Frank M. Gaydos on tue 19 oct 99
While waiting for our bus back to Philly last week, I dashed into the
Metropolitan Museum to try out my Olympus Digital Camera. You are allowed to
take photos if you do not use the flash.
I took a bunch of Italian Majolica work through the showcases and using
existing lighting which was pretty low. The results are on my web page under
'Metropolitan. Now, I had to put them through Photoshop to color correct
them and optimize them for the web. In other words, they came out sharper
but due to the limitations of the web viewing they were reduced in
information so they load faster. I love the digital cameras and when I
upgrade I would upgrade to a zoom lens.
PS The majolica work is mind boggling. I was in too much of a hurry to write
technical information down for each piece.
The last seven pics are of Porcelain from Asia.
Another use of the cameras: My corporate Rep wanted to know what kind of
work I had available. I lined up my platters in the basement and shot them
with the digital, Photoshoped them and uploaded to the web under 'Maxine'.
Now, She can see what is available and also show the client, print them out
for hardcopy, or right click a pic and attach as email.
And all that happened in under an hour.
HTTP://home.earthlink.net/~fgaydos/
Frank Gaydos
510 Gerritt St.
Philadelphia, Pa.
19147-5821
Janet Kaiser on wed 20 oct 99
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Agree absolutely with Frank Gaydos on using digital cameras for instant,
painless imaging. I took a photo of the wonderful sunset outside and within =
a
quarter hour, my cousin in New Zealand was looking at it as he logged on at
work=21 As it is the next day in NZ (thanks to the international date line) =
he was
in theory looking at something 12 hours before it happened=21 Howzat for
technology=21?
The only drawback is when I use these images on our web site, they are
=22automatically=22 translated into GIFs by the web publishing programme (MS
Publisher) which creates quite a loss of clarity. As PJEGs they are much =
better,
so print-outs and online viewing are much better quality.
Sometimes the loss of quality does not matter, for example pots, sculptures,
paintings, etc. are OK. But on wide blue skies the banding of colour does
distract from the image. To see what I am talking about, see
http://www.the-coa.freeserve.co.uk/Sunset.html
Sorry there is no image of tonight's sunset, but I forgot to recharge the
batteries last time=21=21 That is also one of the drawbacks... Digital =
cameras do
work better if they do not have batty and disorganised users=21
Janet Kaiser
The Chapel of Art: Home of The International Potters' Path
Criccieth LL52 0EA, GB-Wales, UK
WEBSITE: http://www.the-coa.org.uk
EMAIL: postbox=40the-coa.org.uk
If you experience difficulties accessing our web site,
please e-mail me=21 Thank you=21
eden@sover.net on fri 22 oct 99
I have been muddling around for weeks trying to decide if $500 will do or
go for the $800 on the digital camera and a call comes in
just like Frank's below 'cept I don't have the camera. Yet. So I will run
around trying to rent one or something........
Eleanora......heated floor first, then digital camera.
>Another use of the cameras: My corporate Rep wanted to know what kind of
>work I had available. I lined up my platters in the basement and shot them
>with the digital, Photoshoped them and uploaded to the web under 'Maxine'.
>Now, She can see what is available and also show the client, print them out
>for hardcopy, or right click a pic and attach as email.
>And all that happened in under an hour.
..............
Eleanora Eden 802 869-2003
Paradise Hill
Bellows Falls, VT 05101 eden@sover.net
george koller on sat 23 oct 99
Eleanora,
I'm not much of one for researching but I spent more than a week looking
into digital cameras about one year ago (more time than shopping
for car/home) Wouldn't bother to mention this except that I did find that you
can save significant money after you select your camera by finding a good
source. I mean 30% off what you think is already pretty good - my dealer friend
could not match them. I'm not affiliated with these folks in any way but they
did give me a great price on my Olympus & it was way low at the time - they are
on the Web. Name is "Best Stop Digital", number is: 1-800-339-8357 and they
know "from cameras". My contact was Joshua. I think he gave me honest square
advice, but
by the time I called I knew pretty much what I wanted.
George Koller
Sturgeon Bay, WI - Door County where the wind is blowing hard out of
the west right now, stripping some trees of their leaves, and rattling the
shudders.
eden@sover.net wrote:
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> I have been muddling around for weeks trying to decide if $500 will do or
> go for the $800 on the digital camera and a call comes in
> just like Frank's below 'cept I don't have the camera. Yet. So I will run
> around trying to rent one or something........
>
> Eleanora......heated floor first, then digital camera.
>
> >Another use of the cameras: My corporate Rep wanted to know what kind of
> >work I had available. I lined up my platters in the basement and shot them
> >with the digital, Photoshoped them and uploaded to the web under 'Maxine'.
> >Now, She can see what is available and also show the client, print them out
> >for hardcopy, or right click a pic and attach as email.
> >And all that happened in under an hour.
>
> ..............
> Eleanora Eden 802 869-2003
> Paradise Hill
> Bellows Falls, VT 05101 eden@sover.net
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