft Auto is acted out in grand_theft_by_otherside.mpg, a 129MB movie following our hero through 3 missions. Boing Boing linked to the Counter Strike Reenactment.
The GTA one is better, but as I haven’t played it, I found the CS one more entertaining! Love the toilet roll grenades!
Patents come to computer gaming
Justin points out that patents are invading the gaming arena. Well, they probably have been for many years but the ones listed are ridiculous!
“Minigames during a loading screen”? Oh, FFS! Justin’s right, I can remember playing games with these features back in the days of the C64 too!
SEO for the newbies
In this Search Engine Optimization Basics essay, Andy Beal provides a neat introduction to the topic, as well as tips on how to refine your own site to improve your ranking!