Dr. Harout wrote:With what are you processing your RAW files, Yildiz?
For the first and third shots, slide the balance towards the blue, as for the second do the opposite.
If I were someone in the construction business I would definitely pick the first and give special consideration for the close up (somehow) in the third.
The third, photographically speaking, has a very beautiful pattern, repetitive, which I like very much.
So, for when is you A900?
I used Sony's IDC for these shots and CS2 for a couple more that are not uploaded but I like none of the results so far. I'll be getting CS3 soon and therefore hoping to see better results from those raw conversions. You might have found out for yourself but I get softer images from the raws with the IDC. It's fast but the result is much worse than the in-camera jpeg when I shoot in RAW+JPEG mode. So far, IDC has mostly been used for resizing the photos to upload to Photoclubalpha forum, it's fast and sufficient for that task but for printing I'm waiting the CS3 or above.
Agreed; I lke the first and the third better also and sliding the slider a tad to the blue will do some justice to the white of the snow.
Getting the A900 has become a question for me also. I'm feeling exhausted from all the reviews and the features-fight that's been flying around.
It's no longer about the actual A900 that's in the market at the moment, but about getting the features and abilities that I would like to start using with a camera which is an enmbodiment of A900+features. I don't know how it will come; in the form of a firmware? a whole new model with the same resolution? a variety of other models that could match what the A900 already provided so far?... or..?
I can go out now to one of the Sony stores that are open till midnight and put my money on one A900 and maybe one CZ 24-70mm but I will not be feeling that I made the best purchase for the concept of photography I would want to start the next morning. I want to shoot indoors, but don't want to use flash or fill lights because I need to shoot natural-looking compositions that will take advantage of daylight through some openings; windows, slots, transparent walls. I wish to shoot in the dark of the night without a tripod, Istanbul is one of the cities that is rich with city life and spectacular architectural scenes and I wish to be able move around with a light bag, no flash and no tripods and no heavy extra lenses to stall for changing hence wasting the moments of best available light.
So far I couldn't convince myself that A900 is the answer for me yet. If I had plans of travelling to phenomenal places of landscapes like the Death Valley, Cappadoucia in Turkey, The Valley of the King Tombs in Egypt any time soon -like next month- then A900 is excellent with the CZ F2.8 lenses it comes with and a 70-300 G would nicely complement my most immediate requirements...
I would very much like to hear some word on the improved state of the A900 within the next month. A good enough waiting period, don't you think, as the CZ lenses are being released in January 2009 also? It would make me a joyful person to start taking some very early spring shots with the A900..say, from the beginning of February 2009.
Yildiz
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