UPS Man - Gear - What Is It?!

[snerd]

Well, what do you know!! It's just a small world anymore!! That's kinda cool.

 

[snerd]

....... Pushover! One complaint and you retract your disagreement.

Gee, I had no idea it was a "negative" thing. I wasn't saying he was being negative by using it. I assumed it was just a no, wrong guess kind of tool. Hate to have it make a "bad rep" mark on anyone that doesn't really deserve it! But now that I know what it's for.....................

 

[snerd]

Just downloaded the latest lens data to my camera. There's new DPP and EOS Utilities versions out since I last used them!

 

[Derrel]

I always thought that Canon's so-called "Faithful" DPP development look was gorgeous...not really all that faithful though--more like "Glorious rendering of the world!" instead.

 

[snerd]

I've never used it......... so clunky! Or, I just got used to Lightroom since I started using it from day one.

 

[BillM]

Is it ok if I Disagree with Jake because he was right and I didn't get to guess yet ? It's not my fault i have to work for a living or would that just be disagreeable on my part

But that was a box full of some seriously cool stuff, congrats !!!!

 

[D-B-J]

Is it ok if I Disagree with Jake because he was right and I didn't get to guess yet ? It's not my fault i have to work for a living or would that just be disagreeable on my part

But that was a box full of some seriously cool stuff, congrats !!!!

Hey I work too! Just... Have iphone time sometimes [emoji6]

 

[Derrel]

I've never used it......... so clunky! Or, I just got used to Lightroom since I started using it from day one.

Well, back in the era before Lightroom and Aperture began taking over, and Adobe Camera Raw was rather crude, and before tools like "digital fill light" and "highlight recovery" and "clarity slider" were commonplace, developing raw images was a much more-tedious process,and there were far,far fewer EASY or quick ways to make final JPEG images from .CR2 or .NEF or .RAF files. Again, the whole concept of being able to edit a raw file and to "save back to RAW" was at one time, only possible with Nikon raw files and Nikon Capture software, which saved the instruction set, but allowed one to keep the .NEF file as a compact .NEF, and not as a bloated 16-bit file,etc.etc.

Anyway, for a time one summer in 2006 I guess it was, I was shooting both Nikon D2x and Canon 5D raw files, and I had several software applications that could handle RAWs. Adobe Camera Raw, Nikon Capture, MacBibble, SilkyPix, and Canon's DPP. I started batch processing entire days' worth of RAW files using multiple raw converter apps, to see how the images differed; the Canon DPP software's Faithful look was simply gorgeous, on almost any subject matter. What was weird though were how, at times, the different raw converters could REALLY make some subject matter look simply gorgeous, because the way the software interpreted the raw data was just...well...amazingly appropriate. At times, MacBibble would yield amazing images; at other times, SilkyPix would just blow me away; Nikon Capture was and still is the only raw converter that can actually read the encrypted white balance information in Nikon's .NEF files, so its interpretations often differed MARKEDLY from the "best guess" that MacBibble and ACR had to make.

Anyway...Canon's DPP sort of borrowed the earlier Kodak software concept of the complete "look", directly converted from .CR2 to JPEG, without a lot of user intervention being required. It's kind of difficult to imagine what this is like until you actually try multiple raw converter software apps on entire batches of images, and then compare the results side-by-side in a slide show. Speed and efficiency is not the only important criteria, but those are the two areas that Lightroom emphasizes, and why it has taken over so much.

 

[gsgary]

And here I was going to say a "Paula Dean signature edition fleshlight".

Have you got a link I don't have that model[emoji3]

 

[runnah]

And here I was going to say a "Paula Dean signature edition fleshlight".

Have you got a link I don't have that model[emoji3]

It's just a stick of butter that yells racist remarks when you use it.