I've been looking to get a second 24 inch LCD monitor to connect up to my main Mac system as a secondary screen in a dual monitor setup. While my HP LP2475W will remain the my primary screen, but I wanted to be able to get reference material (manuals, documents that I responding to by e-mail, etc) up on a separate screen. It would also allow using Lightroom in dual screen mode, although I've never really felt the need.

It so happens that I found a very good deal on a Samsung BX2450 from an on-line store, with free next-day delivery. The Samsung BX2450 is a new-generation "green" display with an LED backlight. A quick internet search revealed that the BX2450 got high marks from almost all owners.
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David Kennard has posted an interesting article and mini-tutorial on using CornerFix with the Fuji IS-Pro camera. The IS-Pro is a specialist camera that is sensitive to both infrared and ultraviolet light - in fact, rather than the usual four channel Bayer array sensor, the IS-Pro's sensor has eight channels in a 2x4 arrangement, requiring that DNG files be in linear raw format before CornerFix can correct them.

Google recently converted my Chromasoft website (as distinct from this blog) from the old Google Pages format to Google Sites, as they are doing for all Google Pages sites. The website is where all the reference material for the various things I blogger about here are.

As mentioned in this post, I just did a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04 "Maverick Meerkat". I mentioned two fairly major problems I had with the Ubuntu installer in that post. I also had another problem, but this one isn't Ubuntu related.

I had chosen to install from a USB key, but what I had forgotten is that the motherboard in the PC is a Gigabyte motherboard, and it doesn't like booting from USB.
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So I use Linux occasionally for software development stuff e.g., pcdtojpeg will run on Linux. I'd skipped Ubuntu 10.04 because (a) the release got a pretty bad name for reliability and (b) I was busy professionally, and with pcdMagic and CornerFix, so anything on Linux wasn't featuring anyway. But having gotten both pcdMagic for Windows and V1.4.0.0 of CornerFix out the door, I decided that an upgrade was called for.
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There's a new version of CornerFix out, V1.4.0.0. The new release extends CornerFix beyond M8s, M9s and S2s to allow images from just about any camera to be corrected - e.g., Sony NEX, Sigma DP series, etc.

This is prompted by the many requests I've been getting from numbers of people for CornerFix to be made compatible with various new large sensor cameras, especially the Sony NEX series, for which there are now a lot of lens adapters available.

So, pcdMagic for Windows is out. pcdMagic converts Kodak Photo CD images into more modern formats such as JPEG and TIFF. But unlike all the other solutions out there, it actually gets the color right.

The original pcdMagic, which was Mac only, shipped back in February. At the time, I said there would never be a Windows version. Well, 9 months later, there is. The Windows version is a quite a bit different to what I built for the Mac, however.

There's a good article by Marco Noldin on his blog where he discusses an issue relating to DNG color profiles with hue twists that I haven't touched on in this blog. I've pointed out the issues that you can get when trying to recover images that were for whatever reason badly exposed, or had their expose adjusted for purposes of ETTR. However, Marco points out an additional risk - in some profiles the HSL tables are quite coarse, and as a result can cause posterization.

Jeff Hapeman has posted a good tutorial on using CornerFix, going into the detail of how he uses CornerFix in conjunction with the Leica M9 and Voigtländer 12mm and 15mm wide-angle lenses. Good reading for anyone just getting started with CornerFix.

Two new articles on ETTR have recently been pointed out to me:

There's a long discussion on ETTR on Photo.net, here. And also, probably in response to the discussion, an article by Jeff Schewe. In both discussions Jeff puts up a spirited defense of ETTR. For those interested in the pro and cons, both are well worth the read.
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