Chris,
Thanks very much for the link to the Shuttleworth Collection. I did
quite a bit of exploration of the site. That is a very impressive
collection. I was happy to see the Lysander. That was the first balsa
and tissue scale model that I built, in the very early 1940s. It always
impressed me.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
On 9/20/2019 1:13 AM, ChrisB wrote:
Bill
It’s called the Avro Tutor, one of the Shuttleworth Collection which is near my
home, at an airfield called Old Warden. The Collection is very interesting as most of
them are flown in displays, but this is the Tutor page on the website:
https://www.shuttleworth.org/collection/avrotutor/
Chris
C M I Barker | Gamlingay
On 19 Sep 2019, at 21:45, Bill Pearce <billpearce@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Chris,
What is the biplane on the top or your home page? It sure doesn't look anything
like a Stearman.
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From: "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2019 4:49:42 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Focus Magic
In Capture One I find myself using much more of the Clarity sliders than Sharpening ones. I
think that it’s a LCE adjustment, but the result is more pleasing lighting as well as
sharpness (apparent, I’m sure).
This example has +34 of Clarity and Structure sliders applied, for instance:
https://show.cbimages.uk/Photography/Blipfoto/i-kk2rzN6/A
I am probably less discerning than some on the List, but it works well for me,
as in this example as well:
https://show.cbimages.uk/Photography/Blipfoto/i-zNGBtxT/A
Chris
On 17 Sep 2019, at 22:00, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 9/17/2019 1:57 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
PESO:
I recently had to reinstall Windows 10 and all of my Photoshop plug-ins had
to be reinstalled, too. The only one I've had problems with is Focus Magic
which I use a lot. I get a runtime error:
Runtime Error (at 5:198):
Internal Error: Failed to expand shell folder constant "userdocs"
The software company is no help just saying that they've never seen that
error before and have no suggestions. I'm tired of messing with it and
started looking for a similar program. I downloaded SmartDeblur but it is
awful and nothing like Focus Magic.
It's important, well, useful, to understand the differences in these programs.
1. The vast majority of sharpening programs/apps use UnSharp Mask, a technique
inherited from film, where it was a physical technique. While powerful and
useful in some ways, unsophisticated applications easily lead to troublesome
artifacts. I have not used an USM for sharpening for a long time.
2. Deconvolution is another approach to sharpening that works by recreating
detail lost in the aberrations on the lens. There are quite a few specialized
versions that work from knowledge of the characteristics of specific lenses.
Canon does that in their Raw conversion program. DPP. Some speculate that DxO
uses deconvolution in their sharpening.
The only generalized versions that I know are Focus Magic and Topaz InFocus. I did this
comparison for another purpose, but it does provide some idea that Topaz IF will do pretty
much what FM does, albeit with a different interface and settings.
<http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/tech/Focus_Magic/_B003950fpACRvsPlugin.htm
<http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/tech/Focus_Magic/_B003950fpACRvsPlugin.htm>>
3. The newest approach is AI, in the form of a trained neural network. Topaz
Sharpen AI does this. It's both almost magic, and frustrating.
Like other Topaz AI products, when it works, which is most of the time, it is head and
shoulders above anything else I've seen. Also like their other AI apps, where it doesn't
"understand" the subject, or some part of it, it can fail. I've also had an
image where it didn't do anything obviously wrong, but it wasn't as nice a result as FM.
It is also a machine eater, taking what seems forever to do a whole frame.
Because it's slow, even at showing previews, getting to know the settings is
also slow.
How Sharp Moose
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