It pains me to say this, but that airplane is even more beautiful that the
stearman. It hurts me to say that because my whole family has lived for many
generations in the birthplace of the stearman, and my father's first job out of
school was as an engineer for Stearman.
But, has anyone ever hung a 450hp engine on that and used it as a cropduster?
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From: "ChrisB" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2019 1:13:48 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Focus Magic
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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