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Post by daveh on Jun 23, 2016 16:37:03 GMT -5
Well I haven't posted for some time: I always seem to be doing something else.
Several points occur to me: 1. the Nikon at 24mm seems to show less than the Fuji at 28mm. Closer examination reveals that the photos weren't taken from the same place (as Sid pointed out).
2. With the above in mind, I wonder how the Fuji would have coped in the Nikon position and vice versa.
3. The Fuji has, I believe, a wide dynamic range mode (as well the HDR mode, which I presume both have). Was the use of this considered?
4. The Fuji photograph looks considerably "cleaner", but even with the image stabilisation there seems to be some shake. (The second photo is considerably sharper.
4. Highlights are burned out more on the Fuji, that is obvious to see. Does it not have a method to adjust exposure with the auto setting? If so and overexposure is a constant problem just set the exposure a stop or so down. Even leave it on permanently: as Mickey says shadows can be recovered, burnt out highlights can't
5. The Fuji appears to have more detail in the shadows than the Nikon. That detail can be seen, because of longer exposure but I'm not sure that the detail is there in the Nikon.
6. Were these RAW or JPGs?
7. Bats. I sat by a safari lodge swimming pool in Kenya at dusk twenty four years ago and filmed (well, videoed) the bats as they flew, as you say, within millimeters of me and the camera. (It was a Panasonic Palmcorder. More recent camcorders give significantly better results, and what's great compared to film is that it is easy to get sound and picture, and with both in perfect sync, even after editing.)
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Post by daveh on Feb 23, 2015 15:52:21 GMT -5
I wonder how much cine/movie film from the early days has been lost because it was on cellulose stock and how many glass plat photographs found use as green house glass. We seem to have this notion that everything from the past has been saved. It hasn't.
Nothing is permanent except diamond, and that is slowly converting back to carbon.
It's quite easy: make copies using different analogue and digital methods. Convert RAW files to jpgs, which are likely to be usable (orconvertable) when the maker's-specific raws have "vanished" from use. Move any files on from, say 3 1/2 inch floppies before those floppies fade out of use. Print 'important' photos onto paper.
As Stephen says digital techniques have recovered several analogue prints making them able to be seen and appreciated.
By the way, I hope all analogue film has been copied. Otherwise one fire and it's gone, just like the birth certificates and such like lost in Dublin almost a hundred years ago or the records from WWI which were lost when the building they were stored in was hit by a bomb in WWII.
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Post by daveh on Oct 9, 2014 14:41:27 GMT -5
"I am now pretty certain that the shutter can make or break the overall sharpness of the lens." No, it can't. What it can do is make or break the sharpness of the final image
It is not exactly a new concept that a big heavy well-braced tripod, preferably weighted down, will be more stable than a flimsy affair.
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Post by daveh on Oct 2, 2014 19:22:51 GMT -5
By the way has anyone done much on tracing his or her family tree? I've done a bit with some success. Most parts are pretty ordinary. I don't know of any who arrived in Britain as refugees, but there is one part that i can't get a handle on. My father (and some others on his side) was darkish skin with black hair. When we went to Spain people would think he was Spanish. Someone must have come form at least a Mediterranean country. Keith, the youngest son of my Cousin Joyce (who was also of that dark complexion) thinks that somewhere down the line there was someone from India. My Father and my Uncle Alan each had the maiden name of one of their grandmothers. My father "West", and Uncle Alan "Blakeman". As Keith pointed out that could be a contraction of "black man". Anyway, a few years ago I met a lady from India who was the absolute spit of my uncle Alan in terms of face shape and skin colour and texture. We still haven't proved the link though. Maybe sometime I'll make a more determined search. My grandparents with my father's elder siblings. Taken about 1909. The eldest, Wilfred (on the left) died in 1912 aged 14. My father was born the next year. It was around this time that my grandfather was a professional photographer: one of the many jobs he had over the years..
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Post by daveh on Oct 2, 2014 18:52:02 GMT -5
I wonder how many of these made it past 1945, if they got that far. My mother did. She is on the second row from the back fifth from the left as you look at it. Assuming it was taken before the end of the 1925-6 school year she would have been just coming up to seven years old. I never did find out who any of the others were.
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Post by daveh on Oct 2, 2014 11:56:15 GMT -5
19 year old Sarah Brodie, my mother. Seated at extreme left. Note her foot in bear's mouth. That's my mom! Queen City Mandolin Band, Regina, Saskatchewan. Mickey Of course, there had to be a token male! Good stuff everyone.
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Post by daveh on Oct 2, 2014 11:52:01 GMT -5
Well of course bunga bunga doesn't have much to do with frogs. It is rabbits, or at least one rabbit in particular, which form the centre of attention.
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Post by daveh on Oct 1, 2014 18:41:19 GMT -5
The classification of animals and plants seemed so much easier umpteen years ago. They they redefined everything, or so it appears, and brought in all sorts of sub-divisions. That wouldn't be so bad if definite and definitive decisions were made, but the powers that be find new ways of re-typing all sorts of life. To make matters worse, simple names such as frog and toad are not allowed and we end up with all sorts of strange Australian sounding names, such as bunga bunga.
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Post by daveh on Oct 1, 2014 15:54:01 GMT -5
My maternal grandparents' wedding, 24th September 1908.
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Post by daveh on Sept 30, 2014 12:27:00 GMT -5
Fazal, I've had that problem on here(and some other sites). I'm not sure if there are other parameters that have to be kept to as well - such as the image being under a certain number of pixels vertically and horizontally. I tend to do what Phil says: I use flickr and Photobucket in the main.
Dave.
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Post by daveh on Sept 30, 2014 7:29:27 GMT -5
Fazal, welcome.
We don't have too much problem with termites in England. At least your termites obviously have taste. I don't know too much about the Alpas. Matty on here found one and then sold it on a few months back, though I think that was a model 6. Best of luck in your search.
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Post by daveh on Sept 28, 2014 20:39:31 GMT -5
Z, Zebra face, actually a White-Throated Bee-Eater.
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Post by daveh on Sept 28, 2014 3:32:00 GMT -5
... I tend yo use flickr, which is fine while I keep paying, but once I stop there will be a lot of blank spaces in forums ... DaveH, it's free now, unless you've used up your free TB. Sid, thanks for that. Is it! I must have missed that announcement. Even though I've got plenty of photos I'm having difficulty using up my free TB. If it would store RAW files I would easily get there - or maybe I've missed that announcement too and it does now store them. The people who run flickr seemed to have changed tack so often in recent months that it became difficult to keep up what was happening. The front end runs slightly differently on my main computer, running Windoze 7, and the iPad, running whatever it runs.
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Post by daveh on Sept 27, 2014 4:05:08 GMT -5
Hi Mickey Many of my images got deleted when the server I was using cut the service It's something of a problem no matter how you try to keep images. I suppose it makes most sense to use the in-house image method for every board one goes on. That way the images will always be there. The trouble is that I don't like the way many show just a thumbnail that has to be clicked (and often the viewer has to be signed in as well) to see it full size. I tend yo use flickr, which is fine while I keep paying, but once I stop there will be a lot of blank spaces in forums. Randy, Curt, I'm sorry to hear that health issues have clouded the summer for you both. I manage to avoid most problems health-wise. I keep away from doctors, which is a good start in keeping healthy. As some said a few years ago "I just went into hospital with an in growing toenail, healthy otherwise. When I came out I had heart trouble and diabetes and I'm on all sorts of tablets now."
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Post by daveh on Sept 25, 2014 17:04:25 GMT -5
...and it's welcome back from me. I imagine Rome is just north of Buffalo, but how does the weather compare this time of year?
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