In chemical photography, you have only one master image of each exposure. It’s stored on the film you put into your camera. If you value the images you can make from it, that master image is precious to you. Be it original negative or original transparency, any version of the image not produced from the… [Read More]
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Backing up photographic images, part 4
If you implement my backup philosophy in your own home or studio, you’re going to need three kinds of non-volatile storage. The first kind is your main disk storage. It should be fast, and large enough for all your images. The second is your backup disk storage. It should be equally capacious, but needn’t be… [Read More]
POD specifics
I promised some specifics about my POD experiences. Here we go. I have produced books using both MyPublisher and Blurb, running both of the downloadable page layout aps on Vista. Some of my experiences, especially regarding fonts, may not apply to the Mac OSs. MyPublisher has a few advantages over Blurb: The big books are… [Read More]
More on publishing
Let’s say you wanted to go into the print-on-demand book business. You want to get started on the cheap, so you rent some time on an hp Indigo, cobble together some kind of fulfillment service, and start taking orders. To make customer support less of an issue, you go after a market where your customers… [Read More]
Multicore chips: clever or cop-out?
[This post is unabashedly technical, and contains nothing that you absolutely need to be a good photographer. I couldn’t help myself.] You’d have to be living in a cave to miss the big switch in personal computing from a single processor per chip to two or four, with eight coming soon. The power dissipation of… [Read More]