Any professional photographers using this for photoshop editing? Is it grainy at all?
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What is grainy? The screen? Then, no. It is a matt screen but very decent to work with.
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It's pretty decent! It's a bit grainy, and you can only zoom in like once before it gets into super gross and grainy, it has a blue tint to photographs. but here's a regular zoom pic with no filters: https://www.dropbox.com/s/itdukx4wzj3u3j5/2013-06-22%2013.30.41.jpg
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I'd recommend it at least. Or, I'd go faster if you can. I'm finding that sometimes with Photoshop there's some speed issues for me, or maybe I'm just picky.
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Personally, I would never use the superzoom. It is very difficult to hold the scene steady at 30x, let alone higher. I would shoot at 30x and then trim the resulting photo in my computer.
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NO, do NOT get a MAC. Overpriced and WAY over-hyped. I can edit 60p with ZERO chop on one of my meager core-duo laptops at 1.8ghz, with effects and PIP's, etc. no problem. You probably are not optimally configured both in hardware and software. What kind of hard drive do you have? This is a very likely culprit. I typically only edit on RAID0 configs because of their awesome speed, and this is where the bottle-neck is really. Also, get some real editing software. I've been using Edius for 10+ years now, and it is simply THE BEST NLE software I have ever used bar none (Vegas, Avid, Premiere Pro through CS4, and yes (sigh) Final Crap Pro). It is incredibly fast, stable, and supports mixed formats and more on a single timeline. Best wishes in any case.
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I am not a professional, but I think the pictures it takes are extremely clear. I have my camera set to high resolution, and the pictures turn out. I tend to leave the focus on manual. There are times the camera can't focus on exactly what I want.
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I bought the same Kodak ZD710 at Walmart for $149.99 about a year ago. I've been very pleased with it. I love the optical zoom and high resolution of the photos. I haven't had any issue with noise in the photos at all. I work in the graphics industry and use this on a professional level. Being a designer though it also means I inevitable photoshop nearly all the pictures I take. But am happy with my ZD710
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I've used it for photo's and haven't had any problems. I scan everything in at 300 dpi, and it's pretty speedy. I have not tried doing 150 dpi though. It does auto crop and fix any skewing or rotation that may have happened too.
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Simple answer is yes, Make sure you have a decent shutter speed so up the ISO, Image quality is excellent as is the dynamic range, I.E you can pull the shadows in processing without banding or bad grain/noise
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I agree with Wright there. I don't know about flawless as it all also depends on many factors but all the Adobe apps like Photoshop cc 64 bit and acrobat etc., run very well.
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I have the Z28 and like most everything about it. My biggest complaint, and tell me if this is true of all cameras in this class, is when cropping photos. If i crop a photo to zoom it in a bit it always goes grainy. I didnt expect this from 12mp camera. Is the Megapixel rating really not a factor for smooth grain??
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Works for me [though W8 is a little strange from XP], I do a lot of foto editing almost daily. There are many tools that I haven't used [or used much] so glitches may still occur. I would say, if you have your computing power up, go with it.
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Yes, it is. You can increase your ISO sensitivity with very little to no graining showing up compared to other cameras I have used.
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I usually like to shoot at 1600. I've also used it at 800 and 400, but I don't think that gives me enough benefit relative to 400-speed film. I'll do 3200 if I need a little more speed, but the grain is much more noticeable than at 1600.Edit - forgot to mention, I'm using XTOL undiluted for 6.5 minutes as recommended in Ilford's chart.
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I've been using PhotoSuite 4 since it came out ... was it 18 years ago? Used it for 8 years in a professional photography plant to doctor bad photos. It's fast and easy. I only used Adobe for fine sharpening and more accurate resolution changes and cropping. And I just used it on my new Windows Home Premium 7 Acer netbook. Works just like it always did. Next I'll try it on Windows 8.1.
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I can tell about my experience. The noted the problem on mine too. It gives a glossy aspect to the picture. I got in contact with photodiox and they sent me a new one straight away. The second one seems to work way better, although it still happen once in a while. Since for me its just a hobby, its not a big deal but it may be a problem if you need it to work. By the way, im very pleased with the product and i believe its the only option to use the Konica AR lenses with Canon EOS.
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I am no camera expert by any means, but at times the flash is too powerful, and the low light pictures are better. I generally use Picasa to edit, and it will brighten the pictures and they look good. In extreme low light with the flash off, they are pretty grainy and Picasa cannot help them. I have only printed 4 x 6 images though, and they are fantastic the majority of times. Hope this helps!