From reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us Mon Sep 5 22:20:22 2022 From: reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us (Brian Reid) Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2022 15:20:22 -0700 Subject: [Leica] A bit OT, but I need advice In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I agree with Don. Send it to Nikon. On 2022-09-05 13:50, Don Dory via LUG wrote: > Normally I don't recommend Nikon USA service but for this bit of tear > down > and rebuild I would send it to Nikon. The shutter will have to come > out > and possibly the sensor and then there is the alignment of the focus > sensor. > > You have a pro level camera that needs to be put back to factory specs. > 0.02 > From reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us Tue Sep 13 15:35:12 2022 From: reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us (Brian Reid) Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 08:35:12 -0700 Subject: [Leica] Printer ink discontinued In-Reply-To: References: <7D4BAEA8-2AB4-4A51-9FE1-EF49F1B54118@icloud.com> <4E0C768B-F8EB-4E93-845F-F07933541744@icloud.com> Message-ID: I concur. I have an Epson P900, and have had it for nearly 2 years. I love it. I bought it to replace my aging Epson 3880, which actually still worked when I gave it away to make room for the P900. On 2022-09-13 08:21, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote: > This is what I use, an extraordinarily good printer - it is model > number > P900 in the USA. Maybe one of its smaller siblings might work for you, > but > you might have to do without a roll paper option - I am not sure of > that, > though: > > https://www.epson.co.in/For-Work/Printers/Large-Format/Epson-SureColor-SC-P903-A2-Professional-Photo-Printer/p/C11CH37503 > > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 8:44 PM George Lottermoser via LUG < > lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > >> SO I?d meant to ask for recommendations for a new model Epson Printer >> >> > On Sep 13, 2022, at 10:12, George Lottermoser via LUG < >> lug at leica-users.org> wrote: >> > >> > >> > Re: obsolescence: >> > The 7 inks for my Epson Stylus Photo 2200 printer have been >> "Discontinued." This after I just moved it in; cleaned it along with >> the >> jets; made all necessary alignment adjustments; pulled 3 near perfect >> prints; it told me it needed "light magenta;" so I went looking? only >> to >> find? dis appointment and dis continued >> > >> > Sent from my iPhone >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Leica Users Group. >> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> George Lottermoser >> george.imagist at icloud.com >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information From reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us Fri Sep 30 04:11:11 2022 From: reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us (Brian Reid) Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 21:11:11 -0700 Subject: [Leica] Warning to iPhone users..... Thanks Apple...... In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <351ab9ae1abc84212f6522df83d4cc8b@mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> I have used HEIC happily for a number of years. It is better than JPEG in every way that matters to me. Converting it to other formats such as JPG or TIFF or PSD is easy; certainly no harder than converting camera-raw formats. I find HEIC images produced by my iPhone to be usually better and never worse than JPEG. I've shot probably 10,000 HEIC images. I mostly take pictures of people, primarily children. For this purpose my iPhone is the best tool. I always bring my Leica Q2 to family events (and before that, my M9) but rarely end up using it for the kinds of pictures I typically shoot. Here are 3 pictures I've taken with my iPhone 12 of my grandson Carter this week. We've been celebrating his 2nd birthday. All of them captured in HEIC, of course. Theoretically I could have gotten images of higher technical quality had I used my Leica, except that I wouldn't have managed to get any of them because the Leica is slower and more cumbersome. And I would not have taken a Leica into the swimming pool, even a Q2. The technical quality of these images is enough for my purposes. I've never been asked to shoot a cover for Vanity Fair. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/bkreid/misc/ Workflow for these: iPhone->MacOS "Photos" exported to->Lightroom Classic exported as->JPEG From reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us Fri Sep 30 19:08:34 2022 From: reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us (Brian Reid) Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 12:08:34 -0700 Subject: [Leica] Warning to iPhone users..... Thanks Apple...... In-Reply-To: <4d703efe-86c9-bf41-2de6-554cdd839e05@gmail.com> References: <351ab9ae1abc84212f6522df83d4cc8b@mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> <4d703efe-86c9-bf41-2de6-554cdd839e05@gmail.com> Message-ID: I don't feel disagreed with. Our experiences are different, but neither of us is wrong. I have 3 comments. 1. On my iPhone (a 12 Pro Max) under Settings->Camera->Formats there is an option to 'Show camera control for ProRAW'. I have that turned on. When I am shooting something where resolution matters, I click the "RAW" button that option enables (on the top right of the app screen). You all know what RAW format is and does. 2. HEIC is a container format. (That's what the C stands for.) That means it can have more than one edition of the image inside the file. It sounds to me like your app might accidentally have used the preview image and not the main image. I use Adobe Camera Raw to poke around inside HEIC files to see what's there. 3. Apple is a computer company. They all make undocumented changes. It is necessary to be cautious whenever you "update" anything. In 1969 I experienced what remains to this day the ultimate "we are a computer company and we will change whatever we want whenever we want" event. Nothing has surprised me since. My employer had an IBM 7094 computer running IBSYS 13 for its operating system. Like all such installations in 1969, there was a purchase contract with a warranty. If the system misbehaved, IBM would solve the problem and fix it free of charge. Every couple of years the contract would come up for renewal, and the scaredy-cat owners always paid the money to renew the software warranty. What it meant to "behave" or "misbehave" was that there was a 100-page document specifying what IBSYS 13 was supposed to do, and if you could demonstrate to IBM that it was not doing that, they were contractually obligated to fix it. I may well have been the only employee there who had read and understood the entire Specification document. In late 1969, we got a letter from IBM saying that they were issuing a new Specification document. This was before the era of FedEx, so it was hand-carried by a courier all the way from Armonk NY. My boss gave it to me to read. It consisted of one sentence: "The full specification of IBSYS version 13 is defined by its behavior." Some digital packrat has saved the last real specification document. See http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/7090/C28-6248-7_v13_IBSYS_Dec66.pdf