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Leica M9     $3600 ($3500 cash in NYC)
Steel Gray
Great user body!

-Original Box and all that comes with it
-2 Original Leica batteries
-Thumbs Up
-Original Leica Strap and Black Bag hand strap
-Black Leica dot installed, original red dot in new condition in box
-Ex KEH condition: Functions perfectly without ever having issue but the body has some brassing. On base plate, rounded top edges slightly, corner of viewfinder, very small ding in top rounded edge near finder. This was there when I bought it and has no effect on anything but looks. There are some small scratches on top plate. Mark from thumbs up on back of top plate. Original plastic base plate protector still on. Viewfinder is clean and clear. Protector on lcd since new.

This camera has worked flawlessly for me. All of the small scratches and brassing were there when I bought it about 2 years ago. Price reflects 30k actuations and the need for some extra cash to get back into a film system.

Buy with confidence, I have positive feedback on the Range Finder Forum. Looking for sale locally in NYC!

Here's a link to my RFF ad.
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost-classifieds/showproduct.php/product/39428/title/leica-m9/cat/3

For clarity, here is the original PS file with the curve adjustment layer, and the same PSD file opened in Photoline (with Photoline's interpretation of the curve adjustment layer).  In the difference exercise, I saved the flattened Photoline interpretation of the original PSD file as a new PSD file and compared it to the original in PS.

kirk

Having just returned from remote China and the Gobi desert I found my list of foods I would not eat / try has been vastly expanded.....

Just an FYI - the reason most people try vegemite and dislike it is because they are handed a piece of bread that has been liberally smothered in the stuff. And that is enough to put anybody off.

Returning to our regular programming....

Of course.. you have to be bought up on the stuff as a kid - its an acquired taste.

Well, there's some tastes I don't want to acquire!

I've eaten a lot of, uh, different things in my life...chocolate covered ants (good), fried grasshoppers (tasted like chicken), rocky mountain meatballs (Google it) and even learned to like haggis (in honor of Brice Fraser). But there are two foods I've tried that I'll never try again, one was poi in Hawaii and the other was Vegemite in the outback...

Yes, if one were forced to consume this stuff from early childhood and knew no better, I could see how one's taste buds could become perverted...but I think there's therapy for that condition (kinda like de-programing).

Cool trick!  Here are the results.

For sake of comparison, I also took the original PSD file (in aRGB), duplicated it in PS, flattened it, and then did:

>> Convert to Profile (LAB) and then Convert to Profile (aRGB).  That is, all within PS I simply took the original image, converted to LAB and back to the original (aRGB) color profile.

For both subtract images, I added a levels adjustment to amplify the image, with the black point set to 127 and the white point set to 129.

kirk

This is not what I want - I want to apply default lens profiles to all of my images, but different noise reduction dependant on the ISO of the image.

I fear that this would be impossible to do atthis stage.

It's not impossible, only tedious! You have to set the defaults for every ISO value the camera is able to output. If you have to specify more than a few things that deviate frome the standard default, that is prone to error and can take some time - and of course you shall have a series of images with all these ISO values to create the defaults.

A copy/paste feature would be quite useful imho (or a command to modify all the defaults for the camera, after which you'd edit the noise/sharpen settings).

It appears that Johnbeardy was right, one could get rich (or at least try) by creating presets using all the available permutations that lightroom offers. Then you just have to sign in on LuLa an send a link to your product site in your first post ever. Ah! What a fool I have been!   

BTW, i'm not saying that the previous comment is exactly that, but it's utterly suspicious.

John, why not adopt an N-dimensional dataflow processing model for your architecture?  

Layers are just a 1-dimensional dataflow processing model (aka, "node based"), and you can always implement layers within a part of your N-dimensional dataflow model (where N = 1 dimension).  Everything can be a smart filter, and baking in intermediate layers can be an option.  You can accomplish many kinds of things using N-dimensions that you can't accomplish in one dimension, e.g., making multiple uses of a single source with indefinite non-destructive editing and undo, etc.

Thank you all for your thoughts.  I appreciate it very much (bow)

Naturally, I think of “snapshots”, and alternative branches as being intrinsic functionality (think of what a version control system does).

Ironic you said this because the genesis of Lightoom was a sandbox project Hamburg started called PixelToy (sometimes refereed to Schewe Paint by Mark) which essentially leveraged Photoshop history and snapshot functionality (I had a large'ish impact on history when Mark first wrote it for Photoshop 5).

PixelToy was an ability to do a bunch of stuff to an image, take a snapshot and use the snapshot to blend by brush, back into the image. Each snapshot could be edited...for further functionality.

Sadly, when Mark was convinced to to go a database driven app, the snapshot painting fell by the wayside. And history in Lightroom isn't related, not is there an ability to blend between LR snapshots.

Maybe something for Mark to take a 2nd look at.

BTW, I just bought a copy of Live Picture 2.6 on Ebay for $ .99 (shipping and handling was $10.95). I've got an old G4 laptop with 10.4 and classic running OS 9.x on it. I'm gonna try to install it and play with Live Picture to try to remember how it worked.

I still have my old LP 1.3 and the $3,499 dongle but I don't think I have a machine it would run on (and LP 2.6 was much better).