www.photo.net- has it helped you?

[Mstar]

http://www.photo.net/

A friend of mine has hired a Nikon scanner and has found the info on how remove scratches from slides here, which can be a pain for any scanning operation. His scanner also reads negatives. I get the impression there are a lot of technical boffins as well as other news from around the whole photography market located here.

How has photo.net helped you, I am wondering?

Some great photos to be seen.

M

[Mark_Cohran]

I used to be on photo.net all the time - it was around quite awhile before this site (POTN) as it started as Phillip Greenspun's personal site. So, yes, it has helped me a lot - in the past - but I actually get more useful information from this forum now.

Mark

[John_B]

Mstar,
Like Mark_Cohran I was on it in the late 90's and it was a great site. However I find POTN (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/index.php) and FredMiranda (http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/) sites to be much better now ;)

[spyraling]

photo.net has helped me... to feel very, very inadequate. ;) The photos posted there are absolutely amazing. I was there for a few months before I discovered this forum. The people here are friendlier. Folks there just seemed a tad snottier. I still go check out their photos every once in awhile though.

[Tee Why]

They have a great direct comparisons of Canon 50mm f1.8 vs a 1.4 and one of Tamron vs Canon 90/100mm macros.

The top rated pictures are some of the best I've seen online.

[Glenn NK]

I go there for inspiration (very creative work), but technically I found this site to be a fair bit more than head and shoulders above photo.net.

This is not to say that everyone on any forum knows everything, but if I have a real tough technical problem, I'll find the answer here, and not likely anywhere else. And it will be answered politely (unless I deserve to be treated any other way due to my own actions).

That being said, there is a chap over on dpreview (John Sheehy) that is worth paying attention to. He described a simple method to test your camera for "blackframe" noise. Cameras apparently do vary quite a bit even in one model, and higher blackframe values diminsh the dynamic range of the sensor. Another member that is very strong technically is "JimH" (on dpreview).

On the blackframe noise issue, it's not hard to determine the "best" ISO values to use with any particular camera; for my 30D the values are multiples of 160 (320, 640).

Oops, I'm OT again.