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Upgrading a Drobo

October 31, 2009 JimK 2 Comments

A few days ago I was down in the server room, and I noticed an orange light next to the top disk in Drobo2 (my second Drobo box). I brought up the Drobo dashboard, and it said that my disks were OK, but that the array was getting full, and I should install a larger… [Read More]

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A disk upgrade

October 20, 2009 JimK Leave a Comment

When I got my present workstation last February (for the story, click here), It came with a single 1 TB disk. I planned to put two more in it, since there were supposed to be two free bays. When I opened up the case up to stick the new disks in, one of the bays… [Read More]

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Flash card data loss

October 15, 2009 JimK Leave a Comment

When I talk to digital photographers about the nuts and bolts of the craft, there’s a topic that comes up unusually often: what size flash cards to use in your camera. There are photographers that say that you want to keep the card size small, so when there’s a file system error, you won’t lose… [Read More]

Technical

A new series

October 1, 2009 JimK Leave a Comment

The skies are bluer. The wind blows sweetly. The world is full of possibilities. I’m falling in love? No, but there are similarities in the body chemistry. I’ve got a new series. Like love, you never know when it’s going to hit, and it sometimes comes at an inconvenient time. I’m up to my eyeballs… [Read More]

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Unpacking the prints

September 3, 2009 JimK Leave a Comment

I spent some time yesterday unpacking the prints for the 2009 CPA Juried Exhibition. Many people brought their prints to the Center, so they weren’t hard to unwrap. The prints that were shipped were a different story. Everyone packed their prints well enough to survive the rigors of UPS; there was no damage. Some of… [Read More]

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  • Lens screening testing
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    • Examples
      • Bad and OK 200-600 at 600
      • Excellent 180-400 zoom
      • Fair 14-30mm zoom
      • Good 100-200 mm MF zoom
      • Good 100-400 zoom
      • Good 100mm lens on P1 P45+
      • Good 120mm MF lens
      • Good 18mm FF lens
      • Good 24-105 mm FF lens
      • Good 24-70 FF zoom
      • Good 35 mm FF lens
      • Good 35-70 MF lens
      • Good 60 mm lens on IQ3-100
      • Good 63 mm MF lens
      • Good 65 mm FF lens
      • Good 85 mm FF lens
      • Good and bad 25mm FF lenses
      • Good zoom at 24 mm
      • Marginal 18mm lens
      • Marginal 35mm FF lens
      • Mildly problematic 55 mm FF lens
      • OK 16-35mm zoom
      • OK 60mm lens on P1 P45+
      • OK Sony 600mm f/4
      • Pretty good 16-35 FF zoom
      • Pretty good 90mm FF lens
      • Problematic 400 mm FF lens
      • Tilted 20 mm f/1.8 FF lens
      • Tilted 30 mm MF lens
      • Tilted 50 mm FF lens
      • Two 15mm FF lenses
    • Found a problem – now what?
    • Goals for this test
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      • Full frame
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    • Theory of the test
    • What’s wrong with conventional lens screening?
  • Previsualization heresy
  • Privacy Policy
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  • Using in-camera histograms for ETTR
    • Acknowledgments
    • Why ETTR?
    • Normal in-camera histograms
    • Image processing for in-camera histograms
    • Making the in-camera histogram closely represent the raw histogram
    • Shortcuts to UniWB
    • Preparing for monitor-based UniWB
    • A one-step UniWB procedure
    • The math behind the one-step method
    • Iteration using Newton’s Method

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