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Print photo. Hold up against photo on screen. Fiddle with settings.

It obviously doesn't work to a precisely accurate level, but my £800 professionally calibrated to established colour profiles that are also used for printing on pre-determined paper doesn't either. (Work, obv).

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Rev

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OK, this is the most ridiculous thing that has ever happened to photography. Marginally more ridiculous than when it was proposed the first time:

http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2071783/orphan-legislation-proposed

Basically, if the meta-tags get stripped from a photo then the government would like it to be perfectly legal for the biggest corporation to use your picture without any permission of the owner whatsoever. A large number of photo libraries do strip data, let alone random hosting services like instagram - essentially every picture on there will be perfectly morally free to use. Most things that end up on tumblr. Etc.

Say I like one of your pictures that you've put in the random thread, but you've put meta-data in it. All I have to do is strip it, stick it onto a random tumblr account and let it propagate a bit, re-download it from there and use it on the cover of all 22 of my magazines without paying you a penny - probably saving me and certainly costing you a few grand. You'll never prove that chain of events happened either.

Lovely stuff.

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Cheeko

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So, ND filters then, I want to get one, primarily to use when shooting video because you're committed to a certain shutter speed

What ones do people use? Do you think it's worth getting just one and paying about 20 odd quid for a 0.9(ND8) Hoya pro 1 or just get a set of an ND2,4,8 on ebay for £10?

I initially wanted to get a variable one but it seems image quality suffers and you're better off just working around a fixed one, anyone had experience to contradict that?

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Alan Stock

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I've been mailed by Adobe. Lightroom 3 is currently being discounted, £80 off, making the total £140. Offer ends 3rd June. You have to reply to that email or phone their sales team, which means any of you can do it:

To purchase by phone, call 0800 0280148 for Adobe Direct Sales and mention offer code K2ET

Although expensive I would like a legit version of Lightroom, does this sound like a good price? I currently use Photoshop Elements and although good it's nowhere near as good as Lightroom (and I don't want to pirate it).

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Alan Stock

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Yes, very good. It's probably coming up to the end of Adobes sales year and they need to hit some targets. Microsoft are the same... I think their sales year runs July to July.

Cool. Is there any point in hanging around until the next version of Lightroom? Anything in the works that anyone's heard of?

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Alan Stock

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Never mind, I was just being lazy. Answered my own question after some digging. Lightroom 4 is in Beta with no announced release date that I can see. Details of changes here:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom/lightroom_b4_releasenotes.html

Nothing apart from the exposure stuff that I think would make much difference to me, so I think I'll grab 3 whilst it's cheap.

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Alan Stock

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That's the lightroom v1 beta 4 not lightroom v4 beta.

Nothing announced yet on lightroom4.

Although I've been invited to a posh do they're putting on in London next month...

:doh: What an idiot I am!

Suit you sir, how did you get invited to that?

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Alan Stock

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I can see why they might want to woo you!

If anyone else wants to take advantage of the cheap Lightroom, I found the promotional code from within the url that the email links you to.

Enter this in the promotional code bit at the Cart: B0F99AC9

Also you get 8% off Adobe products using Quidco! Woop!

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tonic_water

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Hi

Can I get some advice please. I'm in the market for a Nikon telephoto zoom and I'd like some advice about the merits of VR vs wide/fast aperture.

I'm considering either the 70-300mm VR or the 80-200mm f2.8 AF-D.

I mainly take photos of the kids moving around doing their stuff and I like to catch them in their natural state (running wild and free) and for more posed/portrait type shots. Both outdoors and indoors.

My question is - to what extent does the benefit of the VR on the 70-300 outweigh the wider aperture on the 80-200?

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Mercury

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Just to add to the question list, anyone recommend any photography magazines? I quite fancy getting a subscription to one but not sure if any of them are worth bothering with.

I subscribe to Practical Photography which I'd recommend having tried most of them at one point or other. All I would say is that after a couple of years you see the same subjects cropping (pun intended) up but that's to be expected.

You should be able to get three issues of DSLR magazine for £1 - that's not a bad magazine either.

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Cheeko

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Subscribed! Thanks, will probably pick up Practical Photography if I see a good issue, you don't save a great deal on a subscription. You only have to miss one issue and it works out pretty much the same cost. Why they don't make these subscriptions more worthwhile I don't know.

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My question is - to what extent does the benefit of the VR on the 70-300 outweigh the wider aperture on the 80-200?

With a small aperture and vr the kids rushing around will still suffer motion blur.

With a larger aperture you will get higher shutter speed and can freeze motion more easily... however you have a smaller depth of field to worry about.

Slightly swings and roundabouts I guess.

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Hi

Can I get some advice please. I'm in the market for a Nikon telephoto zoom and I'd like some advice about the merits of VR vs wide/fast aperture.

I'm considering either the 70-300mm VR or the 80-200mm f2.8 AF-D.

I mainly take photos of the kids moving around doing their stuff and I like to catch them in their natural state (running wild and free) and for more posed/portrait type shots. Both outdoors and indoors.

My question is - to what extent does the benefit of the VR on the 70-300 outweigh the wider aperture on the 80-200?

If you're shooting kids jumping around, you'll end up switching off the VR anyway. Go for the fast lens.

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Rev

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The British Journal of Photography and American Photo are the only ones I bother with. All the ones that try and teach stuff (Take the ultimate landscape!) are always filled with such offensively simple stuff I tend to get quite angry just browsing them, let alone reading them. You're much better buying a book with 300 pages on the subject you want to learn about for £15 than a magazine with 6 pages for £5.

(That sounds really snobby, I know.)

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Fletch

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That's cool, what does pre-press work entail?

Basically the designers and art eds will choose the images to use and design the pages and then the images come through to us where we re size, colour correct and sharpen them plus we do any special effects that are required which could be as simple as cutting an image out to pop over another box, or it could be some heavy manipulation replacing people in scenes for example.

That's a simplistic explanation but it's a good fun.

Edit: I'd just like to add that Digital Camera mags last issue was a little more than 6 pages weighing in at a whopping 164 pages. ;)

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Fletch

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ISWYDT.

I'm just a snob.

I know where you are coming from but those sorts of mags don't sell in the numbers we need, luckily there is room for both and there is some amazing photography featured in the magazines with a good range of tutorials catering to beginners and more advanced photographers.

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Cheeko

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The magazine subscription is more to serve the purpose of stuffing into a bag or sitting by the toilet and providing just enough information to keep my brain occupied about a topic I enjoy that doesn't involve staring at some kind of illuminated display.

I do have photography books, I mainly buy old ones, got a great one for 50p at a flea market recently, the principles haven't changed so I've got everything I need but you do feel like you're back at school reading those things.

Also, I got my wife a 450D at Christmas and she is wanting to learn how to do more with her camera. The kinds of articles you get in the magazines are probably perfect for her needs.

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