Lap, a nearly perfect photo manager

 weerd wrote yesterday at 23:14

@Mc5, a manual would be very welcome, I am beginning to appreciate the program more and more.

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Lap, a nearly perfect photo manager

 Mc5 wrote yesterday at 18:46

Yes, that - it works perfectly for me and especially faster than in e.g. LrC. and yes, it's not finished yet, there are still quite a few glitches in it, but as I wrote earlier, the developer is quick, thinks things through carefully and always responds. I'm still a fan of it.

By the way, I recently provided the translation so that a NL version will also be available in the next release.

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10 tips to save hard drive space

Paulus van Aken wrote yesterday at 11:04

I don't know the exact prices, but for purely taking photographs you don't need the fastest cards, so you can do what Bernard wrote, and what I do too.
My first cards were 1 Gb for 10 euros, the original photos are still on them
Videos were much more expensive, but they are not reusable.
Indeed, the story applies less to xqd or Cf (express) cards, which are considerably more expensive, but still less expensive than a comparable amount of film ( +development costs)
In my view, the original cards are therefore the best backup

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Taking Product Photos in the Living Room

Donald Willemsen wrote on Wednesday 7 October 2026 at 23:33

The idea is good in itself. The only question is whether everything is correct in terms of perspective and DoF. In both end results, it is noticeable that they are manipulations. Nothing wrong with that, but then the perspective does need to be somewhat correct. The Bold Eagle feels a bit too large to me and rendered too sharply.
I do find the creativity very appealing. Nice idea.
By the way, I have also done something like this with rum, but the problem was that with a partially filled glass, the background remained visible through the glass when I used another photo as the background. I couldn't solve it.

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True colours or your own colour palette?

Donald Willemsen wrote on Wednesday 7 October 2026 at 22:55

Color is often a subjective matter. One person wants a color to look as you see it in reality and the other likes seeing saturated colors.
What strikes me is that many people find the colors of postcards very beautiful and when they look at photos, they also like those saturated colors. If it deviates, they no longer look.
As a photographer or photographic artist, you want to fill in the colors in a photo according to your own taste and experience. You mainly take photos for yourself, but of course not to put them in the cupboard or leave them sitting pointlessly on the PC.
You also want to show them to the general public (usually via social media). Possibly even to be able to earn something from them.
I personally believe that you should reproduce the colors as naturally as possible.
There is one exception and that is if you want to deal with colors in a more creative way and, for example, apply solarization. There are of course more creative possibilities.

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10 tips to save hard drive space

  Nando wrote on Wednesday 7 October 2026 at 14:47

Misfortune never comes alone.

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Loyal to a brand? Or not?

Paul Lefevere wrote on Wednesday 7 October 2026 at 11:35

I bought my first camera, the Canon Ftb, when I was seventeen, and I enjoyed it for many years. At that time Nikon had the reputation of being "a little better". With the arrival of the DSLR I bought my first Nikon. Why? Simply because it felt a little more pleasant in my hand and because I found all the functions I needed fairly instinctively. And then it turned out that Canon had built up a certain lead. And somewhat later SONY built up an undeniably strong reputation. I am now 73 and I still work with Nikon, not because I find it better than a Canon or a SONY, but indeed because it still feels a bit like coming home when I take one of my cameras in my hand. I am still convinced that a successful photo does not come rolling out of a specific camera, but that the photographer and the appropriate post-processing certainly determine an equally large part of the quality of the photo.

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10 tips to save hard drive space

  Nando wrote on Wednesday 7 October 2026 at 10:12

Note, a NAS is not a backup. Set to mirror, it does provide some backup, but it is still in the same little box.

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10 tips to save hard drive space

 RCJB59 wrote on Wednesday 7 October 2026 at 09:55

Because of a big assignment in 1996, I could afford a Minolta RD-175 with 'a whopping' 1.75 million pixels. 🤣

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10 tips to save hard drive space

  Nando wrote on Wednesday 7 October 2026 at 09:43

A 64GB SD card for around 20 euros isn't a fast card. If you don't need the speed, that's fine of course.
But a slightly faster card actually costs between 3 and 5 times as much.
If your camera needs a CF Express or XQD card, it doesn't work at all anymore.

Don't be mistaken. When you reach 1TB of storage, that's 15 cards. That's 300 euros.
You can get a simple (but slow) external SSD for half that amount.

However, if the system you use works for you, perfect, right?

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