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Reason number one I'm happy I switched back to a Mac. The display, the seventeen-inch flat panel, an option on new iMac's is absolutely gorgeous. To say I didn't know what I was missing is an understatement. My son was so impressed, a dedicated PC user, he asked whether I'd like to go shopping with him for a flat panel. "I didn't realize they looked that good he said." Now I'm not going to claim that the flat panels available for the PC's aren't as good as the one that came with my iMac, but I will say that after looking at dozens of them at Comp USA I didn't see one that even came close, nor did Tim. Tim want's to know who makes the monitors for Apple and if they make them to Apple's specs or are they available under some brand name that one could purchase for a PC. Reason number two. I've wanted to post some pictures on my site to provide access for relatives without having to mail them copies. I have been half-heartedly looking for some automated way of producing the web pages so I could post on my site here. I suppose that with a little bit of looking I could find dozens. The thing is when I transferred some of my pictures over to the Mac and started playing with the iPhoto program I discovered I could select, and pictures I wanted and it would automatically size and format them to my specs creating thumbnails for them and creating the web pages with nothing left to do but upload them to my site. That was so cool. If you get . Imac space it becomes even more automatic, and you can spiff up the pages to a greater extent than what I did. I didn't what's there is the out of the box page. Thank you Apple. Here is the link for anyone that is curious. Some of the pictures I posted are a little bit dark, not when I view them on my display but on other displays they are. Would anyone like to make a suggestion as to why that would be?
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Wow. Some pretty pics of England--in addition to some people I haven't seen in quite a while.
Great photos, Norm!
While I personally prefer PC's to Macs, there are many, many reasons to get a Mac -- those flat screens being one.
Dende
Indeed a number of years have passed since we have seen you. It's funny when you try to picture someone you last saw years ago you first see them as they were and then try and imagime what they must look like now. Chris said I imagine he hasn't changed that much, unlike me he probably is clean-shaven.
Scott, I'm still using a PC at the office and so have only partially escaped the Microsoft hegemony. :0)
Not true, not true... I have had some kind of fuzz on my face for about three years now. Other than that, I guess about the same...
Lovely pictures, Norm. (Warwick Garden is easily my favorite.)
You say: "Some of the pictures I posted are a little bit dark, not when I view them on my display but on other displays they are."
Most of them do look dark on my PC monitor. Are the monitors (apart from your own) that you've viewed them on all PC displays?
If so, there is an explanation. Macintosh and PC monitors have different gammas: the Mac's is 1.8 whereas the PC's is 2.2 - 2.5. In practical terms this means that images that look fine on a Mac look dark on a PC and vice versa.
You'll find more information here:
http://www.bberger.net/gamma.html http://www.nativeamericantraders.com/monitor.htm http://www.webarchitects.co.uk/tools/gamma/
Interestingly, the Warwick Garden picture looks fine on my PC display, probably because of its flat tonal range (i.e. it's not contrasty like many of the other images).
Thanks Jonathon, your analysis was right on. All the monitors I viewed them on were PC's and your observation about the shots with the most contrast being the darkest is also correct. The Warwick Garden shot was also my favorite. It was taken fairly late in the afternoon and the light was just outstanding. The pictures were taken with an Olympus D-360L, if I view them on the camera they seem to be much closer to the way they look on the Mac than the PC's. So the dilemna, do I lighten them so they display better on PC's. I suppose I'll just play around with them a bit and see if I can find a reasonable compromise. Perhaps I'll find some suggestions at the sites you have so graciously provided links too. Once again thanks for your insights.