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Ok thanks. Also my monitor's "wide gamut" but not full adobe98 - just an HP LP2475W profiled with a spyder 3 - but it does show changes in the blue of one set of pictures when going in to sRGB, so I'll see what happens in prints.

Thanks for both the replies. I'll get some test prints made and see they're like. (David can you say when the Canon printer will be available? Or is direct email better for questions?)

I've got an AdobeRGB image containing very deep blues, which I can see changing when I "convert to profile..." into sRGB. I'm thinking that a large format Epson might be able to print deeper blue than sRGB allows (even though it won't reach all of AdobeRGB), but most printers seem to want...

That's a shame - Sam's not replying. I'd like to do an A2-ish poster, and their website says they're getting a wide Canon which can do them, and they'll take files in profiles other than sRGB (ie a way to exploit the printer full gamut). I've signed up to their email news service but not had...

Has anyone tried Aldi's bird feeding fat balls? Maybe the birds don't like my bird table or the area, but they don't seem to be touching them. They were cheap - like about £5 for 50 or something. I hope they're not made of something cheap and dodgy.

From studying mortality at one site I guess it'd be tough to rule out the effects of changing food supplies, weather etc., unless visiting could be stopped in random years. Or maybe compare two nearby sites, one with visitors and one without. But I guess no-one would argue with the advice about...

I've just tried the different conversion options in photoshop (perceptual, saturation, relative colorimetric and absolute colorimetric) to "DS colour frontier DP2" and "DS colour frontier crystal archive", with and without "black point compensation", and clicked the preview on and off to see the...

Arkady, Malla1962, do either of you do street photography? If so do you find that a small camera + lens allows you to do it without interrupting people's behaviour as much? Or does it always, regardless of camera, so you might as well take the best one and deal with it by smiling?

I think their listing of the specs is a bit wrong. It should improve when they really become available. More details at http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/series/Portege-R700-Series/1087011/ But... it's more expensive than the Dell mentioned earlier because it's probably 1-2...

This may be more than you want to spend, but Toshiba (which we have to use at work) have brought out a thin, light, powerful, long battery life and cheaper-than-sony model, the portege r700 http://crave.cnet.co.uk/laptops/0,39029450,49305975,00.htm but it's not supposed to be available until August.

I found that "luminous landscape" was good for discussion on colour management and kit, pretty much without griping and egos. And landscape photography locations in the US. DPreview very big, but lots of apparently grumpy posters (at best). TP much friendlier.

Thanks for sharing your experience. "Cheap" might be another word :) . I found my 50-500 was sharpest at about f/10 at 5 m. Currently trying to shoot a good landscape including the moon.

Thanks - glad to hear yours works so well. I was just about coming round to the view that they're all a bit iffy, but clearly they aren't. But live view is a nice compensation for landscapes.

Sorry Walter if this seems unnecessarily complex - please feel free to ignore! If you set the camera to take pictures in RAW mode, or RAW+jpeg, it uses a lot more disk space and is more effort to process. It's a bit like shooting negatives and developing them yourself vs shooting polaroid...

No probs. Having the monitor profile is good though - it lets your monitor properly show how the image will appear when printed, as long as it's printed correctly. Each device needs a profile - a look up table from numbers to colours - and then DPP makes sure that wherever your image goes, it...