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334 messages were posted this week
The majority were about this New Site. Launched a little prematurely due to a member stumbling over it as it was put up, it's getting a generally positive feedback especially regarding the design and functionality. Other areas mentioned have included how it works in all browsers, the determination of the list owners to keep the list as broad as it is, the mandatory fee and defining the anti RF policy. Hey, if you are reading this you're able to decide!
On the Technical side members have discussed how to keep a specific electric blue colour through the conversion to CMYK, it will be interesting to find out how it finally looks on the page.
In the same area of discussion, when you discover that you've inadvertently supplied files to a designer with a different CMYK profile to your usual one and you know he's spent time retouching, is this going to be a disaster when they go to press? Expert advice seems to be that it will be OK, again, how did it look on the page?
Advice on Pricing for Corporate, PR and Hospitality photography from a scientific photographer, consensus is that he was thinking along the right lines.
Adobe telephone support being difficult, a couple of email addresses were posted.
Alien Bees Flash Units, are they any good and are they worth directly importing to the UK? Looks as if they are "value" units rather than state of the art, will they pass EU electrical safety regulations? An important point when using kit professionally.
Dpreview swallowed up by Amazon. Will the testers still be impartial?
Cleaning the Apple Mighty Mouse, someone provided a link to Apple's instructions and video.
Switching to Canon, how should you spend £3000 on lenses after the 24mmTS, or why not use other brands?
New to HD Video, where do the clips go to in iMovie?
Need a camera mounted on your head? A few suggestions this week.
How to use an iPod as a voice recorder? Some links to help were provided.
Recommendations for photo book printers, several alternatives were suggested.
Storage on external drives, new products that may be a solution.
In this weekends OT discussions a member expressed his unhappiness with the current political situation in Venezuela, his home country. There was sympathy for his views together with opinions from the other side of the spectrum leading to thoughts on how our democracies are working.
Contributed by David Williams
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