A very soothing place indeed.
Can you not get the SD card out of the Lummox and use a standard card reader to
download the raw/raf/ding?
AMities
Philippe
> Le 21 févr. 2017 à 16:24, bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx a écrit :
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> It's about 3 weeks until we can expect to return to our
> rebuilt house, and we continue to live as boarders with a friend, on a
> section that is only half civilised (hence the great piles of rocks).
>
>
> Yesterday morning my bride and I were sitting outside, in the shade to
> dodge the winter sun, and i realised that the view from that spot would
> permit me to take a reasonable portrait of the ash tree (European ash,
> Fraxinus excelsior) which dominates the back yard. The tree really is
> magnificent, and is matched by a European walnut (Juglans regia) next
> door. Also in the pictures is a neighbouring house dating from not too
> long after the gold-rush era of the late 1800's. It is now used as a
> holiday home by a family living probably about 150 miles away and who
> use it about 6 weekends a year.
>
> The sun these last few days has been
> something else - daytime temperatures of around 31 °C. If I were eating
> eggs I could cook them in an instant on the bonnet of my car.
>
> The
> photographs are uploaded, of course, are far from perfect. For a start I
> did not need to get up off my backside to take them. That is a major
> defect.
>
> I didn't use a tripod either. :-(
>
> The dappled lighting was
> somewhat tricky, but I think the camera did OK.
>
> However, I modified
> the shots to suit my taste using FastStone Image viewer, and that is a
> major no-no :-(
>
> What's more, I left the colours more or less as
> seen:-( So I'm happy with the results.
>
>
> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=21508
>
> The photos are
> cooked, of course. I have not got around to shooting uncooked images.
> But that's OK.
>
> I 'could' process uncooked shots now - recently I
> bought a 'new' second-hand camera - a Lummox, or something like that,
> and Silky-pix Developer came with it on a CD. It has installed OK but I
> have not tried it. Usually these 'free' programs come loaded with fish
> hooks, so I'm not expecting much of it.
>
> If you think the controls on
> an Olympus M5 etc are small - wait until you try a Lummox. Some controls
> are tiny.But it seems to take reasonable photos. None I have seen in the
> rear screen are blunt. It seems like a good pocketable ( as described by
> CB a few weeks back) camera with 16 MP. It's fitted with one of those
> new-fangled zoom lenses, but that doesn't seem to be a handicap.It's so
> small I can nearly totally conceal it in one hand. Some lenses
> apparently have IS; the body does not. Can't win 'em all.
>
> I haven't
> seen any shots from it on my computer yet. The manufacturer insists that
> only USB cables they make for it are undamaging, so, not wanting to risk
> causing internal chaos I have bought one from B&H of New York. Should be
> here soon. The first shop I placed an order with, a competitor of B&H,
> would have charged me $147 for postage. I thought that was somewhat
> unreasonable, so I replaced the quantity with a big fat 0. B&H are
> charging a little under $8, which is somewhat better.
>
> Cheers, Brian.
>
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