A couple of people wrote while it is portable, it sacrifices image quality. How true is this?
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I use this to be portable and I project from behind. So I am not worried about the image quality. The image quality is acceptable to me. If you are thinking of using this at home I would just clean up a wall and just make sure the paint is nice and even. If you are really concerned about image quality then get some flat white paint. If you are using it to be portable and project from the front then there are better options. A screen that is more opaque will give you a better image, but you cannot project from behind. Anytime you lose light you are going to lose image quality. This screen does not reflect all the light. Hopes this helps. I use this to be portable and I project from behind. So I am not worried about the image quality. The image quality is acceptable to me. If you are thinking of using this at home I would just clean up a wall and just make sure the paint is nice and even. If you are really concerned about image quality then get some flat white paint. If you are using it to be portable and project from the front then there are better options. A screen that is more opaque will give you a better image, but you cannot project from behind. Anytime you lose light you are going to lose image quality. This screen... » Read More I use this to be portable and I project from behind. So I am not worried about the image quality. The image quality is acceptable to me. If you are thinking of using this at home I would just clean up a wall and just make sure the paint is nice and even. If you are really concerned about image quality then get some flat white paint. If you are using it to be portable and project from the front then there are better options. A screen that is more opaque will give you a better image, but you cannot project from behind. Anytime you lose light you are going to lose image quality. This screen does not reflect all the light. Hopes this helps. « Show Less
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We use it for our outdoor movie nights. It's great! Use rear projection and that helps a lot.
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I own several screens. The spandex screen is a good stretch screen. As far as image it all depends on your projector. A good projector you can watch on a standard wall. Image always depends on projectors.
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I suspect it depends on you ruse and expectations. We used it for a large family gathering for our patriarch's 80th birthday, to show slides of past pictures and events and a short video. We projected from the back, which is why we purchased this screen; limited distance, on a stage above the meeting area, and not wanting the projector to be in people's' way while eating dancing and visiting. It worked wonderfully for our event. We mounted it with a pol across the top and the straps to weights at the bottom to keep it taught and steady. Very pleased. Excellent price and quick delivery. Will use it again for upcoming church, social and family events. I suspect it depends on you ruse and expectations. We used it for a large family gathering for our patriarch's 80th birthday, to show slides of past pictures and events and a short video. We projected from the back, which is why we purchased this screen; limited distance, on a stage above the meeting area, and not wanting the projector to be in people's' way while eating dancing and visiting. It worked wonderfully for our event. We mounted it with a pol across the top and the straps to weights at the bottom to keep it taught and steady. Very pleased. Excellent price and quick delivery. Will... » Read More I suspect it depends on you ruse and expectations. We used it for a large family gathering for our patriarch's 80th birthday, to show slides of past pictures and events and a short video. We projected from the back, which is why we purchased this screen; limited distance, on a stage above the meeting area, and not wanting the projector to be in people's' way while eating dancing and visiting. It worked wonderfully for our event. We mounted it with a pol across the top and the straps to weights at the bottom to keep it taught and steady. Very pleased. Excellent price and quick delivery. Will use it again for upcoming church, social and family events. « Show Less
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It can create the impression that it sacrifices image quality because light leaks to the other side...but thats how all good projector screen works...this can be used for rear projection as well
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Intuos 6x8 is portable and it should be fine. I see alot of digital artists carrying it and stuffing them into their laptop cases. But my friend who has it broke the thing in like a month (her dad accidently dropped it) so be sure to get the insurance thing and be very careful!
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Actually I gave my wireless Canon Pixma MX340 away - As often as our internet goes down, being wireless & all, I couldn't use it when the internet was down, so I gave it away & opted for one that isn't wireless so I can still use it for photoshop. Sorry I could not be of more help.
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What's the good effect? Is there an advantage in the image or resolution improvement?
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I'm afraid that I agree with Ben. If we start cropping and manipulating, we'll find some loss of info owing to the more lossy compression. It probably isn't noticeable under many conditions, Mario, but I don't get the point at all. Less loss gives the photographer more room to crop, do noise reduction, adjust colors, etc. I thought that Canon photos were a bit too smooth to begin with, losing some detail, and this only makes the problem worse. I don't mind not being able to shoot in raw, I guess but losing super fine is going in exactly the wrong direction. Unless Canon are trying to steer us to the G10. And that's an entirely different discussion. I'm afraid that I agree with Ben. If we start cropping and manipulating, we'll find some loss of info owing to the more lossy compression. It probably isn't noticeable under many conditions, Mario, but I don't get the point at all. Less loss gives the photographer more room to crop, do noise reduction, adjust colors, etc. I thought that Canon photos were a bit too smooth to begin with, losing some detail, and this only makes the problem worse. I don't mind not being able to shoot in raw, I guess but losing super fine is going in exactly the wrong direction. Unless Canon are trying to steer... » Read More I'm afraid that I agree with Ben. If we start cropping and manipulating, we'll find some loss of info owing to the more lossy compression. It probably isn't noticeable under many conditions, Mario, but I don't get the point at all. Less loss gives the photographer more room to crop, do noise reduction, adjust colors, etc. I thought that Canon photos were a bit too smooth to begin with, losing some detail, and this only makes the problem worse. I don't mind not being able to shoot in raw, I guess but losing super fine is going in exactly the wrong direction. Unless Canon are trying to steer us to the G10. And that's an entirely different discussion. « Show Less
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I never use it, but from what I remember, people who reviewed this camera said that still photographs were low quality. They suggest using a dedicated camera for stills.
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try zooming in closer when trying fine detail. Make resolution of file you are making at least 300/dpi. Its a work around, but for $500 it would be a steal. I think its overpriced at USD 599. But couldn't ever afford ( justify to self ) Cintique, even the cheapie.
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Sadly, no.It was my go-to photo editor up to this point but not no more. I'd say I hope this helps, but I have to assume it disappoints. For what it's worth, I have found PhotoScape to be an alternative satisfactory enough to keep me going.
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Yes, in my opinion it is far better and more portable but then this is subjective isn't it? I don't have the tools to make an informed judgement so I guess you should have a good look at the specs. G
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I have not tried this, but I suspect that it depends on what you want to do on it. Plain text, like document editing would probably be OK. Images, like editing photographs, undoubtedly would not be satisfactory.
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I have not noticed any blurry images. As to switching issues, I haven't used it for very long but don't remember any and I go between 4 sources.
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I am able to do this with the Microsoft Surface, and often use that trick to show what I am writing to somebody on skype. The view through camera is a little warped though when the distance from page is so close.
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I guess for different scenes, the compression ratio is different. A smooth scene needs less GBs then a busy one.
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You can never upgrade or modify the Cintiq Companion. It's basically a mediocre computer and will become outdated very quickly. It's as-is stats are very poor if you're a professional artist handling files in PS that are larger than 3000x3000px and 300dpi. And the inability to hook it up to a desktop computer to use as a monitor is just silly and basically halves the usage of the thing. If it could be used as a "normal" Cintiq, it's meh stats wouldn't even matter.
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I had not tried that feature yet. I usually only leave the camera at its native settings for the highest quality. I usually edit the photos/videos after the raw footage is uploaded to keep the full resolution.
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Hi. I ended up returning it since the quality of the image was so poor compared with what I was used to.
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it "works," but none of the camera features like auto focus or exposure control work, so the resulting quality is really bad. it might be ok with just the right amount of artificial light, but with even a moderate amount of daylight (e.g. cloudy day, one window with the shades drawn) it is horribly overexposed and washed out. also the aspect ratio is wrong (gets smooshed to 4:3)... pretty much non-functional, trying to find out if there are any mac drivers at all but doesn't look like it.