u/Lisaerys

Ik heb nu een Kapten & Son Lund Pro tas, die op zich fijn is maar hij oogt zo groot.

Ik ben daarom op zoek naar iets wat er leuk / modern maar wel professioneel uitziet (werk in de reclamebranche), en niet te groot oogt. Dus beetje compact is. Reis met het OV dus hij moet wel dicht kunnen. Neig naar een schoudertas, maar leuke rugzak kan ook. Voor een vrouw, en liever niet zo'n standaard leren tas.

Wat moet er in kunnen?

• ±14-16" macbook + lader
• wat kabeltjes
• notitieboek (A5 of A4)
• wat losse A4 papieren
• pen/potlood (of zelfs etui)
• waterfles (24cm hoog & 7,5cm diameter)
• sleutels
• portefeuille

Ik denk dat ik max €200,- wil uitgeven. Wat zijn nu echt BIFL-tassen die jullie zouden aanraden voor naar werk/kantoor?

We’ve always been happy with our Philips 55OLED803/12, which had the ambilight + hue integration. I think we purchased it somewhere in 2017. This made it possible to sync with our Philips Hue (signify) lights through our Hue Bridge.

Since we had a lot of lights, we purchased the Bridge Pro, but that apparently doesn’t work with ambilight + hue anymore. I tried installing the old bridge again, but I couldn’t get it to work anymore.

Since our TV is experiencing some issues we’re starting to look for an alternative. However, ideally I want ambilight (or something similar) again and I’d really love to have the functionality of my living room lights syncing with my TV. I saw that there’s a few options:

1. ⁠the (Signify) Hue Syncbox with the Hue gradient tv strip and a TV brand of our choosing (but I heard that’s only for external devices so not streaming on the tv itself?) and
2. ⁠apparently Signify has released an TV app which enables certain Samsung & LG to sync to lights too, so a Samsung / LG tv with the hue tv light strip plus the app.

Some context: we use the TV mainly for streaming on Netflix / Disney / etc and with our PlayStation. No external TV box and no regular TV. We’ve got a Sonos Arc plus two Era 300’s for an audio set-up, if that matters. There’s a maximum of 3 or 4 lights that ideally have to be synced (all hue) of which 2 are gradients (a strip behind the couch and a signe). I don’t think it matters, but our smart home set-up is through Home Assistant.

Budget isn’t that important. Will be looking for a tv of 60-65”.

What TV brand+type plus lighting solution(s) give you the most bang for your buck? The best cinematic experience? And will be expected to work and be supported for a long time?

I've bought a Canon Selphy CP1500 with the RP-108 Postcard Size which was included.

I've got some photo collages in inDesign with the width of 148mm and height of 100mm. Which is the stated size of the Selphy's paper. With InDesign I export to JPEG:
- pages, maximum quality, baseline format method, 300ppi resolution, color space CMYK. No bleed.

In MacOs I print with the Preview App, which is set on "postcard without border 100 x 148 mm" with the size "make fit" ('maak passend' in dutch) + "print entire image". And at least within Preview there's no noticable difference between "print entire image" and "fill entire page".

However, whenever printing it crops off about 6mm on both sides, with 12/13mm in total. Presumably on the top and bottom as well, but I have no way to check this.

For regular photo's this isn't that much of an issue, but with the collage this causes the pictures to be different in size (grid of 9).

What am I doing wrong? Or can I adjust something that fixes this?

(I was not sure where to post this, but I've seen more posts about this printer here so figured I'd give it a try)

Edit: JPEG vs. PDF doesn't change things. Printing from Adobe Acrobat doesn't either. Still it crops a few millimeters of the image by blowing it up a bit.

We've got a bunch of old negatives at our home and since the photo's made of those negatives are old + scratched + glued into photo books, I was wondering if I could digitize those negatives directly. I am not a professional photographer and certainly not versed in analog photography, but I think they are the standard 35mm-film (135-film) that everyone had. My mom has many folders full of "strips of a number of photos", and if I hazard a guess, everything's shot between the ±1980 and 2000s. If I can manage this, I'm debating also offering to digitize the negatives of family members as well, so we have a full digital collection of all our family photos.

I've looked through Reddit to see what options there are. So I've looked at companies that do this for you, but that can get expensive fast (and I think I'd be better off financially doing it myself seeing the volume of negatives we've got). On the other side, I've seen tools that I can do it with myself — some that can be attached to a DLSR (I've got a Canon 7D but no macro lenses), or machines that can can it by themselves (Plustek Optifilm 8200i SE for example). The easiest for me would be something I can just load the roll or strip of negatives into, that scans and edits it for me.

Currently the best option I see is purchasing the Plustek, but it is expensive and I've never worked with such a thing, so I'm not certain if that's the best route to take (renting is an option, but since there's a lot of photos and it will be time consuming even with such a machine, I gathered that the renting price will exceed the purchasing price). I've seen that this requires some editing as well, but I'm not sure how much is needed if the standard way the photo comes out of the printer is fine. I'm not sure how hard it is to learn to work something like the Optitek, but I'm quite persistent in learning new things so I'm not worried I wouldn't manage that.

I'm based in the Netherlands / Europe, if that matters. The Optitek I mentioned is around €400.

Since I'm not experienced in this field at all (which also means I'm not that picky - any quality that's akin to a scanned photo is fine), I was wondering what you all would advice in this case? What's the best balance of quality vs effort vs cost?

PS: Scanning the photos is an option, but some are so damaged that there's a lot of photoshop work needed (which I theoretically can do as I'm quite comfortable with photoshop, but want to avoid). So I'd love to have an option that is a good balance between the work that goes into it and the price. Obviously just handing those negatives to a store that digitizes them for you is easiest, but also probably the most expensive option.