Walter Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal has published a review of Apple's iPhoto software. "If digital photos are your passion, iPhoto is a strong argument for getting a Mac."
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all your ARE photos belongs to us. Stupid.
And if Macs are already your passion, iPhoto is a strong argument for getting a Digital Camera.
My recommendation: Nikon Coolpix 5000. Excellent camera - 5 megapixels, perfect exposure metering, flexible viewscreen, pro quality in a prosumer price range.
As wonderful as the rest of the CoolPix line has been, the reviews of this one are lukewarm, and the price is still quite high. See www.dpreview.com for great reviews of digital cameras.
(The resolving power of the CP5000 isn't really any better then the Canon G2, I think the lens on the CP5000 is holding it back. I can live with not having all the detail it should, but it also really blows the highlights out real bad, and that's just unforgivable)
The CP995 is good if the size isn't a problem for you. The Canon G2 is also good, but lacks some nice things from the 995 (it does have a hotshoe and a a RAW mode).
Or if you are really into it the EOS-D30 is nice :-)
...if you care to nitpick, the misappropriated quote would be:
"All your photos are belong to us."
Who's stupid now?
...a mistake. Heh.
I wonder why folks like iPhoto? It makes organizing a large collection of pre-taken photos almost impossible. It's like going through old style negatives, much like the annoying MIDI sequencers that try to emulate a legacy tape deck. I'm in the digital domain because I want to control and organize things in a non-linear format, and so far my testing with iPhoto makes me see it as a computer version of a shoebox full of negatives with index cards between them.
But, on the plus side, iPhoto was able to import nearly 20,000 images on my iMac without crashing. That's a good thing, even though it duplicated every image and therefore took up gigs more space that it should have. Ah well, if the press likes THAT, why do they blast so much other great Apple stuff???
It's:
"All your photo are belong to us."
ehh iPhoto has crashed on me quite a bit - when trying to import 134 pictures off my canon s300 elf - it crashed at least 3 times during that process, requiring me to start over each time. my powerbook is running the latest osX and has plenty of ram - i made sure the camera never went into sleep mode - so i'm not really sure what the damn problem was. of course iPhoto wouldn't tell me ... it just unexepectedly crashed. iPhoto is only the second program to actually crash on OS X for me. i'm plenty disapointed with the whole thing.
As mentioned above organizing lots of photos with iPhoto is a pain in the a** - went thru and retitle a whole sent of photos only to have not save any of those changes. GRR! This little bugs keep popping up.
Thanks for that, very helpful.
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all your photos belongs to us.