Re: recommendation for digital camera -=> Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-21 Thread Alan Shutko
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 08:53:23PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: >> There's one CCD cell per image pixel, with the exception of the D1x, >> which has a strange layout[1]. > There is no way that this can be true physically. Of course there is, since that's t

Re: recommendation for digital camera -=> Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 08:53:23PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Looks like you missed it a bit here. What you would call a pixel in the > > raw file is not the same as a pixel in the tiff file. > > Actually, it's close enough. > > > In the raw file y

Re: recommendation for digital camera -=> Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-20 Thread Alan Shutko
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Looks like you missed it a bit here. What you would call a pixel in the > raw file is not the same as a pixel in the tiff file. Actually, it's close enough. > In the raw file you have 4 ccd cells per image pixel (R, G, G, B) That's not correct for any

Re: recommendation for digital camera -=> Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 05:17:54PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Some cameras actually compress the raw data BTW. I think Nikon does > > that since nef (raw) output takes less space then tiff output. > > On some Nikon cameras they are compressed using

Re: recommendation for digital camera -=> Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-20 Thread Alan Shutko
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some cameras actually compress the raw data BTW. I think Nikon does > that since nef (raw) output takes less space then tiff output. On some Nikon cameras they are compressed using a "visually lossless" algorithm. Some recent posts on the D1scussion gro

Re: recommendation for digital camera -=> Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 09:48:57AM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > The real benefit to having the Windoze apps (Nikon or not) to support > > the camera is in being able to load camera (or film scanner) images > > directly into something like Photoshop without having to

Re: recommendation for digital camera -=> Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 01:34:10AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In that case I would also suggest you avoid anything Sony. I've never > > seen worse customer support (and that even for very high end equipment > > company customers, not just the small end user), and when they do > > bother ma

Re: recommendation for digital camera -=> Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 12:33:31AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Just out of curiosity, what does that SW offer? > > Well, there are several packages, one of which is always bundled > with the camera and the others for sale separately. The Nikon website > is a > better source of info tha

Re: recommendation for digital camera -=> Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-20 Thread Alan Shutko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The real benefit to having the Windoze apps (Nikon or not) to support > the camera is in being able to load camera (or film scanner) images > directly into something like Photoshop without having to go through > any JPEG or other compression, so that you can manipulate

Re: recommendation for digital camera -=> Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-20 Thread listcomm
> In that case I would also suggest you avoid anything Sony. I've never > seen worse customer support (and that even for very high end equipment > company customers, not just the small end user), and when they do > bother making a proper piece of hardware they seriously cripple it with > their copy

Re: recommendation for digital camera -=> Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-20 Thread listcomm
> Just out of curiosity, what does that SW offer? Well, there are several packages, one of which is always bundled with the camera and the others for sale separately. The Nikon website is a better source of info than I am, actually. But the direct camera support package provides USB detection,

Re: recommendation for digital camera -=> Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-19 Thread Magnus Therning
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 11:16:33PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I am using Nikon 4300 with linux and I am able to access it as mass >> storage without any problem. I just have to mount the camera as usb mass >> storage and copy the image files to my hdd. If any body is interested in >> h

Re: recommendation for digital camera -=> Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-19 Thread listcomm
> I am using Nikon 4300 with linux and I am able to access it as mass > storage without any problem. I just have to mount the camera as usb mass > storage and copy the image files to my hdd. If any body is interested in > having more info, kindly let me know. Yeah, Me! I have a 5700 and will

Re: recommendation for digital camera -=> Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-19 Thread J.S.Sahambi
(P.S.: If anyone knows anything about Linux support for Nikon, please point me at it; I'll probably need it eventually...) I am using Nikon 4300 with linux and I am able to access it as mass storage without any problem. I just have to mount the camera as usb mass storage and copy the image files

Re: recommendation for digital camera -=> Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 04:07:50PM -0400, H. S. wrote: > Apparently, _Micha Feigin_, on 07/18/04 15:26,typed: > >On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 11:03:49AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>(P.S.: If anyone knows anything about Linux support for Nikon, please > >>point me at it; I'll probably need it

Re: recommendation for digital camera -=> Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-18 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Micha Feigin_, on 07/18/04 15:26,typed: On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 11:03:49AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (P.S.: If anyone knows anything about Linux support for Nikon, please point me at it; I'll probably need it eventually...) I am interested in that too. I can access Canon G5 with

Re: recommendation for digital camera -=> Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 11:03:49AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I suppose this has wandered far enough OT from Linux that I can weigh > in on it... > > After using Nikon's website/email support, I will not buy > anything else. > > I bought a dead (as it turned out) Nikon film scanner at a sw

Re: recommendation for digital camera -=> Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-18 Thread listcomm
I suppose this has wandered far enough OT from Linux that I can weigh in on it... After using Nikon's website/email support, I will not buy anything else. I bought a dead (as it turned out) Nikon film scanner at a swap meet a couple of years back, plugged it into Windoze, and started in on it. I