Linda Arbuckle on sun 29 aug 99
This is a site that offers reviews and specs on digital cameras and lets
you compare the features of 2 cameras side-by-side. If you're looking
for a camera, it's very helpful:
http://photo.askey.net/
This site helps to find good prices on cameras and offers feedback from
people who bought from a specific vendor. I found the camera I wanted
significantly lower priced this way.
http://www.20-20consumer.com/default.htm
In response to "enhanced" images.... it's just a more sophisticated tool
for what slides can do. Slides can look better or worse than the actual
piece. Using digital images, you can adjust the look if your shot is too
dark, for example, or edit out that corner of your backdrop that
accidentally was included in the best shot. While you could "buff" the
image, most shows include the disclaimer that any work not matching the
slide can be refused. If the work is weak, even a stellar slide won't
help. However, a bad slide of a good piece is certainly a handicap.
Advice from most photographers these days is that you get best
resolution from taking actual slides and scanning.
As a p.s. I love the Nikon Coolpix 950 digital camera. I wanted it to
make a picture directory of grad students, and document visiting artist
workshops and student events and work for use on a UF Ceramics
website. It won't replace taking slides of my work, though.
Linda
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Linda Arbuckle
Graduate Coordinator, Assoc. Prof.
Univ of FL
School of Art and Art History
P.O. Box 115801, Gainesville, FL 32611-5801
(352) 392-0201 x 219
e-mail: arbuck@ufl.edu
Tom Wirt on tue 31 aug 99
And if you want to learn huge amounts about how to balance your scanner,
digital camera, monitor and printer, head for
www.heidelberg-cps.com
then click on "The Color Manual" It can be downloaded for off line reading.
Heidelberg is the maker of the big printing presses (and smaller ones).
They also make Linotype-Hell scanners for professional graphics people that
work with color. The site includes a color manual that is excellent.
" The Color Manual is now available as HTML-document for download and
offline reading.
If you've been trying to produce color on your desktop computer system,
chances are you're pretty frustrated by now. After all, you've got dozens of
decisions to make. "
Tom Wirt
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