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blinking8s
10-19-2005, 04:53 PM
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000383064083/

so ummm....quad powermac g5's, price drops on displays, powerbook upgrades, and new photo software...sheesh
mikelangelo
10-19-2005, 05:39 PM
yeah... I just read about those announcements... man... I'm tempted by the new 17" powerbooks, too...
Joe[y]
10-19-2005, 05:45 PM
the g5s are to die for.
mikelangelo
10-19-2005, 05:51 PM
Now this is photo editing software... now I just need $500.

http://www.apple.com/aperture/quicktours/
blinking8s
10-19-2005, 08:45 PM
haha...no doubt
dkapp
10-19-2005, 09:17 PM
I'd love the 17" PB. I've been editing all my pictures on a 12" PB for the past year :)
mikelangelo
10-19-2005, 09:20 PM
I have the 1Ghz 17" PB... I love the screen. I'm still paying for it, though.. I think I'll just up the RAM to 1.5 or 2GB and see if I can hold off for a year or so...
blinking8s
10-20-2005, 01:09 AM
i havent switched to mac, too broke cause of camera gear and school

buuuut since the release of intel ive been trying to save, its doubtful i'll make the switch int he next 2 years, i have like 100 dual g5's at my fingertips in school...i just have to make sure the school purchases aperture ASAP
Joe[y]
10-20-2005, 06:43 AM
me too... i'm saving for a dSLR then after that an imac g5 but i have a feeling that the g6 will be out before i get the money.
mikelangelo
10-20-2005, 01:57 PM
amen guys. amen. I'm saving to try and get a new lens as well as pay off a bunch of other stuff! sigh.
nephoto
10-20-2005, 06:09 PM
Ya I am in the same boat as Blinking, camera gear + school is breaking me but I am loving it so I don't care all that much. They just instituted into the program this year that each of the 16 photojournalism students in 2nd year are provided with a PB + software with the option to buy at the end of the year for a relatively low price considering the amount of editing software that comes with it. Before this year it was PC laptops, so moving into the program now is a plus. And then of course there is always access to the Mac Lab with all the g5's and what not, but I can't carry one of those around.
Joe[y]
10-20-2005, 06:13 PM
hopefully soon i'll be at uni - all the unis i've visited so far are packed with 20inches or more screens and g5 powermacs with massive A1 printers, amazing pro negative scanners and even colour film processors - that'll probably do me fine. :)
blinking8s
10-20-2005, 07:13 PM
neg scanners *puke*

i cant STAND scanning my negs, i swear its the most tedious process ever
Joe[y]
10-20-2005, 08:29 PM
but it can be useful. i agree though - i much prefer a darkroom.
mikelangelo
10-20-2005, 08:45 PM
My university is all PC... blah. boooOOOOoooring. No fancy flat screens or nuthin'.

Why is scanning negs so sucky? It's not similar to scanning developed photos? (obviously, I've never done it before.)
Joe[y]
10-20-2005, 09:04 PM
My university is all PC... blah. boooOOOOoooring. No fancy flat screens or nuthin'.

Why is scanning negs so sucky? It's not similar to scanning developed photos? (obviously, I've never done it before.)

yes. but in more detail really.

the professional scanners i saw today literally scan the negatives from every side and produce images much better than any digital camera can produce.
blinking8s
10-20-2005, 11:24 PM
i've used about ever neg scanner made thats in the current tech linup, its just crummy working with 60mb 4000dpi scanned images and such, they suck worse for black and white too, always picking up dust and just being picky, increasing grain count...darkroom prints will always be 10x greater

and the process is slow, very slow
Joe[y]
10-21-2005, 10:27 AM
i've used about ever neg scanner made thats in the current tech linup, its just crummy working with 60mb 4000dpi scanned images and such, they suck worse for black and white too, always picking up dust and just being picky, increasing grain count...darkroom prints will always be 10x greater

and the process is slow, very slow

i didn't have this problem when playing around yesterday. sure the images were around 60 megs but the mac i was using had no problem. and dust wasn't much of a problem actually (just make sure you keep them packed up tight.) i can honestly say i've never seen a better image from a digital camera.
blinking8s
10-21-2005, 09:24 PM
apertures student price isnt too bad

wait till those scanners get some insane use, i have no dust on my negs, its all in the scanner from the other 100 or so students that use them each day
fotogram
10-24-2005, 11:19 PM
For me Aperture would cost approx $3,000. $500 for Aperture and the rest for a machine that can run it :( . I was all excited, but when I read the system requirements, I realized that my G4 (1GHz/1GB RAM) will not run Aperture.
mikelangelo
10-24-2005, 11:59 PM
lol, yeah... 'technically' my laptop is out of range for it, too. I have a 1Ghz PB/1GB RAM. sigh. That's ok. I need to master more stuff with photoshop, anyway.
blinking8s
10-25-2005, 12:43 AM
well, the power is needed to run its RAW system, im sur eit will run on a weaker machine pretty ok, but it looks like a final cut platform and when you get into series raw editing its gonna bitchslap your machine