aah - "Stoofvlees" Mmmmm!
On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 at 18:21, John Duggan via olympus <
olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Moulds tomorrow night. Hopefully with white wine and cream sauce (
> hopefully with some chopped chilli blended in. Tonight a really rich beef
> in beer stew , with a couple of Bruges tripped as an aperitif 😃
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 23 Sep 2019, at 17:29, 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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