Photographs, Photographers and Photography

Save your money
When I was in the Apple store yesterday I fired up Aperture on a MacPro tower (3gB, 2.4gHz) with the ATI Radeon X1900 card and paged through 15 Nikon D70 RAW snaps in Full Screen (a gorgeous 30″ Apple Cinema Display).
The Nikon files are 10mB, so a little smaller than the 12.8mB from […]

Now, it’s Nikon
Nikon calls its full frame D3 DSLR ‘FX’ format.
When I was a lad that was called Leica format.
Sad.

Until a better camera comes along

The outstanding capabilites (and bulk) of the Canon 5D and its 24-105mm lens are ably supported by a MacBook running Aperture, a Hyperdrive for card download and the LaCie Rugged back-up drive where a complete bootable clone of the MacBook’s internal hard drive resides.
Add a couple of CF cards and […]

Two settings for two screens
The dual screen layout I recently illustrated with my MacBook supports separate monitor profiles for each screen.
I use the Monaco EZ-Color software and Optix colorimeter to do this, in the light I expect to print by, meaning noon daylight. If you have different times of day at which you print, […]

A summary, with costs
Here’s a priced summary of the investment I have made in my new MacBook which turns out to be a superbly competent computer for use with Aperture, an application that makes great demands on system resources. In this regard, Aperture is far worse than Photoshop (I’m using CS2) but, of course, […]

In the words of the great Woody Allen.
As I learn more of the advanced functionality of my bottom-of-the-line $900 MacBook, the more impressed I am.
With a larger hard disk on the way I turned my attention to adding a really big screen to the laptop. $900 for Apple’s 23″ Cinema Display makes me want […]

Finally, Nikon has a full frame digital SLR

While I remain delighted with my Canon 5D I continue to smart from being hosed down $3,000 for the body. That, of course, is the price of uniqueness. A lack of competition.
Well, Nikon has just fixed that with a pro-grade DSLR which comes with a full […]