Quote from: donding on February 15, 2010, 11:46

Wow that's sad...do they know what caused it?

One of the conductors blew the red lights.

What is "blew the red lights" mean?

I'd think after an individual reviewer looked at thousands and thousands of pictures they'd all start looking blurry and that have that dreaded "noise"

Quote from: donding on February 15, 2010, 11:08

Quote from: ShadySue on February 15, 2010, 10:57

Funnily enough, after over a year trying to coax my 1290 to make glossy prints without red lines, I gave up on it and got an end-of-line 1400 a couple of months ago. Suddenly realised the hand-in for the Camera Club annual competition is on Thursday (have only been entering the 'projected images' section this year) so I thought I'd better do some. So I'm surrounded by inkjet prints from A4 to A3+, both mono, toned and colour for the first time in ages. All except one are pics I've got either on iStock or Alamy.

I know it's so expensive to print you own prints between the cost of the cartridge and the photo paper. I have an Epson Photo printer that does great prints, but Epson paper is the only one that prints with out the lines or the weird colors. I can't buy any off brands or HP brands. I do have to say the paper thickness is better with the Epson brand but sometimes it's hard to find.

Personally I like the Matte paper over the high glossy...to much reflection on the glossy to me.

I always used epson ink/papers. The red lines thing was a known 'feature' with the 1290. I know what you mean about glossy, but judges always like high gloss. I've got some work to do, though. Some of my mono prints have got weird colour casts - not even consistent. Ho hum, it's been a long time.

I have a 1280...it's old but still works great. It was an expensive printer in it's day, but now it's getting to the point that the cartridges for it are not usually in stock at the stores that actually do carry the Epson print cartridges, so I have to order them and usually when I need them, it's right then...not a week later

Wow that's sad...do they know what caused it?

It would be nice if they all listed their partner sites under the reseller sales sites so you know up front who sells where.

Here's one of the stupidest things I did when I was a kid....My brother and I use to pick up railroad ties off the railroad tracks. I had ask him "how do you tell if a train is coming?" He put his ear on the tracks and said "You can feel the vibration on the tracks" So he puts his ear down there and said there isn't anything coming...I looked up and here comes a train around the bend!!!! I screamed at him that a train was coming and we took off running down the tracks. There were fences along the tracks and we had to run quite a ways to get to where we could get off. My brother dropped his stakes and continued to run. I even stopped to pick up the stakes because I didn't want to leave them behind. I got off the tracks just in time!!

We all have thousands of pictures sitting on our hard drives or saved on line. Have you ever wondered what would happen to all those photos if your hard drive crashed? I've always wondered what would happen if those backup CD's went out of style...sorta like the floppy disk or VCR's. The next generation wouldn't have access to all your photos and those memories would be lost forever. We all remember all those family albums from our childhood, laughing at the way we looked when we were little with those panty hose on our head wishing we had long hair. I'm afraid those old memories will be gone because of the digital age.

When you enter keywords/description/title in bridge it will fill both XMP and IPTC. I find it to be the best method. You can also batch keyword.

Ok now where do I get Bridge???

The ones I uploaded these to were, Big Stock, Deposit Photos, Shutterstock and Dreamstime. I know with Dreamstime I can go back and upload the file, but wasn't sure how to do it with the others since the jpgs were already uploaded. Another question, how do you embed the jpg in the file...the only option it gives you is .tiff format

Yes it does increase your sales as it give the customer an editable option.

I know with Dreamstime you can upload the additional EPS file, but is there any way you can go back and upload the additional format in the others?

Does it really make any difference rather you upload the EPS files to the sites or just upload the jpg. I've only  uploaded the jpg's so far, but wondered if it really made any difference with sales to upload both?

I tried to upload 10 photos today via their online uploading. They went through ok, but the thumbnails never showed up. I refreshed, I logged out and in again, I re-uploaded, no luck. Can't push them through unless they have a thumbnail.

I sure hope the site isn't on its last legs.  

Any ideas?

Did you ever get the thumbnails to come up? I got the same problem today. I uploaded about three hours ago and still no thumbnail, it just says "image being generated" where the thumbnail should be. Never run into that problem before. Maybe they are getting plastered with all the uploads that Fotolia isn't getting...lol

UPDATE; they must of heard me complaining because they just suddenly appeared!!!

I learned about this in the Strobist Flickr Group but did not want to share until I ordered and tested. These are OPEN BOX ITEMS. Not new but mine came in a Older looking Manuf. Box... with no Instructions. I found the manual online though. Flash itself looks brand new.

http://www.techforless.com/cgi-bin/tech4less/5316609?mv_pc=AID=109696#pd_nav

I got the Canon ETTL (They are out of the Nikon) Model of the Quantaray 900WA. Tried it out in Manual on my Nikon D60. All functions I can test...work perfectly. $36 and free Shipping in U.S.

They have a bunch of other flashes too.. but as I have noted...stay away from the PZ-1's.

I did title as "deal for the U.S." because I am not sure how much shipping to anywhere else will be. From what I have read also...Customer Service is great.

That's a dangerous site especially if you are a shopping addict.....