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I got a Pentax K110 digital SLR camera last month

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:25:39 +0000

When the Nikon D40 came out in November priced at $599, it seemed like the whole world went ga-ga over it. After all, we've pretty much been conditioned to expect to pay $1,000 to get into the digital SLR game.

But then I found out about the Pentax K110D. It's also a digital SLR, and costs about $100 less than the Nikon. There wasn't much information out there about it. So, after consulting the one person whose opinions on cameras I trust, my wife and I got one.

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A good tool for salvaging really bad photographs

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 29 Nov 2004 02:55:58 +0000

I've been playing around with the perspective correction feature in Gimp 2.0, and while it's invaluable, I've noticed that it really has a tendency to blur up a picture.

You can reduce this some by not editing JPEGs--it's always best to convert JPEGs into PNG or TIFF format before editing anyway--but it only reduces the problem. And Gimp's sharpen tool leaves a lot to be desired.

Enter SharpControl.

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Taking decent photographs

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 12:17:54 +0000

I'm not a serious photographer and I don't play one on TV. But I'm tired of looking at dark, fuzzy, tiny photographs that don't tell anything, so here's a way someone who knows nothing about photography--such as Yours Truly--can take a decent picture.

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Reports on the death of film are [you know the rest]

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 14 Jan 2004 02:01:26 +0000

Giddy Slashdotters are proclaiming the death of film since Kodak has announced it's not going to sell film cameras anymore, at least not in the United States and Europe.

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Preserving those new (and old) holiday memories

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 29 Nov 2003 05:28:03 +0000

Sorry, I never got around to those promised posts because, well, I've become a genealogy addict. But don't you worry, this post is relevant even to people who are sick of reading about genealogy.

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Work miracles on your photos and scans with Qimage Pro

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 08 Jan 2003 14:10:03 +0000

A little over a month ago, reader Gary Berg suggested I give a program called Qimage Pro a look and see what it would do for my digital camera output. And I finally got around to doing it.

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