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| DATE | 2013-05-02 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Graphics and Photographs
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On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 09:52:57PM -0400, Redpill wrote:
> Anyone know a good PTP application for linux? I picked up a used Canon 60D
> but have to export to windows and drag over to linux ._.
>
> Darktable is very nice, but the tethering module does not work on my camera
> model.
what is ptp?
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> From: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com [mailto:owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com] On
> Behalf Of Redpill
> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 7:57 PM
> To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com
> Cc: 'Hangout'
> Subject: RE: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Graphics and Photographs
>
>
>
> No experience with it yet but have you seen this?: www.darktable.org
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> From: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com [mailto:owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com] On
> Behalf Of einker
> Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 1:21 PM
> To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com
> Cc: Hangout
> Subject: Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Graphics and Photographs
>
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> Nice to see an alternative for ufraw. Its been a bit of a hassle to use
> ufraw even though its a package on OpenBSD as well as GIMP. I've found that
> RAW images are the easiest to work with especially if you do a lot of
> post-processing in photo software. The challenge with RAW is that whatever
> software you use, better make sure it supports the make AND model of your
> camera. I have a Pentax K-5 and almost all photo software has the ability to
> manipulate my RAW images but newer Pentax cameras like the K-5 II have
> slightly different RAW files which at least 50% of the software i've seen
> wont work with those ... Its easier to use Pentax's photo utility software
> to do manual processing of RAW than use GIMP in some cases .......
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>
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> On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Ruben Safir wrote:
>
> I've been working with a lot of graphics (actually I've been doing that
> for decades but aside from that...) and with coin photography, while
> balance has been a very difficult problem. The advise I'd recieved is
> to shoot in RAW mode and do the white balance by hand in the software.
>
> The gimp has a plugin for this called ufraw and it has been very
> difficult to use. The results have not nearly been as good as hoped.
> Instead, I hunted down a new program called RawTherapee. This program,
> as I much as I've been able to understand it up until now, has proven to
> be very very good
>
> http://rawtherapee.com/downloads
>
> The results are posted on the coinhangout forum..
>
>
> Ruben
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>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Evan M. Inker
>
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