Originally posted by Ira But at least he didn't say SYQUEST!!!
Ira, d'ya wanna buy a Sparq and a bunch of brand new cartridges? It's installed in my NT4 PII right now, but I could remove it for you.
It seemed for a while that whenever I bought some new technology (say, a Quantex computer and a Syquest Sparq), the company would be out of business within a year or two.
That, of course, hasn't happened with Adobe, thank goodness. I bought CS back in 2004, then upgraded to CS3 a couple years ago (though I had to wait till I'd upgraded from OSX 10.3 Panther before installing and using it).
I haven't haven't checked out CS5, but it sounds interesting. My guess is it'll have to wait until I can run 10.6 Snow Leopard--which will require an new (Intel) Mac. My G5 is running great, though, in spite of its being 6 years old. (Good thing my desk is made of real wood. . . .)
But really, people have been manipulating images for over 150 years. Mathew Brady moved dead bodies around (well, he had his assistants do it). Others manipulated in the darkroom. Photoshop made it easier. And CS5 will make it that much easier.
Of course, folks could revert to lugging glass plates around and settling for a handful of exposures per outing. . . .