Christmas for a Photo Retailer

[earl colby pottinger]

The 'Professional' friend is the bane of any technical field.

In real life the 'friend' is truly a professional in the field, and has refused the 'friend's' request because they already know it will be impossible to do, or take so much effort that the 'friend' does not want to do it for cheap/free. The SC is lying to you because they can't get the so-called friend to support their crazy demands.

The 'friend' is not a professional and in many cases does not exist, and the SC is lying to you to try and get you to do something because they have challenged you. My dad used to do that all the time, he would try to challenge me thinking I would have to prove him wrong by doing the very thing he wanted in the first place.

In all cases, if you ask "Well, if your friend know how to do it for you so cheap/free why did you not take it to them to do?" and the excuses will fly for sure.

[Seshat]

Just a question, but how long does the copyright last for photos? I have my parents' professionally taken wedding pic and my sibs are demanding that I make good copies for them.

Once you've found out how to legally do it (if you can), ask the photo place to supply you with a digital copy. If they ask you what format you want, good formats are TIFF and PNG, or any format that's 'lossless'. You also want the original scan size, not an enlarged or shrunken size: the original scan size has the most data.
If there's any restoration work done, ask for both a copy of the original and the restored (again, that maximises the amount of data).

Best of luck.

[EricKei]

Of the two, ideally, you want a TIFF ^_^ They're friggin' HUGE, tho. Great if you plan to use the image in a paper-based publication of any kind in the future. PNG is indeed lossless, as well, just compressed. I loves it for everyday use

Tangential subject, for OP and anyone else in here who might have used them: Eneloops. Yea? Nay? Do they live up to the hype?

[wolfie]

Never used them myself, but a few years back when I was semi-active on another board dedicated to flashlight enthusiasts they were one of the preferred brands of rechargeables.

[mhkohne]

Tangential subject, for OP and anyone else in here who might have used them: Eneloops. Yea? Nay? Do they live up to the hype?

I like the ones I have. They hold charge pretty good just sitting on the shelf, so I usually have some ready as needed.

[notalwaysright]

I have those batteries and I like them. The first set I bought is probably 5 years old and I can't tell the difference between the older ones and the newer ones.

[prjkt]

On Pentax, I think it must be a location thing. He local distributor does nothing to promote the brand at all, and there's an extremely small range of lenses available, meaning very few people apart from the elderly and the misinformed actually ask for Pentax anymore, so we stopped carrying the brand.

On Eneloop batteries, I have about 5-6 sets around the house for my three flashes. And in pouches on my camera strap for quick swap over. I swear by them.

[VComps]

On Pentax, I think it must be a location thing. He local distributor does nothing to promote the brand at all, and there's an extremely small range of lenses available, meaning very few people apart from the elderly and the misinformed actually ask for Pentax anymore, so we stopped carrying the brand.

Makes sense. My company's buyers are pretty high on the Pentax brand, so we probably market it a bit more aggressively than your distributors do. And why carry a brand nobody in your market wants? Sounds like a bad investment in inventory dollars to me. Special order if someone wants one that badly, but yeah, don't regularly stock those.

[Shalom]

there's an extremely small range of lenses available

How things change... Pentax K-mount lenses used to be all over eBay, and they were M42 before that. I'm guessing they don't use those mounts anymore?

[prjkt]

No, still K mount, but there's very few "new" lenses we can get in, and not many of them above consumer level quality