Image Capture Programs!

[Woodlouse2002]

What do you think?

I think there are freeware utilities that'll do exactly the same as Walk and Follow and Active Camera so it doesn't matter what was used to take the shot.

[Tweek]

I think there are freeware utilities that'll do exactly the same as Walk and Follow and Active Camera so it doesn't matter what was used to take the shot.

If there is a freeware utility that allows the camera to pan (in spot view), offsetting the view, I'd like to hear of it! (that doesn't mean editing the aircraft cfg! )

Still, I'm all for payware utilities being used in freeware screenshots, as long as it is not showcasing the ability of them, i.e. not starting a thread to specifically draw attention to the functions of a program (like W&F or FS Navigator).

[ATI_7500]

So to follow Heretic's argument to it's most extreme, what are we doing posting any shots of any flightsim apart from open source free ones in the freeware forum?

*Sigh*

I wrote in one of my first posts in this thread that FS is excluded from the discussion. We all payed for it after all.

[eno]

Bjorn ...... Let me give you a comparrison with another hobby.

Say we were all Vintage Aircraft  Restorers and we had a forum for posting shots of our projects, asking advice and swopping / buying and selling parts.
Your project is an ME109, you just happened to FIND  rotting in a barn. The 109 needs extensive restoration as it's just a hulk thats been burried under muck and dust for years. You proudly post shots of your project on the forum saying "What a find!". You busily start asking advice and searching for parts from anyone that has enough spares to give them to you.
The day after a friend of yours posts pictures of the ME109 that he has just BOUGHT at auction ... it's in a slightly better condition  than yours there's some of the gauges still in tact and a load of loose spares that just need cleaning up. He too starts asking advice and looking to buy parts from anyone who has them to offer.

In your eyes your friend shouldn't be posting pictures of his project in the same forum. After all he had the money to be able to buy his 109 and  because of that it's in a better state than yours and someone else has started and done half the work for him.
I'm afraid that your argument just smacks of theirs is better than mine because I can't afford or am unable to buy the same gizmos.

Let's all just enjoy the same hobby as best as we all can. Keep payware out of the screenie competition, even walk and follow. But don't complain if someone happens to use it in the freeware screenies forum, especially if it makes a bit of average freeware look fantastic.

As others have said, who cares what the camera was if the shot is fantastic.

[ATI_7500]

I'm afraid that your argument just smacks of theirs is better than mine because I can't afford or am unable to buy the same gizmos.

Exactly. Me and many, many others who either have no credit card or don't want to spend a ridiculous amount of money for unnecessary stuff.

But don't complain if someone happens to use it in the freeware screenies forum, especially if it makes a bit of average freeware look fantastic.

Do whatever you want. But don't expect a nice word for your pics from me in one of those W&F threads.

[Sytse]

If someone posts a nice screenshot but I can't duplicate it myself without using Payware, then it doesn't belong in the Freeware forum.

That's something I have been thinking about. I don't think that all shots in the freeware section should be reproducable by everybody. That would mean that the persons with a good system should post in the payware forum. (You pay for computers...)

This is why I agree with Theis: YES, but NO in contests.

[Delta_]

This is why I agree with Theis: YES, but NO in contests.

I agree