Toolkit For The Digital Photographer Part One - Software

!±8± Toolkit For The Digital Photographer Part One - Software

Just as a wood-working artisan has special chisels for his trade, every working professional digital photographer has over time put together his own "toolkit."

On the software or post production end, these are necessities:

1) "Rescue Pro" software is something no one wants to think about, but in the real world, is a necessity.The digital photographer who foolishly thinks it will never happen to him, just needs to be burned once and he'll become a believer.

If you buy a SanDisk high-end memory card like those "Extreme III or IV" variety, not only is there a lifetime warranty, but they also ship with this file recovery utility.

Never wait till you have an actual corrupted file to test the software. The best thing you can do is after you're done downloading and archiving your images, erase and format the memory card. Then launch this file recovery utility to see how many of those images can be recovered.

Remember, Dirty Harry said, "Man's got to know his limitations."

2) Genuine Fractals or Extensis' Smart Pixel. Either one of these photoshop plug-ins allow you to scale up a image which you might have shot with perhaps an old camera which didn't have the megapixels you need for a huge print.

3) Picture Code's Noise Ninja.() This plug-in with Photoshop reduces the inherent noise in digital images shot in high ISO.

4) Finally, a disk utility application like Disk Warrior or Micromat's Tech Tool Pro and that install disk that came with your computer should be included in that toolkit. These applications are for the Macintosh platform but I'm certain there are similar counterparts in the Windows world.

If your internal hard drive crashes and you can't boot up, these dvds or cds can be your only salvation. What these discs allow you to do is boot up your computer, attempt to repair or "band-aid" the hard drive allowing you to safely download your data from your suspect internal hard drive.

Toolkit For The Digital Photographer Part One - Software

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Magneto Optical Disk Facts - What You Need to Know

!±8± Magneto Optical Disk Facts - What You Need to Know

• If you are currently using one capacity of magneto optical disk - it is best to order the same size.

**unless you are certain that your drive can handle a larger capacity.

• "Magneto Optical Disks" are commonly referred to as "MOD", "MO disks", and "Optical Disks"

• Both "disk" and "disc" are common spellings when referring to optical media.

• "Capacity" refers to the amount of data that may be stored on a disk.

• There are two sizes: 3.5 inch and 5.25 inch.

• 5.25 inch magneto optical disks can be either WORM (write once read many) or RW (rewritable)

• They are manufactured to ISO specifications - in other words, if a 2.6gb Sony disk works in your system so will disks from other manufacturers like, MaxOptix, Medical Grade, & Philips, that match the same specs.

• It is important to make sure that the disk you are purchasing has the same bytes per sector as the one you are currently using.

• Pioneer is the only magneto optical drive manufacturer that utilizes a proprietary format. If you have a Pioneer drive you will need to purchase Pioneer brand products.

• The capacity of disk that you can use is determined by the drive.

• For example: If you have a 230mb 3.5inch drive you cannot use a larger capacity disk; only disks that are 230mb or smaller (128mb) will work with your drive. The same is true with the 5.25 inch disk. If you have a 5.2gb MO drive you will not be able to use the larger 9.1 gb magneto optical disk.

• Drives are backward compatible. For instance a TMT7-9100 MaxOptix MO drive can read data from discs that are 600mb up through 9.1gb; and can write data onto magneto optical disks that are 2.3 gb through 9.1 gb.

• 2.3GB is the most common capacity; and comes in both 3.5" and 5.25" physical sizes.

• When replacing a legacy drive it is considered best practice to match both the drive and firmware

3.5 inch MO drive media compatibility

Size Disk
* 1x 3.5" 128 MB
* 2x 3.5" 230 MB
* 5x 3.5" 540 / 640 MB
* 10x 3.5" 1.3 / 2.3 GB

5.25 inch MO drive media compatibility

* 1x 5.25" 600 / 650 MB
* 2x 5.25" 1.2 / 1.3 GB
* 4x 5.25" 2.3 / 2.6 GB
* 8x 5.25 4.1 / 4.8 / 5.2 GB
* 14x 5.25" 8.6 / 9.1 GB

Magneto Optical Disk Facts - What You Need to Know

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MTV EMA 2011 Promo

!±8± MTV EMA 2011 Promo

Tune in Sunday, November 6 to watch Selena Gomez host the 2011 MTV EMA from Belfast, Northern Ireland!

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