Samsung BX2450 mini review for imaging
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.
4Using CornerFix with the Fuji IS-Pro
David Kennard has posted an interesting article and mini-tutorial on using CornerFix with the Fuji IS-Pro camera.
Revised and refreshed Chromasoft website
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.
Solving the dreaded Gigabyte "Won't boot from USB" problem
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.
85Installing Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat"
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.
3New version of CornerFix and a new website
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.
pcdMagic for Windows is out
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.
dcpTool and the dangers of tables
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.
A CornerFix tutorial
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.
ETTR for the third time
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.
"Expose to the right" revisited
I wrote about "expose to the right" (ETTR) last September in this post, showing that while ETTR is useful in some narrow circumstances, in most situations the practical workflow complications vastly outweigh the benefits.
1Disapointing news on the Adobe lens profiles
Adobe recently announced that there would be lens correction capabilities in Camera Raw 6 and Lightroom 3, including for vignetting. I had hoped that meant that it would be possible to use these new capabilities to correct for the red edges and red corners that afflict the Leica M8 and M9.
A good discussion on dcpTool
There's a good discussion around dcpTool and untwisted/invariate profiles on Tom Lester's blog.
Well worth the read, and the examples are good, as well as the later discussion.
Windows 7 forgets userid and password for Mac OS X share - Solved
I've been upgrading to the retail version of Windows 7 on my primary Windows machine, rather than the RC version, and found one major irritation - despite ticking the "Remember my credentials" tickbox when connecting to my Mac's shared folders, the user id and password simply weren't being remembere
Synchronize iCal and Address Book to Gmail calendar and contacts
Over the past few weeks I've slowly been moving my entire e-mail/contact/calendar to a Gmail based environment. The process has been "interesting", so I thought I'd briefly document what I discovered about syncing contacts and calendar from a Mac to Google.
New firmware for the Leica M9, but there's a catch.....
Well, it looks like there will be new firmware for the M9 on Monday that will at least make the "red edges" problem that I have blogged about previously better. The release notes say that the following lenses have been tweaked:
M 18mm/f3.8 ASPH (11649) M 21mm/f2.8 ASPH. (11135) M 24mm/f3.8 ASPH.
Will Leica fix the M9's red edges? Part 2
In a previous post I talked about Leica's delay in delivering revised firmware for the M9. Subsequent to that post, there have been some conversations both on the Leica User Forum and off of it.
3pcdMagic is now available
pcdMagic is an OS X application for converting Kodak Photo CD image files.
1Will Leica fix the M9's red edges?
In some posts dating back to last year I discussed the Leica M9's by now notorious red edges problem, starting with this post.
3Building a DMG installer for the Mac the simple way
A very common way of providing a semi-automated method of installing Mac OS X programs is a DMG that gives the user a easy way to install your program by just dragging the application into a shortcut to the Applications folder. Below is the KeyChainDD version.
14Interfacing to GIT on Sourceforge
For KeyChainDD, which is hosted on SourceForge, I'm using GIT as a repository for source code, rather than distributing the source code via distribution files, as I usually do. This post briefly documents the process I used to get GIT on SourceForge working.
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