http://www.lightstalkers.org/keywords/show/tech_support This feed shows posts at Lightstalkers. en-us Does everyone use Digital Asset Management (DAM) software to organize your photo archives? Does it worth to manages or search your large number files? What the best DAM software would you recommend to use? Any thoughts and suggestion would be much appreciated Thanks in advance! t Tue, 21 May 2013 07:55:30 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/using-dam-software is anyone at Lightstalkers ever gonna fix that problem? I'm experiencing it for years now, on different computers. Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:30:45 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/problems-with-uploads-of-single-and-multiple-images-to-lightstalkers Hi There, Bit of a long shot but I am looking for someone in Bangkok to hack my panasonic gh2. It has been hacked in Australia by a friend to shoot at 70mbits per second and shoot pal. Unfortunately the cards I have cant keep up with the speed so I am hoping to get rid of the hack. I am ... Mon, 03 Dec 2012 06:10:36 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/urgent-someone-in-bangkok-who-can-hack-fix-panasonic-gh2 Any tips on what solar power unit to buy to power up to a MacBookPro 17inch. Anyone using GoalZero or Gorilla? Many thanks Jason Wed, 01 Aug 2012 19:00:47 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/solar-power-2 I just discovered a crack in the body, at the battery slot (after i dropped my camera) and because of that the battery wont come out at all, not even half-way, as it should when holding it upside down. Is there any chance i coud find some technical support in Ghana, near Accra or Tema? Thanks! Sun, 29 Jul 2012 17:20:19 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/nikon-in-ghana Please, Does anyone know a professional digital lab in NYC to print some high ress files with a good quality output and reasonable price? Thanks in advance. Sun, 04 Mar 2012 19:13:58 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/printing-digital-in-nyc one example, uploaded yesterday !!! since today all my galleries and all my pictures are not seeable !!! all my portfolios and all my work not accessible !!! http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1274240/43_P1040954_Ladakh_Festival_1st-15th_September_2011_Cultural_Groups_of_Ladakh_II_cp... Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:16:23 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/problem-with-pictures-and-galleries-not-seeable-since-yesterday Aight, this is brand-new, so bear with me while I work out some kinks. In short, you can now upload a photo to go along with your posts. It'll end up 600px wide, and will appear directly above your post. Next up will be comment/reply photos, and editing tools. Expect to see more on that in ... Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:23:08 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/posting-photos-to-lightstalkers after having two external hard drives get fried in one week - both were unconnected to the computer when they stopped operating. one was a maxtor one touch that would spin up but wouldn't read, the other a western digital simply stopped turning on apropos of nothing (as far as i know) - i though... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:44:46 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/backing-up-your-archive looking good, gentlemen. keep it up! oh, and I think you need to add a few countries to the location list. (oops, you beat me to it...lots more to choose from now). Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:06:19 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/untitled7179 I bought a brand new SanDisk 8GB SD card today before a wedding shoot. I formated it and shot away. All ran smoothly and the day went great till now. I just put the SD card in my card reader and it shows no photos. I have to send this off Monday morning so I need a quick fix. Anyone out... Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:54:02 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/urgent-i-need-a-free-image-rescue-software I'm losing my mind!!!! Is it possible to make a photo book in iPhoto (from iLife '05) without iPhoto cropping your images? I've tried every layout, and every style of book, but as far as I can tell, iPhoto crops your image to fit the layout. Is there any way to get the full image onto the ... Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:12:12 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/iphoto-books anyone have a good system for digitizing analog music? I want to convert vinyl and cassette audio tracks into MP3s. I imagine I need a sound card and some kind of software? I'm running windows XP. (have a not very powerful G4 as well, running latest OSX) also, anyone have a good program to... Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:01:14 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/digitizing-analog-musicslideshow-programs Hello friends. A friend is visiting New York City from UK and needs a SIM card for making/receiving local (#212/646/347) calls from his mobile phone. He already has a Blackberry running on a UK mobile service(not sure which one). What are the best options for a SIM card purchase in New... Fri, 29 May 2009 01:34:54 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/sim-card-needed-for-new-york-city-from-uk-traveller Hi all,<br/> I have a friend currently shooting in Sri Lanka.<br/> <br/> Now he is in big trouble:<br/> He's stored all his images so far on a Lacie D2 hard drive.<br/> He's working on a G4 Powerbook and now the Powerbook can't seem to get connected to the Lacie drive.<br/> The blue light w... Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:25:31 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/mac-lacie-problems-in-sri-lanka-need-help Hello, can anyone help me with a bit of technical advice? I have to make a last minute simple photo slideshow on a DVD, just slip the DVD into a computer and the slideshow runs on repeat. Every time I try to do this with IDVD or IMOVIE the images look very low resolution. Maybe there is something... Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:12:59 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/help-how-to-make-a-dvd-slideshow Hi Lightstalkers! I have a deadline on the 20th of April for an essay i made in Tokyo a month ago. Problem is that all my photos are on 35mm and 120 slides, and and need to get some descent scans of about 10 of them to send them off to the editor. Atm I'm in Beijing, and the labs I found he... Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:34:54 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/scanning-slides-in-nyc Hey everybody -- over the weekend, we had a server upgrade. Unfortunately, this caused some errors in the site across Saturday and Sunday. Sorry if this caused any inconvenience, and we're climbing our way back up now. Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:53:43 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/server-upgrade-this-weekend Fellow Lightstalkers....need advice as to how to create my own website? Willing to look into web design apps and do most of da work. but have never done before. something simple where I can put up a decent photo gallery. Thanks! Adam Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:53:39 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/untitled3923 Hi all, Any of you fine people ever used Photo Mechanic. I heard so much positive things about it that i decided to download a demo. I'm impressed at the speed of the program and the great import options. I'm considering buying a license. What do you guys think? With kind regards, Rutghe... Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:56:23 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/photo_mechanic Hi. One of my 20D is out of commission. It gives me "Error CF" message and does not fire. It fires when I take the card out. I used several different cards and lenses on them but same results. I have another 20D, and all the cards and lenses I tested with works fine on the other body. I tried to ... Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:53:45 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/canon-20d-lockup I busted my Ethernet Port on my G4. Anyone of you have ever tried a ethernet adapter (with USB connection) for mac or this have been made?<br/> <br/> cheers,<br/> Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:54:14 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/ethernet-adapter-for-mac-osx Hey all, Does anyone here know the best way to optimize your jpegs for the web? I am noticing that images look so much better on some sites than on others, and have heard how you prepare them is of paramount importance. Just using the "save for web" command in PS seems to have no effect on... Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:54:28 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/jpeg-optimization-for-the-web HELP!!! I just got back from a shoot and two of the folders on my SanDisk Ultra II 2GB CF card are corrupt/unreadable. Does anyone know of a good and free for image/folder recovery program? Thanks. Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:54:47 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/corupt_unreadable_nef Dear all, I have just made a shoot with a brand new Canon Mark IIN shooting raw files(CR2). I am unable to read these images in Canon DPP and photo station pro. Any ideas on how to read these images taking into account that I have successfully shot raw on another Mark IIn that is slightly old... Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:54:44 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/canon_mark_i_n_cr2_files Dear Lightstalkers, I am about to purchase "VueScan Professional Edition":http://www.hamrick.com/, if any lightstalkers using this scanning program? Any recommendations or good experience with it? Best, !http://blog.drecom.jp/youme2005/img/177/419-7.gif! youme. Sun, 01 Oct 2006 07:00:03 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/vuescan_profesional_edition Hey all-- I finally found a USB-to-serial cable with drivers that connect my mac to the thuraya. I'm running OS X. Does anyone know the settings in Network System Preferences to use? or a specific modem script? thanks, chris Sun, 30 Jul 2006 17:23:08 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/thuraya_and_os_10_setings Hi all, Do someone have a good miracle and free software to take off noise on digital picture! I've tried on cameraraw and raw shooter and it was not really efficient! I'm on D70s with the very small 18-70mm (!!) and I took lots of pictures in dark conditions so that I had to reach the 1250 an... Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:54:41 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/bad_noise_with_digital We had to reinstall WinXP (SP2) on a Toughbook CF-29; for whatever reason, the touchscreen and the wireless card aren't being detected/installed. I've looked around for downloadable drivers for each, but am not having much luck. Anyone have wisdom on this? Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:54:34 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/toughbook-drivers I decided to look into upgrading, since these days I have so many programs on my little ibook that it is begging for some techno spinach to beef itself up (G4, 1.07GHz). So I went looking and found a site called www.crucial.com which I found on the Apple Solutions chat board, and which offers a ... Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:54:32 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/ram-upgrades-to-old-g4-ibooks