Aah Bruges - lovely!
On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 at 15:49, John Duggan via olympus <
olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In Bruges at present.....When I get home I will dig out my old
> “unfinished” balsa wood kit of a Lysander. You might have given me the kick
> up the backside to finish it ..... or at least photograph it.
> Regards, JohnDuggan
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On 23 Sep 2019, at 13:44, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > A Lysander in balsa wood, Jim? Wow, very impressive - there is a*lot* of
> glazing to fit, how did you manage to hold the wings in place?
> >
> > Having once lived about 15 miles away, I know the Shuttleworth
> collection reasonably well, but I didn't know they had a Lysander. One of
> its more important operating bases was maybe 10 miles north.
> > I will leave it to Wikipedia to fill in the details.
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Tempsford
> >
> >
> > Piers
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: olympus <olympus-bounces+piers.hemy=gmail.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> On Behalf Of Jim Nichols
> > Sent: 20 September 2019 16:10
> > To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [OM] Focus Magic
> >
> > 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.
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>
> >>> 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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