Comments on: Gear I Regret Buying and Things I Really Love http://www.arcurs.com/gear-i-regret-buying-and-things-i-really-love a blog about selling your photos online Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:52:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: greg http://www.arcurs.com/gear-i-regret-buying-and-things-i-really-love/comment-page-2#comment-46205 greg Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:09:44 +0000 http://www.arcurs.com/?p=338#comment-46205 Hi Yuri, you said above that you wouldn't buy Canon 24-105mm 4L lens. What would you buy as an alternative for 5DmkII within that focal range that would produce results good enough for stocks inspectors? I'm looking for some decent lens mostly for architecture & landscape shots. Thanks! Hi Yuri, you said above that you wouldn’t buy Canon 24-105mm 4L lens. What would you buy as an alternative for 5DmkII within that focal range that would produce results good enough for stocks inspectors? I’m looking for some decent lens mostly for architecture & landscape shots. Thanks!

]]> By: Andrew http://www.arcurs.com/gear-i-regret-buying-and-things-i-really-love/comment-page-2#comment-12583 Andrew Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:41:37 +0000 http://www.arcurs.com/?p=338#comment-12583 Hi Yuriy. Where did you dissapear? No new post for half a year! What can you say about Canon EF 24-70 2.8. On the B&H there are many contradiction reviews. One say this lens is prefect and has fast/accurate auto-focus (938), others (minor) say that focus is blurry (22) and has slow focus (15). Sadly that there is no replacement for 24-70. Hi Yuriy. Where did you dissapear? No new post for half a year!
What can you say about Canon EF 24-70 2.8. On the B&H there are many contradiction reviews. One say this lens is prefect and has fast/accurate auto-focus (938), others (minor) say that focus is blurry (22) and has slow focus (15). Sadly that there is no replacement for 24-70.

]]> By: Mike http://www.arcurs.com/gear-i-regret-buying-and-things-i-really-love/comment-page-2#comment-6186 Mike Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:20:09 +0000 http://www.arcurs.com/?p=338#comment-6186 Funny, I've been craving the 35mm 1.4. Damn you for putting more doubts in my head! I wouldn't expect it to be razor sharp wide open, but I'm surprised it's being called soft here. Hmmm, will rent before buying. Funny, I’ve been craving the 35mm 1.4. Damn you for putting more doubts in my head! I wouldn’t expect it to be razor sharp wide open, but I’m surprised it’s being called soft here. Hmmm, will rent before buying.

]]> By: schizophrenia http://www.arcurs.com/gear-i-regret-buying-and-things-i-really-love/comment-page-2#comment-5666 schizophrenia Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:05:16 +0000 http://www.arcurs.com/?p=338#comment-5666 hi Yuri. what do you think about ef 24mm f/1.4l ii usm?. hi Yuri.
what do you think about ef 24mm f/1.4l ii usm?.

]]> By: Yuri Arcurs http://www.arcurs.com/gear-i-regret-buying-and-things-i-really-love/comment-page-2#comment-3878 Yuri Arcurs Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:15:56 +0000 http://www.arcurs.com/?p=338#comment-3878 <blockquote cite="comment-3795"> <strong><a href="#comment-3795" rel="nofollow">Daris Fox</a></strong>: PC has one great advantage over Mac OS X at present. You can use more than 2Gb of RAM for your images. </blockquote> This is true and it would be great to see Mac move to 64Bit

Daris Fox: PC has one great advantage over Mac OS X at present. You can use more than 2Gb of RAM for your images.

This is true and it would be great to see Mac move to 64Bit

]]> By: Yuri Arcurs http://www.arcurs.com/gear-i-regret-buying-and-things-i-really-love/comment-page-2#comment-3877 Yuri Arcurs Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:14:55 +0000 http://www.arcurs.com/?p=338#comment-3877 <blockquote cite="comment-3306"> <strong><a href="#comment-3306" rel="nofollow">Marios</a></strong>: correction intuos 4 <img src="http://www.arcurs.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley"> </blockquote> Just got mine two weeks ago. It is great!

Marios: correction intuos 4 :-)

Just got mine two weeks ago. It is great!

]]> By: Daris Fox http://www.arcurs.com/gear-i-regret-buying-and-things-i-really-love/comment-page-2#comment-3795 Daris Fox Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:17:36 +0000 http://www.arcurs.com/?p=338#comment-3795 PC has one great advantage over Mac OS X at present. You can use more than 2Gb of RAM for your images. Windows has been a true 64bit OS for about 6 years and OS X is still not a full 64Bit OS. This means in a workstation with more than 4Gb of RAM you can access all of it in Photoshop x64 for your images. This is important when you're working with large images of 12Mp or more. OS X has to wait until Photoshop CS 5 to gain the same advantages. On my workstation I had 16Gb of RAM of which 8Gb was dedicated to the OS and 4Gb was a RAM drive. For Photoshop this machine was fast, even with Opteron processors 3 years old and can still keep up with the i7 series in many tasks (other than computationally intensive). Plus you can use SSDs natively as Windows 7 has TRIM support, again something that Snow Leopard neglected to implement. Microsoft have finally released a good OS in Windows 7, it's fast, stable and reliable. It's also sets the stage for future technologies such as touch screens, OpenCL and more. Like Vista before it the system has now got better support for new screen technologies and are resolution independent which XP struggled with above 24in (icons and text got too small). OS X is no panacea, most Mac owners will blithely ignore the major issues that's plagued the OS in recent months the most obvious is the data loss issue as a guest user. Security is also pretty lax in OS X something that may come back and haunt Apple if they market share continues to grow. At the end of the day the arguments for OS X Vs Windows 7 are moot, both are strong and capable systems. Choose the poison that does the job for your ideology and methodology. There is no quality difference upon input/output, there is no advantage in colour management or even font management (an old Mac strong point). The hardware is essentially the same (apart from Apples own quirks) and reliability is about the same. Although Apple's quality control is going downhill these days (Time Capsules, faulty Imac screens and so on). PC has one great advantage over Mac OS X at present. You can use more than 2Gb of RAM for your images. Windows has been a true 64bit OS for about 6 years and OS X is still not a full 64Bit OS. This means in a workstation with more than 4Gb of RAM you can access all of it in Photoshop x64 for your images. This is important when you’re working with large images of 12Mp or more. OS X has to wait until Photoshop CS 5 to gain the same advantages.

On my workstation I had 16Gb of RAM of which 8Gb was dedicated to the OS and 4Gb was a RAM drive. For Photoshop this machine was fast, even with Opteron processors 3 years old and can still keep up with the i7 series in many tasks (other than computationally intensive). Plus you can use SSDs natively as Windows 7 has TRIM support, again something that Snow Leopard neglected to implement.

Microsoft have finally released a good OS in Windows 7, it’s fast, stable and reliable. It’s also sets the stage for future technologies such as touch screens, OpenCL and more. Like Vista before it the system has now got better support for new screen technologies and are resolution independent which XP struggled with above 24in (icons and text got too small).

OS X is no panacea, most Mac owners will blithely ignore the major issues that’s plagued the OS in recent months the most obvious is the data loss issue as a guest user. Security is also pretty lax in OS X something that may come back and haunt Apple if they market share continues to grow.

At the end of the day the arguments for OS X Vs Windows 7 are moot, both are strong and capable systems. Choose the poison that does the job for your ideology and methodology. There is no quality difference upon input/output, there is no advantage in colour management or even font management (an old Mac strong point). The hardware is essentially the same (apart from Apples own quirks) and reliability is about the same. Although Apple’s quality control is going downhill these days (Time Capsules, faulty Imac screens and so on).

]]> By: Marios http://www.arcurs.com/gear-i-regret-buying-and-things-i-really-love/comment-page-2#comment-3306 Marios Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:39:33 +0000 http://www.arcurs.com/?p=338#comment-3306 correction intuos 4 :-) correction intuos 4 :-)

]]> By: Marios http://www.arcurs.com/gear-i-regret-buying-and-things-i-really-love/comment-page-2#comment-3305 Marios Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:38:07 +0000 http://www.arcurs.com/?p=338#comment-3305 Yuri you must try the new wacom palet intuos 3 it is fantastic i used my intuos 1 sinc 1999 kai now i have the 3 Large model. Mario from Greece. Yuri you must try the new wacom palet intuos 3 it is fantastic i used my intuos 1 sinc 1999 kai now i have the 3 Large model.

Mario from Greece.

]]> By: LarryVaughn http://www.arcurs.com/gear-i-regret-buying-and-things-i-really-love/comment-page-2#comment-3216 LarryVaughn Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:14:54 +0000 http://www.arcurs.com/?p=338#comment-3216 I'm surprised when people are interested in a very successful photographer's opinions, and then they argue with them. These people are successful for a reason, so perhaps you should try to learn from them and see why their suggestions work for them. I used to shoot live theatrical events with the old style Canon 50mm f 1.0 EF and the 85mm f 1.2 ef. The 85 was very sharp for my purposes, and the 50mm really was not usable wide open. I’m surprised when people are interested in a very successful photographer’s opinions, and then they argue with them. These people are successful for a reason, so perhaps you should try to learn from them and see why their suggestions work for them.

I used to shoot live theatrical events with the old style Canon 50mm f 1.0 EF and the 85mm f 1.2 ef. The 85 was very sharp for my purposes, and the 50mm really was not usable wide open.

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