Shame the “wild” season is not quite open, otherwise I’d be spoilt for
choice: hare? wild boar? pheasant? Yum!
On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 at 16:30, Philippe <photo.philippe.amard@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Moules, frites, and chocolate, tonight?
>
> Bon appétit!
>
> Amities
>
> Philippe
>
>
>
> > Le 23 sept. 2019 à 17:25, Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> >
> > 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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